Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
"And so they have led many a one astray: hence, ordain Thou that these evildoers stray but farther and farther away [from all that they may desire]!"
Arthur John Arberry
And they have led many astray. Increase Thou not the evildoers save in error!
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"They have already misled many; and grant Thou no increase to the wrong-doers but in straying (from their mark)."
Arabic
وَقَدۡ أَضَلُّوا۟ كَثِیرࣰاۖ وَلَا تَزِدِ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِینَ إِلَّا ضَلَـٰلࣰا ٢٤
Transliteration (2021)
waqad aḍallū kathīran walā tazidi l-ẓālimīna illā ḍalāla