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Muhammad Asad
But nay: no refuge [for thee, O man]
Arthur John Arberry
No indeed; not a refuge
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
By no means! No place of safety
Source Arabic and Literal tools
Transliteration-2
kallā lā wazar
Word by Word (2021)
By no means! (There is) no refuge.
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
But nay: no refuge [for thee, O man]
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Alas! No refuge
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
By no means! No place of safety
Mustafa Khattab 2018
But no! There will be no refuge.
Safi Kaskas 2025
No indeed! There is no refuge.
Wahiduddin Khan
But there is nowhere to take refuge
Shakir
By no means! there shall be no place of refuge
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
No indeed! There is no refuge.
T.B.Irving
Of course there will be no sanctuary;
Abdul Hye
No! There will be no refuge!
Saeed Malik
Not to be! Not any stronghold for refuge.
The Study Quran
Nay! But there shall be no refuge
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
No! There is no refuge.
Talal Itani (2012)
No indeed! There is no refuge
Dr. Kamal Omar
By no means! (Today, there is) no place of hiding or refuge
M. Farook Malik
Nay! There will be no refuge
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Not at all, no subterfuge
Muhammad Sarwar
Certainly not! There will be no place of refuge
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Never! There will be no refuge at all
Shabbir Ahmed
But, nay! No height to mount above the turmoil
Dr. Munir Munshey
Not at all! There is no refuge
Syed Vickar Ahamed
By no means! (There will be) no place of safety
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
No! There is no refuge
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
No. There is no refuge.
Abdel Haleem
Truly, there is no refuge
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
By no means! NO refuge
Ahmed Ali
Never so, for there will be no escape
Aisha Bewley
No indeed! There will be no safe place.
Ali Ãœnal
By no means! No refuge (to flee to)
Ali Quli Qara'i
No indeed! There is no refuge
Hamid S. Aziz
By no means! There shall be no place of refuge
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
No way, there is no shelter.
Bilal Muhammad 2018
By no means is it a place of safety
Musharraf Hussain
No, there is no safe place.
Maududi
No, there is no refuge
Mohammad Shafi
No! No escape
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Never, there is no refuge.
Rashad Khalifa
Absolutely, there is no escape.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
No, there shall be no (place of) refuge
Maulana Muhammad Ali
No! There is no refuge
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
No but (there is) no shelter
Bijan Moeinian
But there shall be no refuge
Faridul Haque
Never! There is no refuge
Sher Ali
Not at all; there is no refuge
Edip Yuksel
No. There is no refuge.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
No indeed! There is no place of refuge
Amatul Rahman Omar
To nowhere at all, there is no refuge
Hilali - Khan
No! There is no refuge
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
No indeed; not a refuge
George Sale
By no means: There shall be no place to fly unto
Edward Henry Palmer
nay, no refuge
John Medows Rodwell
But in vain - there is no refuge
N J Dawood 2014
No, there shall be no refuge
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
Nay (Kalla)! He will not (Laa) be assisted (Wazar).
Fode Drame
Not at all! There is no place for refuge.
MunirMezyed2023
Nay! There is no refuge.
Mustaqim
But no, no shelter!
Linda "iLham" Barto
By no means will there be a place of safety.
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
But no! There is no refuge.
Irving/Hegab
Of course there will be no sanctuary;
Samy Mahdy
Nay! There is no sanctuary.
Qarai
No indeed! There will be no refuge!
Ahmed Hulusi
No, there is no place of refuge (outside)!
Mubarakpuri
No! There is no refuge!
A. S. Mohamed
No indeed! There is no refuge.
Mir Aneesuddin
By no means ! (there is) no place of refuge.
[Al-Muntakhab]
But never; there is no shelter to recourse to
The Wise Quran Project
Not so, no refuge.
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
By no means! No place of safety
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
No. There is no refuge.
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
No. There is no refuge
OLD Word by Word
By no means! (There is) no refuge
Transliteration
Kalla la wazara