Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
They but destroy themselves, they who are given to guessing at what they cannot ascertain –
M. M. Pickthall
Accursed be the conjecturer
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Woe to the falsehood-mongers,
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
Condemned are the liars—
Safi Kaskas
The speculators destroy themselves
Wahiduddin Khan
May the conjecturers perish
Shakir
Cursed be the liars
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Perdition to those who guess,
T.B.Irving
Damned will be guessers
Abdul Hye
Curse be to the liars,
The Study Quran
Perish those who conjecture
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Perish the falsifiers.
Talal Itani (2012)
Perish the imposters
Dr. Kamal Omar
Have been annihilated those who indulge in mythology and falsehood—
Woe to those who judge by conjecture
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Slain are the constant conjecturers
Muhammad Sarwar
Death to those whose opinions are merely baseless conjectures
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Death upon those who make conjectures (against the true faith)
Shabbir Ahmed
Belittle themselves those who live by guesswork
Dr. Munir Munshey
Damned are those who conjecture
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Misery to the liars and falsehood-mongers—
Destroyed are the falsifier
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
Woe to the deceitful
Abdel Haleem
Perish the liars
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Perish the conjecturer
Ahmed Ali
Perish will those who just guess and speculate
Aisha Bewley
Death to the conjecturers:
Ali Ünal
Be away from God’s mercy the liars building on conjecture
Ali Quli Qara'i
Perish the liars
Hamid S. Aziz
Cursed be the conjecturers (or lie-mongers)
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
Death to the liars (and conjecturers),
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Cursed are the liars
Musharraf Hussain
The liars are ruined,
Maududi
Doomed are the conjecturer
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Woe to the deceitful.
Mohammad Shafi
Doomed are those who just guess