Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Most loathsome is it in the sight of God that you say what you do not do
Arthur John Arberry
Very hateful is it to God, that you say what you do not
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Grievously odious is it in the sight of Allah that ye say that which ye do not
Arabic
كَبُرَ مَقۡتًا عِندَ ٱللَّهِ أَن تَقُولُوا۟ مَا لَا تَفۡعَلُونَ ٣
Transliteration (2021)
kabura maqtan ʿinda l-lahi an taqūlū mā lā tafʿalūn