Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Evil is the example of people who are bent on giving the lie to Our messages: for it is against their own selves that they are sinning
Arthur John Arberry
An evil likeness is the likeness of the people who cried lies to Our signs, and themselves were wronging
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Evil as an example are people who reject Our signs and wrong their own souls
Arabic
سَاۤءَ مَثَلًا ٱلۡقَوۡمُ ٱلَّذِینَ كَذَّبُوا۟ بِءَایَـٰتِنَا وَأَنفُسَهُمۡ كَانُوا۟ یَظۡلِمُونَ ١٧٧
Transliteration (2021)
sāa mathalan l-qawmu alladhīna kadhabū biāyātinā wa-anfusahum kānū yaẓlimūn