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Muhammad Asad   
the lying, rebellious forehead! –
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
a lying, sinful forelock.
Safi Kaskas   
a lying, sinning forelock.

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Arabic   
نَاصِيَةٍ كَـٰذِبَةٍ خَاطِئَةٍ
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nāṣiyatin kādhibatin khāṭi-atin
www.quran.live   
a lying, sinful forelock (i.e., of the one who prevents)
Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more   
A forelock lying, sinful.

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
the lying, rebellious forehead! –
M. M. Pickthall   
The lying, sinful forelock
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
A lying, sinful forelock
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
a lying, sinful forelock.
Safi Kaskas   
a lying, sinning forelock.
Wahiduddin Khan   
his lying, sinful forelock
Shakir   
A lying, sinful forehead
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
a lying, inequitable forelock.
T.B.Irving   
Such a lying, sinful forelock!
Abdul Hye   
a lying, sinful forelock.
The Study Quran   
a lying, iniquitous forelock
Talal Itani & AI (2024)   
A lying, sinful forelock.
Talal Itani (2012)   
A deceitful, sinful forelock
Dr. Kamal Omar   
a lying, denying, sinful forelock
M. Farook Malik   
a lying, sinful forelock
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
A lying, sinful forelock
Muhammad Sarwar   
his lying sinful forelock
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
a lying, sinful forelock
Shabbir Ahmed   
A forelock that is given to denial and committing fault upon fault
Dr. Munir Munshey   
The lying sinful lock of hair
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
A lying, sinful hair
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
A lying, sinning forelock
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)   
A frontal lobe which lies and errs
Abdel Haleem   
his lying, sinful forehead
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
A forelock, lying, sinning
Ahmed Ali   
By the lying, the sinful forelock
Aisha Bewley   
a lying, sinful forelock.
Ali Ünal   
A lying, sinful forelock
Ali Quli Qara'i   
a lying, sinful forelock
Hamid S. Aziz   
The lying sinful forelock
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
a sinful lying forelock.
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
His lying, sinful head
Musharraf Hussain   
that lying and sinful forelock
Maududi   
by the lying forelock steeped in sin
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
A forelock which lies and errs.
Mohammad Shafi   
A lying, sinning forelock

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
forelock of what type, lying, sinful.
Rashad Khalifa   
A forelock that is disbelieving and sinful
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah   
a lying, sinful forelock
Maulana Muhammad Ali   
A lying, sinful forelock
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira   
A lying/denying/falsifying, sinning/erring/wronging forehead/forehead's hair
Bijan Moeinian   
… if he continues his animosity toward Islam, I (God) will grab him by his lying, sinful forehead to the fire
Faridul Haque   
A forelock that lies, is sinful
Sher Ali   
A forelock, lying, sinful
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
His lying (and) sinful forehead
Amatul Rahman Omar   
A lying, sinful forelock
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
A lying, sinful forelock

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
a lying, sinful forelock
George Sale   
the lying, sinful forelock
Edward Henry Palmer   
the lying sinful forelock
John Medows Rodwell   
The lying sinful forelock
N J Dawood (2014)   
his lying, sinful forelock

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame   
a forelock lying and sinful.
Munir Mezyed   
Lying, sinful forelock!
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher   
The lying, sinful forelock,
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation   
a lying, wrongful forelock.
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
[They are] lying, sinful frontal lobes.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
Such a lying, sinful forelock!
Samy Mahdy   
A liar, guilty forelock.
Sayyid Qutb   
his lying, sinful forelock.
Thomas Cleary   
a lying sinning forelock.
Ahmed Hulusi   
A lying, mistaken (driven by corporeality) forehead (brain)!
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)   
"a lying, sinful forelock;"
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim   
A forehead that is false, pretending to be a forehead of divinity
Mir Aneesuddin   
the denying, sinful forelock.
The Wise Quran   
A lying, sinful forelock.

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
A lying, sinful forelock
OLD Literal Word for Word   
A forelock lying, sinful
OLD Transliteration   
Nasiyatin kathibatin khati-atin