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Quran 37:98

Surah As-Saaffaat, Verse 98

Juz 23 · Page 449 · Ruku 388 · Meccan

فَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْأَسْفَلِينَ

Word by word

فَأَرَادُوا۟ fa-arādū And they intended بِهِۦ bihi for him كَيْدًۭا kaydan a plot فَجَعَلْنَـٰهُمُ fajaʿalnāhumu but We made them ٱلْأَسْفَلِينَ l-asfalīna the lowest

Transliteration

Faaradoo bihi kaydan fajaAAalnahumual-asfaleen

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And they designed a snare for him, but We made them the undermost.

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

(This failing), they then sought a stratagem against him, but We made them the ones most humiliated!

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

فقالوا : ( ابنوا له بنيانا فألقوه في الجحيم ) وكان من أمرهم ما تقدم بيانه في سورة الأنبياء ، ونجاه الله من النار وأظهره عليهم ، وأعلى حجته ونصرها ; ولهذا قال تعالى : ( فأرادوا به كيدا فجعلناهم الأسفلين )

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.