Surah Al-An'am — Verse 20
The Cattle · 6:20 · 20/165
ٱلَّذِينَ ءَاتَيْنَـٰهُمُ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ يَعْرِفُونَهُۥ كَمَا يَعْرِفُونَ أَبْنَآءَهُمُ ۘ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓا۟ أَنفُسَهُمْ فَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
Allatheena ataynahumualkitaba yaAArifoonahu kama yaAArifoona abnaahumallatheena khasiroo anfusahum fahum la yu'minoon
Translations of this verse 11
Saheeh International
Those to whom We have given the Scripture recognize it as they recognize their [own] sons. Those who will lose themselves [in the Hereafter] do not believe.
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
Those to whom We have given the Scripture know this as well as they know their own sons. Those who have lost their souls will not believe.
Marmaduke Pickthall
Those unto whom We gave the Scripture recognise (this revelation) as they recognise their sons. Those who ruin their own souls will not believe.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Those to whom We have given the Book know this as they know their own sons. Those who have lost their own souls refuse therefore to believe.
Mufti Taqi Usmani
Those to whom We have given the Book recognize him (the Messenger) as (certainly as) they would recognize their sons. Those who have brought loss to themselves, they are not going to believe.
Al-Hilali & Khan
Those to whom We have given the Scripture (Jews and Christians) recognize him (i.e. Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم as a Messenger of Allâh, and they also know that there is no Ilâh (God) but Allâh and Islâm is Allâh’s Religion), as they recognize their own sons. Those who have lost (destroyed) themselves will not believe. (Tafsir At-Tabarî).
Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)
Those whom We have given the Book will recognize this just as they recognize their own ofspring; but those who have courted their own ruin will not believe.
Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an
They unto whom we have vouchsafed revelation aforetime know this as they know their own children; yet those [of them] who have squandered their own selves -it is they who refuse to believe.
Rowwad · source edition
Those to whom We gave the Scripture recognize [Muhammad][5] just as they recognize their own sons. Those who have ruined their own souls will not believe.
Notes
[5] They had an exact description of Prophet Muhammad (ﷺ) in their Scriptures.
Noor International · source edition
(20) Those to whom We have given the Scripture recognize it[299] as they recognize their [own] sons. Those who will lose themselves [in the Hereafter] do not believe.
Notes
[299]- The Qur’ān. Also interpreted as "him," meaning Muḥammad (ﷺ).
Hilali and Khan · source edition
20. Those to whom We have given the Scripture (Jews and Christians) recognize him (i.e. Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم as a Messenger of Allâh, and they also know that there is no Ilâh (God) but Allâh and Islâm is Allâh’s Religion), as they recognize their own sons. Those who have lost (destroyed) themselves will not believe.[3] (Tafsir At-Tabarî).
Notes
[3] (V.6:20) See the footnote of (V.3:85).