Surah Al-Hashr — Verse 15

The Exile · 59:15 · 15/24

كَمَثَلِ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ قَرِيبًا ۖ ذَاقُوا۟ وَبَالَ أَمْرِهِمْ وَلَهُمْ عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ

Kamathali allatheena min qablihimqareeban thaqoo wabala amrihim walahum AAathabunaleem

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

[Theirs is] like the example of those shortly before them: they tasted the bad consequence of their affair, and they will have a painful punishment.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

Like those who went just before them, they have tasted the result of their conduct and a painful punishment awaits them.

Marmaduke Pickthall

On the likeness of those (who suffered) a short time before them, they taste the ill-effects of their own conduct, and theirs is painful punishment.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Like those who lately preceded them, they have tasted the evil result of their conduct; and (in the Hereafter there is) for them a grievous Penalty;-

Mufti Taqi Usmani

The example (of Banū NaDīr) is like those who were before them in near past, who tasted the evil consequence of their conduct, and for them (in the Hereafter) there is a painful punishment.

Al-Hilali & Khan

They are like their immediate predecessors (the Jews of Banû Qainûqâ‘, who suffered); they tasted the evil result of their conduct, and (in the Hereafter, there is) for them a painful torment.

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

They are like those who tasted the evil consequences of their deeds a short while before. A grievous chastisement awaits them.

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

[To both kinds of your enemies, O believers, is bound to happen] the like of [what happened to] those who, a short while before them, had to taste the evil that came from their own doings, with [yet more] grievous suffering awaiting them [in the life to come]:

Rowwad · source edition

They are like those who were shortly before them[12], who tasted the evil consequence of their deeds, and for them there will be a painful punishment.

Notes

[12] Referring to the defeat of the pagans of Makkah at the Battle of Badr or the exile of the Jews of Banu Qaynuqā‘.

Noor International · source edition

(15) [Theirs is] like the example of those shortly before them: they tasted the bad consequence of their affair, and they will have a painful punishment.

Hilali and Khan · source edition

15. They are like their immediate predecessors (the Jews of Banû Qainûqâ‘, who suffered); they tasted the evil result of their conduct, and (in the Hereafter, there is) for them a painful torment.