Surah Az-Zumar — Verse 26

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فَأَذَاقَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلْخِزْىَ فِى ٱلْحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنْيَا ۖ وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ أَكْبَرُ ۚ لَوْ كَانُوا۟ يَعْلَمُونَ

Faathaqahumu Allahu alkhizyafee alhayati addunya walaAAathabual-akhirati akbaru law kanoo yaAAlamoon

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

So Allāh made them taste disgrace in worldly life. But the punishment of the Hereafter is greater, if they only knew.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

God gave them the punishment of disgrace in this world to taste; the punishment will be even harder in the Hereafter, if only they knew.

Marmaduke Pickthall

Thus Allah made them taste humiliation in the life of the world, and verily the doom of the Hereafter will be greater if they did but know.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

So Allah gave them a taste of humiliation in the present life, but greater is the punishment of the Hereafter, if they only knew!

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Then Allah made them taste disgrace in the worldly life, and of course the punishment of the Hereafter is much greater. Only if they knew!

Al-Hilali & Khan

So Allâh made them to taste the disgrace in the present life, but greater is the torment of the Hereafter if they only knew!

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

So Allah made them taste degradation in the life of this world, and certainly the chastisement of the Hereafter will be much more grievous. Would that they knew!

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

and thus God let them taste ignominy [even] in the life of this world. Yet [how] much greater will be the [sinners’] suffering in the life to come - if they [who now deny the truth] but knew it!