أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ خَسِرُوٓاْ أَنفُسَهُمۡ وَضَلَّ عَنۡهُم مَّا كَانُواْ يَفۡتَرُونَ ٢١
Those are the ones who will have lost themselves, and lost from them is what they used to invent.
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
Word by word
Each word's meaning and sound
- أُوْلَٰٓئِكَThoseulāika
- ٱلَّذِينَ(are) the ones whoalladhīna
- خَسِرُوٓاْ(have) lostkhasirū
- أَنفُسَهُمۡtheir soulsanfusahum
- وَضَلَّand lostwaḍalla
- عَنۡهُمfrom themʿanhum
- مَّا(is) whatmā
- كَانُواْthey usedkānū
- يَفۡتَرُونَ(to) inventyaftarūna
Tafsir
These are people who have lost themselves, heading towards their own ruin through associating partners with Allah; and the partners and intercessors they have invented will abandon them.
Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran