وَذَٰلِكُمۡ ظَنُّكُمُ ٱلَّذِي ظَنَنتُم بِرَبِّكُمۡ أَرۡدَىٰكُمۡ فَأَصۡبَحۡتُم مِّنَ ٱلۡخَٰسِرِينَ ٢٣
And that was your assumption which you assumed about your Lord. It has brought you to ruin, and you have become among the losers."
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
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وَذَٰلِكُمۡ And that wadhālikum ظَنُّكُمُ (was) your assumption ẓannukumu ٱلَّذِي which alladhī ظَنَنتُم you assumed ẓanantum بِرَبِّكُمۡ about your Lord birabbikum أَرۡدَىٰكُمۡ It has ruined you ardākum فَأَصۡبَحۡتُم and you have become fa-aṣbaḥtum مِّنَ of mina ٱلۡخَٰسِرِينَ the losers l-khāsirīna Tafsir And that very evil thought you thought up concerning your Lord, destroyed you, and so because of it, you became the very ones who lost in the world and the Hereafter.
Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran
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