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Al-A'raf 178

Ayah 178 of 206 · Meccan

مَن يَهۡدِ ٱللَّهُ فَهُوَ ٱلۡمُهۡتَدِيۖ وَمَن يُضۡلِلۡ فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡخَٰسِرُونَ ١٧٨

Whoever Allāh guides - he is the [rightly] guided; and whoever He sends astray1 - it is those who are the losers.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 As a result of persistence in evil and rejection of truth.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. مَنWhoeverman
  2. يَهۡدِ(is) guidedyahdi
  3. ٱللَّهُ(by) Allahl-lahu
  4. فَهُوَthen hefahuwa
  5. ٱلۡمُهۡتَدِيۖ(is) the guided onel-muh'tadī
  6. وَمَنwhile whoeverwaman
  7. يُضۡلِلۡHe lets go astrayyuḍ'lil
  8. فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَthen thosefa-ulāika
  9. هُمُ[they]humu
  10. ٱلۡخَٰسِرُونَ(are) the losersl-khāsirūna

Tafsir

Whoever Allah allows to be guided to the right path is truly guided, because they chose the path of their Lord; and whoever Allah does not lead to His path, sending them away from it because of their deviation and bad actions, those are the true losers, who lose themselves and their families on the Day of Judgment – is that not complete loss?

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran