| أُولَٰئِكَ الَّذِينَ خَسِرُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ |
| Asad | : | It is they who have squandered their own selves - for [on the Day of Resurrection] all their false imagery42 will have forsaken them: |
| Malik | : | They are the ones who have lost their own souls, and the fancies they invented have left them in the lurch. |
| Mustafa Khattab | : | It is they who have ruined themselves, and whatever ˹gods˺ they fabricated will fail them. |
| Pickthall | : | Such are they who have lost their souls, and that which they used to invent hath failed them. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | They are the ones who have lost their own souls: and the (fancies) they invented have left them in the lurch! |
| Transliteration | : | Olaika allatheena khasiroo anfusahum wadalla AAanhum ma kanoo yaftaroona |
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Lit., "all that they were wont to invent": a phrase which implies not merely false imaginings regarding the existence of any real "power" apart from God (i.e., the existence of supposedly divine or semi-divine beings) but also deceptive ideas and "glittering half-truths meant to delude the mind" (see 6:112 and the corresponding note) - such as "luck", wealth, personal power, nationalism, deterministic materialism, etc. - all of which cause men to lose sight of spiritual values and thus to "squander their own selves". |
