Quran with British translation - Surah Al-Baqarah ayat 16 - البَقَرَة - Page - Juz 1
﴿أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱشۡتَرَوُاْ ٱلضَّلَٰلَةَ بِٱلۡهُدَىٰ فَمَا رَبِحَت تِّجَٰرَتُهُمۡ وَمَا كَانُواْ مُهۡتَدِينَ ﴾
[البَقَرَة: 16]
﴿أولئك الذين اشتروا الضلالة بالهدى فما ربحت تجارتهم وما كانوا مهتدين﴾ [البَقَرَة: 16]
| Mohammad Habib Shakir These are they who buy error for the right direction, so their bargain shall bring no gain, nor are they the followers of the right direction |
| Mohammad Shafi These are the people who bartered away right guidance for straying away therefrom. But their barter deal benefited them not, and they failed to become guided |
| Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall These are they who purchase error at the price of guidance, so their commerce doth not prosper, neither are they guided |
| Mufti Taqi Usmani These are the people who have bought error at the price of guidance; so their trade has brought no gain, nor have they reached the right Path |
| Muhammad Asad [for] it is they who have taken error in exchange for guidance; and neither has their bargain brought them gain, nor have they found guidance [elsewhere] |
| Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali Those are they who have traded errancy (at the price of) guidance; so, in no way has their commerce gained (anything) and in no way have they been rightly-guided |
| Muhammad Sarwar They have traded guidance for error, but their bargain has had no profit and they have missed the true guidance |
| Muhammad Taqi Usmani These are the people who have bought error at the price of guidance; so their trade has brought no gain, nor have they reached the right Path |
| Mustafa Khattab Allah Edition They are the ones who trade guidance for misguidance. But this trade is profitless, and they are not ˹rightly˺ guided |
| Mustafa Khattab God Edition They are the ones who trade guidance for misguidance. But this trade is profitless, and they are not ˹rightly˺ guided |
| N J Dawood Such are those that barter guidance for error: they profit nothing, nor are they on the right path |
| Safi Kaskas They have sold guidance for error, what an unprofitable trade; they have not been guided |