Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | Can they, then, ever feel secure from God's deep devising? But none feels secure from God's deep devising save people who are [already] lost |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | Are they then secure from Allah's scheme? None deemeth himself secure from Allah's scheme save folk that perish | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | Did they then feel secure against the plan of Allah?- but no one can feel secure from the Plan of Allah, except those (doomed) to ruin | |
Shakir | | What! do they then feel secure from Allah's plan? But none feels secure from Allah's plan except the people who shall perish | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | Do they feel secure against God's devising? No one feels secure against God's devising except for those doomed to ruin | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | Were they safe from the planning of God? No one deems himself safe from the planning of God but the folk, the ones who are losers! | |
| T.B.Irving | | Do they feel safe from God´s design? No one should feel safe from God´s design except for folk who will lose out. | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | Did they feel secure against Allah’s planning? None would feel secure from Allah’s planning except the losers. | |
| Safi Kaskas | | Can they ever feel secure from God's plan? Only the people who are lost feel secure from God's plan. | |
| Abdul Hye | | Did they then feel secure against the plan of Allah? Don’t feel secure from the plan of Allah except the people who are the losers. | |
| The Study Quran | | Did they feel secure from God’s plotting? None feels secure from God’s plotting, save the people who are losers | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | Have they become sure about God's scheming None are sure about God's scheming except the people who are losers | |
Abdel Haleem | | Do they feel secure against God’s plan? Only the losers feel secure against God’s plan | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | Are then they secure against the contrivance of Allah? And none feeleth secure against the contrivance of Allah except the people who are losers | |
Ahmed Ali | | Can they remain secure against the plan of God? Only they feel secure against the plan of God who are certain of being ruined | |
Aisha Bewley | | Do they feel secure against Allah´s devising? No one feels secure against Allah´s devising except for those who are lost. | |
Ali Ünal | | Or did they feel secure from God’s designing (against them some unexpected affliction)? But none feels secure from God’s designing (against them some unexpected affliction) save the people of loss and self-ruin | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | Do they feel secure from Allah’s devising? No one feels secure from Allah’s devising except the people who are losers | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | Were they secure from the Plan of Allah? None deems himself secure from the Plan of Allah except a people that are doomed to perish | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | So, do they feel secure against the scheming of Allah? Then none feels secure against the scheming of Allah except the people (who) are the losers | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | Did they consider themselves secure from the retribution of God? No one can have such attitude except those who are lost | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | Do they feel secure from Allah‘s plan? None can feel secure from Allah‘s plan except the people who are losers | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | Do they feel secure from the subtle progression of the Divine Laws? Do they think that the Divine Law grants them unconditional security? Only the losers feel secure from the subtle progression of Allah's Law of Requital | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | Did they then feel safe against the Plan of Allah? But no one can feel safe from the Plan of Allah, except those (falling) into (his own) ruin!] | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | Then did they feel secure from the plan of Allah ? But no one feels secure from the plan of Allah except the losing people | |
Farook Malik | | Do these people feel secure against the plan of Allah? In fact, only those people feel secure from the plan of Allah who are doomed to destruction | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | Did they not feel afraid of Allah´s secret plan? Only the people who are doomed to be the losers feel secure against Allah´s secret plan | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | Did, then, they feel secure against the plan of Allah? So, does not feel secure from the plan of Allah except the nation who stand lost | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | Do they feel safe from God's plan? None feel safe from God's plan except the losing people | |
Maududi | | Do they feel secure against the design of Allah None can feel secure against the design of Allah except the utter losers | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | Do they feel safe about God’s plan? Only the people who are losers feel safe about God’s plan. | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | Did they then feel immune concerning the plan of God? No one feels immune concerning the plan of God except those bound for failure | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | Or did they feel secure from Allah’s plan? It is only the losers who are not afraid of Allah’s plan. | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | Have they become secure about the scheming of God? None are secure about the scheming of God except the people who are the losers. | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | Did they then feel secure from Allah's plan? But none felt secure from Allah's plan except those who were doomed | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | Are they not afraid of the Lord's plan? The fact of the matter is, only the losers are not afraid of the Lord's punishment | |
| Faridul Haque | | Are they oblivious to Allah’s secret plan? So none is unafraid of Allah’s secret plan except the people of ruin | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | (In reply to your devising) do they feel secure from the devising of Allah? None feels secure from the devising of Allah except the loosing nation | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | Are they secure from Allah’s plan? But none feels secure from Allah’s plan except the people who perish | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | Did they secure God's scheme/deceit ? So no(one) trusts God's scheme/deceit except the nation the losers | |
Sher Ali | | Are they then secure from the design of ALLAH? And none feels secure from the design of ALLAH save the people who are destined to perish | |
Rashad Khalifa | | Have they taken GOD's plans for granted? None takes GOD's plans for granted except the losers. | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | Are they unaware of the secret devise of Allah? And none becomes fearless against the secret devise of Allah but the losers | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | Do they feel secure from the design of Allah? No one at all feels secure from Allah's design, except the people who are (doomed to be) losers | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | Are they fearless of Allah’s secret plan? So, no one feels fearless against the secret plan of Allah except the people who run into loss | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | Did they then feel secure against the Plan of Allah. None feels secure from the Plan of Allah except the people who are the losers | |
New and/or Partial Translations, and works in progress
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| Linda “iLHam” Barto | | Did they feel secure against Allah’s plans? Only those left to ruin feel secure from Allah’s plans. | |
| Sayyid Qutb | | Do they feel themselves secure from God's designs? None feels secure from God's designs except those who are losers. | |
| Ahmed Hulusi | | (Or) were they secure from the plan of Allah (that Allah will make them live the consequences of their deeds without them even realizing, and hence, thinking there is no consequence, they will continue to engage in their activities and sink further in failure)! None can feel secure from the plan of Allah but the people who are in loss. | |
| Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli | | What! Do they then feel secure from Allah�s plan (sudden punishment) ? But none feels secure from Allah�s plan save the people (who are) losers | |
| Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim | | Do they feel secure and from ignorance, their comfort flows to the extent that they can escape an event destined to happen according to Allah's plan! Indeed, no one in his own sound mind feels secure against Allah's predetermined actions but those who are born to be losers | |
| Mir Aneesuddin | | Are they then secure from Allah's pain? So no one feels secure from Allah's plan except the people who are losers. | |
