Quran 12:110 — Yusuf, verse 110
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
When the messengers lost all hope and realized that they had been dismissed as liars, Our help came to them: We saved whoever We pleased, but Our punishment will not be turned away from guilty people.
حَتَّىٰ إِذَا اسْتَيْأَسَ الرُّسُلُ وَظَنُّوا أَنَّهُمْ قَدْ كُذِبُوا جَاءَهُمْ نَصْرُنَا فَنُجِّيَ مَنْ نَشَاءُ ۖ وَلَا يُرَدُّ بَأْسُنَا عَنِ الْقَوْمِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ
ḥattā idhā is'tayasa l-rusulu waẓannū annahum qad kudhibū jāahum naṣrunā fanujjiya man nashāu walā yuraddu basunā ʿani l-qawmi l-muj'rimīna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Till, when the Messengers despaired, deeming they were counted liars, Our help came to them and whosoever We willed was delivered. Our might will never be turned back from the people of the sinners.
- Muhammad Asad
- [All the earlier apostles had to suffer persecution for a long time;] but at last -when those apostles had lost all hope and saw themselves branded as liars - Our succour attained to them: whereupon everyone whom We Milled [to be saved] was saved [and the deniers of the truth were destroyed]: for, never can Our punishment be averted from people who are lost in sin.
- Sahih International
- [They continued] until, when the messengers despaired and were certain that they had been denied, there came to them Our victory, and whoever We willed was saved. And Our punishment cannot be repelled from the people who are criminals.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | حَتَّىٰٓḥattā | Until | — |
| 2 | إِذَاidhā | when | — |
| 3 | ٱسْتَيْـَٔسَis'tayasa | gave up hope | يأس |
| 4 | ٱلرُّسُلُl-rusulu | the Messengers | رسل |
| 5 | وَظَنُّوٓا۟waẓannū | and thought | ظنن |
| 6 | أَنَّهُمْannahum | that they | — |
| 7 | قَدْqad | certainly | — |
| 8 | كُذِبُوا۟kudhibū | were denied | كذب |
| 9 | جَآءَهُمْjāahum | then came to them | جيأ |
| 10 | نَصْرُنَاnaṣrunā | Our help | نصر |
| 11 | فَنُجِّىَfanujjiya | and was saved | نجو |
| 12 | مَنman | whom | — |
| 13 | نَّشَآءُ ۖnashāu | We willed | شيأ |
| 14 | وَلَاwalā | And not | — |
| 15 | يُرَدُّyuraddu | (can) be repelled | ردد |
| 16 | بَأْسُنَاbasunā | Our punishment | بأس |
| 17 | عَنِʿani | from | — |
| 18 | ٱلْقَوْمِl-qawmi | the people | قوم |
| 19 | ٱلْمُجْرِمِينَl-muj'rimīna | (who are) criminals | جرم |