Quran 3:117 — Aal-i-Imraan, verse 117
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
and whatever they give away in this life will be nullified: a frosty wind strikes and destroys the harvest of people who have wronged themselves. It was not God who wronged them; they wronged themselves.
مَثَلُ مَا يُنْفِقُونَ فِي هَـٰذِهِ الْحَيَاةِ الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ رِيحٍ فِيهَا صِرٌّ أَصَابَتْ حَرْثَ قَوْمٍ ظَلَمُوا أَنْفُسَهُمْ فَأَهْلَكَتْهُ ۚ وَمَا ظَلَمَهُمُ اللَّهُ وَلَـٰكِنْ أَنْفُسَهُمْ يَظْلِمُونَ
mathalu mā yunfiqūna fī hādhihi l-ḥayati l-dun'yā kamathali rīḥin fīhā ṣirrun aṣābat ḥartha qawmin ẓalamū anfusahum fa-ahlakathu wamā ẓalamahumu l-lahu walākin anfusahum yaẓlimūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- The likeness of that they expend in this present life is as the likeness of a freezing blast that smites the tillage of a people who wronged themselves, and it destroyed that; God wronged them not, but themselves they wronged.
- Muhammad Asad
- The parable of what they spend on the life of this world is that of an icy wind which smites the tilth of people who have sinned against themselves, and destroys it: for, it is not God who does them wrong, but it is they who are wronging themselves.
- Sahih International
- The example of what they spend in this worldly life is like that of a wind containing frost which strikes the harvest of a people who have wronged themselves [i.e., sinned] and destroys it. And Allāh has not wronged them, but they wrong themselves.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | مَثَلُmathalu | Example | مثل |
| 2 | مَاmā | (of) what | — |
| 3 | يُنفِقُونَyunfiqūna | they spend | نفق |
| 4 | فِىfī | in | — |
| 5 | هَـٰذِهِhādhihi | this | — |
| 6 | ٱلْحَيَوٰةِl-ḥayati | [the] life | حيي |
| 7 | ٱلدُّنْيَاl-dun'yā | (of) the world | دنو |
| 8 | كَمَثَلِkamathali | (is) like (the) example | مثل |
| 9 | رِيحٍۢrīḥin | (of) a wind | روح |
| 10 | فِيهَاfīhā | in it | — |
| 11 | صِرٌّṣirrun | (is) frost | صرر |
| 12 | أَصَابَتْaṣābat | it struck | صوب |
| 13 | حَرْثَḥartha | (the) harvest | حرث |
| 14 | قَوْمٍۢqawmin | (of) a people | قوم |
| 15 | ظَلَمُوٓا۟ẓalamū | who wronged | ظلم |
| 16 | أَنفُسَهُمْanfusahum | themselves | نفس |
| 17 | فَأَهْلَكَتْهُ ۚfa-ahlakathu | then destroyed it | هلك |
| 18 | وَمَاwamā | And not | — |
| 19 | ظَلَمَهُمُẓalamahumu | (has) wronged them | ظلم |
| 20 | ٱللَّهُl-lahu | Allah | أله |
| 21 | وَلَـٰكِنْwalākin | [and] but | — |
| 22 | أَنفُسَهُمْanfusahum | themselves | نفس |
| 23 | يَظْلِمُونَyaẓlimūna | they wronged | ظلم |