Quran 16:86 Word by Word & Translations

16:86 Word by Word (2021)

And when (will) see those who associated partners with Allah their partners. They will say, "Our Lord, these (are) our partners those whom we used to invoke from besides You." But they (will) throw back at them (their) word, "Indeed, you (are) surely liars."


16:86 Arabic

وَإِذَا رَءَا ٱلَّذِينَ أَشْرَكُوا۟ شُرَكَآءَهُمْ قَالُوا۟ رَبَّنَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ شُرَكَآؤُنَا ٱلَّذِينَ كُنَّا نَدْعُوا۟ مِن دُونِكَ فَأَلْقَوْا۟ إِلَيْهِمُ ٱلْقَوْلَ إِنَّكُمْ لَكَٰذِبُونَ

16:86 Transliteration

Wa-itha raa allatheena ashrakoo shurakaahum qaloo rabbana haola-i shurakaona allatheena kunna nadAAoo min doonika faalqaw ilayhimu alqawla innakum lakathiboona
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
And when those who were polytheists saw their partners, they said: "Our Lord, these are our partners that we used to call upon besides You." But they returned in answer to them: "You are liars!
Abdel Haleem
When the idolaters see the partners they joined with God they will say, ‘Our Lord, these are the partners we used to invoke beside You,’ but the partners will retort, ‘You are liars,’
Abdul Hye
And when those who associated partners (with Allah) see their partners, they will say: “Our Lord! These are our partners whom we used to invoke besides you.” But they (partners) will throw back their word at them (and say): “Surely! You are liars!”
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
And when those who have associated will behold their associate-gods, they will say: our Lord! yonder are our associate-gods upon whom we have been calling beside Thee, they Will proffer them the saying: verily ye are liars
Ahmed Ali
When the idolaters see their partners they will call out: "O our Lord, these are the partners we invoked instead of You;" but they will retort: "You are liars."
Ahmed Hulusi
When the dualists see the partners they associated they will say, “Our Rabb! These are our partners, who are not your equal, who we gave names to and associated as partners to You”... (Their partners) will scold them and say, “Indeed, you are liars.”
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
And when those who associated partners will see their associates, they will say, 'O our Lord! These are our associates whom we used to worship besides You. Then they will throw back at them the word that undoubtedly, you are liars.
Aisha Bewley
When those who associated others with Allah see those they associated, they will say, ´Our Lord, these are our partner gods, the ones we called upon apart from You.´ But they will fling their words back in their faces: ´You are truly liars!´
Ali Ünal
And when those who associate partners with God see their associate-deities (such as Prophets, saints, and heroes, whom they hold as partners with God in worship and absolute obedience), they will say "Our Lord! Those are our associate-deities whom we (held as partners with You, and) used to invoke apart from You. (They are the ones who led us astray.)" Whereupon (those beings) fling at them the retort: "You are indeed liars!"
Ali Quli Qara'i
When the polytheists sight their partners, they will say, ‘Our Lord! These are our partners whom we used to invoke besides You.’ But they will retort to them, ‘You are indeed liars!’
Amatul Rahman Omar
And when those who associate partners (with God) will see their associate-gods they will say, `Our Lord! these are partners associated with You by us, whom we used to call upon instead of You.' But they (-the so-called partners) will retort them with the words, `Most surely, you are liars.
Arthur John Arberry
And when the idolaters behold their associates, they shall say, 'Our Lord, these are our associates on whom we called apart from Thee.' They will fling back at them the saying, 'Surely, you are truly liars.
Bakhtiari Nejad
And when those who associated, see their partners (that they associated with God), they say: “Our Lord, these are our partners (of God), those whom we were calling on besides You.” But they would throw the word back at them (saying:) “You are certainly liars.”
Bijan Moeinian
When the disbelievers encounter those whom they had raised to the level of God, they will say: “Our Lord! shame on us taking them as our lords.” Their lords will interject: “You were nothing but liars to say that we are equal to God.”
Bilal Muhammad 2018
When those who gave partners to God see their partners they will say, “Our Lord, these are our partners, those whom we used to invoke besides You.” But they will throw back their word at them and say, “Indeed you are liars.
Corpus.Quran
And when (will) see those who associated partners with Allah their partners They will say Our Lord these (are) our partners those whom we used to invoke besides You besides You But they (will) throw back at them (their) word Indeed, you (are) surely liars
Dr. Kamal Omar
And when those who associated partners (to God) saw their associate-gods, they said: “Our Nourisher-Sustainer! All these are our associate-gods, those whom we used to invoke besides You.” Thereupon they retorted on them the statement: “Surely you are indeed liars!”
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
And when those who ascribed partners saw their ascribed associates with God, they will say: Our Lord, these are our ascribed associates whom we had been calling to other than Thee. Then, they will cast their saying back to them: Truly, you are ones who lie!
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
And when the idolaters see their (self-made) partners, they will say: ‘O our Lord, these are our partner-gods which we worshipped besides You.’ Thereupon those (partner-gods) will send them the message (in reply): ‘You are liars indeed.
Dr. Munir Munshey
Those guilty of ascribing partners to Allah, will spot those partners (on the Day of Judgment) and will cry out, "Oh our Lord, these are the ones we used to worship besides You!" In response, they will retort, "You are liars!"
Edward Henry Palmer
And when those who join their partners with God say, 'Our Lord! these be our partners on whom we used to call beside Thee.' And they shall proffer them the speech, 'Verily, ye are liars!
Faridul Haque
And when the polytheists will see their ascribed partners, they will say, "Our Lord! These are our partners whom we used to worship besides You"; so they will strike back at them with the saying, "You are indeed liars!"
Fode Drame
And when those who ascribe partners to Allah see their partners they will say, “O our Lord, these are our partners whom we used to invoke besides You.” They retort back to them, “Truly you are liars.”
George Sale
and when those who shall have been guilty of idolatry shall see their false gods, they shall say, O Lord, these are our idols which we invoked, besides Thee. But they shall return an answer unto them, saying, verily ye are liars
Hamid S. Aziz
And when those who join partners with Allah behold those partners, they will say, "Our Lord! These are your partners on whom we used to invoke beside Thee." And they shall throw back the words at them, "Verily, you are liars!"
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
And when the idolaters see their associates they will say: 'Our Lord, these are our associates on whom we called other than You. ' But they will throw back at them saying: 'Surely, you are truly liars.
Hilali - Khan
And when those who associated partners with Allah see their (Allahs so-called) partners, they will say: "Our Lord! These are our partners whom we used to invoke besides you." But they will throw back their word at them (and say): "Surely! You indeed are liars!"
Irving/Hegab
When those who have associated [others with Allah (God)] see their associates [in such worship], they will say: "Our Lord, these are our associates whom we appealed to instead of to You." They will toss the statement back at them: "You're lying!"
John Medows Rodwell
And when they who had joined associates with God shall see those their associate-gods, they shall say, "O our Lord! these are our associate-gods whom we called upon beside Thee." But they shall retort on them, "Verily, ye are liars."
Linda "iLham" Barto
When those who added partners to Allah see their partners, they will say, “O Lord, these are our partners whom we used to invoke besides You.” (The idols) will respond to them, “Truly, you are liars!”
Maududi
And when those who associated others with Allah in His Divinity will see those to whom they ascribed this share, they will say: "Our Lord! These are the beings to whom we ascribed a share in Your Divinity and whom we called upon instead of You," whereupon those beings will fling at them the words: "You are liars."
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And when those who ascribed partners (to Allah) see their associate-gods, they will say: Our Lord, these are our associate-gods on whom we called besides Thee. But they will throw back at them the word: Surely you are liars
Mir Aneesuddin
And when those who associate partners (with Allah) will see their (presumed) partners, they will say, “ Our Fosterer! these are our (presumed) partners to whom we used to pray besides You.” But they will throw back ( the reply ) to them by saying, “You are certainly liars.”
Mohammad Shafi
And when those who worship others besides Allah see those others, they shall say, "Our Lord! These are our other gods whom we prayed to besides You." But they will retort, "Certainly indeed you are liars!"
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
And if those who shared/made partners (with God) saw their partners (with God), they said: "Our Lord, those (are) our partners (with You), those whom we were calling from other than You." So they threw the saying/word/opinion and belief that you (are) lying/denying/falsifying (E)
Muhammad Asad
And when they who were wont to ascribe divinity to beings other than God behold [on Judgment Day] those beings to whom they were wont to ascribe a share in His divinity, they will exclaim: "O our Sustainer! These are the beings to whom we ascribed a share in Thy divinity, and whom we were wont to invoke instead of Thee!" -whereupon [those beings] will fling at them the retort: "Behold, you have indeed been lying [to yourselves]!"
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
And when the ones who associated (others with Him) see their associates, they will say, "Our Lord, these are our associates whom we used to invoke apart from You." They will then cast at them the saying, "Surely you are liars indeed."
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
And when those who ascribed partners to Allah behold those partners of theirs, they will say: Our Lord! these are our partners unto whom we used to cry instead of Thee. But they will fling to them the saying: Lo! ye verily are liars
Muhammad Sarwar
When the idolators see their idols, they will say, "Lord, these are the idols whom we worshipped instead of you." But the idols will say, "They are liars."
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
When the Mushriks (i.e. those who ascribe partners to Allah) will see those whom they made partners with Allah, they will say: .Our Lord, these are the partners we made whom we called in worship besides you. Then, they (the partners) will turn to them saying: .You are indeed liars
Munir Mezyed
When those who associate partners with Allâh see their ‘associate-gods’. They will say: "Our Lord, these are our ‘associate-gods’ to whom we used to implore and pray besides you. But ‘associate-gods‘ will fling to them the word (and say): “Indeed you are Lairs.!”
MunirMezyed2023
And When those who associate partners with Allâh see their associate-gods, they will say: ‘Our Lord, these are our associate-gods to whom we used to implore and pray besides you. But the associate-gods will fling to them the word (and say): ‘You are indeed lairs!’
Musharraf Hussain
When the idolaters see their idols they will say, “Our Lord, these are our idols we worshipped besides you,” but they will reply angrily, “Indeed you are liars.”
Mustafa Khattab 2018
And when the polytheists see their associate-gods, they will say, “Our Lord! These are our associate-gods that we used to invoke besides You.” Their gods will throw a rebuttal at them, ˹saying,˺ “You are definitely liars.”
Mustaqim
And when the idolaters see their idols, they will say: our Lord, these are our idols on whom we called besides You, but they respond to them: you are liars.
N J Dawood 2014
When the pagans behold their idols, they will say: ‘Lord, these are the idols to whom we prayed.‘ But their idols will retort: ‘You are surely lying!‘
Rashad Khalifa
And when those who committed idol worship see their idols, they will say, "Our Lord, these are the idols we had set up beside You." The idols will then confront them and say, "You are liars."
Safi Kaskas
And when those who associated other beings with God see those they associated, they will say, "Our Lord these are our associates whom we used to call upon apart from You." But they will throw their words back at them: "You are liars"
Samy Mahdy
And if those who are associating saw their associates, they said, “Our Lord, these are our associates whom we were calling without You.” So, they threw back to them the saying, “You are liars.”
Shabbir Ahmed
When those who ascribe partners to Allah see their 'partners' they will say, "Our Lord! These are our 'partners' whom we used to call instead of You." But, the leaders will fling to them the retort, "You verily have been lying to yourselves in self-deception."
Shakir
And when those who associate (others with Allah) shall see their associate-gods, they shall say: Our Lord, these are our associate-gods on whom we called besides Thee. But they will give them back the reply: Most surely you are liars
Sher Ali
And when those who associate partners with ALLAH, will see their associated-gods, they will say, `Our Lord, these are our associated-gods, whom we used to call upon instead of Thee.' Thereupon they will retort on them with the words, `Surely, you are liars.
Syed Vickar Ahamed
And when those (men) who gave ‘partners’ to Allah will see their 'partners', and they (the men) will say: "Our Lord! These are our ‘partners’, those whom we used to call upon besides You." But they will throw their word back at them: (And say): "Truly, you are liars!"
T.B.Irving
When those who have associated [others with God] see their associates [in such worship], they will say: "Our Lord, these are our associates whom we appealed to instead of to You." They will toss the statement back at them: "You´re lying!"
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
When those who associated partners with God see their supposed partners, they will cry, “Our Lord, these are our partners whom we invoked besides You.” But they will throw back at them the words, “You are liars!”
Talal Itani (2012)
And when the idolaters see their associates, they will say, 'Our Lord, these are our associates whom we used to invoke besides You.' They will strike back at them with the saying, 'Surely you are liars.'
The Study Quran
When those who ascribed partners unto God see the partners they ascribed, they will say, “Our Lord! These are our partners whom we called upon apart from Thee.” But they will retort, “Verily you are liars!
The Wise Quran
And when those who associated partners see their partners, they shall say, 'Our Lord! These are our partners, those on whom we used to call beside you.' But they will offer to them the speech, 'Indeed, you are surely liars.'
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
And when those who associated others with Allah see their "partners," they will say," Our Lord, these are our partners [to You] whom we used to invoke besides You." But they will throw at them the statement, "Indeed, you are liars."
Wahiduddin Khan
When those who associate partners with God see their associate gods, they will say, Our Lord, these are our associate gods whom we used to call upon instead of You. But they will throw back their words at them, [saying], Indeed you are liars
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
When those who gave partners to Allah will see their "partners", they will say: "Our Lord! these are our 'partners,' those whom we used to invoke besides Thee." But they will throw back their word at them (and say): "Indeed ye are liars!"