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فَاسْتَخَفَّ قَوْمَهٗ فَاَطَاعُوْهُ ۗاِنَّهُمْ كَانُوْا قَوْمًا فٰسِقِيْنَ   ( الزخرف: ٥٤ )

fa-is'takhaffa
فَٱسْتَخَفَّ
So he bluffed
qawmahu
قَوْمَهُۥ
his people
fa-aṭāʿūhu
فَأَطَاعُوهُۚ
and they obeyed him
innahum
إِنَّهُمْ
Indeed they
kānū
كَانُوا۟
were
qawman
قَوْمًا
a people
fāsiqīna
فَٰسِقِينَ
defiantly disobedient

Fastakhaffa qawmahoo fa ataa'ooh; innahum kaanoo qawman faasiqeen (az-Zukhruf 43:54)

Sahih International:

So he bluffed his people, and they obeyed him. Indeed, they were [themselves] a people defiantly disobedient [of Allah]. (Az-Zukhruf [43] : 54)

1 Mufti Taqi Usmani

Thus he made fool of his people, and they obeyed him. Surely they were a sinful people.