80. 'Abasa Verse 17 - Al-Quran: English Word by Word

قُتِلَ الْاِنْسَانُ مَآ اَكْفَرَهٗۗ ( عبس: ١٧ )

qutila

قُتِلَ

Is destroyed

l-insānu

ٱلْإِنسَٰنُ

the man

mā

مَآ

how

akfarahu

أَكْفَرَهُۥ

ungrateful is he!

Qutilal-insanu maa akfarah. (ʿAbasa 80:17)

Sahih International:

Destroyed [i.e., cursed] is man; how disbelieving is he. ('Abasa [80] : 17)

1 Mufti Taqi Usmani

Damned is the man! How ungrateful he is!

2 Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

3 Ruwwad Translation Center

4 A. J. Arberry

5 Abdul Haleem

6 Abdul Majid Daryabadi

7 Abdullah Yusuf Ali

8 Abul Ala Maududi

9 Ahmed Ali

10 Ahmed Raza Khan

11 Ali Quli Qarai

12 Ali Ünal

13 Amatul Rahman Omar

14 English Literal

15 Faridul Haque

16 Hamid S. Aziz

17 Hilali & Khan

18 Maulana Mohammad Ali

19 Mohammad Habib Shakir

20 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

21 Muhammad Sarwar

22 Qaribullah & Darwish

23 Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

24 Wahiduddin Khan

25 Talal Itani

26 Tafsir jalalayn

27 Tafseer Ibn Kathir

The Refutation against Whoever denies Life after Death

Allah rebukes those who deny the Resurrection and the Final Gathering.

قُتِلَ الاِْنسَانُ مَا أَكْفَرَهُ

Qutila mankind! How ungrateful he is!

Ad-Dahhak reported from Ibn Abbas that he said, (
قُتِلَ

الاِْنسَانُ
Qutila mankind!)

"May man be cursed."

Abu Malik also made a similar statement. He said,

"This refers to the rejecting type of man, due to his abundant denial without any supporting argument. Rather he denies simply because he thinks it is farfetched and because he lacks knowledge of it."

Ibn Jurayj said,
مَأ أَكْفَرَهُ
How ungrateful he is!

"This means none is worse in disbelief than he is."

Qatadah said,
مَأ أَكْفَرَهُ
How ungrateful he is!

"This means none is more cursed than he is."

Then Allah explains how He created him from something despised and that He is able to bring him back to life just as He created him initially.

Allah says,

مِنْ أَيِّ شَيْءٍ خَلَقَهُ

'Abasa Verse 17