Al-Mutaffifin Verse 1

Woe to the defrauders!

Woe to the defrauders,

Woe to the stinters who,

Woe to those who give short measure,

Woe Unto the scrimpers:

Woe to those that deal in fraud,-

Woe to the stinters;

WOE TO THOSE who give short measure,

Ruin is for the defrauders. (Those who measure less.)

Woe to the defrauders, who use short measures,

Woe to those who deal in fraud;

Woe be to those who make a default in any of their duties and give short measure.

Calamity/scandal to the ones giving insufficient or deficient measures .

Ruin is for the defrauders. (Those who measure less.)

Woe to the defrauders,

Woe to Al-Mutaffifin [those who give less in measure and weight (decrease the rights of others)],

Who, when they take the measure (of their dues) from men, take it fully,

Woe to the defrauders,

Woe unto the defrauders:

Woe to those who are fraudulent in (weighing and measuring),

Woe to the diminishers,

Woe to Al-Mutaffifin.

Woe to those who give short measure,

Woe to the defrauders.

Woe (waylun; a term entailing chastisement; or [it is the name of] a valley in Hell) to the defrauders;

Increasing and decreasing in the Measure and Weight will be a Cause for Regret and Loss

An-Nasa'i and Ibn Majah both recorded from Ibn Abbas that he said,

"When the Prophet came to Al-Madinah, the people of Al-Madinah were the most terrible people in giving measurement (i.e., they used to cheat). Thus, Allah revealed,

وَيْلٌ لِّلْمُطَفِّفِينَ




Woe to Al-Mutaffifin.

After this, they began to give good measure."

The meaning of the word Tatfif here is to be stingy with measurement and weight, either by increasing it if it is due from the others, or decreasing it if it is a debt.

Thus, Allah explains that the Mutaffifin those whom He has promised loss and destruction, whom are meant by "Woe" ar