2. Surah Al Baqarah

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

But his cynicism may be the greatest folly in the eyes of Allah.

وَإِذَا لَقُواْ الَّذِينَ آمَنُواْ قَالُواْ آمَنَّا...

2: 14. When they meet those who believe, they say: "We believe,"

C37. A deeper phase of insincerity is actual duplicity. But it never pays in the end. If we compare such a man to a trader, he loses in the bargain.

... وَإِذَا خَلَوْاْ إِلَى شَيَاطِينِهِمْ قَالُواْ ...

but when they are alone with their evil ones, they say:

... إِنَّا مَعَكْمْ إِنَّمَا نَحْنُ مُسْتَهْزِؤُونَ ﴿١٤﴾

"We are really with you, we (were) only jesting."

Others version:

2: 14

Asad and full of piety towards his parents; and never was he haughty or rebellious.

Pickthall And dutiful toward his parents. And he was not arrogant, rebellious.

Transliteration Wa bar ran biwa_lidaihi wa lam yakun jab bara_n ashiy ya_