Saa mathalan alqawmu allatheena kaththaboo biayatina waanfusahum kanoo yathlimoona
English
Ahmed Ali
Evil is the case of those who deny Our signs and wrong themselves.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (evil as an example are the folk who denied our revelations) muhammad (pbuh) and the qur'an, if their example is as that of a dog, (and were wont to wrong themselves) to harm themselves by being tortured.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : evil as an example are the people, evil is the example of the people, who denied our signs, and were wont to wrong themselves, through denial.