Verse. 23

٢ - ٱلْبَقَرَة

2 - Al-Baqara

اُولٰۗىِٕكَ الَّذِيْنَ اشْتَرَوُا الضَّلٰلَۃَ بِالْہُدٰى۝۰۠ فَمَا رَبِحَتْ تِّجَارَتُھُمْ وَمَا كَانُوْا مُہْتَدِيْنَ۝۱۶
Olaika allatheena ishtarawoo alddalalata bialhuda fama rabihat tijaratuhum wama kanoo muhtadeena

English

Ahmed Ali

They are indeed those who bartered away good guidance for error and gained nothing from the deal, nor found the right way.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (these are they who purchase error at the price of guidance), they chose disbelief instead of faith and exchanged guidance with error, (so their commerce did not prosper), they did not prosper in their bargain but on the contrary (neither were they guided) to overcome their error.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : those are they who have bought error for guidance, that is, they have exchanged the latter for the former; so their commerce has not profited them, that is to say, they have gained nothing from it, indeed, they have lost, because their destination is the fire, made everlasting for them; nor are they guided, in what they did.