سورة الصافات، الآية ٩٨
فَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْأَسْفَلِينَ ٩٨
fa-arādū bihi kaydan fajaʿalnāhumu l-asfalīna
And they intended for him a plan [i.e., harm], but We made them the most debased.
Verse 98 of Surah As-Saffat (37:98), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 449 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
79 recitations by 73 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
So the people of Abraham intended to do evil to Abraham by destroying him so they could be saved from him, but I made them the losers when I made the fire cool and safe for him.
They contrived a plan against him, but We made them the lowest.
So they plotted a plot against him, but We made them the lowest.
And they designed a snare for him, but We made them the undermost.
(This failing), they then sought a stratagem against him, but We made them the ones most humiliated!
And they desired a war against him, but We brought them low.
So they were willing to devise a plot against him; yet We made them the basest.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَأَرَادُوا۟ بِهِۦ كَيْدًا فَجَعَلْنَٰهُمُ ٱلْأَخْسَرِينَ
And they intended for him a plan [i.e., harm], but We made them the greatest losers.
