Al-Maaida 5:79
The Table · ayah 79 of 120
كَانُوا۟ لَا يَتَنَاهَوْنَ عَن مُّنكَرٍۢ فَعَلُوهُ ۚ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْعَلُونَ
Kanoo la yatanahawnaAAan munkarin faAAaloohu labi/sa ma kanooyafAAaloon
"They used not to prevent one another from wrongdoing that they did. How wretched was that which they were doing."
Saheeh International translation
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Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"they did not forbid each other to do wrong. How vile their deeds were!"
Pickthall (classic)+
"They restrained not one another from the wickedness they did. Verily evil was that they used to do!"
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"Nor did they (usually) forbid one another the iniquities which they committed: evil indeed were the deeds which they did."