Surah Ali 'Imran (آل عمران) • Family of Imran

Quran 3:86

3:86

كَيْفَ يَهْدِى ٱللَّهُ قَوْمًا كَفَرُوا۟ بَعْدَ إِيمَـٰنِهِمْ وَشَهِدُوٓا۟ أَنَّ ٱلرَّسُولَ حَقٌّ وَجَآءَهُمُ ٱلْبَيِّنَـٰتُ ۚ وَٱللَّهُ لَا يَهْدِى ٱلْقَوْمَ ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَ

kayfa yahdī l-lahu qawman kafarū baʿda īmānihim washahidū anna l-rasūla ḥaqqun wajāahumu l-bayinātu wal-lahu lā yahdī l-qawma l-ẓālimīna

How shall Allāh guide a people who disbelieved after their belief and had witnessed that the Messenger is true and clear signs had come to them? And Allāh does not guide the wrongdoing people.

— Saheeh International

Why would God guide people who deny the truth, after they have believed and acknowledged that the Messenger is true, and after they have been shown clear proof? God does not guide evildoers:

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

How shall Allâh guide a people who disbelieved after their belief and after they bore witness that the Messenger (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) is true and after clear proofs had come unto them? And Allâh guides not the people who are Zâlimûn (polytheists and wrong-doers).

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

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Word by Word

كَيْفَkayfaHow
يَهْدِىyahdī(shall) guide
ٱللَّهُl-lahuAllah
قَوْمًۭاqawmana people
كَفَرُوا۟kafarū(who) disbelieved
بَعْدَbaʿdaafter
إِيمَـٰنِهِمْīmānihimtheir belief
وَشَهِدُوٓا۟washahidūand (had) witnessed
أَنَّannathat
ٱلرَّسُولَl-rasūlathe Messenger
حَقٌّۭḥaqqun(is) true
وَجَآءَهُمُwajāahumuand came to them
ٱلْبَيِّنَـٰتُۚl-bayinātuthe clear proofs
وَٱللَّهُwal-lahuAnd Allah
لَاlā(does) not
يَهْدِىyahdīguide
ٱلْقَوْمَl-qawmathe people
ٱلظَّـٰلِمِينَl-ẓālimīna[the] wrongdoers