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Surah 51. Az-Zariyat, Ayah 9

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يُؤْفَكُ عَنْهُ مَنْ أُفِكَ Qur’an Az-Zariyat (51:9)
Yufaku AAanhu man ofik a
perverted in his views thereon is he who would deceive himself!5
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

Lit., "perversely turned away from this [truth] is he who is made to lie" - or, according to the Taj al-'Arus, "he who is perverted in his reason and opinion", i.e., who is a priori disposed to deceive himself: implying that belief in God and, hence, in life after death is inherent in man's mind and feeling, and that, therefore, a departure from this belief is but an outcome of intellectual perversion.

only the perverse persons turn away from the truth.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Only those 'destined to be' deluded are turned away from it.1
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab

 Other possible translations: 1. “… by which the deluded are turned away.” 2. “Whoever is turned away from it is ˹truly˺ deluded.”

He is made to turn away from it who is (himself) averse.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
Through which are deluded (away from the Truth) such as would be deluded. 4995
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Some Commentators draw from this a rigid doctrine of Calvinistic Predestination or Determinism, which I do not think is fairly deducible from the words. "Ufika" should I think be translated "will be or would be deluded", meaning "have the wish or desire to be", and not "must necessarily be deluded by eternal predestination". The word occurs in many places in the Qur-an: e.g. Cf. v. 78, or ix. 30.

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