Ar-Rum Verse 57

So on that Day the wrongdoers’ excuses will not benefit them, nor will they be allowed to appease ˹their Lord˺.

On that Day, no excuse will benefit the wrongdoers, nor will they be allowed to make amends.

So that day their excuses will not profit the evildoers, nor will they be suffered to make amends.

On that Day the evildoers’ excuses will be of no use to them: they will not be allowed to make amends.

On that Day the excusing of themselves will not profit those who did wrong, nor shall they be suffered to please Allah.

So on that Day no excuse of theirs will avail the transgressors, nor will they be invited (then) to seek grace (by repentance).

So that will be the Day when the excuses of the wrong-doers will not avail them, nor will they be asked to make amends.

Their excuses will be of no avail to the sinners on that day, and they will not be allowed to beg for favour.

So on that day the unjust will not benefit from their excuses, nor will anyone ask them for compensation.

On that day, the excuses of the wrongdoers will not benefit them, nor will they be asked to propitiate [Allah].

On that Day their excuses will be of no avail to the wrongdoers (who denied God or associated partners with Him), nor will they be allowed to make amends (nor offer regrets to escape the punishment).

So on that Day no excuses (in their defence) will avail those who had acted unjustly, nor will they be allowed to approach the threshold (to be admitted into the fold of the near ones of God).

So (on) that day those who caused injustice/oppression, their apologies/excuses do not benefit (them), and nor they, they be allowed to offer reconciliation/appeasement .

So on that day the unjust will not benefit from their excuses, nor will anyone ask them for compensation.

And those who are given knowledge and faith will say, "Certainly (indeed, in truth) you tarried according to the ordinance of Allah till the Day of Resurrection, so this is the Day of Resurrection, but you were not aware."

So on that Day no excuse of theirs will avail those who did wrong (by associating partners in worship with Allah, and by denying the Day of Resurrection), nor will they be allowed (then) to return to seek Allah's Pleasure (by having Islamic Faith with righteous deeds and by giving up polytheism, sins and crimes with repentance).

And the day when the Hour comes, the guilty will swear: They did not tarry but an hour. Thus are they ever turned away.

But on that day their excuse shall not profit those who were unjust, nor shall they be regarded with goodwill.

In that day their excuses will not profit those who did injustice, nor will they be allowed to make amends.

The excuses of the unjust on this day will be of no avail to them and they will not be able to please God.

On that Day, excuses shall not benefit the harmdoers, nor shall they be asked to make amends.

So, on that Day no excuse of theirs will avail those who did wrong, nor will they be allowed to return to seek (Allah's) pleasure.

So on that Day their pleas shall be of no avail, nor will they be allowed to make amends.

On that Day, the sinners’ excuses will not benefit them, nor will they be excused.

So on that day their excuses, for denying it, will not profit (read l yanfa`u or l tanfa`u) the evildoers, nor will they be asked to make amends (yusta`tabna means `they will [not] be asked for al-`utb', which denotes `a return to that which pleases God').

فَيَوْمَيِذٍ

So, on that Day,

meaning, the Day of Resurrection,

لاَّا يَنفَعُ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مَعْذِرَتُهُمْ

no excuse of theirs will avail those who did wrong,

means, their excuses for what they did.

وَلَا هُمْ يُسْتَعْتَبُونَ



nor will they be allowed (then) to return to seek (Allah's) pleasure.

means, they will not be allowed to return to this world.

This is like the Ayah,

وَإِن يَسْتَعْتِبُواْ فَمَا هُم مِّنَ الْمُعْتَبِينَ

and if they seek to please (Allah), yet they are not of those who will ever be allowed to please (Allah). (41;24)