003:183

The Holy Qor-aan                                                                                                               003:183

ذٰ لِكَ بِمَا قَدَّمَتۡ اَيۡدِيۡكُمۡ وَاَنَّ اللّٰهَ لَيۡسَ بِظَلَّامٍ لِّلۡعَبِيۡدِ ‌ۚ‏

 Zaa-lay-ka-bay-maa-qud-da-mut-aiy-dee-koom                                                                           Wa-un-nul-laa-ha-lai-sa-bay-zul-laa-min-lil-aa-bee-d

 That is because what your hands had forwarded.                                                     And surely Allah is not unjust towards the real servants.

• ذٰلِكَ — Zaa-lay-ka — That (= Here; refers to an aforesaid fact, person or statement;  it was because; right here; such is this; that is how it is. A/t/a, ‘This is the recompense’ and ‘Here is the reward’)
• بِمَا — Bay-maa — Because what (= Combination of two words.  بِ  means ‘with / in’ and  مَاۤ means ‘all that, whatever, whatsoever or whenever.’ The combination بِمَا (bay-maa) means ‘because of; on account of; for the reason; due to; with or in all that.             A/t/a, ‘of that which’ and ‘the (unrighteous deeds)  which’)
• قَدَّمَتۡ — Quad-da-mut — Forwarded (= v., past, s., 2^nd person. Advanced. Brought about.  Produced. Recorded, saved, stored and sent ahead info  for ‘Committing the evil he should NOT have done to receive appropriate discredits’ OR ‘Omitting to do good deeds to receive the much-needed credit. See the Note below)
• اَيۡدِيۡ — Aai-dee — Hands (= n., pl., ‘Whatever both your hands’ means with all your force, strength and vigor you assisted, established, helped, promoted, solidified or strengthened)
• كُمۡ — Koom — Your (= pro., pl., m., 2^nd person., You . The Holy Qor-aan states that way when addressing both men and women jointly)
• وَ — Wa — And (= Conj., links words, phrases or clauses; additionally; but; also; more over; though; when; while; yet; whereupon)
• اَ نَّ — Un-na..(ul) — Surely (= Absolutely; certainly; definitely; positively; verily. A/t/a, ‘the truth is that’)
• ٱللَّهَ — Laa-ha — Allah (= The One and the Only One Almighty God)
• لَـيۡسَ — Lai-sa — Not (= Never; no; not all; absolute and total negation)
• بِ — Bay — With (= Literally the word  بِ  means with)
• ظَلَّامٍ — Zul-laa-min — Unjust (= n., superlative of  ظَا لَم   that means a person who acts, behaves, causes, does or pursues any of the following:                                                           – One who acts improperly, unjustly or of no just cause.                                                         – One who causes harm, hurt, injury, injustice or wrong                                                         – One who unjustly maltreats, transgresses or violates.                                                             – One who inflicts punishment unfairly or unjustly.                                                                   – One who maltreats, shortens or violates others rights.                                                         – One who is a Polytheist or unrighteous.                                                                                   – One who is bad, criminal, culprit, cruel, in darkness, evildoer, inappropriate, transgressor, unreasonable, violator, wicked or wrongdoing).
• لِلۡ — L…(il) — For (= Concerning, regarding; relative to; intended for; to; towards)
• عَبِيۡدِ — Aa-bee-d — Real servants (= n., pl., superlative form. Dedicated bondsmen; devout; obedient; slaves; subservient; supplicants; Believers who worship)

**003:183: Various translators in translating this verse have exhibited the human nature of aggrandizing the scope of whatever they do. The same phenomenon also appeared for a long time in the American automakers promoting their new-year lower, longer and wider model as a car better than the earlier ones.

Notice how the meanings of the third word قَدَّ مَتۡ  of this verse were enlarged, expanded, magnified or strengthened by adding words in the following manner.                    — ‘sent before’ [Maulana Muhammad Ali];                                                                                      — ‘sent before you’ [Dr Muhammad Muhsin Khan and Dr.Tuqi-ud-Din Al-Hilali];                  — ‘sent on before’ [Malik Ghulam Farid];                                                                                        — ‘sent on before ye’ [Abdullah Yusuf Ali];                                                                                      — ‘sent on before yourselves’ [Maulwi Sher Ali];                                                                                — ‘sent before (you to the judgment)’ [Muhammad Mermaduke Pickthall];                              — ‘sent forward’ [Amatul Rahman Omar and Abdul Mannan Omar];                                          — ‘forwarded for you’ [Dr Ahmad Zidan ans Mrs Dina Zidan];                                                      — ‘you have wrought’ [Muhammad Zafrulla Khan].

And then the words قَدَّمَتۡ اَيۡدِيۡكُمۡ  were translated as ‘your misdeeds’ [N J Dawood] which may be the author’s interpretation but is not an exact translation of the words of the Holy Qor-aan.