ٱلْمَائِدَة : ٦٠

  • قُلۡ Say
  • هَلۡ Shall
  • أُنَبِّئُكُم I inform you
  • بِشَرّٖ (of) worse
  • مِّن than
  • ذَٰلِكَ that
  • مَثُوبَةً (as) recompense
  • عِندَ from
  • ٱللَّهِۚ Allah
  • مَن Whom
  • لَّعَنَهُ has (been) cursed
  • ٱللَّهُ (by) Allah
  • وَغَضِبَ and He became angry
  • عَلَيۡهِ with him
  • وَجَعَلَ and made
  • مِنۡهُمُ of them
  • ٱلۡقِرَدَةَ [the] apes
  • وَٱلۡخَنَازِيرَ and [the] swines
  • وَعَبَدَ and (who) worshipped
  • ٱلطَّـٰغُوتَۚ the false deities
  • أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ Those
  • شَرّٞ (are) worse
  • مَّكَانٗا (in) position
  • وَأَضَلُّ and farthest astray
  • عَن from
  • سَوَآءِ (the) even
  • ٱلسَّبِيلِ way
Say, "Shall I inform you of [what is] worse than that1 as penalty from Allāh? [It is that of] those whom Allāh has cursed and with whom He became angry and made of them apes and pigs and slaves of ṭāghūt. Those are worse in position and further astray from the sound way."
Footnotes
1

Referring to the punishment the People of the Scripture (in their censure of the Muslims) claimed was deserved by them.

[272] See footnote to 2:256.

Say: 'Shall I tell you, [shall] I inform you, of what is worse than, the followers of, that, about which you are spiteful, by way of reward, requital, from God? They are, those whom God has cursed, [whom] He has removed from His mercy, and with whom He is wroth, and some of whom He has turned into apes and swine, by transformation, and, those who, worship the false deity, Satan, by obeying him (the particle minhum, 'some of whom', takes into account the [potentially plural] import of the particle min, '[those] whom', and in what precedes [minhum, 'some of whom'], the [singular] form [of min is taken into account]; a variant reading has 'abuda al-taaghoot as [the genitive of] an annexation, 'abud being a [variant] plural of 'abd; the accusative ending [of 'abuda] is because the clause is a supplement to al-qirada, 'apes'), and these were the Jews. They are worse situated (makaanan is for specification), for their abode shall be the Hellfire, and further astray from the even way', from the path of truth (al-ﷺaa' originally means al-wasat, 'middle'); the use of sharrun, 'worse', and adallu, 'further astray', is intended to counter their saying, 'We know of no religion worse [sharrun] than yours'.