They used not to prevent one another from the wrongs they used to commit. Evil is what they used to do.
Al-Ma'idah 5:79
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كَانُوا لَا يَتَنَاهَوْنَ عَنْ مُنْكَرٍ فَعَلُوهُ ۚ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا يَفْعَلُونَ
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They used not to prevent one another from the wrongs they used to commit. Evil is what they used to do.
They didn't stop each other from doing wrong things. What they did was very bad.
They wouldn't stop each other from doing wrong things. How terrible was what they used to do!
They would not forbid one another from the evil they committed. How wretched was what they used to do!
They would not prevent one another from the wrongs they committed. Evil is what they used to do.
They would not prevent one another from the wrongs they committed. Evil is what they used to do.
They used not to prevent one another from wrongdoing that they did. How wretched was that which they were doing.
They used not to forbid one another from Al-Munkar (wrong, evil-doing, sins, polytheism, disbelief) which they committed. Vile indeed was what they used to do.
They did not forbid one another from committing evil deeds. Terrible was indeed what they used to do!
Nor did they (usually) forbid one another the iniquities which they committed: evil indeed were the deeds which they did.
They restrained not one another from the wickedness they did. Verily evil was that they used to do!
they would not prevent one another from doing the wrong things they did. Evil indeed were their deeds.
They did not forbid each other from committing the abominable deeds they committed. Indeed what they did was evil.
They would not forbid one another from the wrongs that they committed. Surely, evil is what they had been doing.
Kanoo la yatanahawna AAan munkarin faAAaloohu labisa ma kanoo yafAAaloona