6:123 wa kadhaalika ja’Alnaa fiy kul-li qaryatin akaabira mujrimiyhaa li yamkuruu fiyhaa* wa maa yamkuruuna il-laa bi anfusihim wa maa yash’Uruun

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
And similarly, We have made in every town leaders among its criminals that they may conspire in it; and they do not conspire except against themselves and they do not have perception.

Yusuf Ali:
Thus have We placed leaders in every town, its wicked men, to plot (and burrow) therein: but they only plot against their own souls, and they perceive it not.

Pickthal:
And thus have We made in every city great ones of its wicked ones, that they should plot therein. They do but plot against themselves, though they perceive not.