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Muhammad Asad   
And on that Day will they [who had thus been sinning, belatedly] proffer their surrender to God; and all their false imagery will have forsaken them
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
They will offer ˹full˺ submission to Allah on that Day, and whatever ˹gods˺ they fabricated will fail them.
Safi Kaskas   
and on that day they will freely submit to God, and all their idols will forsake them.

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Arabic   
وَأَلۡقَوۡا۟ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ یَوۡمَىِٕذٍ ٱلسَّلَمَۖ وَضَلَّ عَنۡهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ یَفۡتَرُونَ ۝٨٧
Transliteration (2021)   
wa-alqaw ilā l-lahi yawma-idhin l-salama waḍalla ʿanhum mā kānū yaftarūn
Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more
  
And they (will) offer to Allah (on) that Day the submission, and (is) lost from them what they used (to) invent.

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad   
And on that Day will they [who had thus been sinning, belatedly] proffer their surrender to God; and all their false imagery will have forsaken them
M. M. Pickthall   
And they proffer unto Allah submission on that day, and all that they used to invent hath failed them
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)   
That Day shall they (openly) show (their) submission to Allah; and all their inventions shall leave them in the lurch
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab   
They will offer ˹full˺ submission to Allah on that Day, and whatever ˹gods˺ they fabricated will fail them.
Safi Kaskas   
and on that day they will freely submit to God, and all their idols will forsake them.
Wahiduddin Khan   
and on that Day they will offer total submission to God: and all that they used to devise will fail them
Shakir   
And they shall tender submission to Allah on that day; and what they used to forge shall depart from them
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar   
They will give a proposal to God on that day of surrender. Gone astray from them will be what they had been devising.
T.B.Irving   
They will proffer their surrender to God on that day, while anything they were inventing will leave them in the lurch.
Abdul Hye   
And they will offer submission to Allah (alone) on that Day and what they used to invent (false deities) will vanish from them.
The Study Quran   
And they will offer submission unto God on that Day, and that which they used to fabricate will forsake them
Talal Itani & AI (2024)   
On that Day, they will surrender to God, and all their invented claims will desert them.
Talal Itani (2012)   
On that Day they will offer their submission to God, and what they had invented will abandon them
Dr. Kamal Omar   
And they offered to Allah, this Day, full submission (in Islam). And vanished from them what they had been inventing in falsehood
M. Farook Malik   
They shall tender their submission to Allah that Day: and the gods of their own inventions will leave them in the lurch
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali   
And they will cast forth to Allah submissiveness upon that Day and whatever they used to fabricate will err away (Or: stray away) from them
Muhammad Sarwar   
(On the Day of Judgment) the disbelievers will submit themselves to God and whatever they had falsely invented will disappear
Muhammad Taqi Usmani   
On that day they will tender submission to Allah, and all that they used to fabricate will have vanished from them
Shabbir Ahmed   
And they will tender their submission to Allah on that Day, but all they used to fabricate will leave them in the lurch
Dr. Munir Munshey   
On that day, they will extend an offer of peace towards Allah. The lies they used to invent will fritter away
Syed Vickar Ahamed   
And on that Day they will yield in submission to Allah; And all their inventions will leave them in the hardest position
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)   
And they will impart to Allah that Day [their] submission, and lost from them is what they used to invent
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)   
And they surrendered to God on that Day, and what they had invented abandoned them
Abdel Haleem   
and on that Day they will offer total submission to God: their false deities will desert them
Abdul Majid Daryabadi   
And they will proffer sub mission unto Allah on that Day, and there will stray from them that which they have been fabricating
Ahmed Ali   
They will offer submission to God that Day, and the lies they fabricated will not be of the least avail
Aisha Bewley   
On that Day they will offer their submission to Allah and the things they invented will abandon them.
Ali Ünal   
On that Day they (those who associated partners with God) have offered submission to God, (which out of arrogance they used to withhold), and what they used to fabricate (by way of false deities to worship besides God) has failed them
Ali Quli Qara'i   
They will submit to Allah on that day, and what they used to fabricate will forsake them
Hamid S. Aziz   
And they shall proffer unto Allah surrender that day; and all that which they had devised shall stray away from them
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad   
On that day, they yield the submission to God, and what they used to fabricate abandons them.
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)   
That day will they show submission to God, and all their creations will leave them
Musharraf Hussain   
That day, they will submit before Allah and abandon what they had invented as gods.
Maududi   
On that Day they will offer their submission and all that they had fabricated will have vanished
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)   
And they offered submission to God on that Day; and what they had invented abandoned them
Mohammad Shafi   
And they shall tender submission to Allah on that day. And what they used to concoct shall depart from them

Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)   
And they will fell submissively to Allah on that day and what they used to forge will be lost from them.
Rashad Khalifa   
They will totally submit to GOD on that day, and the idols they had invented will disown them.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah   
On that Day they shall offer to submit to Allah, and what they forged will forsake them
Maulana Muhammad Ali   
And they will tender submission to Allah on that day, and what they used to forge will fail them
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira   
And they threw to God (on) that day/time the submission/surrender , and what they were fabricating/cutting and splitting (was) wasted/nullified/lost from them
Bijan Moeinian   
That is the Day that they will totally submit themselves to the Lord and all those things on which they used to rely will be proven to be good for nothing
Faridul Haque   
And on that day they will fall humbly before Allah, and they will lose all that they used to fabricate
Sher Ali   
And they will offer submission to ALLAH on that day, and all that they used to forge shall fail them
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri   
And that Day, these (polytheists) will show humbleness and obedience to Allah, and all falsehood that they used to fabricate will vanish from them
Amatul Rahman Omar   
And on that day they shall tender submission to Allah, and all that they used to forge shall forsake them
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali   
And they will offer (their full) submission to Allah (Alone) on that Day, and their invented false deities (all that they used to invoke besides Allah, e.g. idols, saints, priests, monks, angels, jinns, Jibrael (Gabriel), Messengers, etc.) will vanish from them

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry   
And they will offer God surrender that day, and there shall go astray from them that they were forging
George Sale   
And on that day shall the wicked offer submission unto God; and the false deities which they imagined shall abandon them
Edward Henry Palmer   
And they shall proffer on that day peace unto God; and that which they had devised shall stray away from them
John Medows Rodwell   
And on that day shall they proffer submission to God; and the deities of their own invention shall vanish from them
N J Dawood (2014)   
They shall proffer God submission on that day, and the gods of their own invention will forsake them

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame   
And they offered the [word of] peace to Allah on that day and all that they used to contrive was lost from them.
Munir Mezyed   
They will offer (their complete) submission to Allâh on that day, and whatever they used to fabricate will fail them.
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher   
And that day they will offer submission to Allah and what they used to invent deserted them.
Linda “iLHam” Barto   
That day they will show submission to Allah, and all their inventions will be annulled.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation   
And they cast forth to Allah, on that day, (their) submissiveness, and whatever they used to fabricate strayed away from them.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab   
They will proffer their surrender to Allah (God) on that day, while anything they were inventing will leave them in the lurch.
Samy Mahdy   
And they threw to Allah on that Day the submission, and strayed from them what they were slandering.
Sayyid Qutb   
On that day, they shall proffer submission to God; and all their inventions will have forsaken them.
Ahmed Hulusi   
That day, the things they invented (their delusions and fabrications) will be lost from them and they will be in submission to Allah (the system, the laws of sunnatullah)!
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli   
And they will tender submission to Allah on that day, and what they used to forge shall depart from them.
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim   
There and then shall they -the infidels- resign themselves to the will of Allah and be forsaken and renounced by those whom they presumed to share with Allah His divine nature
Mir Aneesuddin   
And on that day they will offer submission before Allah, and that which they used to forge will go away from them.

Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)   
That Day shall they (openly) show (their) submission to God; and all their inventions shall leave them in the lurch
OLD Literal Word for Word   
And they (will) offer to Allah (on) that Day the submission, and (is) lost from them what they used (to) invent
OLD Transliteration   
Waalqaw ila Allahi yawma-ithin alssalama wadalla AAanhum ma kanoo yaftaroona