29.13. But they verily will hear their own loads and other loads beside their own, and they verify will be questioned on the nay of Resurrection concerning that which they invented. (Pickthall)
29.13. Und ganz bestimmt tragen sie ihre Lasten und Lasten zusammen mit ihren Lasten, und ganz bestimmt werden sie am Tag der Auferstehung gefragt, was sie sich ausgedacht haben. (Ahmad v. Denffer)
29.13. Ganz gewiß werden sie ihre (eigenen) Lasten tragen, und auch (weitere) Lasten zu ihren (eigenen) Lasten hinzu. Und sie werden am Tag der Auferstehung ganz gewiß befragt werden nach dem, was sie zu ersinnen pflegten. (Bubenheim)
29.13. Sie werden ihre eigene Last tragen und Lasten zu ihrer Last hinzu. Am Jüngsten Tag werden sie nach allem gefragt werden, was sie zu erlügen pflegten. (Azhar)
29.13. Und sie werden zweifelsohne ihre Lasten und noch (weitere) Lasten zu ihren Lasten tragen. Und am Tag der Auferstehung werden sie gewiss für das zur Rechenschaft gezogen, was sie zu erdichten pflegten. 2 (Zaidan)
29.13. Sie werden jedoch sicher ihre (eigene) Last tragen und dazu noch weitere Last. Und sie werden sicher am Tag der Auferstehung über das, was sie (an lügnerischem Götzenglauben) ausgeheckt haben, zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden. (Paret)
29.13. Aber sie sollen wahrlich ihre eigenen Lasten tragen und (noch) Lasten zu ihren Lasten dazu. Und sie werden gewiß am Tage der Auferstehung über das befragt werden, was sie erdichtet haben. (Rasul)
29.13. So lasse sie ihre (eigenen) Lasten tragen, und (noch weitere) Lasten zu ihren Lasten hinzu. Und am Tag der Auferstehung werden sie ganz gewiss über das befragt werden, was sie zu erfinden pflegten. (Périsset)
Tafsir von Maududi für die Ayaat 12 bis 13
The disbelievers say to the believers, "Follow our way and we will bear (the burden of) your sins", ( 17 ) whereas they will not bear (the burden of) your sins: ( 18 ) they are utter liars. Of course, they shall bear their own burdens as well as many other burdens in addition to their own. ( 19 ) And on the Day of Resurrection, they will surely be questioned about their scandal mongering. ( 20 )
Desc No: 17 What they meant to say was: "In the first place, the talk about life hereafter and Resurrection and accountability is all meaningless. But supposing there is another life in which the people will be called to account for their deeds, we take the responsibility that we shall take the punishment, etc. on our own selves. You should, therefore,- listen to us and give up this new Faith and return to your ancestral religion." According to the traditions several chiefs of the Quraish used to counsel thus the people who embraced Islam in the beginning. So, when Hadrat `Umar accepted Islam, Abu Sufyan and Harab bin Umayyah bin Khalaf met him and said these very things."
Desc No: 18 That is, "It is not at all possible that a person should take the responsibility for another before Allah, and thus enable the actual sinner to escape the punishment of his sin, for every person will be responsible for his own deeds there. "No bearer of a burden shall bear the burden of another." (An-Najm: 38) But if at all it be so, none will have the nerve, in face of the blazing Hell got ready to punish the disbelievers, to say to Allah, only for the sake of honouring his pledge in the world, "Lord, forgive this person and send him to Paradise: he had turned apostate on my counselling: I offer myself to suffer the punishment for my own disbelief as well as for his in Hell."
Desc No: 19 That is "Though they will not bear the burdens of others, they will neither escape bearing a double burden: one burden of their own selves going astray, and the burden of leading the othere astray." This can be understood by an example. A person commits theft and also asks another person to join him. Now if the other person also commits theft, no judge will let him off only because he had committed the offence on someone else's prompting. He will in any case be punished for the theft and it will not be fair according to any law of justice to let him off and punish instead of him the first thief who had prompted him to commit the theft. However, the first thief will suffer punishment for two offences: the offence of committing theft himself and the offence of turning another person into a thief along with himself. This principle has been stated at another place in the Qur'an thus ".........so that they should bear the full brunt of their own burdens On the Day of Resurrection together with some of the burdens of those whom they are leading astray in their ignorance." (An-Nahl: 25) The same principle has been elucidated by the Holy Prophet in this Hadith: "whoever invited others to the right path will be granted a reward equal to the rewards of all those who listened to him and adopted the right path, without diminishing their rewards in any way. And whoever invited others to deviation will earn a sin equal to the sins of all those who followed him, without diminishing their sins in any way."
Desc No: 20 "Scandal-mongering" implies all those untruths which were hidden in this saying of the disbelievers: "Follow our way and we will bear the burden of your sins. " In fact, they said this on the basis of two presumptions: (1) The creed of shirk they are following is hased on the truth and the Holy Prophet Muhammad's doctrine of Tauh, id is false; therefore, there is nothing wrong if it is rejected; and (2) there is going to be no Resurrection, and the doctrine of the Hereafter which deters a Muslim from unbelief is baseless. With these presumptions they would counsel a Muslim, saying, "Well, if you think that disbelief is really a sin, and there is going to be Resurrection when you will be called to account for this sin, then we are ready to take this sin of yours on our Selves You leave it to us and give up the religion of Muhammad and return to your ancestral religion." In this two other false things were also included: (a) Their belief that a person who commits an offence on someone else's prompting can be exempted from its responsibility, and the whole responsibility can be assumed by the one who had prompted the commission of the offence; and (b) their false promise that on the Day of Resurrection they will certainly assume the responsibility for those who might have turned apostates on their counselling. For when Resurrection will actually be established, and they will see Hell against their expectations, they will never be prepared to receive the punishment of their own disbelief as well as bear the whole burden of the sins of those others whom they had deceived and misled in the world.