Surat Al-Isra’ Verse No. 11: Reading and listening
Translation of the verse 11 from Surah Al-Isra’ : Number of verses 111 - - page 283 - Part 15.
﴾وَيَدۡعُ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ بِٱلشَّرِّ دُعَآءَهُۥ بِٱلۡخَيۡرِۖ وَكَانَ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ عَجُولٗا ﴿
[ الإسراء: 11]
And man invokes (Allah) for evil as he invokes (Allah) for good and man is ever hasty [i.e., if he is angry with somebody, he invokes (saying): "O Allah! Curse him, etc." and that one should not do, but one should be patient].
English - Sahih International
And man supplicates for evil as he supplicates for good, and man is ever hasty.
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(17:11) Man invokes evil instead of goodness for he is very hasty and impatient. *12
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
*12) This is in answer to the foolish demands of the disbelievers of Makkah who repeatedly demanded from the Holy Prophet to bring about that torment with which he threatened them. It is closely connected with the preceding verse, as if to say, "O foolish people instead of asking goodness you demand the torment: can't you realise the sufferings of the community which is visited by God's torment?"
It also contains a subtle warning to those Muslims who prayed for punishment for those disbelievers who persecuted them and rejected the Message obdurately; there were still among those disbelievers many such people who afterwards embraced Islam and became its standard bearers in the world. That is wiry AIlah says, "Man does so because he is very hasty and impatient; " He prays to Allah for alI such things as are the immediate need of the time, though often subsequent experience shows that if Allah had granted his prayer, it would have been very harmful to him.
Source : Al-Isra’ Verse 11: And man supplicates for evil as he supplicates for good, and man is ever hasty.