The word(s) "fails" appears 2 time(s) in 2 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(1) Musa said to them: Woe to you! do not forge a lie against Allah, lest He destroy you by a punishment, and he who forges (a lie) indeed fails to attain (his desire).

(سورة طه, Taa-Haa, Chapter #20, Verse #61)
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(2) Certainly he led me astray from the reminder after it had come to me; and the Shaitan fails to aid man.

(سورة الفرقان, Al-Furqaan, Chapter #25, Verse #29)
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