Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

If they say: “He has invented it,” the truth is: it is the truth from thy Lord, that thou warn a people to whom no warner came before thee, that they might be guided.

اَمْ يَقُولُونَ افْتَرٰيهُۚ بَلْ هُوَ الْحَقُّ مِنْ رَبِّكَ لِتُنْذِرَ قَوْماً مَٓا اَتٰيهُمْ مِنْ نَذ۪يرٍ مِنْ قَبْلِكَ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَهْتَدُونَ
Am yaqooloona iftarahu bal huwa alhaqqumin rabbika litunthira qawman ma atahum minnatheerin min qablika laAAallahum yahtadoon
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2yaqūlūna(do) they sayقول
3if'tarāhuHe invented itفري
4balNay
5huwait
6l-ḥaqu(is) the truthحقق
7minfrom
8rabbikayour Lordربب
9litundhirathat you may warnنذر
10qawmana peopleقوم
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12atāhumhas come to themاتي
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14nadhīrinwarnerنذر
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16qablikabefore youقبل
17laʿallahumso that they may
18yahtadūnabe guidedهدي
  • Aisha Bewley

    Or do they say, ‘He has invented it’? No indeed! It is the truth from your Lord to warn a people to whom, before you, no warner came, so that hopefully they will be guided.

  • Progressive Muslims

    Or do they Say: "He fabricated it!" No, it is the truth from your Lord, so that you may warn a people who never received a warner before you, in order that they may be guided.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And yet they assert, "He has invented it. " Nay, it is but the Truth from your Lord, for you to warn a folk to whom no Warner has come before you, and so that they might get the Right Guidance. (Prophet Ishmael was the ancestor of, and not a Prophet to, the Arabs who became a community long after he passed on. See note (2:125), (28:46), (36:6). And the Message is to fan out from Arabia to all mankind (2:185), (3:3), (3:137), (6:19), (6:91), (10:2), (14:1), (25:1), (30:58), (39:41), (68:52)).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    If they say: “He has invented it,” the truth is: it is the truth from thy Lord, that thou warn a people to whom no warner came before thee, that they might be guided.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Or do they say: "He fabricated it!" No, it is the truth from your Lord, so that you may warn a people who never received a warner before you, in order that they may be guided.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    Or do they say, "He fabricated it!" No, it is the truth from your Lord, so that you may warn a people who never received a warner before you, in order that they may be guided.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    They said, "He fabricated it." Indeed, this is the truth from your Lord, to warn people who never received a warner before you, that they may be guided.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Or do they say he has fabricated it? In fact, it is the truth from your Lord so that you may warn the people to whom no admonisher was sent before you. They may haply come to guidance.

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    Or do they say, "He invented it"? Rather, it is the truth from your Lord, , that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you perhaps they will be guided.

  • Muhammad Asad

    and yet, they assert, " has invented it!" Nay, but it is the truth from thy Sustainer, enabling thee to warn people to whom no warner has come before thee, so that they might follow the right path.

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Or say they: He hath invented it? Nay, but it is the Truth from thy Lord, that thou mayst warn a folk to whom no warner came before thee, that haply they may walk aright.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    Or do* they say: "He has fabricated it?"* Nay, it is the Truth from your Lord so that you may warn a people to whom no warner came before you;* perhaps they will be guided to the Right Way.*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Or do they -the infidels- say: "He -Muhammad- has forged it and related it to Allah! " But it is indeed the truth revealed by Allah to you O Muhammad to exhort a people who never received a Messenger before you serving as a spectacle and a warning that they might hopefully be deviated into sense and be guided into all truth.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    The disbelievers say: "Mohammad has fabricated this book. " This is not true. God has sent this book, through Mohammad, to those, for whom there has not come a Warner for the longest time, so that they may be directed to the right path.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Or say they: "He (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) has fabricated it?" Nay, it is the truth from your Lord, so that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): in order that they may be guided.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Or do they say, "He has forged it"? Nay, it is the Truth from thy Lord, that thou mayest admonish a people to whom no warner has come before thee: in order that they may receive guidance.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    Or do they say, "He has fabricated it!"? No! It is the truth from your Lord in order for you to warn a people to whom no warner has come before you, so they may be ˹rightly˺ guided.

  • Taqi Usmani

    Is it that they say, "He has fabricated it."? No, it is the truth from your Lord, so that you (O prophet,) may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you; may be they take the right path.

  • Abdul Haleem

    Yet they say, ‘Muhammad has made it up.’ No indeed! It is the Truth from your Lord for you , to warn a people who have had no one to warn them before, so that they may be guided.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Or do they say, 'He has forged it'? Say: 'Not so; it is the truth from thy Lord that thou mayest warn a people to whom no warner came before thee, that haply so they may be guided.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Do they say, 'He has forged it?' Nay! it is the truth from thy Lord, that thou mayest warn a people, to whom no warner has come before thee, haply they may be guided.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    The revelation of the Book, wherein there is no doubt, is from the Lord of the Worlds.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Or even do they say, "He has fabricated it?" No indeed, (but) it is the Truth from your Lord, that you may warn a people; in no way did (any) warner come up to them even before you, that possibly they would be guided.

  • George Sale

    Will they say, Mohammed hath forged it? Nay, it is the truth from thy Lord, that thou mayest preach to a people, unto whom no preacher hath come before thee; peradventure they will be directed.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Or do they (the unbelievers) say: "Has he fabricated it (or made it up)?" No! It is the Truth from your Lord, so that you may warn a people to whom no warner has come before you, so that they may receive guidance.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Do the people say, `He has invented it?' It is not so; it is the truth from your Lord. It has been revealed that you may warn the people to whom no Warner before you (for a long long time) has come so that they may receive guidance.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Do they say, ‘He has fabricated it’? Rather it is the truth from your Lord, that you may warn a people to whom there did not come any warner before you, so that they may be guided .