And they said: “Oh, that this Qur’an had but been sent down upon a great man of the two cities!”
They say, ‘Why was this Qur’an not sent down to one of the great men of the two cities?’
And they said: "If only this Quran was sent down to a great man from the two towns!"
And they say, "Why was not this Qur'an sent down to some great man of the two towns (Makkah and Taif). "
And they said: “Oh, that this Qur’an had but been sent down upon a great man of the two cities!”
And they said: "If only this Qur'an was sent down to a man of greatness from the two towns!"
They said, "If only this Quran was sent down to a great man from the two towns!"
They said, "If only this Quran was sent down through another man from the two communities (Mecca or Yathrib) who is prominent!"
They also said: "Why was this Qur'an not sent down to some great man of the two cities?"
And they said, "Why was this Qur'an not sent down upon a great man from the two cities?"
And they say, too, "Why was not this Qur’an bestowed from on high on some great man of the two cities?"
And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?
They say: "Why was this Qur'an not sent down upon some great man from the two (main) cities?"*
And they insolently say: "if only this Quran were revealed to a distinguished man from one of the two cities -Macca and Taif!"
Their objection was: "Why this Qur’an is not revealed to a “great" man of our two main cities?”
And they say: "Why is not this Qur’ân sent down to some great man of the two towns (Makkah and Tâ’if)?"
Also, they say: "Why is not this Qur'an sent down to some leading man in either of the two (chief) cities?"
And they exclaimed, "If only this Quran was revealed to a great man from ˹one of˺ the two cities!"
They say, "Why was this Qur’ān not revealed on a great man from (either of) the two towns?"
and they said, ‘Why was this Quran not sent down to a distinguished man, from either of the two cities?’
They say, 'Why was this Koran not sent down upon some man of moment in the two cities?'
And they say, 'Unless this Qur'an were sent down to a man great in the two cities.. . . .'
And they say, "Why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the two towns?"
And they have said, "Had this Qur'an been successively sent down upon a man of eminence in the two towns?" (Makkah and At-TaÉif)
And they say, had this Koran been sent down unto some great man of either of the two cities, we would have received it.
And they also say: "Why is this Quran not sent down to some leading man in either of the two (main) cities? (Makkah and Taif. ) "
Moreover they said, `Why has not this Qur'ân been revealed to some man of importance from (either of) the two townships (- Makkah or Tâ'if, the two centres of social and political life). '
And they said, ‘Why was not this Qur’ān sent down to some great man from the two cities?’