# 26. Surah Ash-Shu'ara, Verse 198

- **Surah:** 26. Surah Ash-Shu'ara (The Poets) — سورة الشعراء
- **Verse:** 198 / 227 · **Juz:** 19 · **Mushaf page:** 374
- **Source:** https://quran.so/surah-ash-shuara/verse-198

## Arabic

وَلَوْ نَزَّلْنَاهُ عَلٰى بَعْضِ الْاَعْجَم۪ينَۙ

## Transcription

Walaw nazzalnahu AAala baAAdial-aAAjameen

## Translations

### Aisha Bewley

If We had sent it down to a non-Arab

### Progressive Muslims

And had We sent it down upon some of the foreigners,

### Shabbir Ahmed

But if We had revealed this to any of the non-Arabs,

### Sam Gerrans — The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And had We sent it down upon any of the non-Arabs,

### The Monotheist Group — The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

And had We sent it down upon some of the foreigners,

### Rashad Khalifa — The Final Testament

If we revealed this to people who do not know Arabic.

### Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

Had We revealed it to a man of obscure tongue

### Sahih International — (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

And even if We had revealed it to one among the foreigners

### Muhammad Asad

But [even] had We bestowed it from on high upon any of the non-Arabs,

### Marmaduke Pickthall

And if We had revealed it unto one of any other nation than the Arabs,

### Abul A'la Maududi — Tafhim commentary

(But such is their adamance) that had We revealed it to one of the non-Arabs and even if he had recited(this clear Arabic discourse) to them

### Abdel Khalek Himmat — Al- Muntakhab

Had We revealed it to a people -characterized with dullness of comprehension or a people slow of perception or foreign to the Arabic tongue,

### Bijan Moeinian

If I had sent this Qur’an [in another language (as they wish it would have been sent!)]….

### Al-Hilali & Khan

And if We had revealed it (this Qur’ân) unto any of the non-Arabs,

### Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Had We revealed it to any of the non-Arabs,

### Mustafa Khattab — The Clear Quran

Had We revealed it to a non-Arab,

### Taqi Usmani

Even if We had revealed it to a Non-Arab,

### Abdul Haleem

If We had sent it down to someone who was not an Arab,

### Arthur John Arberry

If We had sent it down on a barbarian

### E. Henry Palmer

Had we sent it down to any barbarian,

### Hamid S. Aziz

26:197. Is it not a sign for them that the learned men of the children of Israel recognize it?

### Mahmoud Ghali

And if We had been sending it down on some non-Arabs,

### George Sale

Had We revealed it unto any of the foreigners,

### Syed Vickar Ahamed

If We had revealed it to any of the non-Arabs,

### Amatul Rahman Omar

And if We had revealed it to one of the non-Arabs,

### Ali Quli Qarai

Had We sent it down upon some non-Arab

### Ahmed Hulusi — Türkçe Kur'an Çözümü

Eğer Onu Arapça bilmeyen birine inzal etseydik;

### Ali Bulaç — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Anlamı

Onu Arapça bilmeyen birine indirmiş olsaydık.

### Bayraktar Bayraklı — Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Meali

- Biz, Kur'an'ı Arapça bilmeyenlerden birine indirseydik de bunu onlara o okusaydı, yine ona iman etmezlerdi.

### Diyanet İşleri — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Meali

(198-199) Biz onu Arapça bilmeyenlerden birine indirseydik ve o da bunu kendilerine okusaydı, yine buna inanmazlardı.

### Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali

Eğer onu Arabca bilmiyenlerin birine indirseydik de

### Elmalılı (sadeleştirilmiş)

Eğer onu Arapça bilmeyenlerin birine indirseydik de,

### Gültekin Onan

Onu Arapça bilmeyen birine indirmiş olsaydık.

### Hasan Basri Çantay — Kur'an-ı Hakim ve Meal-i Kerim

Biz onu Arabca bilmeyenlerden birine indirseydik de,

### İbni Kesir

Biz, onu arapça bilmeyen kimselerden birine indirseydik.

### Muhammed Esed — Kur'an Mesajı

Onu Arap olmayan birine indirseydik,

### Şaban Piriş — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Anlamı

Eğer onu bir yabancıya indirseydik,

### Süleyman Ateş — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali

Biz onu yabancılardan birine indirseydik de,

### Yaşar Nuri Öztürk — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali

Biz onu Arapça konuşmayanlardan birine indirseydik de,

### Mustafa İslamoğlu — Hayat Kitabı Kur’an

Ve eğer Biz onu yabancı birine indirseydik;

### Erhan Aktaş (Eski Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an

Eğer onu yabancılardan[1] birisine indirseydik;

_Footnotes_
- [1] Arapça bilmeyen birisine.

### Ali Rıza Safa — Kur'an-ı Kerim Gerçek

Onu, yabancı birisine indirseydik.

### Süleymaniye Vakfı (Eski Baskı) — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali

Onu Arap olmayan birine indirseydik

### Mehmet Okuyan — Kur’an Meal-Tefsir

(198, 199) Biz Kur'an'ı, Arap olmayanlardan birine indirseydik de onu kendilerine (farklı bir dilde) okusaydık[1] yine de ona inanmazlardı.[2]

_Footnotes_
- [1] Bu ayet Fussilet 41:44. ayetle birlikte okunmalıdır.
- [2] Benzer mesajlar: En‘âm 6:25, 109, 111; A‘râf 7:146; Yûnus 10:33, 96; Hicr 15:13-15; İsrâ 17:93; Sebe' 34:31.

### Erhan Aktaş (10. Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an

Eğer onu yabancılardan[1] birisine indirseydik;

_Footnotes_
- [1] Arapça bilmeyen birisine.

### Erhan Aktaş — Kerim Kur'an

Eğer onu yabancılardan[1] birisine indirseydik;

_Footnotes_
- [1] Arapça bilmeyen birisine.

### Süleymaniye Vakfı — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali

Onu Arap olmayan birine indirseydik[1],

_Footnotes_
- [1] [Nahl 16/103,](https://quran.so/16/103) [Fussilet 41/44.](https://quran.so/41/44)

## Words

| # | word | meaning | root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَلَوْ — walaw | And if | — |
| 2 | نَزَّلْنَـٰهُ — nazzalnāhu | We (had) revealed it | نزل — Nun-Za-Lam |
| 3 | عَلَىٰ — ʿalā | to | — |
| 4 | بَعْضِ — baʿḍi | any | بعض — Be-Ayn-Dad |
| 5 | ٱلْأَعْجَمِينَ — l-aʿjamīna | (of) the non-Arabs | عجم — Ayn-Cim-Mim |

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