If they say: “A poet — we will wait for the vicissitudes of Fate for him,”
Or do they say, ‘He is a poet and We are waiting for something bad to happen to him’?
Or do they Say: "He is a poet; so let us just wait until a disaster befalls him. "
What! Do they say, "A poet? Let us wait how time handles him!"
If they say: “A poet — we will wait for the vicissitudes of Fate for him,”
Or do they say: "He is a poet; so let us just wait until a disaster befalls him."
Or do they say, "He is a poet; so let us just wait until a disaster befalls him."
They may say, "He is a poet; let us just wait until he is dead."
Do they say: "He is a poet for whom we expect an adverse turn of fortune?"
Or do they say , "A poet for whom we await a misfortune of time?"
Or do they say, " a poet - let us wait what time will do unto him"?
Or say they: (he is) a poet, (one) for whom we may expect the accident of time?
Or do they say: "He is a poet for whom we await an adverse turn of fortune."
Or do they insolently say: " He is a poet, he can fool the people some of the time; we will keep him in view to observe his actions until the encounter with death?"
They say: "Mohammad is a poet, insulting our idols; we are waiting so that pretty soon he will be subjected to a miserable end by our gods. "
Or do they say: "(Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) is a poet! We await for him some calamity by time!"
Or do they say:- "A Poet! we await for him some calamity (hatched) by Time!"
Or do they say, "˹He is˺ a poet, for whom we ˹eagerly˺ await an ill-fate!"?
Do they rather say, "He is a poet for whom we are awaiting the accident of death?"
If they say, ‘He is only a poet: we shall await his fate,’
Or do they say, 'He is a poet for whom we await Fate's uncertainty'?
Will they say, 'A poet; we wait for him the sad accidents of fate?'
Or do they say, " (he is) A poet, for whom we await a calamity of (or an accident of or caused by) time"?
Or even do they say, "He is a poet for whom we await the uncertainty (i. e., the calamity of death; literally: the suspicion of fortune or fate) of fortune?"
Do they say, he is a poet: We wait, concerning him, some adverse turn of fortune?
Or do they say:— "A Poet! We will wait for him that some misfortune (will come) in time!"
Yet they say (about you), `(He is only) a poet, (and) we await the vicissitudes, which time will bring upon him. '
Do they say, ‘ a poet, for whom we await a fatal accident’?