No people can advance their doom, nor can they delay it.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
No nation will precede its term, nor will they remain thereafter.
— Saheeh International
They say, “O you to whom the Reminder1 is revealed! You must be insane!
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And they say, "O you upon whom the message has been sent down, indeed you are mad.1
— Saheeh International
Why do you not bring us the angels, if what you say is true?”
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Why do you not bring us the angels, if you should be among the truthful?"
— Saheeh International
We do not send the angels down except for a just cause, and then ˹the end of˺ the disbelievers will not be delayed.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
We do not send down the angels except with truth;1 and they [i.e., the disbelievers] would not then be reprieved.
— Saheeh International
It is certainly We Who have revealed the Reminder, and it is certainly We Who will preserve it.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Indeed, it is We who sent down the message [i.e., the Qur’ān], and indeed, We will be its guardian.
— Saheeh International
Indeed, We sent messengers before you ˹O Prophet˺ among the groups of early peoples,
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And We had certainly sent [messengers] before you, [O Muḥammad], among the sects of the former peoples.
— Saheeh International
but no messenger ever came to them without being mocked.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And no messenger would come to them except that they ridiculed him.
— Saheeh International
This is how We allow disbelief ˹to steep˺ into the hearts of the wicked.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Thus do We insert it [i.e., denial] into the hearts of the criminals.
— Saheeh International
They would not believe in this ˹Quran˺ despite the ˹many˺ examples of those ˹destroyed˺ before.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples.
— Saheeh International
And even if We opened for them a gate to heaven, through which they continued to ascend,
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend,
— Saheeh International
still they would say, “Our eyes have truly been dazzled! In fact, we must have been bewitched.”
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
They would say, "Our eyes have only been dazzled. Rather, we are a people affected by magic."
— Saheeh International