We would surely be fabricating a lie against Allah if we were to return to your faith after Allah has saved us from it. It does not befit us to return to it unless it is the Will of Allah, our Lord. Our Lord has encompassed everything in ˹His˺ knowledge. In Allah we trust. Our Lord! Judge between us and our people with truth. You are the best of those who judge.”
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
We would have invented against Allah a lie if we returned to your religion after Allah had saved us from it. And it is not for us to return to it except that Allah, our Lord, should will. Our Lord has encompassed all things in knowledge. Upon Allah we have relied. Our Lord, decide between us and our people in truth, and You are the best of those who give decision."
— Saheeh International
The disbelieving chiefs of his people threatened, “If you follow Shu’aib, you will surely be losers!”
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Said the eminent ones who disbelieved among his people, "If you should follow Shuʿayb, indeed, you would then be losers."
— Saheeh International
Then an ˹overwhelming˺ earthquake struck them and they fell lifeless in their homes.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.
— Saheeh International
Those who rejected Shu’aib were ˹wiped out˺ as if they had never lived there. Those who rejected Shu’aib were the true losers.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Those who denied Shuʿayb - it was as though they had never resided there. Those who denied Shuʿayb - it was they who were the losers.
— Saheeh International
He turned away from them, saying, “O my people! Indeed, I have delivered to you the messages of my Lord and gave you ˹sincere˺ advice. How can I then grieve for those who chose to disbelieve?”
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And he [i.e., Shuʿayb] turned away from them and said, "O my people, I had certainly conveyed to you the messages of my Lord and advised you, so how could I grieve for a disbelieving people?"
— Saheeh International
Whenever We sent a prophet to a society, We afflicted its ˹disbelieving˺ people with suffering and adversity, so perhaps they would be humbled.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And We sent to no city a prophet [who was denied] except that We seized its people with poverty and hardship that they might humble themselves [to Allah].
— Saheeh International
Then We changed their adversity to prosperity until they flourished and argued ˹falsely˺, “Our forefathers ˹too˺ had been visited by adversity and prosperity.”1 So We seized them by surprise, while they were unaware.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Then We exchanged in place of the bad [condition], good, until they increased [and prospered] and said, "Our fathers [also] were touched with hardship and ease."1 So We seized them suddenly while they did not perceive.2
— Saheeh International
Had the people of those societies been faithful and mindful ˹of Allah˺, We would have overwhelmed them with blessings from heaven and earth. But they disbelieved, so We seized them for what they used to commit.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allah, We would have opened [i.e., bestowed] upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We seized them for what they were earning.1
— Saheeh International
Did the people of those societies feel secure that Our punishment would not come upon them by night while they were asleep?
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Then, did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them at night while they were asleep?
— Saheeh International
Or did they feel secure that Our punishment would not come upon them by day while they were at play?
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Or did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them in the morning while they were at play?1
— Saheeh International
Did they feel secure against Allah’s planning? None would feel secure from Allah’s planning except the losers.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Then, did they feel secure from the plan of Allah? But no one feels secure from the plan of Allah except the losing people.
— Saheeh International