قَالُوٓا۟
Qāluwa
Quran 21 : 55
They said, "Have you come to us with the truth, or you (are) of those who play?"
أَجِئْتَنَا
Aajiitanā
بِٱلْحَقِّ
Bialḥaqqi
أَمْ
Aam
أَنتَ
Aanta
مِنَ
Mina
ٱللَّٰعِبِينَ
Allaāʿibīna
Wahiduddin Khan
They said, Have you brought us the truth or are you jesting
Mir Aneesuddin
He said, "Indeed you are and your fathers were in clear error."
Musharraf Hussain
They replied, “Have you come with the truth or are you joking?”
Mustaqim
They said: did you bring us the truth or are you messing about?
Bijan Moeinian
They said: “Are you serious or you are just kidding?”
Bakhtiari Nejad
They said: “Did you bring us the truth or are you playing around?”
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
They said: Bringest thou unto us the truth, or art thou some jester
Ahmed Ali
They said: "Are you speaking in earnest, or only jesting?"
Ahmed Hulusi
They said, “Have you come to us as the Truth or are you playing us?”
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
They asked, “Did you bring us the truth, or are you merely playing?”
Maulana Muhammad Ali
They said: Hast thou brought us the truth, or art thou of the jesters
Irving/Hegab
They said: "Have you brought us the Truth, or are you just a trifler?"
Mustafa Khattab 2018
They asked, “Have you come to us with the truth, or is this a joke?”
Rashad Khalifa
They said, "Are you telling us the truth, or are you playing?"
Muhammad Sarwar
They exclaimed, "Have you brought the Truth or are you joking?"
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
They said, .Did you come to us with truth or are you one of the triflers?
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
They said: "Have you come to us with the truth, or are you simply playing?"
Safi Kaskas
They said, "Have you come to us with the Truth, or are you playing games?"
Shakir
They said: Have you brought to us the truth, or are you one of the triflers
Talal Itani (2012)
They said, 'Are you telling us the truth, or are you just playing?'
The Study Quran
They said, “Have you brought us the truth, or are you among those who jest?
Bilal Muhammad 2018
They said, “Have you brought us the truth, or are you one of those who mock?
Corpus.Quran
They said Have you come to us with the truth or you (are) of those who play
Linda "iLham" Barto
They said, “Have you brought us the truth or are you one of those who joke?”
Abdul Hye
They said: “Have you brought us the truth, or are you one of those who play?”
The Wise Quran
They said, 'Have you come to us with the truth or are you of those who play?'
Mohammad Shafi
They said, "Are you telling us the truth, or just making fun of us?"
Samy Mahdy
They said, “Are you coming to us with the right, or you are among the players?”
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
They said: hast thou come unto us with the truth, or art thou of those who sport
Aisha Bewley
They said, ´Have you brought us the truth or are you playing games?´
T.B.Irving
They said: "Have you brought us the Truth, or are you just a trifler?"
Dr. Munir Munshey
They said, "Are you expressing your real views or are you just kidding?"
Fode Drame
They said, “Have you come to us with the truth or are you one of those who sport?”
Sher Ali
They said, `Is it really the truth that thou hast brought us, or art thou jesting?
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
They said: Hadst thou drawn near The Truth or art thou of the ones who play?
Edward Henry Palmer
They said, 'Dost thou come to us with the truth, or art thou but of those who play?
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
They said, 'Have you brought truth to us, or you are making a play unintentionally'?
Faridul Haque
They said, "Have you brought the Truth to us, or are you just making fun?"
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
They said: 'Is it the truth you have brought us, or are you one of those that play?
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
They said, "Have you come to us with truth, or are you of those who jest?"
George Sale
They said, dost thou seriously tell us the truth, or art thou one who jestest with us
Abdel Haleem
They asked, ‘Have you brought us the truth or are you just playing about?’
Ali Quli Qara'i
They said, ‘Are you telling the truth, or are you [just] kidding?’
Maududi
They said: "Are you expressing your true ideas before us or are you jesting?"
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They said, "Have you brought us the Truth, or are you one of those who jest?"
John Medows Rodwell
They said, "Hast thou come unto us in earnest? or art thou of those who jest?"
Ali Ãœnal
They asked: "Is it the truth that you are proclaiming to us or are you jesting?"
Arthur John Arberry
They said, 'What, hast thou come to us with the truth, or art thou one of those that play?
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
They said: ‘Have you (alone) brought the truth, or are you (just) one of the entertainers?
Hamid S. Aziz
They said, "Do you come to us with the truth, or are you but of those who jest?"
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
They said, "Have you come to us with the Truth, or are you of the ones that play?"
Hilali - Khan
They said: "Have you brought us the truth, or are you one of those who play about?"
MunirMezyed2023
They said: ‘Have you brought the truth, or are you one of those who do not behave seriously?’
Shabbir Ahmed
They said, "Are you telling us some serious truth or are you one of those jesters?"
N J Dawood 2014
Is it the truth that you are preaching,‘ they said, ‘or is this but a jest?‘
Syed Vickar Ahamed
They said: "Have you brought us the Truth, or are you one of those who play around?"
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
They said: "Did you come to us with the truth , or you are from the playing amusing ?"
Munir Mezyed
They asked: "Is it the truth that you are telling us, or are you one of those who likes to fool around?"
Amatul Rahman Omar
They said, `Is it (really) the truth that you have brought us or are you of those playing a joke (on us)?
Dr. Kamal Omar
They said: “Have you come to us with Al-Haqq or you are out of those who jest and mock as sport?”
Muhammad Asad
They asked: “Hast thou come unto us [with this claim] in all earnest - or art thou one of those jesters?”