Quran 23:68 Word by Word & Translations
23:68 Word by Word (2021)
23:68 Arabic
23:68 Transliteration
Then, do not they ponder the Word or has come to them what not (had) come (to) their forefathers (of) the former (people)
23:68 Arabic
أَفَلَمْ يَدَّبَّرُوا۟ ٱلْقَوْلَ أَمْ جَآءَهُم مَّا لَمْ يَأْتِ ءَابَآءَهُمُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
23:68 Transliteration
Afalam yaddabbaroo alqawla am jaahum ma lam ya/ti abaahumu al-awwaleena
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Didthey not ponder the words, or has there come to them that which had not come to their fathers of old
Abdel Haleem
Have they not contemplated the Word of God? Has something come to them that did not come to their forefathers
Abdul Hye
Do they not ponder the word, or has there come to them what had not come to their forefathers?
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Pondered they not over the Word? or came there unto them that which came not unto their fathers ancient
Ahmed Ali
Why did they not think over the message? Or has something come to them which had not come to their fathers
Ahmed Hulusi
Did they not duly ponder over that word? Or has something that has not previously come to their forefather come to them for the first time?
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Did they not ponder over the words? Or did there come to them what had not come to their forefathers?
Aisha Bewley
Do they not ponder these words? Has anything come to them that did not come to their ancestors the previous peoples?
Ali Ünal
Have they ever pondered over this Word (of God) or has there come to them something (completely novel in human history) which never came to their forefathers of old
Ali Quli Qara'i
Have they not contemplated the discourse, or has anything come to them [in it] that did not come to their forefathers
Amatul Rahman Omar
Have they not then pondered over the (Divine) word? As a matter of fact there has come to them that which had not come to their fathers of old
Arthur John Arberry
Have they not pondered the saying, or came there upon them that which came not upon their fathers, the ancients
Bakhtiari Nejad
Do they not think about the words (of Quran), or has something come to them that had not come to their forefathers?
Bijan Moeinian
Do the disbelievers ever consider My Revelations worthy of thinking about? Do they reject it simply because their forefathers had not heard it
Bilal Muhammad 2018
Do they not ponder over the Word, or has anything new come to them that did not come to their ancestors
Corpus.Quran
Then, do not they ponder the Word or has come to them what not (had) come (to) their forefathers (to) their forefathers
Dr. Kamal Omar
Have they not pondered over the statement, or has there come to them what had not come to their earlier fathers
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Meditate they not on the saying or drew not near them anything that approaches not their fathers, the ancient ones?
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
So have they not pondered over this command (of Allah)? Or has there come to them such a thing that did not come to their fathers
Dr. Munir Munshey
Did they not ponder upon the words (of Allah) at all? Did the messenger bring any thing that hadn´t ever come to their forefathers
Edward Henry Palmer
Is it that they did not ponder over the words, whether that has come to them which came not to their fathers of yore
Faridul Haque
Have they not pondered the matter, or did that come to them, which did not come to their forefathers
Fode Drame
Do they not truly appreciate the word or is it that something has come to them that never came to their forefathers?
George Sale
Do they not therefore attentively consider that which is spoken unto them; whether a revelation is come unto them which came not unto their forefathers
Hamid S. Aziz
Have they not pondered over the words, or has something new come unto them which came not to their forefathers
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Should they not think upon the saying? Or, did anything come upon them that had not come upon their ancient forefathers
Hilali - Khan
Have they not pondered over the Word (of Allah, i.e. what is sent down to the Prophet SAW), or has there come to them what had not come to their fathers of old
Irving/Hegab
Have they not reflected on the Sentence, whether something that never reached their earliest forefathers may not have come to them?
John Medows Rodwell
Do they not then heed the things spoken - whether that hath come to them which came not to their fathers of old
Linda "iLham" Barto
Do they not ponder the Word? Has anything come to them that did not come to their forefathers?
Maududi
Did they never ponder over this Word (of God)? Or has he (to wit, the Messenger) brought something the like of which did not come to their forefathers of yore
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Do they not then ponder the Word? Or has there come to them that which did not come to their fathers of old
Mir Aneesuddin
considering yourselves great with respect to them, getting engaged in story telling and shameful talk.
Mohammad Shafi
Is it then that they do not understand the Word, or is it that there has come to them that which did not come to their forefathers
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
Did they not consider/regulate the word/opinion and belief ? Or came to them what did not come (to) their fathers, the first/beginners
Muhammad Asad
Have they, then, never tried to understand this word [of God]? Or has there [now] come to them something that never came to their forefathers of old
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
So have they not pondered over the Saying, or did there come to them that which did not come up to their earliest fathers
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Have they not pondered the Word, or hath that come unto them which came not unto their fathers of old
Muhammad Sarwar
Was it that you did not give any thought to it (the Quran)? Was it different from what was revealed to your fathers
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Then, is it that they did not ponder over the Word (of Allah), or there has come to them something that did not come to their forefathers
Munir Mezyed
Then have they not ruminated on the 'Qur’ān', or has there come upon them that which had not come upon their forefathers?
MunirMezyed2023
Have they not pondered the 'Qur’ān, or has there come upon them that which had not come upon their forefathers?
Musharraf Hussain
Haven’t they reflected on what is said in the Quran? Or has something come to them that never came to their forefathers?
Mustafa Khattab 2018
Is it because they have never contemplated the Word ˹of Allah˺? Or ˹because˺ there has come to them something that did not come to their forefathers?
Mustaqim
Do they not understand speech, or has something come to them which did not come to their forefathers?
N J Dawood 2014
Should they not heed the Word? Was anything revealed to them that had not been revealed to their forefathers
Rashad Khalifa
Why do they not reflect upon this scripture? Do they not realize that they have received something never attained by their ancestors?
Safi Kaskas
Have they not thought about what We tell them, or has something come to them that did not come to their forefathers?
Samy Mahdy
So, have they not pondered the saying? Or has come to them what has not come to their former parents?
Shabbir Ahmed
Have they not pondered the Word? Is the Revelation something that never came to their remote forefathers, ( Noah, Abraham, Ishmael, and others)
Shakir
Is it then that they do not ponder over what is said, or is it that there has come to them that which did not come to their fathers of old
Sher Ali
Have they not, then, pondered over the divine Word, or has there come to them that which did not come to their fathers of old
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Do they not think deeply over the Word (of Allah), or has anything (new) come to them (now) that did not already come to their fathers of old
T.B.Irving
Have they not reflected on the Sentence, whether something that never reached their earliest forefathers may not have come to them?
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Don’t they ponder over the Word? Or did news come to them that didn’t come to their ancestors?
Talal Itani (2012)
Have they not pondered the Word? Or has there come to them what came not to their forefathers of old
The Study Quran
Have they not contemplated the Word, or has there come unto them that which came not unto their forefathers
The Wise Quran
Have they not pondered the word, or has there come to them that which had not come to their forefathers?
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
Then have they not reflected over the Qur'an, or has there come to them that which had not come to their forefathers
Wahiduddin Khan
Have they not pondered over the word of God? Has something come to them that did not come to their forefathers
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Do they not ponder over the Word (of Allah), or has anything (new) come to them that did not come to their fathers of old