Quran 26 : 137

Not (is) this but (the) custom (of) the former (people),
إِنْ
Iin
هَٰذَآ
Haādhaa
إِلَّا
Iillā
خُلُقُ
Khuluqu
ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ
Alaawwalīna

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

"This is nothing except an invention by the people of old.

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

"This is no other than a customary device of the ancients

Wahiduddin Khan

this is nothing but a habit of the ancients

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

This is not but the custom of the former peoples

The Wise Quran

This is nothing but old folks' fictions,

The Study Quran

This is naught but the ethos of those of old

Talal Itani (2012)

This is nothing but morals of the ancients

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

This is nothing but the traditions of the ancients.

T.B.Irving

This is only a fabrication [made up] by primitive men;

Syed Vickar Ahamed

"This is nothing different from the customary actions of the ancient (people)

Sher Ali

`This is nothing but the habit of the ancients

Shakir

This is naught but a custom of the ancients

Shabbir Ahmed

This has been our life-style for generations

Samy Mahdy

Surely this is none, except the formers’ mores.

Safi Kaskas

this is only what our forefathers used to do.

Rashad Khalifa

"That affliction was limited to our ancestors.

N J Dawood 2014

This is but a myth of the ancients

Mustaqim

For there is only the first creation.

Mustafa Khattab 2018

This is simply the tradition of our predecessors.

Musharraf Hussain

these are the customs of the past generations.

MunirMezyed2023

This is no other than the custom and tradition of the ancients,

Munir Mezyed

This (our faith) is no other than the custom and tradition of the ancients,

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

This is nothing but the practice of the ancient

Muhammad Sarwar

your preaching is nothing but ancient legends and we shall not face any torment"

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

This is but a fable of the men of old

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Decidedly this is nothing except the character of the earliest (people)

Muhammad Asad

This [religion of ours] is none other than that to which our forebears clung

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

That truly that (is) except the first's/beginner's nature/character

Mohammad Shafi

"This is nothing but practice/custom of the earlier peoples."

Mir Aneesuddin

This is nothing but a customary (warning) of the ancient,

Maulana Muhammad Ali

This is naught but a fabrication of the ancients

Maududi

This has been happening all along

Linda "iLham" Barto

“This is nothing but a custom of the former peoples.

John Medows Rodwell

This is but a tale of the ancients

Irving/Hegab

This is only a fabrication [made up] by primitive men;

Hilali - Khan

"This is no other than the false-tales and religion of the ancients, (Tafsir At-Tabaree, Vol.19, Page 97

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

That is nothing but a habit of the ancients

Hamid S. Aziz

"This is nothing but the fable of men of old

George Sale

This which thou preachest is only a device of the ancients

Fode Drame

This is nothing but the tradition of the ancients.

Faridul Haque

“This is nothing but the tradition of former people.”

Edward Henry Palmer

this is nothing but old folks' fictions, for we shall not be tormented!

Dr. Munir Munshey

"These are merely the fantasies of the earlier folks!"

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

It is nothing (else) but the habits (and customs) of the ancients (which we cannot abandon)

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Truly, this is nothing but morals of the ancient ones

Dr. Kamal Omar

This (counselling which you have uttered before us is) nothing but the practices of the initial people

Corpus.Quran

Not (is) this but (the) custom (of) the former (people)

Bilal Muhammad 2018

“This is no other than a custom of those who came before

Bijan Moeinian

“The punishment that you are talking about was meant only to our ancestors.” (This attitude is manifested today by the Jews and the Christian who believe that God has promised not to be angry after the Noah’s flood as mentioned in Genesis 9:11.

Bakhtiari Nejad

this is only the character (way of life) of the earlier ones,

Arthur John Arberry

this is nothing but the habit of the ancients

Amatul Rahman Omar

`This way (of admonition) is merely the manner of the ancients

Ali Ünal

"This (what we do) is the pattern of conduct of (all our) predecessors

Ali Quli Qara'i

These are nothing but the traditions of the ancients

Aisha Bewley

This is only what the previous peoples did.

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

This is not but the same habits of the ancients.

Ahmed Hulusi

“These are only the fables of the past!”

Ahmed Ali

This is just a habit of antiquated people

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

This in but a custom of the ancients

Abdul Hye

This is nothing but the customs of the ancients.

Abdel Haleem

for we only do what our forefathers used to do