Quran 43 : 31

And they say, "Why not was sent down this the Quran to a man, from the two towns, great?"
وَقَالُوا۟
Waqālūa
لَوْلَا
Lawlā
نُزِّلَ
Nuzzila
هَٰذَا
Haādhā
ٱلْقُرْءَانُ
Alqurʾānu
عَلَىٰ
ʿAlaāā
رَجُلٍ
Rajulin
مِّنَ
Mmina
ٱلْقَرْيَتَيْنِ
Alqaryatayni
عَظِيمٍ
ʿAẓīmin

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

And they said: "If only this Qur'an was sent down to a man of greatness from the two towns!

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Also, they say: "Why is not this Qur'an sent down to some leading man in either of the two (chief) cities?"

Wahiduddin Khan

They said, Why was this Quran not sent down to one of the great men of the two cities

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

And they said, "Why was this Qur'an not sent down upon a great man from [one of] the two cities?"

The Wise Quran

And they say, 'Unless this Quran were sent down to a man great in the two cities.'

The Study Quran

And they said, “Why was this Quran not sent down to a great man from one of the two towns?

Talal Itani (2012)

They also said, 'If only this Quran was sent down to a man of importance from the two cities.'

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

They ask, “Why wasn’t this Quran revealed to a notable man from one of the two cities?”

T.B.Irving

They said: ´If this Reading were only sent down to some important man from either town!"

Syed Vickar Ahamed

And they also say: "Why is this Quran not sent down to some leading man in either of the two (main) cities? (Makkah and Taif.) "

Sher Ali

And they say, `Why has not the Qur'an been sent to some great man of the two towns?

Shakir

And they say: Why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the two towns

Shabbir Ahmed

And they say, "Why was not this Qur'an sent down to some great man of the two towns (Makkah and Taif)."

Samy Mahdy

And they said, “If only this Quran was sent down to a man among the two villages, great.”

Safi Kaskas

They also said, "If only this Qur'an was sent down to a great man from the two cities."

Rashad Khalifa

They said, "If only this Quran was sent down through another man from the two communities (Mecca or Yathrib) who is prominent!"

N J Dawood 2014

They also say: ‘Why has this Koran not been revealed to some important man from the two cities?‘¹

Mustaqim

And they said: why was not this Qur´an revealed to a man of the two great towns?

Mustafa Khattab 2018

And they exclaimed, “If only this Quran was revealed to a great man from ˹one of˺ the two cities!”

Musharraf Hussain

And said, “Why was this Quran not sent down on a famous personality from one of the two towns?”

MunirMezyed2023

They said: "Why was not this Qur’ān sent down upon a great man from one of the two cities?"

Munir Mezyed

They said: "Why was not this ‘Qur’ān’ sent down upon a great man from one of the two cities?"

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

They say, .Why was this Qur‘an not revealed on a great man from (either of) the two towns?

Muhammad Sarwar

Then they said, "Why this Quran had not been revealed to a man from either of the two great towns"

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And they have said, "Had this Qur'an been successively sent down upon a man of eminence in the two towns?" (Makkah and At-Taif

Muhammad Asad

And they say, too, “Why was not this Qur’an bestowed from on high on some great man of the two cities?”

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

And they said: "If only this the Koran was descended on a great man from the two villages/urban cities."

Mohammad Shafi

And they say, "Why is not this Qur'aan sent down to some leading man in either of the two cities?"

Mir Aneesuddin

And they said, “Why was this Quran not sent down on ( some ) great man from ( either of ) the two cities ( of Mecca or Taif )?”

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And they say: Why was not this Qur’an revealed to a man of importance in the two towns

Maududi

They say: "Why was this Qur´an not sent down upon some great man from the two (main) cities?"

Linda "iLham" Barto

Also, they say, “Why is this Qur’an not sent down to some leader of the two cities?”

John Medows Rodwell

And they say, "Had but this Koran been sent down to some great one of the two cities . . .!"

Irving/Hegab

They said: 'If this Quran were only sent down to some important man from either town!"

Hilali - Khan

And they say: "Why is not this Quran sent down to some great man of the two towns (Makkah and Taif)?"

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

They also said: 'Why was this Koran not sent down to a great man from the two Villages?

Hamid S. Aziz

And they say, "Why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the two towns?"

George Sale

And they say, had this Koran been sent down unto some great man of either of the two cities, we would have received it

Fode Drame

And they said, “If only this Quran was sent down on a great man of the two townships.”

Faridul Haque

And they said, “Why was the Qur’an not sent down upon some chieftain of these two great towns?” (The chiefs of Mecca and Taif)

Edward Henry Palmer

And they say, 'Unless this Qur'an were sent down to a man great in the two cities. . . . .

Dr. Munir Munshey

They ask, "Why is it that this Qur´an is not being revealed to one of the more prominent men of the two cities (Makkah And Taif)?"

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

And they said: ‘Why has this Qur’an not been sent down upon some high-ranking personage (i.e., some chief, landlord, or the affluent) of the two towns (Mecca and Ta’if)?

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

They said: Why was this, the Quran, not sent down to some eminent man of the two towns?

Dr. Kamal Omar

And they said, “Why is not this Al-Quran sent down to a great person of the twain cities?” [Throughout the parent human world (i.e., the Arabic-speahead of state area of the planet) the most important city is Makka, while the next important is Al-Madinah]

Corpus.Quran

And they say Why not was sent down this the Quran to a man from the two towns great

Bilal Muhammad 2018

They also say, “Why is this Quran not sent down to some great person in either of the two cities?

Bijan Moeinian

Their objection was: “Why this Qur’an is not revealed to a “great” man of our two main cities?”

Bakhtiari Nejad

And they say: “Why this Quran was not sent down to a great man from the two towns (Mecca and Taif)?”

Arthur John Arberry

They say, 'Why was this Koran not sent down upon some man of moment in the two cities?

Amatul Rahman Omar

Moreover they said, `Why has not this Qur'an been revealed to some man of importance from (either of) the two townships (- Makkah or Ta'if, the two centres of social and political life).

Ali Ünal

They also say: "If only this Qur’an had been sent down on a man of leading position of the two (chief) cities!"

Ali Quli Qara'i

And they said, ‘Why was not this Qur’an sent down to some great man from the two cities?’

Aisha Bewley

They say, ´Why was this Qur´an not sent down to one of the great men of the two cities?´

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

And they said, 'why has not this Quran sent down upon any great man of the two cities'?

Ahmed Hulusi

They said, “Why was this Quran not sent to one of the great men of these two cities?”

Ahmed Ali

They also said: "Why was this Qur'an not sent down to some great man of the two cities?"

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And they say: wherefore hath not this Qur'an been revealed to a man of the two cities who was great

Abdul Hye

And they said: “Why is this Qur’an not sent down to some great man of the 2 towns (Makkah and Taif)?”

Abdel Haleem

and they said, ‘Why was this Quran not sent down to a distinguished man, from either of the two cities?’