[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
No; they are in doubt, playing
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Yet they play about in doubt
Wahiduddin Khan
yet, they toy with their doubts
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
But they are in doubt, amusing themselves
The Wise Quran
Nay, they are in doubt, playing.
The Study Quran
Nay, but they are playing in doubt
Talal Itani (2012)
Yet they play around in doubt
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Yet, they are doubting, engaged in play.
T.B.Irving
Instead they play around with doubt.
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Yet, they amuse themselves in doubt
Sher Ali
Yet they play about in doubt
Shakir
Nay, they are in doubt, they sport
Shabbir Ahmed
Nay, but they are toying with their doubts
Samy Mahdy
Nay, but they are suspiciously playing.
Safi Kaskas
Yet they who lack certainty toy with their doubts.
Rashad Khalifa
Indeed, they are doubtful, heedless.
N J Dawood 2014
Yet they divert themselves with doubts
Mustaqim
But they play whilst in doubt.
Mustafa Khattab 2018
In fact, they are in doubt, amusing themselves.
Musharraf Hussain
Unfortunately, they are in doubt, dilly-dallying.
MunirMezyed2023
Nay, but they harbour doubts, playing.
Munir Mezyed
Nay, they harbour doubts, playing.
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
But they, being in doubt, are playing around
Muhammad Sarwar
In fact, the unbelievers have doubts because of excessive involvement in worldly affairs
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Nay, but they play in doubt
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
No indeed, (but) they are in doubt, playing
Muhammad Asad
Nay, but they [who lack inner certainty] are but Dying with their doubts
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
But they are in doubt/suspicion playing/amusing
Mohammad Shafi
But, they play with their doubts
Mir Aneesuddin
No, they are in doubt (therefore) they are not serious.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Nay, in doubt they sport
Maududi
(But the fact is, they lack certainty) and frolic about in doubt
Linda "iLham" Barto
Yet, they flit in doubt.
John Medows Rodwell
Yet with doubts do they disport them
Irving/Hegab
Instead they play around with doubt.
Hilali - Khan
Nay! They play in doubt
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Yet they are in doubt, playing
Hamid S. Aziz
Nay, but they make sport in doubt
George Sale
Yet do they amuse themselves with doubt
Fode Drame
Nay! They are in incredulity, playing.
Faridul Haque
Rather they are in doubt, playing
Edward Henry Palmer
Nay, they in doubt do play
Dr. Munir Munshey
Yet, (immersed) in doubt, they waste their time in pastimes
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Yet they are in doubt, busy playing
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Nay! They play in uncertainty.
Dr. Kamal Omar
Nay! They, remaining in doubt and suspicion, indulge in sport and play
Corpus.Quran
Nay they (are) in doubt playing
Bilal Muhammad 2018
Yet they play around in doubt
Bijan Moeinian
What a shame that you doubt in the existence of God
Bakhtiari Nejad
No, but they play around in doubt.
Arthur John Arberry
Nay, but they are in doubt, playing
Amatul Rahman Omar
Yet (they have no faith,) they are steeped in doubt (and) occupied with unreal things
Ali Ünal
Yet (they do not desire certainty; instead) they are in an irrecoverable doubt, lost in the playthings of the worldly life
Ali Quli Qara'i
Rather they play around in doubt
Aisha Bewley
Yet they play around in doubt.
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Nay, but they are in doubt, playing.
Ahmed Hulusi
But no, they are in doubt, amusing themselves (with the worldly life).
Ahmed Ali
Yet they are lost in doubt and play
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Aye! they're in doubt sporting
Abdul Hye
Nay! They play in doubt.
Abdel Haleem
yet in [their state of] doubt they take nothing seriously