Surah Al-Hijr — Verse 13

The Rocky Tract · 15:13 · 13/99

لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِۦ ۖ وَقَدْ خَلَتْ سُنَّةُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

La yu'minoona bihi waqad khalatsunnatu al-awwaleen

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

They will not believe in it. That was what happened with the peoples of long ago,

Marmaduke Pickthall

They believe not therein, though the example of the men of old hath gone before.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

That they should not believe in the (Message); but the ways of the ancients have passed away.

Mufti Taqi Usmani

(whereby) they do not believe in it (the Qur’ān), and this has been the way of earlier people.

Al-Hilali & Khan

They would not believe in it (the Qur’ân); and already the example of (Allâh’s punishment of) the ancients (who disbelieved) has gone forth.

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

they do not believe in it. This has been the wont of people of this kind from ancient times.

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

who do not believe in it, although the way which those [evildoers] of olden times had to go has long been within their ken.

Rowwad · source edition

They will not believe in it, although the examples of the earlier people are well established.

Hilali and Khan · source edition

13. They would not believe in it (the Qur’ân); and already the example of (Allâh’s punishment of) the ancients (who disbelieved) has gone forth.