Surah Al-Isra — Verse 94

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وَمَا مَنَعَ ٱلنَّاسَ أَن يُؤْمِنُوٓا۟ إِذْ جَآءَهُمُ ٱلْهُدَىٰٓ إِلَّآ أَن قَالُوٓا۟ أَبَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ بَشَرًا رَّسُولًا

Wama manaAAa annasa anyu'minoo ith jaahumu alhuda illa an qalooabaAAatha Allahu basharan rasoola

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

And what prevented the people from believing when guidance came to them except that they said, "Has Allāh sent a human messenger?"

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

The only thing that kept these people from believing, when guidance came to them, was that they said, ‘How could God have sent a human being as a messenger?’

Marmaduke Pickthall

And naught prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came unto them save that they said: Hath Allah sent a mortal as (His) messenger?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

What kept men back from belief when Guidance came to them, was nothing but this: they said, "Has Allah sent a man (like us) to be (His) Messenger?"

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Nothing prevented people from believing, when guidance came to them, except that they said, “Has Allah sent a man as a messenger?”

Al-Hilali & Khan

And nothing prevented men from believing when the guidance came to them, except that they said: "Has Allâh sent a man as (His) Messenger?"

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

Whenever Guidance came to people, nothing prevented them from believing except that they said: "Has Allah sent a human being as a Messenger?"

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

Yet whenever [God's] guidance came to them [through a prophet,] nothing has ever kept people from believing [in him] save this their objection: "Would God have sent a [mere] mortal man as His apostle?"