Surah Al-Qamar — Verse 43

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أَكُفَّارُكُمْ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكُمْ أَمْ لَكُم بَرَآءَةٌ فِى ٱلزُّبُرِ

Akuffarukum khayrun min ola-ikumam lakum baraatun fee azzubur

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

Are your disbelievers better than those [former ones], or have you immunity in the scriptures?

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

‘Are your disbelievers any better than these? Were you given an exemption in the Scripture?’

Marmaduke Pickthall

Are your disbelievers better than those, or have ye some immunity in the scriptures?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Are your Unbelievers, (O Quraish), better than they? Or have ye an immunity in the Sacred Books?

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Are the disbelievers among you in a better position than all of the aforesaid (punished people), or do you have immunity (recorded) in the sacred books?

Al-Hilali & Khan

Are your disbelievers (O Quraish!) better than these [nations of Nûh (Noah), Lût (Lot), Sâlih, and the people of Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) who were destroyed)? Or have you an immunity (against Our Torment) in the Divine Scriptures?

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

Are your unbelievers (of Makkah) any better than they? Or have you been granted any immunity in the Scriptures?

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

ARE, THEN, those of you who [now] deny the truth better than those others - or have you, per­chance, [been promised] immunity in the [ancient] books of [divine] wisdom?

Rowwad · source edition

Are your disbelievers [O Makkans] superior to those[15] or have you been granted immunity in divine Scriptures?

Notes

[15] i.e., those destroyed peoples.

Hilali and Khan · source edition

43. Are your disbelievers (O Quraish!) better than these [nations of Nûh (Noah), Lût (Lot), Sâlih, and the people of Fir‘aun (Pharaoh) who were destroyed)? Or have you an immunity (against Our Torment) in the Divine Scriptures?