Surah Ya-Sin — Verse 13

Ya Sin · 36:13 · 13/83

وَٱضْرِبْ لَهُم مَّثَلًا أَصْحَـٰبَ ٱلْقَرْيَةِ إِذْ جَآءَهَا ٱلْمُرْسَلُونَ

Wadrib lahum mathalan as-habaalqaryati ith jaaha almursaloon

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

Saheeh International

And present to them an example: the people of the city, when the messengers came to it -

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

Give them the example of the people to whose town messengers came.

Marmaduke Pickthall

Coin for them a similitude: The people of the city when those sent (from Allah) came unto them;

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Set forth to them, by way of a parable, the (story of) the Companions of the City. Behold!, there came messengers to it.

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Cite to them the example of the People of the Town, when the messengers came to it,

Al-Hilali & Khan

And put forward to them a similitude: the (story of the) dwellers of the town, [it is said that the town was Antioch (Antâkiya)], when there came Messengers to them.

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

Recite to them, as a case in point, the story of the people of the town when the Messengers came to them.

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

AND SET FORTH unto them a parable - [the story of how] the people of a township [behaved] when [Our] message-bearers came unto them.