Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
THIS ACCOUNT of the [fate of those ancient] communities - some of them still remaining, and some [extinct like] a field mown-down - We convey unto thee [as a lesson for mankind]
Arthur John Arberry
That is of the tidings of the cities We relate to thee; some of them are standing and some stubble
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
These are some of the stories of communities which We relate unto thee: of them some are standing, and some have been mown down (by the sickle of time)
Arabic
ذَ ٰلِكَ مِنۡ أَنۢبَاۤءِ ٱلۡقُرَىٰ نَقُصُّهُۥ عَلَیۡكَۖ مِنۡهَا قَاۤىِٕمࣱ وَحَصِیدࣱ ١٠٠
Transliteration (2021)
dhālika min anbāi l-qurā naquṣṣuhu ʿalayka min'hā qāimun waḥaṣīdu