Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
But nay, they speak as the people of olden times did speak
Arthur John Arberry
Nay, but they said the like of what the ancients said
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
On the contrary they say things similar to what the ancients said
Arabic
بَلۡ قَالُوا۟ مِثۡلَ مَا قَالَ ٱلۡأَوَّلُونَ ٨١
Transliteration (2021)
bal qālū mith'la mā qāla l-awalūn