Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
O followers of earlier revelation! Why do you cloak the truth with falsehood and conceal the truth of which you are [so well] aware
Arthur John Arberry
People of the Book! Why do you confound the truth with vanity, and conceal the truth and that wittingly
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Ye People of the Book! Why do ye clothe Truth with falsehood, and conceal the Truth, while ye have knowledge
Arabic
یَـٰۤأَهۡلَ ٱلۡكِتَـٰبِ لِمَ تَلۡبِسُونَ ٱلۡحَقَّ بِٱلۡبَـٰطِلِ وَتَكۡتُمُونَ ٱلۡحَقَّ وَأَنتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ ٧١
Transliteration (2021)
yāahla l-kitābi lima talbisūna l-ḥaqa bil-bāṭili wataktumūna l-ḥaqa wa-antum taʿlamūn