Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
NOW HAD IT BEEN Our will [that men should not be able to discern between right and wrong], We could surely have deprived them of their sight, so that they would stray forever from the [right] way: for how could they have had insight [into what is true]
Arthur John Arberry
Did We will, We would have obliterated their eyes, then they would race to the path, but how would they see
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
If it had been our Will, We could surely have blotted out their eyes; then should they have run about groping for the Path, but how could they have seen
Arabic
وَلَوۡ نَشَاۤءُ لَطَمَسۡنَا عَلَىٰۤ أَعۡیُنِهِمۡ فَٱسۡتَبَقُوا۟ ٱلصِّرَ ٰطَ فَأَنَّىٰ یُبۡصِرُونَ ٦٦
Transliteration (2021)
walaw nashāu laṭamasnā ʿalā aʿyunihim fa-is'tabaqū l-ṣirāṭa fa-annā yub'ṣirūn