Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Or do they say, “[He is but] a poet - let us wait what time will do unto him”
Arthur John Arberry
Or do they say, 'He is a poet for whom we await Fate's uncertainty'
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Or do they say:- "A Poet! we await for him some calamity (hatched) by Time!"
Arabic
أَمۡ یَقُولُونَ شَاعِرࣱ نَّتَرَبَّصُ بِهِۦ رَیۡبَ ٱلۡمَنُونِ ٣٠
Transliteration (2021)
am yaqūlūna shāʿirun natarabbaṣu bihi rayba l-manūn