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Muhammad Asad
Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]
Arthur John Arberry
No indeed; they shall soon know
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Verily, they shall soon (come to) know
Source Arabic and Literal tools
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 كَلَّا سَيَعْلَمُونَ
Transliteration-3
kallā sayaʿlamūna
www.quran.live
No! They will soon come to know
Word by Word (2021)
Nay! (soon) they will know.
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
Nay, but in time they will come to understand [it]
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Nay, but they will come to know
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Verily, they shall soon (come to) know
Mustafa Khattab 2018
But no! They will come to know.
Safi Kaskas 2025
They will know.
Wahiduddin Khan
But they will soon come to know
Shakir
Nay! they shall soon come to know
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
No indeed! Soon they will know.
T.B.Irving
However they soon will know!
Abdul Hye
Nay, they will come to know,
Saeed Malik
On the contrary, they shall soon know
The Study Quran
Nay, but they will know
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
No! They will come to know.
Talal Itani (2012)
Surely, they will find out
Dr. Kamal Omar
By no means! Soon they will come to know
M. Farook Malik
Very soon they shall come to know
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Not at all! They will soon know
Muhammad Sarwar
(What they think is certainly despicable!). They will soon come to know (the reality)
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Indeed they will soon know
Shabbir Ahmed
Nay, they will soon come to know
Dr. Munir Munshey
By no means! They shall soon find out
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Surely, they shall soon know
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
No! They are going to know
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
No, they will come to know.
Abdel Haleem
They will find out
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
By no means! anon they shall know
Ahmed Ali
Indeed they will come to know soon
Aisha Bewley
No indeed! They will soon know!
Ali Ãœnal
No indeed! (They have no need to disagree or question one another about it:) Soon they will come to know
Ali Quli Qara'i
No indeed! They will soon know
Hamid S. Aziz
Verily, they shall soon come to know
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
No way, they are going to know.
Bilal Muhammad 2018
Indeed they will soon come to know
Musharraf Hussain
Nay, soon they will know,
Maududi
No indeed; soon will they come to know
Mohammad Shafi
No, they will soon come to know
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Yes, they will now know.
Rashad Khalifa
Indeed, they will find out
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Indeed, they shall know
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Nay, they will soon know
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
No, but they will know
Bijan Moeinian
Pretty soon they will find out
Faridul Haque
Surely yes, they will soon come to know
Sher Ali
Nay, soon they will come to know
Edip Yuksel
No, they will come to know.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
(That News is) not at all (deniable). They will soon know (that reality)
Amatul Rahman Omar
It is not as they assume. They shall surely know (the truth thereof)
Hilali - Khan
Nay, they will come to know
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
No indeed; they shall soon know
George Sale
Assuredly they shall hereafter know the truth thereof
Edward Henry Palmer
nay, they shall know too well
John Medows Rodwell
Nay! they shall certainly knows its truth
N J Dawood 2014
But they shall learn
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
Nay (Kallaa)! They will find out (Sa Ya'lamuun).
Fode Drame
Not at all! Soon they will come to know.
MunirMezyed2023
No indeed! They will come to know.
Mustaqim
But no, they will soon know,
Linda "iLham" Barto
Absurd! But they will come to know [when it’s too late].
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
But no, surely they will find out!
Irving/Hegab
However they soon will know!
Samy Mahdy
Nay, they will know.
Sayyid Qutb (transcription in progress)
No indeed; they shall certainly know!
Qarai
No indeed! Soon they will know!
Ahmed Hulusi
But no! Soon (when they die) they will know (that it is not like what they think)!
Mubarakpuri
Nay, they will come to know!
A. S. Mohamed
But no! They will come to know.
Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)
No! But they will come to know (soon enough)
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
Nay! they shall soon (come to) know
[Al-Muntakhab]
No, but they shall soon come to know
Mir Aneesuddin
No, they will come to know.
The Wise Quran Project
Not so, soon they will know.
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
Verily, they shall soon (come to) know
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
No, they will come to know.
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
No, they will come to know
OLD Word by Word
Nay! (soon) they will know
Transliteration
Kalla sayaAAlamoona