Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[But] We know best what they will be saying when the most perceptive of them shall say, "You have spent [there] but one day!"
Arthur John Arberry
We know very well what they will say, when the justest of them in the way will say, 'You have tarried only a day.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
We know best what they will say, when their leader most eminent in conduct will say: "Ye tarried not longer than a day!"
Arabic
نَّحۡنُ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا یَقُولُونَ إِذۡ یَقُولُ أَمۡثَلُهُمۡ طَرِیقَةً إِن لَّبِثۡتُمۡ إِلَّا یَوۡمࣰا ١٠٤
Transliteration (2021)
naḥnu aʿlamu bimā yaqūlūna idh yaqūlu amthaluhum ṭarīqatan in labith'tum illā yawma