Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Indeed, we were promised this - we and our forefathers - in the past as well; it is nothing but fables of ancient times!”
Arthur John Arberry
We have been promised this, and our fathers before; this is naught but the fairy-tales of the ancients.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"It is true we were promised this,- we and our fathers before (us): these are nothing but tales of the ancients."
Arabic
لَقَدۡ وُعِدۡنَا هَـٰذَا نَحۡنُ وَءَابَاۤؤُنَا مِن قَبۡلُ إِنۡ هَـٰذَاۤ إِلَّاۤ أَسَـٰطِیرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِینَ ٦٨
Transliteration (2021)
laqad wuʿid'nā hādhā naḥnu waābāunā min qablu in hādhā illā asāṭīru l-awalīn