Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
AND SET FORTH unto them a parable - [the story of how] the people of a township [behaved] when [Our] message-bearers came unto them
M. M. Pickthall
Coin for them a similitude: The people of the city when those sent (from Allah) came unto them
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Set forth to them, by way of a parable, the (story of) the Companions of the City. Behold!, there came messengers to it
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
Give them an example ˹O Prophet˺ of the residents of a town, when the messengers came to them.
Safi Kaskas
Give them the example of the people whose town was visited by the messengers
Wahiduddin Khan
Recount to them the example of the people to whose town Our messengers came
Shakir
And set out to them an example of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
And propound a parable for them: The Companions of the Town when ones who were sent drew near them.
T.B.Irving
Compose a parable for them about the inhabitants of the town when emissaries came to them.
Abdul Hye
And put forward to them an example; the story of the residents of the town (Antakiya, Turkey) to whom the Messengers came.
The Study Quran
And set forth for them as a parable the people of the town, when the message bearers came unto it
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Present to them a parable: the inhabitants of a city, when the messengers came to it.
Talal Itani (2012)
And cite for them the parable of the landlords of the town—when the messengers came to it
Dr. Kamal Omar
And bring forward to them a similitude of the dwellers of the town, when there came to them the sent-ones
Narrate to them the example of the people of a certain town to whom the Messengers came
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
And strike for them a similitude: the companions (i.e., the inhabitants) of the town, as the Emissaries came to it
Muhammad Sarwar
Tell them the story of the people of the town to whom Messengers came
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Cite to them the example of the People of the Town, when the messengers came to it
Shabbir Ahmed
Make them understand in Symbolic Form: The People of the Town when Messengers came to them
Dr. Munir Munshey
Cite the example of the town, its people and the messengers who came there
Syed Vickar Ahamed
And put forward to them (and tell them), by way of a story (with a warning), about the companions of the City (which was destroyed). When the messengers (of Allah) have come to it
And present to them an example: the people of the city, when the messengers came to it
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
And cite for them the example of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it
Abdel Haleem
Give them the example of the people to whose town messengers came
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
And propound thou Unto them the similitude of the inhabitants of a town, When there came thereto the sent ones
Ahmed Ali
Narrate to them the example of the people of the city when the messengers came to it
Aisha Bewley
Make an example for them of the inhabitants of the city when the Messengers came to it.
Ali Ünal
Set out to them, by way of a parable, the (story of the) people of that township, when the Messengers came there
Ali Quli Qara'i
Cite for them the example of the inhabitants of the town when the apostles came to it
Hamid S. Aziz
And set out to them a similitude: The ´Companions of the City´, when the messengers came to it
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
And give them an example of inhabitants of the town when the messengers came to it.
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Give them by way of a parable the story of the companions of the city. Behold, there came messengers to it
Musharraf Hussain
As an example, tell them about the people of the town, where the messengers came.
Maududi
Recite to them, as a case in point, the story of the people of the town when the Messengers came to them
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
And put forth for them the example of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it
Mohammad Shafi
And recount to them the story of the town-people, when the Messengers came to the town
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
And narrate them the signs of the people of a city; when there came to them sent ones.
Cite for them the example of people in a community that received the messengers.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Give to them a parable; to the people of the village there came Messengers
Maulana Muhammad Ali
And set out to them a parable of the people of the town, when apostles came to it
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
And give for them an example/proverb (of) the village's/urban city's owners/company , when the messengers came to them
Bijan Moeinian
(Mohammad) remind them of the events followed by My sending two Messengers to a town
Faridul Haque
And relate to them the signs of the people of the city - when two emissaries came to them
Sher Ali
And set forth to them the parable of a people of the town, when the Messengers came to it
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
And narrate to them the (legendary) example of the people of a city (Antioch—an ancient city in Northern Syria) when there came to them some Messengers
Amatul Rahman Omar
And set forth to them for their good a parable of a people of the town when the Messengers (of God) came to them
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
And put forward to them a similitude; the (story of the) dwellers of the town, (It is said that the town was Antioch (Antakiya)), when there came Messengers to them
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
And set forth for them a parable of the people of the township when the messengers came to it.
Munir Mezyed
And strike for them as a similitude: the people of the town, when Messengers (of Allâh) came to it:
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
And coin for them the likeness of the inhabitants of the town when the messengers came to it.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
And setsg forth for them the parable of the fellows of the town when the Emissaries came to it—
Linda “iLHam” Barto
Explain to them by using a parable of the companions of the city. Messengers came to it.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
Compose a parable for them about the inhabitants of the town when emissaries came to them.
Samy Mahdy
And cite for them an example of the village’ companions, when the messengers came to it.
Sayyid Qutb
Cite for them, as a case in point, the people of a township to which messengers came.
Thomas Cleary
Set forth to them a parable, of the companions of the city when there came to it Envoys sent as messengers.
Ahmed Hulusi
Give them the example of the people of that city to which the Rasuls had come.
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
And coin for them a similitude of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it.
And cite to them the inhabitants of the town to whom We sent Our Messengers, an example by way of a parable, by which moral and spiritual relations are typically set forth
Mir Aneesuddin
And set forth to them the similitude of the inhabitants of the town, when messengers came to it,
The Wise Quran
Strike for them a similitude: the fellows of the city when there came to it the messengers;