Popular Translations
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
Arthur John Arberry
Strike for them a similitude -- the inhabitants of the city, when the Envoys came to it
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
Arabic
وَٱضۡرِبۡ لَهُم مَّثَلًا أَصۡحَـٰبَ ٱلۡقَرۡیَةِ إِذۡ جَاۤءَهَا ٱلۡمُرۡسَلُونَ ١٣
Transliteration (2021)
wa-iḍ'rib lahum mathalan aṣḥāba l-qaryati idh jāahā l-mur'salūn