Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Are they not aware of how many a generation We have destroyed before their time, [and] that those [that have perished] will never return to them
Arthur John Arberry
What, have they not seen how many generations We have destroyed before them, and that it is not unto them that they return
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
See they not how many generations before them we destroyed? Not to them will they return
Arabic
أَلَمۡ یَرَوۡا۟ كَمۡ أَهۡلَكۡنَا قَبۡلَهُم مِّنَ ٱلۡقُرُونِ أَنَّهُمۡ إِلَیۡهِمۡ لَا یَرۡجِعُونَ ٣١
Transliteration (2021)
alam yaraw kam ahlaknā qablahum mina l-qurūni annahum ilayhim lā yarjiʿūn