Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Those who lived before them did [too] give the lie to the truth - whereupon suffering befell them without their having perceived whence it came
Arthur John Arberry
Those that were before them cried lies, then the chastisement came upon them from whence they were not aware
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Those before them (also) rejected (revelation), and so the Punishment came to them from directions they did not perceive
Arabic
كَذَّبَ ٱلَّذِینَ مِن قَبۡلِهِمۡ فَأَتَىٰهُمُ ٱلۡعَذَابُ مِنۡ حَیۡثُ لَا یَشۡعُرُونَ ٢٥
Transliteration (2021)
kadhaba alladhīna min qablihim fa-atāhumu l-ʿadhābu min ḥaythu lā yashʿurūn