Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
Have they, perchance, handed down this [way of thinking] as a legacy unto one another? Nay, they are people filled with overweening arrogance
M. M. Pickthall
Have they handed down (the saying) as an heirloom one unto another? Nay, but they are froward folk
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Is this the legacy they have transmitted, one to another? Nay, they are themselves a people transgressing beyond bounds
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
Have they passed this ˹cliché˺ down to one another? In fact, they have ˹all˺ been a transgressing people.
Safi Kaskas
Did they recommend it to one another? Rather, they are people full of tyranny.
Wahiduddin Khan
Have they handed this down to one another? They are certainly a people who exceed all bounds
Shakir
Have they charged each other with this? Nay! they are an inordinate people
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Counseled they this to one another? Nay! They are a folk, ones who are defiant!
T.B.Irving
Do they recommend it to one another? Yet they are such arrogant folk.
Abdul Hye
Have they (past people) transmitted this saying (to these pagans)? Nay, but they are a people transgressing beyond bounds!
The Study Quran
Do they exhort one another to it? Nay, they are a rebellious people
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Did they pass it down among themselves? They are defiant people.
Talal Itani (2012)
Did they recommend it to one another? In fact, they are rebellious people
Dr. Kamal Omar
Have these people bequeathed one another about it? Nay, they are a nation of those who transgress beyond bounds
Have they transmitted this statement from one generation to the next? Nay, but they are all a rebellious people
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Have they enjoined (this saying) one to another? No indeed, (but) they are an inordinate people
Muhammad Sarwar
Have they inherited such dealings with the Prophets from their predecessors or are they a rebellious people
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Have they handed down (this saying) to each other as a legacy? Rather they are a rebellious people
Shabbir Ahmed
Have they handed down this (behavior) as a last will from one to another? Nay, but they have been folk who wished to live without moral bounds
Dr. Munir Munshey
Do they leave this remark as a legacy (for future generations)? No! They are the defiant sinners, all of them
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Is this the teaching they have transmitted, one to another? No! They are themselves a people breaking beyond (their) bounds
Did they suggest it to them? Rather, they [themselves] are a transgressing people
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
Have they passed down this saying to each other Indeed, they are a wicked people
Abdel Haleem
Did they tell one another to do this? No! They are a people who exceed all bounds
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Have they bequeathed its Unto each other! Nay! they are a people contumacious
Ahmed Ali
Is this the legacy they have passed down from one to the other? In fact, they are a rebellious people
Aisha Bewley
Did they bequeathe this to one another? Indeed they are an unbridled people.
Ali Ünal
Have they bequeathed this to one another (by way of response)? They were indeed a rebellious people
Ali Quli Qara'i
Did they enjoin this upon one another?! Rather they were a rebellious lot
Hamid S. Aziz
Is this the legacy (or tradition) they have transmitted to each other? Nay! They are a people extravagant (transgressing beyond bounds)
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
Did they recommend (one another) to that? No, they are rebellious people.
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
Is this the legacy they have transmitted one to another? No, they are a people transgressing beyond bounds
Musharraf Hussain
Did they tell one another to do this? No. They were transgressors
Maududi
Have they arrived at a common understanding concerning this? No; but they are a people given to transgression
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Have they passed down this saying to each other? Indeed, they are a wicked people.
Mohammad Shafi
Do they persist with the same [canard]!? Nay, they are a people committing transgression
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Have they bequeathed it to one another? Nay' rather they are a people contumacious.
Did they make an agreement with each other? Indeed, they are transgressors.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Have they handed this down from one to another? No, rather, they are an insolent nation
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Have they charged each other with this? Nay, they are an inordinate people
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
Do they command/entrust with it? But they are a tyrannizing/arrogant nation
Bijan Moeinian
Is it because they have arrived to such after a rational debate? Indeed not. The fact of the matter is that such accusations are the natural reactions of rebellious people
Faridul Haque
What! Have they willed this utterance to one another? In fact they are a rebellious people
Sher Ali
Have they bequeathed this attitude to one another? Nay, they are all a rebellious people
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Were they transmitting this advice to one another? In truth, they were (all) a disobedient and rebellious people
Amatul Rahman Omar
Have they bequeathed this (way of saying things) to one another. The fact is they themselves are a people who transgress limits
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
Have they (the people of the past) transmitted this saying to these (Quraish pagans)? Nay, they are themselves a people transgressing beyond bounds (in disbelief)
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
Have they handed down such a counsel unto one another? Nay! They are a people who are transgressors.
Munir Mezyed
Did they transmit this saying to each other? Nay, but they are really cruel and oppressive people.
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
Is this their legacy? But they are transgressing people.
Linda “iLHam” Barto
Is this the legacy they have passed down? Nonsense! They are a sinful people.
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
Did they recommend it to one another? In fact, they are a people who exceed all limits.
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
Do they recommend it to one another? Yet they are such arrogant folk.
Samy Mahdy
Were they recommended by it? Nay, but they are a kinfolk who tyrannize.
Ahmed Hulusi
Did they (genetically) suggest this to one another? No, they are a people in transgression!
Mir Aneesuddin
Do they recommend this to one another? No, they are a rebellious people.
Is this the legacy of thought they legated one generation to another ! But they are indeed a people given to disobedience, and heaven has laid their transgression to their charge
The Wise Quran
Have they instructed each other with it? Nay, they are immoderate people.