Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
But if they [who reject all thought of the Last Hour] were to see a sign [of its approach], they would turn aside and say, “An ever-recurring delusion!” –
Arthur John Arberry
Yet if they see a sign they turn away, and they say 'A continuous sorcery!
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
But if they see a Sign, they turn away, and say, "This is (but) transient magic."
Arabic
وَإِن یَرَوۡا۟ ءَایَةࣰ یُعۡرِضُوا۟ وَیَقُولُوا۟ سِحۡرࣱ مُّسۡتَمِرࣱّ ٢
Transliteration (2021)
wa-in yaraw āyatan yuʿ'riḍū wayaqūlū siḥ'run mus'tamirru