Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
And, indeed, [many of] those who lived aforetime did give the lie [to My warnings]: and how awesome was My rejection [of them]
Arthur John Arberry
Those that were before them also cried lies; then how was My horror
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
But indeed men before them rejected (My warning): then how (terrible) was My rejection (of them)
Arabic
وَلَقَدۡ كَذَّبَ ٱلَّذِینَ مِن قَبۡلِهِمۡ فَكَیۡفَ كَانَ نَكِیرِ ١٨
Transliteration (2021)
walaqad kadhaba alladhīna min qablihim fakayfa kāna nakīr