Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
AND NEVER YET have We sent a prophet unto any community without trying its people with misfortune and hardship, so that they might humble themselves
Arthur John Arberry
We have sent no Prophet to any city but that We seized its people with misery and hardship, that haply they might be humble
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Whenever We sent a prophet to a town, We took up its people in suffering and adversity, in order that they might learn humility
Arabic
وَمَاۤ أَرۡسَلۡنَا فِی قَرۡیَةࣲ مِّن نَّبِیٍّ إِلَّاۤ أَخَذۡنَاۤ أَهۡلَهَا بِٱلۡبَأۡسَاۤءِ وَٱلضَّرَّاۤءِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ یَضَّرَّعُونَ ٩٤
Transliteration (2021)
wamā arsalnā fī qaryatin min nabiyyin illā akhadhnā ahlahā bil-basāi wal-ḍarāi laʿallahum yaḍḍarraʿūn