أَلَمْ يَأْتِكُمْ نَبَؤُا۟ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ قَوْمِ نُوحٍۢ وَعَادٍۢ وَثَمُودَ ۛ وَٱلَّذِينَ مِنۢ بَعْدِهِمْ ۛ لَا يَعْلَمُهُمْ إِلَّا ٱللَّهُ ۚ جَآءَتْهُمْ رُسُلُهُم بِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِ فَرَدُّوٓا۟ أَيْدِيَهُمْ فِىٓ أَفْوَٰهِهِمْ وَقَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّا كَفَرْنَا بِمَآ أُرْسِلْتُم بِهِۦ وَإِنَّا لَفِى شَكٍّۢ مِّمَّا تَدْعُونَنَآ إِلَيْهِ مُرِيبٍۢ
Translation
Sahih International
Has there not reached you the news of those before you - the people of Noah and 'Aad and Thamud and those after them? No one knows them but Allah. Their messengers brought them clear proofs, but they returned their hands to their mouths and said, "Indeed, we disbelieve in that with which you have been sent, and indeed we are, about that to which you invite us, in disquieting doubt."
Word-by-Word Translation
أَلَمْ
Has not
يَأْتِكُمْ
come to you
نَبَؤُا۟
(the) news
ٱلَّذِينَ
(of) those who
مِن
(were) before you
قَبْلِكُمْ
(were) before you
قَوْمِ
the people
نُوحٍۢ
of Nuh
وَعَادٍۢ
and Aad
وَثَمُودَ ۛ
and Thamud
وَٱلَّذِينَ
and those who
مِنۢ
(were) after them
بَعْدِهِمْ ۛ
(were) after them
لَا
None
يَعْلَمُهُمْ
knows them
إِلَّا
except
ٱللَّهُ ۚ
Allah
جَآءَتْهُمْ
Came to them
رُسُلُهُم
their Messengers
بِٱلْبَيِّنَـٰتِ
with clear proofs
فَرَدُّوٓا۟
but they returned
أَيْدِيَهُمْ
their hands
فِىٓ
in
أَفْوَٰهِهِمْ
their mouths
وَقَالُوٓا۟
and they said
إِنَّا
Indeed we
كَفَرْنَا
[we] disbelieve
بِمَآ
in what
أُرْسِلْتُم
you have been sent
بِهِۦ
with [it]
وَإِنَّا
and indeed, we
لَفِى
(are) surely in
شَكٍّۢ
doubt
مِّمَّا
about what
تَدْعُونَنَآ
you invite us
إِلَيْهِ
to it
مُرِيبٍۢ
suspicious
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