Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Have they, then, never tried to understand this word [of God]? Or has there [now] come to them something that never came to their forefathers of old
Arthur John Arberry
Have they not pondered the saying, or came there upon them that which came not upon their fathers, the ancients
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Do they not ponder over the Word (of Allah), or has anything (new) come to them that did not come to their fathers of old
Arabic
أَفَلَمۡ یَدَّبَّرُوا۟ ٱلۡقَوۡلَ أَمۡ جَاۤءَهُم مَّا لَمۡ یَأۡتِ ءَابَاۤءَهُمُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِینَ ٦٨
Transliteration (2021)
afalam yaddabbarū l-qawla am jāahum mā lam yati ābāahumu l-awalīn