Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Thus, indeed, most of the people of old went astray before them
Arthur John Arberry
Before them erred most of the ancients
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
And truly before them, many of the ancients went astray;
Arabic
وَلَقَدۡ ضَلَّ قَبۡلَهُمۡ أَكۡثَرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِینَ ٧١
Transliteration (2021)
walaqad ḍalla qablahum aktharu l-awalīn