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Muhammad Asad Buy
a good many of olden times
Arthur John Arberry Buy
A throng of the ancient
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938) Buy
A (goodly) number from those of old
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Transliteration Buy
thullatun mina l-awalīn
Word by Word (2021) Buy
A company of the former people,
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad Buy
a good many of olden times
Marmaduke Pickthall Buy
A multitude of those of ol
Yusuf Ali Buy
A (goodly) number from those of old
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938) Buy
A (goodly) number from those of old
Wahiduddin Khan Buy
a large group of the earlier people
Shakir Buy
A numerous company from among the first
Mustafa Khattab 2018 Buy
˹who will be˺ a multitude from earlier generations
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar Buy
A throng of the ancient ones
T.B.Irving Buy
a multitude from early men
Safi Kaskas 2025 Buy
a group of the earlier generation
Abdul Hye Buy
A large number will be from the first generation (who embraced Islam)
Saeed Malik Buy
a deserving group  from the first set [of believers]
The Study Quran Buy
many from those of old
Talal Itani & AI (2025) Buy
A large company from the earlier generations.
Talal Itani (2012) Buy
A throng from the ancients
Dr. Kamal Omar
a major portion from the initial ones
Syed Vickar Ahamed Buy
A (good) number from the first generation (in Islam)
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) Buy
A company of the former people
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali Buy
A throng of the earliest (people,
Muhammad Sarwar Buy
These (people of the right hand) consist of many from the ancien
Muhammad Taqi Usmani Buy
(comprising) many from the first generations
Shabbir Ahmed Buy
A good many of those who led in goodness
Dr. Munir Munshey
(There would be) many (of them) from the earlier (generations)
M. Farook Malik Buy
Many of them will be from the forme
The Monotheist Group (2017) Buy
Many from the early generations.
Abdel Haleem Buy
many from the pas
Abdul Majid Daryabadi Buy
A multitude from the ancients
Ahmed Ali Buy
A crowd of earlier generation
Aisha Bewley Buy
A large group of the earlier people
Ali Unal Buy
A good many of them are from among the first (to have embraced God’s Religion)
Ali Quli Qara'i Buy
A multitude from the former [generations]
Hamid S. Aziz Buy
A multitude of those of old
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
a large number of the earlier ones
Bilal Muhammad 2018 Buy
A number from those in the past
Musharraf Hussain Buy
Many from the earlier generations,
Maududi Buy
a large throng from the ancients
Mohammad Shafi Buy
Many [of them will be] from the earlier people
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) Buy
A group from amongst the former ones.
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
a multitude of the ancients
Maulana Muhammad Ali Buy
A multitude from among the first
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
A group from the first/beginners
Bijan Moeinian Buy
The right side people will be those …
Faridul Haque Buy
A large group from the earlier generations
Rashad Khalifa Buy
Many from the early generations.
Sher Ali Buy
A large party from among the first believers
Edip Yüksel Buy
Many from the early generations.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri Buy
A large group of them will be from the earlier people
Amatul Rahman Omar Buy
(This group will consist of) a large party from the earlier people (of Islam)
Hilali – Khan Buy
A multitude of those (on the Right Hand) will be from the first generation (who embraced Islam)
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry Buy
A throng of the ancient
George Sale Buy
There shall be many of the former religions
Edward Henry Palmer Buy
A crowd of those of yore
John Medows Rodwell Buy
A crowd of the former
N J Dawood 2014 Buy
a multitude from ages past
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi Buy
a group (Thullatun) from (Mina) the predecessors (El'Awwaliin),
Fode Drame Buy
A multitude from the former people.
Munir Mezyed (2023) Buy
A multitude of those on the right hand will be from the ancient people,
Mustaqim
A multitude of the early ones.
Linda "iLham" Barto Buy
Some of them will be from days of old.
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation Buy
a throng from the ancients
Irving/Hegab Buy
a multitude from early men
Samy Mahdy Buy
A throng from the former.
Qarai Buy
A multitude from the former [generations]
Ahmed Hulusi Buy
A group of them (the people of the right) are from the former people.
Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri Buy
A multitude of those will be from the first generation.
A. S. Mohamed Buy
a multitude of the earlier people,
Mir Aneesuddin
Numerous from among the ancients,
[Al-Muntakhab]
Who include a great number of those who preceded
The Wise Quran Project
A crowd of the former people,
Newest Translations 2026
Zulfiquar Ali Bhotto
A throng form the former peoples
Verbatim Quran - Mahmoud K
A throng from the oldens.
Obsolete and/or older editions
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) Buy
Many from the early generations.
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) Buy
Many from the early generations
OLD Word by Word
A company of the former people
Old Transliteration Buy
Thullatun mina al-awwaleena