Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 36:13 | |
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Transliteration | Waidrib lahum mathalan as-haba alqaryati ith jaaha almursaloona |
Literal | And give for them an example/proverb (of) the village's/urban city's owners/company , when the messengers came to them. |
Yusuf Ali | Set forth to them, by way of a parable, the (story of) the Companions of the City. Behold!, there came messengers to it. |
Pickthal | Coin for them a similitude: The people of the city when those sent (from Allah) came unto them; |
Arberry | Strike for them a similitude -- the inhabitants of the city, when the Envoys came to it; |
Shakir | And set out to them an example of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it. |
Sarwar | Tell them the story of the people of the town to whom Messengers came. |
Khalifa | Cite for them the example of people in a community that received the messengers. |
Hilali/Khan | And put forward to them a similitude; the (story of the) dwellers of the town, (It is said that the town was Antioch (Antakiya)), when there came Messengers to them. |
H/K/Saheeh | And present to them an example: the people of the city, when the messengers came to it |
Malik | Narrate to them the example of the people of a certain town to whom the Messengers came.[13] |
QXP | Make them understand in Symbolic Form: The People of the Town when Messengers came to them. |
Maulana Ali | And set out to them a parable of the people of the town, when apostles came to it. |
Free Minds | And cite for them the example of the people of the town, when the messengers came to it. |
Qaribullah | Give to them a parable; to the people of the village there came Messengers, |
George Sale | Propound unto them as an example the inhabitants of the city of Antioch, when the Apostles of Jesus came thereto: |
JM Rodwell | Set forth to them the instance of the people of the city when the Sent Ones came to it. |
Asad | AND SET FORTH unto them a parable - [the story of how] the people of a township [behaved] when [Our] message-bearers came unto them. |
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