Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 44:17 | |
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Transliteration | Walaqad fatanna qablahum qawma firAAawna wajaahum rasoolun kareemun |
Literal | And We had tested/allured Pharaoh's nation before them, and an honoured/generous messenger came to them. |
Yusuf Ali | We did, before them, try the people of Pharaoh: there came to them a messenger most honourable, |
Pickthal | And verily We tried before them Pharaoh's folk, when there came unto them a noble messenger, |
Arberry | Already before them We tried the people of Pharaoh, and a noble Messenger came unto them, |
Shakir | And certainly We tried before them the people of Firon, and there came to them a noble messenger, |
Sarwar | We had certainly tested the people of the Pharaoh before them to whom a noble Messengers had come, saying, |
Khalifa | We have tested before them the people of Pharaoh; an honorable messenger went to them. |
Hilali/Khan | And indeed We tried before them Firauns (Pharaoh) people, when there came to them a noble Messenger (i.e. Moosa (Moses) ), |
H/K/Saheeh | And We had already tried before them the people of Pharaoh, and there came to them a noble messenger, |
Malik | Before them We had put the people of Pharoah (Pharaoh) to the same test, when an honorable Messenger came to them,[17] |
QXP | And indeed We put to test before them Pharaoh's nation, for there came unto them an honorable Messenger. |
Maulana Ali | And certainly We tried before them Pharaoh’s people and a nobel messenger came to them, |
Free Minds | And We had tested before them the people of Pharaoh, and an honourable messenger came to them. |
Qaribullah | We tried Pharaoh's nation before them. A noble Messenger came to them, |
George Sale | We made trial of the people of Pharaoh before them, and an honourable messenger came unto them, saying, |
JM Rodwell | Of old, before their time, had we proved the people of Pharaoh, when a noble apostle presented himself to them. |
Asad | AND, INDEED, [long] before their time did We try Pharaoh's people [in the same way]: for there came unto them a noble apostle, [who said:] |
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