Jonah
10. Yūnus
يونس
Page #210
10:16
قُل
لَّوْ
شَاءَ
اللَّهُ
مَا
تَلَوْتُهُ
عَلَيْكُمْ
وَلَا
أَدْرَاكُم
بِهِ
فَقَدْ
لَبِثْتُ
فِيكُمْ
عُمُرًا
مِّن
قَبْلِهِ
أَفَلَا
تَعْقِلُونَ
qul law shāʾa llāhu mā talawtuhū ʿalaykum wa-lā ʾadrākum bihī fa-qad labithtu fīkum ʿumuran min qablihī ʾa-fa-lā taʿqilūna
Say, ‘Had Allah [so] wished, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have made it known to you, for I have dwelled among you for a lifetime before it. Do you not exercise your reason?’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Say: "If Allah had so willed, I should not have rehearsed it to you, nor would He have made it known to you. A whole life-time before this have I tarried amongst you: will ye not then understand?"
