Jonah
10. Yūnus
يونس
Page #217
10:78
قَالُوا
أَجِئْتَنَا
لِتَلْفِتَنَا
عَمَّا
وَجَدْنَا
عَلَيْهِ
آبَاءَنَا
وَتَكُونَ
لَكُمَا
الْكِبْرِيَاءُ
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
وَمَا
نَحْنُ
لَكُمَا
بِمُؤْمِنِينَ
qālū ʾa-jiʾtanā li-talfitanā ʿammā wajadnā ʿalayhi ʾābāʾanā wa-takūna lakumā l-kibriyāʾu fī l-ʾarḍi wa-mā naḥnu lakumā bi-muʾminīna
They said: "Hast thou come to us to turn us away from the ways we found our fathers following,- in order that thou and thy brother may have greatness in the land? But not we shall believe in you!"
— Abdullah Yusufali
They said, ‘Have you come to us to turn us away from what we found our fathers following, so that supremacy may be yours in the land? We will not believe in the two of you.’