The Believers
23. Al-Mu’minūn
المؤمنون
Page #347
23:83
لَقَدْ
وُعِدْنَا
نَحْنُ
وَآبَاؤُنَا
هَذَا
مِن
قَبْلُ
إِنْ
هَذَا
إِلَّا
أَسَاطِيرُ
الْأَوَّلِينَ
la-qad wuʿidnā naḥnu wa-ʾābāʾunā hādhā min qablu ʾin hādhā ʾillā ʾasāṭīru l-ʾawwalīna
"Such things have been promised to us and to our fathers before! they are nothing but tales of the ancients!"
— Abdullah Yusufali
Certainly, we and our fathers were promised this before. [But] these are nothing but myths of the ancients.’