Sheba
34. Saba’
سبأ
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34:54
وَحِيلَ
بَيْنَهُمْ
وَبَيْنَ
مَا
يَشْتَهُونَ
كَمَا
فُعِلَ
بِأَشْيَاعِهِم
مِّن
قَبْلُ
إِنَّهُمْ
كَانُوا
فِي
شَكٍّ
مُّرِيبٍ
wa-ḥīla baynahum wa-bayna mā yashtahūna ka-mā fuʿila bi-ʾashyāʿihim min qablu ʾinnahum kānū fī shakkin murībin
And between them and their desires, is placed a barrier, as was done in the past with their partisans: for they were indeed in suspicious (disquieting) doubt.
— Abdullah Yusufali
and a barrier is set between them and what they desire, as was done aforetime with their likes, who had remained in grave doubt?