The Wind-Curved Sandhills
46. Al-'Aḥqāf
الأحقاف
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وَقَالَ
الَّذِينَ
كَفَرُوا
لِلَّذِينَ
آمَنُوا
لَوْ
كَانَ
خَيْرًا
مَّا
سَبَقُونَا
إِلَيْهِ
وَإِذْ
لَمْ
يَهْتَدُوا
بِهِ
فَسَيَقُولُونَ
هَذَا
إِفْكٌ
قَدِيمٌ
wa-qāla lladhīna kafarū li-lladhīna ʾāmanū law kāna khayran mā sabaqūnā ʾilayhi wa-ʾidh lam yahtadū bihī fa-sa-yaqūlūna hādhā ʾifkun qadīmun
The Unbelievers say of those who believe: "If (this Message) were a good thing, (such men) would not have gone to it first, before us!" And seeing that they guide not themselves thereby, they will say, "this is an (old,) falsehood!"
— Abdullah Yusufali
The faithless say about the faithful, ‘Had it been [anything] good, they would not have taken the lead over us toward [accepting] it.’ And since they could not find the way to it, they will say, ‘It is an ancient lie.’
