سورة الشعراء، الآية ١٩٨
وَلَوْ نَزَّلْنَٰهُ عَلَىٰ بَعْضِ ٱلْأَعْجَمِينَ ١٩٨
walaw nazzalnāhu ʿalā baʿḍi l-aʿjamīna
And even if We had revealed it to one among the foreigners1060
[1060] i.e., the non-Arabs or those who are not fluent in the Arabic language.
Verse 198 of Surah Ash-Shu’ara (26:198), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 375 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Had we revealed this Qur’ān upon one of the non-Arabs who do not speak Arabic.
If We had sent it down to any of the non-Arabs,
And if We had revealed it (this Qur’ân) unto any of the non-Arabs,
And if We had revealed it unto one of any other nation than the Arabs,
Had We revealed it to any of the non-Arabs,
And if we had revealed it to any of the foreigners
And if We had been sending it down on some non-Arabs,
وَلَوْ فَتَحْنَا عَلَيْهِم بَابًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ فَظَلُّوا۟ فِيهِ يَعْرُجُونَ …
And [even] if We opened to them a gate from the heaven and they continued therein to ascend, …
وَلَوْ أَنَّنَا نَزَّلْنَآ إِلَيْهِمُ ٱلْمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ وَكَلَّمَهُمُ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ وَحَشَرْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ كُلَّ شَىْءٍ قُبُلًا مَّا كَانُوا۟ لِيُؤْمِنُوٓا۟ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَجْهَلُونَ
And even if We had sent down to them the angels [with the message] and the dead spoke to them [of it] and We gathered together every [created] thing in front of them, they would not believe unless Allāh should will. But most of them, [of that], are ignorant.
إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ حَقَّتْ عَلَيْهِمْ كَلِمَتُ رَبِّكَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ …
Indeed, those upon whom the word [i.e., decree] of your Lord has come into effect will not believe, …
