سورة الزخرف، الآية ٣١
وَقَالُوا۟ لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ هَٰذَا ٱلْقُرْءَانُ عَلَىٰ رَجُلٍ مِّنَ ٱلْقَرْيَتَيْنِ عَظِيمٍ ٣١
waqālū lawlā nuzzila hādhā l-qur'ānu ʿalā rajulin mina l-qaryatayni ʿaẓīmin
And they said, "Why was this Qur’ān not sent down upon a great man from [one of] the two cities?"1439
[1439] Referring to Makkah and aṭ-Ṭā’if.
Verse 31 of Surah Az-Zukhruf (43:31), a Meccan surah, is in juz 25, on page 491 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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The rejecting idolaters say, “Why did Allah not reveal this Qur’ān upon one of the two great men of Makkah or Taif: Al-Walīd ibn ‘Uqbah or ‘Urwah ibn Mas‘ūd Al-Thaqafī, instead of revealing it upon the poor, orphaned Muhammad?”
And they said, “Why was this Qur’an not sent down to a great man from one of the two towns12?”
[12] i.e., Makkah and its neighboring town; Tā’if.
And they say: "Why is not this Qur’ân sent down to some great man of the two towns (Makkah and Tâ’if)?"
And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?
Also, they say: "Why is not this Qur'an sent down to some leading man in either of the two (chief) cities?"
And they say: Why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the two towns?
And they have said, "Had this Qur'an been successively sent down upon a man of eminence in the two towns?" (Makkah and At-TaÉif)
