They also said: "Why was this Qur'an not sent down to some great man of the two cities?"

And they said, “Why was the Qur’an not sent down upon some chieftain of these two great towns?” (The chiefs of Mecca and Taif).

They say, 'Why was this Koran not sent down upon some man of moment in the two cities?'

And they say, too, “Why was not this Qur’an bestowed from on high on some great man of the two cities?”

And they say: wherefore hath not this Qur'an been revealed to a man of the two cities who was great.

And they say: "Why is not this Quran sent down to some great man of the two towns (Makkah and Ta'if)?"

They also said, “If only this Quran was sent down to a man of importance from the two cities.”

They also said, “If only this Quran was sent down to a man of importance from the two cities.”

And they said, “Why was this Quran not sent down to a man of importance from the two towns?”

And they said, “Why was this Quran not sent down to a man of importance from the two towns?”

And they exclaimed, “If only this Quran was revealed to a great man from ˹one of˺ the two cities!”

They say: “Why was this Qur'an not sent down upon some great man from the two (main) cities?”

And they say: "Why is not this Qur'an sent down to some great man of the two towns"

And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?

And they said, ‘Why was not this Quran sent down to some great man from the two cities?’

They also said: 'Why was this Koran not sent down to a great man from the two Villages'

And they said, "Why was this Qur'an not sent down upon a great man from [one of] the two cities?"

Then they said, "Why this Quran had not been revealed to a man from either of the two great towns".

And they say: Why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the two towns?

Waqaloo lawla nuzzila hatha alquranu AAala rajulin mina alqaryatayni AAatheemun

waqālū lawlā nuzzila hādhā l-qur'ānu ʿalā rajulin mina l-qaryatayni ʿaẓīmin

They said, "Why was this Quran not sent down to one of the great men of the two cities?"

Also, they say: "Why is not this Qur'an sent down to some leading man in either of the two (chief) cities?"