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Except a few among them – the very ones whom We had rescued; and the unjust remained pursuing what they were given, and they were guilty.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-arberry\",\"translator\":\"A. J. Arberry\",\"translationName\":\"Arberry\",\"text\":\"Or if there had been, of the generations before you, men of a remainder forbidding corruption in the earth -- except a few of those whom We delivered of them; but the evildoers followed the ease they were given to exult in and became sinners.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-asad\",\"translator\":\"Muhammad Asad\",\"translationName\":\"Asad\",\"text\":\"BUT, ALAS, among those generations [whom We destroyed] before your time there were no people endowed with any virtue - [people] who would speak out against the [spread of] corruption on earth -except the few of them whom We saved [because of their righteousness], whereas those who were bent on evildoing only pursued pleasures which corrupted their whole being, and so lost themselves in sinning.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-daryabadi\",\"translator\":\"Abdul Majid Daryabadi\",\"translationName\":\"Daryabadi\",\"text\":\"Why were there not of the generations before you owner of wisdom restraining others from corruption on the earth, except a few of those whom We delivered from amongst them! And those who did wrong followed that in which they luxuriated, and they had been sinners.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-hilali\",\"translator\":\"Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan\",\"translationName\":\"Hilali & Khan\",\"text\":\"If only there had been among the generations before you, persons having wisdom, prohibiting (others) from Al-Fasad (disbelief, polytheism, and all kinds of crimes and sins) in the earth, except a few of those whom We saved from among them. Those who did wrong pursued the enjoyment of good things of (this worldly) life, and were Mujrimun (criminals, disbelievers in Allah, polytheists, sinners, etc.).\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-itani\",\"translator\":\"Talal Itani\",\"translationName\":\"ClearQuran - God\",\"text\":\"If only there were, among the generations before you, people with wisdom, who spoke against corruption on earth—except for the few whom We saved. But the wrongdoers pursued the luxuries they were indulged in, and thus became guilty.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-itania\",\"translator\":\"Talal Itani\",\"translationName\":\"ClearQuran - Allah\",\"text\":\"If only there were, among the generations before you, people with wisdom, who spoke against corruption on earth—except for the few whom We saved. But the wrongdoers pursued the luxuries they were indulged in, and thus became guilty.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-itaniv2\",\"translator\":\"Talal Itani & Community\",\"translationName\":\"Community - God\",\"text\":\"If only there were, among the generations before you, people with wisdom, who spoke against corruption on earth—except for the few whom We saved among them. But the wrongdoers pursued the luxuries they were indulged in, and they became wicked.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-itaniv2a\",\"translator\":\"Talal Itani & Community\",\"translationName\":\"Community - Allah\",\"text\":\"If only there were, among the generations before you, people with wisdom, who spoke against corruption on earth—except for the few whom We saved among them. But the wrongdoers pursued the luxuries they were indulged in, and they became wicked.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-khattab\",\"translator\":\"Mustafa Khattab\",\"translationName\":\"Khattab\",\"text\":\"If only there had been among the ˹destroyed˺ peoples before you, ˹O believers,˺ virtuous individuals who forbade corruption in the land—other than the few We had saved ˹from the torment˺. But the wrongdoers ˹only˺ pursued their ˹worldly˺ pleasures, becoming wicked.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-maududi\",\"translator\":\"Abul Ala Maududi\",\"translationName\":\"Maududi\",\"text\":\"Why were there not, out of the generations that passed away before you, righteous men who would forbid others from causing corruption on the earth? And if such were there, they were only a few whom We had saved from those generations, or else the wrong-doers kept pursuing the ease and comfort which had been conferred upon them, thus losing themselves in sinfulness.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-mubarakpuri\",\"translator\":\"Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri\",\"translationName\":\"Mubarakpuri\",\"text\":\"If only there had been among the generations before you persons having wisdom, prohibiting (others) from Fasad (corruption) in the earth, except a few of those whom We saved from among them! Those who did wrong pursued the enjoyment of good things of (this worldly) life, and were criminals.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-pickthall\",\"translator\":\"Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall\",\"translationName\":\"Pickthall\",\"text\":\"If only there had been among the generations before you men possessing a remnant (of good sense) to warn (their people) from corruption in the earth, as did a few of those whom We saved from them! The wrong-doers followed that by which they were made sapless, and were guilty.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-qarai\",\"translator\":\"Ali Quli Qarai\",\"translationName\":\"Qarai\",\"text\":\"Why were there not among the generations before you a remnant [of the wise] who might forbid corruption in the earth, except a few of those whom We delivered from among them? Those who were wrongdoers pursued that in which they had been granted affluence, and they were a guilty lot.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-qaribullah\",\"translator\":\"Hasan al-Fatih Qaribullah and Ahmad Darwish\",\"translationName\":\"Qaribullah & Darwish\",\"text\":\"If (only) there had been except for a few among them whom We saved among the generations that have gone before you, some that remained forbidding corruption in the land, but the wrongdoers pursued the ease they had been given to delight in and became sinners.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-sahih\",\"translator\":\"Saheeh International\",\"translationName\":\"Saheeh International\",\"text\":\"So why were there not among the generations before you those of enduring discrimination forbidding corruption on earth - except a few of those We saved from among them? But those who wronged pursued what luxury they were given therein, and they were criminals.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-sarwar\",\"translator\":\"Muhammad Sarwar\",\"translationName\":\"Sarwar\",\"text\":\"Why were there no people of understanding among those people of the destroyed towns of the past except for a few, whom we saved from destruction, to prevent people from committing evil in the land? The unjust among them indulged in worldly pleasures and so became guilty.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-shakir\",\"translator\":\"Mohammad Habib Shakir\",\"translationName\":\"Shakir\",\"text\":\"But why were there not among the generations before you those possessing understanding, who should have forbidden the making of mischief in the earth, except a few of those whom We delivered from among them? And those who were unjust went after what they are made to enjoy of plenty, and they were guilty.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-transliteration\",\"translator\":\"English Transliteration\",\"translationName\":\"Transliteration\",\"text\":\"Falawl<u>a</u> k<u>a</u>na mina alqurooni min qablikum oloo baqiyyatin yanhawna AAani alfas<u>a</u>di fee alar<u>d</u>i ill<u>a</u> qaleelan mimman anjayn<u>a</u> minhum wa<b>i</b>ttabaAAa alla<u>th</u>eena <i><u>th</u></i>alamoo m<u>a</u> otrifoo feehi wak<u>a</u>noo mujrimeen<b>a</b>\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-transliteration2\",\"translator\":\"English Transliteration 2\",\"translationName\":\"Transliteration 2\",\"text\":\" falawlā kāna mina l-qurūni min qablikum ulū baqiyyatin yanhawna ʿani l-fasādi fī l-arḍi illā qalīlan mimman anjaynā min'hum wa-ittabaʿa alladhīna ẓalamū mā ut'rifū fīhi wakānū muj'rimīna\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-wahiduddin\",\"translator\":\"Wahiduddin Khan\",\"translationName\":\"Wahiduddin Khan\",\"text\":\"Why, then, were there not among the generations before you upright men who would speak out against the [spread of] corruption on earth -- except for the few whom We saved? But the wrongdoers pursued their worldly pleasures and thus became guilty.\"},{\"translationCode\":\"en-yusufali\",\"translator\":\"Abdullah Yusuf Ali\",\"translationName\":\"Yusuf Ali\",\"text\":\"Why were there not, among the generations before you, persons possessed of balanced good sense, prohibiting (men) from mischief in the earth - except a few among them whom We saved (from harm)? But the wrong-doers pursued the enjoyment of the good things of life which were given them, and persisted in sin.\"}],\"textArabic\":\"فَلَوْلَا كَانَ مِنَ الْقُرُونِ مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ أُولُو بَقِيَّةٍ يَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْفَسَادِ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا مِمَّنْ أَنْجَيْنَا مِنْهُمْ ۗ وَاتَّبَعَ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مَا أُتْرِفُوا فِيهِ وَكَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ\"}"}},"staticQueryHashes":[]}