The Quran

سورة هُود

Surah Hûd 11:117

Hûd · Verse 117 of 123

وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ لِيُهْلِكَ الْقُرَىٰ بِظُلْمٍ وَأَهْلُهَا مُصْلِحُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

And your Lord is not the One Who would destroy the townships unjustly (simply for their disbelief) while the inhabitants thereof (live in peace and) set things right.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Nor would thy Lord be the One to destroy communities for a single wrong-doing, if its members were likely to mend.

Ahmed Ali

Your Lord would not surely destroy unjustly human habitations so long as the people are righteous.

12 more translations

Ali Unal

And it has never been the way of your Lord to destroy the townships unjustly while their people were righteous, dedicated to continuous self-reform and setting things right in the society.

Daryabadi

And thy Lord is not one to destroy cities wrongously while the inhabitants thereof are rectifiers.

Faridul Haque

And your Lord is not such as to destroy townships without reason, while their people are righteous.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And thy Lord would not destroy the towns unjustly, while their people acted well.

Maulvi Sher Ali

And thy Lord would not destroy the cities unjustly while the people thereof were righteous.

Muhammad Asad

For, never would thy Sustainer destroy a community for wrong [beliefs alone] so long as its people behave righteously [towards one another].

Muhammad Musin Khan

And your Lord would never destroy the towns wrongfully, while their people were right-doers.

Muhammad Pickthall

In truth thy Lord destroyed not the townships tyrannously while their folk were doing right.

Muhammad Sarwar

Your Lord would not have destroyed those people (of the towns) for their injustice if they had tried to reform themselves.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And it did not beseem your Lord to have destroyed the towns tyrannously, while their people acted well.

Rashad Khalifa

Your Lord never annihilates any community unjustly, while its people are righteous.

Shabbir Ahmed

Your Lord never destroys a community unjustly (for their wrong beliefs alone) as long as its people are setting things right.