The Quran

سورة الإسرَاء

Surah Al-Isrâ’ 17:94

The Night-Journey · Verse 94 of 111

وَمَا مَنَعَ النَّاسَ أَنْ يُؤْمِنُوا إِذْ جَاءَهُمُ الْهُدَىٰ إِلَّا أَنْ قَالُوا أَبَعَثَ اللَّهُ بَشَرًا رَسُولًا

Abdul Mannan Omar

And nothing has prevented the people from believing when the guidance came to them except their sayings, `Has Allâh raised a human being (like us) as a Messenger?´

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

What kept men back from belief when Guidance came to them, was nothing but this: they said, "Has Allah sent a man (like us) to be (His) Messenger?

Ahmed Ali

Nothing prevented men from believing when guidance came to them, other than (what) they said: "Has God sent (only) a man as messenger?"

12 more translations

Ali Unal

And what has kept people from believing when guidance has come to them, except that they said: "Has God sent a mortal man as the Messenger?"

Daryabadi

And naught hath prevented men from believing when the guidance came Unto them except that they said: hath God sent a human being as apostle?

Faridul Haque

And what prevented people from believing when the guidance came to them, except their saying that, "What! Allah has sent a human as a Noble Messenger?"?

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And nothing prevents people from believing, when the guidance comes to them, except that they say: Has Allah raised up a mortal to be a messenger?

Maulvi Sher Ali

And nothing prevents people from believing when the guidance comes to them save that they say, `Has ALLAH sent a man like us as a Messenger?'

Muhammad Asad

Yet whenever [God's] guidance came to them [through a prophet,] nothing has ever kept people from believing [in him] save this their objection "Would God have sent a [mere] mortal man as His apostle?"

Muhammad Musin Khan

And nothing prevented men from believing when the guidance came to them, except that they said: "Has Allah sent a man as (His) Messenger?"

Muhammad Pickthall

And naught prevented mankind from believing when the guidance came unto them save that they said: Hath Allah sent a mortal as (His) messenger?

Muhammad Sarwar

What keeps people from belief that guidance has come to them, but they question, "Why has God sent a mortal Messenger?".

Muhammed ali Shakir

And nothing prevented people from believing when the guidance came to them except that they said: What! has Allah raised up a mortal to be a messenger?

Rashad Khalifa

What prevented the people from believing when the guidance came to them is their saying, "Did GOD send a human being as a messenger?"

Shabbir Ahmed

Yet whenever guidance came to people, nothing kept them from believing as much as this objection, "Would God send a mortal man as His Messenger?"