The Quran

سورة یسٓ

Surah Yâ Sîn 36:31

O Perfect Man! · Verse 31 of 83

أَلَمْ يَرَوْا كَمْ أَهْلَكْنَا قَبْلَهُمْ مِنَ الْقُرُونِ أَنَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Have they not seen how many generations We have ruined before them, and that those (generations) never come back to them (after their ruination)?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

See they not how many generations before them we destroyed? Not to them will they return:

Ahmed Ali

Have they not seen how many generations have We destroyed before them who will not return again?

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Ali Unal

Have they not considered how many a generation We have destroyed before them; they never return to them (nor to their life of the world).

Daryabadi

Behold they not how many We have destroyed before them of the generations! verily Unto them they shall not return.

Faridul Haque

Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed before them, which will not return to them?

Maulana Muhammad Ali

See they not how many generations We destroyed before them, that they return not to them?

Maulvi Sher Ali

Do they not see how many generations WE have destroyed before them, and that they never come back to them?

Muhammad Asad

Are they not aware of how many a generation We have destroyed before their time, [and] that those [that have perished] will never return to them,

Muhammad Musin Khan

Do they not see how many of the generations We have destroyed before them? Verily, they will not return to them.

Muhammad Pickthall

Have they not seen how many generations We destroyed before them, which indeed returned not unto them;

Muhammad Sarwar

Have they not seen how many generations, living before them, had We destroyed and they cannot ever come back to them?.

Muhammed ali Shakir

Do they not consider how many of the generations have We destroyed before them, because they do not turn to them?

Rashad Khalifa

Did they not see how many generations we annihilated before them, and how they never return to them?

Shabbir Ahmed

Have they not reflected how many a generation We (Our Law of Requital) annihilated before them. They did not turn to their Messengers and, therefore, never returned to their lost glory.