سورة الصَّافات

Surah Al-Sâffât 37:71

Those Ranging in Ranks · Verse 71 of 182

وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ الْأَوَّلِينَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

And most of the ancient people had erred before them.

And truly before them, many of the ancients went astray;-

So had many an earlier people gone astray,

12 more translations

Indeed, most of those (communities) that lived before them went astray,

And assuredly there went stray before them many of the ancients.

And indeed before them, most of the former people went astray.

And most of the ancients surely went astray before them,

And most of the ancient peoples had erred before them.

Thus, indeed, most of the people of old went astray before them,

And indeed most of the men of old went astray before them;

And verily most of the men of old went astray before them,

Most of the ancient people had also gone astray.

And certainly most of the ancients went astray before them,

Most of the previous generations have strayed in the same manner.

This is how most of the earlier people had gone astray before them.