سورة صٓ
Surah Sâd 38:63
The Truthful God · Verse 63 of 88
أَتَّخَذْنَاهُمْ سِخْرِيًّا أَمْ زَاغَتْ عَنْهُمُ الْأَبْصَارُ
Abdul Mannan Omar
`Is it because we (unjustly) held them in scorn or (is it) that (our) eyes have missed them?´
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Did we treat them (as such) in ridicule, or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?î
Ahmed Ali
Did we laugh at them (for nothing), or our eyes fail to pick them out?"
12 more translations
Ali Unal
"Whom we used to take in mockery? Or is it that (they are here with us, but) our eyes have missed them (just as we turned our eyes from them in contempt in the world)?"
Daryabadi
Took we them so unjustly for a butt of mockery, or are they deluding our eyes?
Faridul Haque
“Did we mock at them or did our eyes turn away from them?”
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Did we (only) take them in scorn, or do our eyes miss them?
Maulvi Sher Ali
`It is because we unjustly took them for a laughing stock, or have the eyes missed them?'
Muhammad Asad
[and] whom we made the target of our derision? Or is it that [they are here, and) our eyes have missed them?"
Muhammad Musin Khan
Did we take them as an object of mockery, or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?"
Muhammad Pickthall
Did we take them (wrongly) for a laughing-stock, or have our eyes missed them?
Muhammad Sarwar
and whom we mocked? Have they been rescued or can our eyes not find them?".
Muhammed ali Shakir
Was it that we (only) took them in scorn, or have our eyes (now) turned aside from them?
Rashad Khalifa
We used to ridicule them; we used to turn our eyes away from them.
Shabbir Ahmed
The ones we used to ridicule. (Are they not here) or is it that our eyes are missing them?”