سورة الزُّمَر

Surah Al-Zumar 39:25

The Multitudes · Verse 25 of 75

كَذَّبَ الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَأَتَاهُمُ الْعَذَابُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Their predecessors also cried lies (to their Messengers of God,) so that (Our) punishment came upon them from quarters they little perceived.

Those before them (also) rejected (revelation), and so the Punishment came to them from directions they did not perceive.

Those before them had denied, then punishment had overtaken them is from a quarter they did not suspect.

12 more translations

Those before them denied (the Revelation), and so the punishment came upon them without their having perceived from where it came.

Those before them belied, wherefore the torment came on them whence they knew not.

Those before them had denied, therefore the punishment came to them from a place they did not know.

Those before them denied, so the chastisement came to them from whence they perceived not.

Those, who were before them, rejected Our Messengers, so the punishment came upon them whence they knew not.

Those who lived before them did [too] give the lie to the truth - whereupon suffering befell them without their having perceived whence it came:

Those before them belied, and so the torment came on them from directions they perceived not.

Those before them denied, and so the doom came on them whence they knew not.

Those who lived before them had also rejected Our revelations. Thus, the torment struck them and they did not even realize where it came from.

Those before them rejected (prophets), therefore there came to them the chastisement from whence they perceived not.

Others before them have disbelieved and, consequently, the retribution afflicted them whence they never expected.

Those who lived before their times, also denied the truth. So the punishment befell them from directions they could not have imagined.