Al-Qur'an Surah An-Naml Verse 71

Mufti Taqi Usmani

They say, “When shall this promise come to pass if you are true?”

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

They ask ˹the believers˺, “When will this threat come to pass, if what you say is true?”

Ruwwad Translation Center

They say, “When will this warning come to pass, if you are truthful?”

A. J. Arberry

They say, 'When shall this promise come to pass, if you speak the truth?'

Abdul Haleem

They also say, ‘When will this promise be fulfilled if what you say is true?’

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And they say: when will this Promise be fufilled if ye say sooth?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

They also say; "When will this promise (come to pass)? (Say) if ye are truthful."

Abul Ala Maududi

They also say: "Tell us when this threat will come to pass, if you are truthful."

Ahmed Ali

Yet they say: "When will this promise come to pass? (Tell Us) if you speak the truth."

Ahmed Raza Khan

And they say, “When will this promise come, if you are truthful?”

Ali Quli Qarai

They say, ‘When will this promise be fulfilled, if you are truthful?’

Ali Ünal

They also say: "(So tell us) when is this threat to be fulfilled, if you are truthful?"

Amatul Rahman Omar

They say, `When will this promise (of your victory) come to pass if you are truthful?´

English Literal

And they say: "When (is) this the promise if you were truthful?"

Faridul Haque

And they say, “When will this promise come, if you are truthful?”

Hamid S. Aziz

And grieve not you for them, and be not in distress because of what they plot."

Hilali & Khan

And they (the disbelievers in the Oneness of Allah) say: "When (will) this promise (be fulfilled), if you are truthful?"

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Say: Travel in the earth, then see what was the end of the guilty!

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And they say: When will this threat come to pass, if you are truthful?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And they say: When (will) this promise (be fulfilled), if ye are truthful?

Muhammad Sarwar

They ask, "When the Day of Judgment will come, if it is true at all?"

Qaribullah & Darwish

And they ask: 'When will this promise come, if what you say is true'

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And they say: "When this promise, if you are truthful"

Wahiduddin Khan

They ask, "When will this promise be fulfilled, if what you say be true?"

Talal Itani

And they say, “When is this promise, if you are truthful?”

Tafsir jalalayn

And they say, `When will this promise, of chastisement, be, if you are truthful?', regarding it.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Allah tells us about how the idolators asked about the Day of Resurrection, but thought it unlikely that it would ever come to pass.

وَيَقُولُونَ مَتَى هَذَا الْوَعْدُ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ



And they say;"When (will) this promise (be fulfilled), if you are truthful!"

Allah said, responding to them