Al-Qur'an Surah Az-Zukhruf Verse 48

Mufti Taqi Usmani

And We did not show them a sign, but it used to be greater than the one that preceded it. And We seized them with punishment, so that they may return.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

although every sign We showed them was greater than the one before.[[ i.e., the hand and the staff (see {20:17}-22).]] Ultimately, We seized them with torments so that they might return ˹to the Right Path˺.[[ The torments were: famine, shortage of crops, floods, locusts, lice, frogs, and blood (see {7:130}-133).]]

Ruwwad Translation Center

Every sign We showed them was greater than the one before it, and We seized them with punishment so that they may turn in repentance.

A. J. Arberry

And not a sign We showed them, but it was greater than its sister sign; and We seized them with chastisement, that haply they should return.

Abdul Haleem

even though each sign We showed them was greater than the previous one. We inflicted torment on them so that they might return to the right path.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And not a sign We shewed them but it was greater than the like thereof; and We laid hold of them with the torment that haply they might turn.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

We showed them Sign after Sign, each greater than its fellow, and We seized them with Punishment, in order that they might turn (to Us).

Abul Ala Maududi

Every Sign that We showed them was greater than its predecessor; and then We seized them with Our chastisement so that they may return (to the Right Way).

Ahmed Ali

(Even though) each miracle that We showed them was greater than the other. So We seized them with chastisement so that they may turn back.

Ahmed Raza Khan

And all the signs We showed them were always greater than the earlier ones; and We seized them with calamities, so that they may return.

Ali Quli Qarai

We did not show them a sign but it was greater than the other, and We visited on them punishment so that they might come back.

Ali Ünal

We displayed to them sign after sign, each greater than the other, and We seized them with (diverse forms of) punishment so that they might turn back (from the way they followed).

Amatul Rahman Omar

We showed them no sign but it was greater than its kind (preceding it). And We seized them with the calamity so that they might return (to the ways of righteousness).

English Literal

And We do not show them/make them understand from a verse/evidence/sign except (that) it is greater than its sister, and We took/punished them with the torture, maybe/perhaps they return.

Faridul Haque

And all the signs We showed them were always greater than the earlier ones; and We seized them with calamities, so that they may return.

Hamid S. Aziz

And every sign that We showed them was greater than its predecessor, and We overtook them with chastisement that they may turn (to Us).

Hilali & Khan

And not an Ayah (sign, etc.) We showed them but it was greater than its fellow, and We seized them with torment, in order that they might turn [from their polytheism to Allah's Religion (Islamic Monotheism)].

Maulana Mohammad Ali

But when he brought them Our signs, lo! they laughed at them.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

And We did not show them a sign but it was greater than its like, and We overtook them with chastisement that they may turn.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And every token that We showed them was greater than its sister (token), and We grasped them with the torment, that haply they might turn again.

Muhammad Sarwar

Of all the miracles which We showed to them the latter ones were greater than the former. We struck them with torment so that perhaps they would return to Us.

Qaribullah & Darwish

yet there was not a sign that We showed them that was not greater than its sister, and We seized them with the punishment so that they might return.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

And not an Ayah We showed them but it was greater than its fellow preceding it, and We seized them with torment, in order that they might turn.

Wahiduddin Khan

even though each sign We showed them was greater than the previous one. We afflicted them with torment so that they might return [to the right path].

Talal Itani

Each sign We showed them was more marvelous than its counterpart. And We afflicted them with the plagues, so that they may repent.

Tafsir jalalayn

And We never showed them a sign, from among the signs of chastisement, such as the flood, which was when the waters [of the Nile] penetrated their dwellings and for seven days rose as high as their throats as they sat, or [the chastisement of] the locusts, but it was greater than the one before it, the one immediately preceding it. And We seized them with chastisement, that perhaps they might recant, their disbelief.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

وَمَا نُرِيهِم مِّنْ ايَةٍ إِلاَّ هِيَ أَكْبَرُ مِنْ أُخْتِهَا

And not an Ayah We showed them but it was greater than its fellow preceding it,

but despite that they would not give up their sin, misguidance, ignorance and confusion.

وَأَخَذْنَاهُم بِالْعَذَابِ لَعَلَّهُمْ يَرْجِعُونَ



and We seized them with torment, in order that they might turn.