Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Qamar Verse 43

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Are the disbelievers among you in a better position than all of the aforesaid (punished people), or do you have immunity (recorded) in the sacred books?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Now, are you ˹Meccan˺ disbelievers superior to those ˹destroyed peoples˺? Or have you ˹been granted˺ immunity ˹from punishment˺ in divine Books?

Ruwwad Translation Center

Are your disbelievers [O Makkans] superior than those, or have you been granted immunity in divine Scriptures?

A. J. Arberry

What, are your unbelievers better than those? Or have you an immunity in the Scrolls?

Abdul Haleem

‘Are your disbelievers any better than these? Were you given an exemption in the Scripture?’

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Are your infidels better than these? Or is there an immunity for you in the Writs?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Are your Unbelievers, (O Quraish), better than they? Or have ye an immunity in the Sacred Books?

Abul Ala Maududi

Are your unbelievers (of Makkah) any better than they? Or have you been granted any immunity in the Scriptures?

Ahmed Ali

Are the unbelievers among you any better than they? Or is there immunity for you in the Scriptures?

Ahmed Raza Khan

Are your disbelievers better than they were, or have you been given exemption in the Books?

Ali Quli Qarai

Are your faithless better than those? Have you [been granted] [some sort of] immunity in the scriptures?

Ali Ünal

Now are your unbelievers (O Makkans) better and more powerful than those (whose exemplary histories We have recounted)? Or is there an exemption (from punishment written) for you in the Scriptures?

Amatul Rahman Omar

Are those of you who are disbelievers better than these? Or have you been promised amnesty (from punishment) in the (previous) Scriptures.

English Literal

Are your disbelievers better than those, or for you (is) declaration/denouncement in The Books?

Faridul Haque

Are your disbelievers better than they were, or have you been given exemption in the Books?

Hamid S. Aziz

Are the unbelievers of yours (O Quraish) better than these, or is there an exemption for you in the Sacred Books?

Hilali & Khan

Are your disbelievers (O Quraish!) better than these [nations of Nuh (Noah), Lout (Lot), Salih (Saleh), and the people of Fir'aun (Pharaoh), etc., who were destroyed)? Or have you an immunity (against Our Torment) in the Divine Scriptures?

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And certainly We have made the Qur’an easy to remember, but is there any one who will mind?

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Are the unbelievers of yours better than these, or is there an exemption for you in the scriptures?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Are your disbelievers better than those, or have ye some immunity in the scriptures?

Muhammad Sarwar

Are you disbelievers mightier than those of the nations which We destroyed before or have you received amnesty through the ancient Scriptures?

Qaribullah & Darwish

What then, are your unbelievers better than those? Or do you have an immunity (written) in the Scrolls?

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Are your disbelievers better than these Or have you immunity in the Divine Scriptures

Wahiduddin Khan

Are your people who deny the truth better than those? Or have you been given immunity in the Scriptures?

Talal Itani

Are your unbelievers better than all those? Or do you have immunity in the scriptures?

Tafsir jalalayn

Are your disbelievers, O Quraysh, better than those?, mentioned [beginning] from the people of Noah to those of Pharaoh, which is why they have not been chastised? Or have you, O disbelievers of Quraysh, [been granted] some immunity, from chastisement, in the Scriptures?, the Books? (the interrogative in both instances is meant as a denial, in other words; it is not so).

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

أَكُفَّارُكُمْ

Are your disbelievers,

meaning, `O idolators of the Quraysh,'

خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أُوْلَيِكُمْ

better than these,

meaning better than the nations that were mentioned here, who were destroyed on account of their disbelief in the Messengers and rejecting the Scriptures. `Are you better than these?'

أَمْ لَكُم بَرَاءةٌ فِي الزُّبُرِ



Or have you immunity in the Divine Scriptures,

`do you have immunity from Allah that the torment and punishment will not touch you?'

Allah said about the Quraysh,

أَمْ يَقُولُونَ نَحْنُ جَمِيعٌ مُّنتَصِرٌ