يُونُس : ١٦

  • قُل Say
  • لَّوۡ If
  • شَآءَ (had) willed
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • مَا not
  • تَلَوۡتُهُۥ I (would) have recited it
  • عَلَيۡكُمۡ to you
  • وَلَآ and not
  • أَدۡرَىٰكُم He (would) have made it known to you
  • بِهِۦۖ He (would) have made it known to you
  • فَقَدۡ Verily
  • لَبِثۡتُ I have stayed
  • فِيكُمۡ among you
  • عُمُرٗا a lifetime
  • مِّن before it
  • قَبۡلِهِۦٓۚ before it
  • أَفَلَا Then will not
  • تَعۡقِلُونَ you use reason
Say, "If Allāh had willed, I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have made it known to you, for I had remained among you a lifetime before it.1 Then will you not reason?"
Footnotes
1 The Prophet (ﷺ) lived among his people forty years before receiving any revelation.
Say: 'If God had willed I would not have recited it to you, nor would He have made it known to you, [nor] would He have made you aware of it (the laa [of wa-laa adraakum] is for negation, and is a supplement to what preceded; a variant reading has the laam [sc. la-adraakum, 'He would have made it known to you'] as the response to the [conditional] law, 'if', in other words, He would have made it known to you by the tongue of someone other than myself). For I have already dwelt among you a [whole] lifetime, of forty years, before this [Qur'aan], not relating to you anything [of the sort], so will you not understand?', that this [Qur'aan] is not from myself?