ٱلْمُؤْمِنُون : ٤٤

  • ثُمَّ Then
  • أَرۡسَلۡنَا We sent
  • رُسُلَنَا Our Messengers
  • تَتۡرَاۖ (in) succession
  • كُلَّ Every time
  • مَا Every time
  • جَآءَ came
  • أُمَّةٗ (to) a nation
  • رَّسُولُهَا its Messenger
  • كَذَّبُوهُۖ they denied him
  • فَأَتۡبَعۡنَا so We made (them) follow
  • بَعۡضَهُم some of them
  • بَعۡضٗا others
  • وَجَعَلۡنَٰهُمۡ and We made them
  • أَحَادِيثَۚ narrations
  • فَبُعۡدٗا So away
  • لِّقَوۡمٖ with a people
  • لَّا not
  • يُؤۡمِنُونَ they believe
Then We sent Our messengers in succession. Every time there came to a nation its messenger, they denied him, so We made them follow one another [to destruction], and We made them narrations.1 So away with a people who do not believe.
Footnotes
1 i.e., history or lessons for mankind.
Then sent We Our messengers successively (read tatran or tatraa: one following the other, with a long interval between every two). Whenever there came to a community (jaa'a ummatan: read pronouncing both hamzas, or without pronouncing the second one between it and the waaw [vowel]) its messenger they denied him; so We made them follow one another, to destruction, and We turned them into folktales. So away with a people who do not believe!