سَبَأ : ٣١

  • وَقَالَ And say
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • كَفَرُواْ disbelieve
  • لَن Never will
  • نُّؤۡمِنَ we believe
  • بِهَٰذَا in this
  • ٱلۡقُرۡءَانِ Quran
  • وَلَا and not
  • بِٱلَّذِي in (that) which
  • بَيۡنَ (was) before it
  • يَدَيۡهِۗ (was) before it
  • وَلَوۡ But if
  • تَرَىٰٓ you (could) see
  • إِذِ when
  • ٱلظَّـٰلِمُونَ the wrongdoers
  • مَوۡقُوفُونَ will be made to stand
  • عِندَ before
  • رَبِّهِمۡ their Lord
  • يَرۡجِعُ will throw back
  • بَعۡضُهُمۡ some of them
  • إِلَىٰ to
  • بَعۡضٍ others
  • ٱلۡقَوۡلَ the word
  • يَقُولُ Will say
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • ٱسۡتُضۡعِفُواْ were oppressed
  • لِلَّذِينَ to those who
  • ٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ were arrogant
  • لَوۡلَآ If not
  • أَنتُمۡ (for) you
  • لَكُنَّا certainly we (would) have been
  • مُؤۡمِنِينَ believers
And those who disbelieve say, "We will never believe in this Qur’ān nor in that before it." But if you could see when the wrongdoers are made to stand before their Lord, refuting each others' words...1 Those who were oppressed will say to those who were arrogant, "If not for you, we would have been believers."
Footnotes
1 Having been left to the imagination, the conclusion of this sentence is estimated to be "...you would see a dreadful sight."
And those who disbelieve, from among the people of Mecca, say, 'We will not believe in this Qur'aan, nor in that which was [revealed] before it' - in other words, what preceded it, such as the Torah and the Bible, both of which contain proofs of the Resurrection - because they reject the truth of this [last]. God, exalted be He, says of them: But if you were to see, O Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, when the evildoers, the disbelievers, are brought to stand before their Lord, bandying arguments against one another. Those who were oppressed - the followers - will say to those who were arrogant - the leaders: 'Had it not been for you, barring us from faith, we would have been believers', in the Prophet.