ٱلزُّخْرُف : ٣١

  • وَقَالُواْ And they say
  • لَوۡلَا Why not
  • نُزِّلَ was sent down
  • هَٰذَا this
  • ٱلۡقُرۡءَانُ the Quran
  • عَلَىٰ to
  • رَجُلٖ a man
  • مِّنَ from
  • ٱلۡقَرۡيَتَيۡنِ the two towns
  • عَظِيمٍ great
And they said, "Why was this Qur’ān not sent down upon a great man from [one of] the two cities?"1
Footnotes
1 Referring to Makkah and aṭ-Ṭā’if.
And they said, 'If only this Qur'aan had been revealed to some great man from, the inhabitants of, the two towns!', in other words, from either of the two; such as al-Waleed ibn al-Mugheera at Mecca or 'Urwa ibn Mas'ood al-Thaqafee at Taa'if.