ٱلْأَنْعَام : ١٥٦

  • أَن Lest
  • تَقُولُوٓاْ you say
  • إِنَّمَآ Only
  • أُنزِلَ was revealed
  • ٱلۡكِتَٰبُ the Book
  • عَلَىٰ on
  • طَآئِفَتَيۡنِ the two groups
  • مِن from
  • قَبۡلِنَا before us
  • وَإِن and indeed
  • كُنَّا we were
  • عَن about
  • دِرَاسَتِهِمۡ their study
  • لَغَٰفِلِينَ certainly unaware
[We revealed it] lest you say, "The Scripture was only sent down to two groups before us, but we were of their study unaware,"
We have revealed it, lest you should say, 'The Scripture was revealed only upon two parties - the Jews and the Christians - before us and we (in has been softened, its noun omitted, in other words [read as] innaa) indeed have been unacquainted with their study', their reading [of the scripture], not knowing any of it, since it is not in our own language.