ٱلْأَنْعَام : ٢٣

  • ثُمَّ Then
  • لَمۡ not
  • تَكُن will be
  • فِتۡنَتُهُمۡ (for) them a plea
  • إِلَّآ except
  • أَن that
  • قَالُواْ they say
  • وَٱللَّهِ By Allah
  • رَبِّنَا our Lord
  • مَا not
  • كُنَّا we were
  • مُشۡرِكِينَ those who associated others (with Allah)
Then there will be no [excuse upon] examination except they will say, "By Allāh, our Lord, we were not those who associated."
Then their dissension (read accusative fitnatahum or nominative fitnatuhum) their apology, was (read lam takun or lam yakun) only to say, in other words, [was only] their saying, 'By God, our Lord (read rabbinaa as an adjective of [wa'Llaahi, 'by God'], or rabbanaa as a vocative) we were never idolaters'.