Has your Lord favoured you ˹pagans˺ with sons and taken angels as ˹His˺ daughters?1 You are truly making an outrageous claim.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Then, has your Lord chosen you for [having] sons and taken [i.e., adopted] from among the angels daughters? Indeed, you say a grave saying.
— Saheeh International
We have surely varied ˹the signs˺ in this Quran so perhaps they may be mindful, but it only drives them farther away.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And We have certainly diversified [the contents] in this Qur’ān that they [i.e., mankind] may be reminded, but it does not increase them [i.e., the disbelievers] except in aversion.
— Saheeh International
Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “Had there been other gods besides Him—as they claim—then they would have certainly sought a way to ˹challenge˺ the Lord of the Throne.”
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Say, [O Muḥammad], "If there had been with Him [other] gods, as they say, then they [each] would have sought to the Owner of the Throne a way."1
— Saheeh International
Glorified and Highly Exalted is He above what they claim!
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Exalted is He and high above what they say by great sublimity.
— Saheeh International
The seven heavens, the earth, and all those in them glorify Him. There is not a single thing that does not glorify His praises—but you ˹simply˺ cannot comprehend their glorification. He is indeed Most Forbearing, All-Forgiving.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
The seven heavens and the earth and whatever is in them exalt Him. And there is not a thing except that it exalts [Allah] by His praise, but you do not understand their [way of] exalting. Indeed, He is ever Forbearing1 and Forgiving.
— Saheeh International
When you ˹O Prophet˺ recite the Quran, We put a hidden barrier between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And when you recite the Qur’ān, We put between you and those who do not believe in the Hereafter a concealed partition.1
— Saheeh International
We have cast veils over their hearts—leaving them unable to comprehend it—and deafness in their ears. And when you mention your Lord alone in the Quran, they turn their backs in aversion.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And We have placed over their hearts coverings, lest they understand it, and in their ears deafness. And when you mention your Lord alone in the Qur’ān, they turn back in aversion.
— Saheeh International
We know best how they listen to your recitation and what they say privately—when the wrongdoers say, “You would only be following a bewitched man.”
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
We are most knowing of how they listen to it when they listen to you and [of] when they are in private conversation, when the wrongdoers say, "You follow not but a man affected by magic."
— Saheeh International
See how they call you names ˹O Prophet˺!1 So they have gone so ˹far˺ astray that they cannot find the ˹Right˺ Way.
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Look how they strike for you comparisons;1 but they have strayed, so they cannot [find] a way.
— Saheeh International
And they say ˹mockingly˺, “When we are reduced to bones and ashes, will we really be raised as a new creation?”
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
And they say, "When we are bones and crumbled particles, will we [truly] be resurrected as a new creation?"
— Saheeh International
Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ “˹Yes, even if˺ you become stones, or iron,
— Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran
Say, "Be you stones or iron1
— Saheeh International