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Quran 37:71

Surah As-Saaffaat, Verse 71

Juz 23 · Page 448 · Ruku 387 · Meccan

وَلَقَدْ ضَلَّ قَبْلَهُمْ أَكْثَرُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

Word by word

وَلَقَدْ walaqad And verily ضَلَّ ḍalla went astray قَبْلَهُمْ qablahum before them أَكْثَرُ aktharu most ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ l-awalīna (of) the former (people)

Transliteration

Walaqad dalla qablahum aktharual-awwaleen

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And verily most of the men of old went astray before them,

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And truly before them, many of the ancients went astray;-

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

يخبر تعالى عن الأمم الماضية أن أكثرهم كانوا ضالين يجعلون مع الله آلهة أخرى .

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.