Are the unbelievers among you any better than they? Or is there immunity for you in the Scriptures?
Are your disbelievers better than they were, or have you been given exemption in the Books?
What, are your unbelievers better than those? Or have you an immunity in the Scrolls?
ARE, THEN, those of you who [now] deny the truth better than those others - or have you, per­chance, [been promised] immunity in the [ancient] books of [divine] wisdom?
Are your infidels better than these? Or is there an immunity for you in the Writs?
Are your disbelievers (O Quraish!) better than these [nations of Nuh (Noah), Lout (Lot), Salih (Saleh), and the people of Fir'aun (Pharaoh), etc., who were destroyed)? Or have you an immunity (against Our Torment) in the Divine Scriptures?
Are your unbelievers better than all those? Or do you have immunity in the scriptures?
Are your unbelievers (of Makkah) any better than they? Or have you been granted any immunity in the Scriptures?
Are your disbelievers better than these Or have you immunity in the Divine Scriptures
Are your disbelievers better than those, or have ye some immunity in the scriptures?
Are your faithless better than those? Have you [been granted] [some sort of] immunity in the scriptures?
What then, are your unbelievers better than those? Or do you have an immunity (written) in the Scrolls?
Are your disbelievers better than those [former ones], or have you immunity in the scripture?
Are you disbelievers mightier than those of the nations which We destroyed before or have you received amnesty through the ancient Scriptures?
Are the unbelievers of yours better than these, or is there an exemption for you in the scriptures?
Akuff<u>a</u>rukum khayrun min ol<u>a</u>ikum am lakum bar<u>a</u>atun fee a<b>l</b>zzubur<b>i</b>
Are your people who deny the truth better than those? Or have you been given immunity in the Scriptures?
Are your Unbelievers, (O Quraish), better than they? Or have ye an immunity in the Sacred Books?
أَكُفَّارُكُمْ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكُمْ أَمْ لَكُم بَرَآءَةٌ فِى ٱلزُّبُرِ
Are your disbelievers, O people of Makkah, better than those disbelievers mentioned: The people of Noah, the Ad, the Thamud, the people of Lot and Pharaoh and his people? Or do you have immunity from Allah’s punishment that has been brought by the heavenly scriptures?
Are your disbelievers, O people of Makkah, better than those disbelievers mentioned: The people of Noah, the Ad, the Thamud, the people of Lot and Pharaoh and his people? Or do you have immunity from Allah’s punishment that has been brought by the heavenly scriptures?
<p>Lexicological analysis</p><p>The word زُبُر zubur (in verse 43) is the plural of zabur, which stands for any written book. It specifically refers to the Scripture that was revealed to Prophet Dawud (علیہ السلام) .</p><p>أَدْهَىٰ وَأَمَرُّ‌ (...more calamitous and more bitter...54:46). The word adha means more or most calamitous. The word amarr is derived from murr which originally means 'bitter'. By extension anything 'difficult' or 'painful' is also referred to as amarr and murr. In the phrase فِي ضَلَالٍ وَسُعُرٍ‌ fi dalalin wa su'ur, dalal, as is known, means 'error' or 'deviation' and the word su'ur in the present context means the 'Hell-Fire1.' In the phrase ashya'akum, (verse 51) ashya` is the plural of shi'ah, and it means a 'follower', that is, those who follow their pattern of life.</p><p>(1). This is according to one interpretation. The other meaning of the word is 'madness' and the translation in the text is based on this meaning. (Muhammad Taqi Usmani</p><p>In the phrase مَقْعَدِ صِدْقٍ maq` adi-sidqin, the word maq'ad means 'seat' and the word sidq means 'truth' and implies the 'seat of truth' where there will be no idle and obscene talks.</p>
Lexicological analysisThe word زُبُر zubur (in verse 43) is the plural of zabur, which stands for any written book. It specifically refers to the Scripture that was revealed to Prophet Dawud (علیہ السلام) .أَدْهَىٰ وَأَمَرُّ‌ (...more calamitous and more bitter...54:46). The word adha means more or most calamitous. The word amarr is derived from murr which originally means 'bitter'. By extension anything 'difficult' or 'painful' is also referred to as amarr and murr. In the phrase فِي ضَلَالٍ وَسُعُرٍ‌ fi dalalin wa su'ur, dalal, as is known, means 'error' or 'deviation' and the word su'ur in the present context means the 'Hell-Fire1.' In the phrase ashya'akum, (verse 51) ashya` is the plural of shi'ah, and it means a 'follower', that is, those who follow their pattern of life.(1). This is according to one interpretation. The other meaning of the word is 'madness' and the translation in the text is based on this meaning. (Muhammad Taqi UsmaniIn the phrase مَقْعَدِ صِدْقٍ maq` adi-sidqin, the word maq'ad means 'seat' and the word sidq means 'truth' and implies the 'seat of truth' where there will be no idle and obscene talks.