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Surah 38. Sad, Ayah 63

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أَتَّخَذْنَـٰهُمْ سِخْرِيًّا أَمْ زَاغَتْ عَنْهُمُ ٱلْأَبْصَـٰرُ

Attakha th n a hum sikhriyyan am z a ghat AAanhumu alab sa r u

[and] whom we made the target of our derision?⁵¹ Or is it that [they are here, and] our eyes have missed them?"

- Mohammad Asad

and whom we use to ridicule? Or have our eyesight failed to notice them?"

- Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

Were we wrong in mocking them 'in the world'?¹ Or do our eyes 'just' fail to see them 'in the Fire'?'

- Mustafa Khattab

Did we take them (wrongly) for a laughing-stock, or have our eyes missed them?

- Marmaduke Pickthall

"Did we treat them (as such) in ridicule or have (our) eyes failed to perceive them?"

- Abdullah Yusuf Ali