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Surah 35. Fatir, Ayah 42

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وَأَقْسَمُوا۟ بِٱللَّهِ جَهْدَ أَيْمَـٰنِهِمْ لَئِن جَآءَهُمْ نَذِيرٌ لَّيَكُونُنَّ أَهْدَىٰ مِنْ إِحْدَى ٱلْأُمَمِ ۖ فَلَمَّا جَآءَهُمْ نَذِيرٌ مَّا زَادَهُمْ إِلَّا نُفُورًا Qur’an Fatir (35:42)
Waaqsamoo bi A ll a hi jahda aym a nihim lain j a ahum na th eerun layakoonunna ahd a min i h d a alomami falamm a j a ahum na th eerun m a z a dahum ill a nufoor a n
As it is, they [who are averse to the truth often] swear by God with their most solemn oaths that if a warner should ever come to them, they would follow his guidance better than any of the communities [of old had followed the warner sent to them]:32 but now that a warner has come unto them, [his call] but increases their aversion,
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

Cf. 6:157 and the corresponding note [158].

These very people used to swear on solemn oaths by Allah that if a Warner ever come to them, they would be better guided than any other nation of the world; yet when a Warner has come to them they have increased in nothing but aversion,
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
They swore by Allah their most solemn oaths that if a warner were to come to them, they would certainly be better guided than any other community. Yet when a warner did come to them, it only drove them farther away-
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
And they swore by Allah, their most binding oath, that if a warner came unto them they would be more tractable than any of the nations; yet, when a warner came unto them it aroused in them naught save repugnance,
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
They swore their strongest oaths by Allah that if a warner came to them they would follow his guidance better than any (other) of the Peoples: but when a warner came to them it has only increased their flight (from righteousness) 3935
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Cf. vi. 157. In the first instance this referred to the Quraish. Their attitude to the People of the Book had been one of lofty superiority or of insincere excuses. They twitted the Jews and Christians with deviating from their own lights and their own revelations; and for themselves, they said they had received no direct revelation from Allah, or they would have shown themselves the most amenable to discipline, the most ready to follow Allah's Law. This was before the holy Prophet received his mission from Allah. When he received it and announced it, they turned away from it, They fled from it and put a greater and greater distance between it and themselves. But this is the way of all sinners. They find much to carp at in others, and much to excuse in themselves. But when all grounds for excuse are removed, they will be found, not nearer, but farther and farther away from truth and righteousness.

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