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Surah 6. Al-An'am, Ayah 156

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أَن تَقُولُوٓا۟ إِنَّمَآ أُنزِلَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبُ عَلَىٰ طَآئِفَتَيْنِ مِن قَبْلِنَا وَإِن كُنَّا عَن دِرَاسَتِهِمْ لَغَـٰفِلِينَ Qur’an Al-An'am (6:156)
An taqooloo innam a onzila alkit a bu AAal a ta ifatayni min qablin a wain kunn a AAan dir a satihim lagh a fileen a
[It has been given to you] lest you say, "Only unto two groups of people, [both of them] before our time, has a divine writ been bestowed from on high157 - and we were indeed unaware of their teachings";
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

I.e., to the Jews and the Christians, who were the only two communities known to the Arabs as possessing revealed scriptures.

Lest you say: "The Book was revealed only to two parties before us and we were unaware of what they read,"
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
You 'pagans' can no longer say, 'Scriptures were only revealed to two groups before us and we were unaware of their teachings.'
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
Lest ye should say: The Scripture was revealed only to two sects before us, and we in truth were unaware of what they read;
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
Lest ye should say: "The Book was sent down to two peoples before us and for our part we remained unacquainted with all that they learned by assiduous study." 981
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Because the diligent studies of the earlier People of the Book were in languages foreign to the new People of Islam, or because they were meant for circumstances different from those of the new world after Islam.

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