Al-Qamar Verse 43

Now, are you ˹Meccan˺ disbelievers superior to those ˹destroyed peoples˺? Or have you ˹been granted˺ immunity ˹from punishment˺ in divine Books?

Are your disbelievers [O Makkans] superior than those, or have you been granted immunity in divine Scriptures?

What, are your unbelievers better than those? Or have you an immunity in the Scrolls?

‘Are your disbelievers any better than these? Were you given an exemption in the Scripture?’

Are your infidels better than these? Or is there an immunity for you in the Writs?

Are your Unbelievers, (O Quraish), better than they? Or have ye an immunity in the Sacred Books?

Are your unbelievers (of Makkah) any better than they? Or have you been granted any immunity in the Scriptures?

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?

Are your faithless better than those? Have you [been granted] [some sort of] immunity in the scriptures?

Now are your unbelievers (O Makkans) better and more powerful than those (whose exemplary histories We have recounted)? Or is there an exemption (from punishment written) for you in the Scriptures?

Are those of you who are disbelievers better than these? Or have you been promised amnesty (from punishment) in the (previous) Scriptures.

Are your disbelievers better than those, or for you (is) declaration/denouncement in The Books?

Are your disbelievers better than they were, or have you been given exemption in the Books?

Are the unbelievers of yours (O Quraish) better than these, or is there an exemption for you in the Sacred Books?

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?

And certainly We have made the Qur’an easy to remember, but is there any one who will mind?

Are the unbelievers of yours better than these, or is there an exemption for you in the scriptures?

Are your disbelievers better than those, or have ye some immunity in the scriptures?

Are you disbelievers mightier than those of the nations which We destroyed before or have you received amnesty through the ancient Scriptures?

What then, are your unbelievers better than those? Or do you have an immunity (written) in the Scrolls?

Are your disbelievers better than these Or have you immunity in the Divine Scriptures

Are your people who deny the truth better than those? Or have you been given immunity in the Scriptures?

Are your unbelievers better than all those? Or do you have immunity in the scriptures?

Are your disbelievers, O Quraysh, better than those?, mentioned [beginning] from the people of Noah to those of Pharaoh, which is why they have not been chastised? Or have you, O disbelievers of Quraysh, [been granted] some immunity, from chastisement, in the Scriptures?, the Books? (the interrogative in both instances is meant as a denial, in other words; it is not so).

أَكُفَّارُكُمْ

Are your disbelievers,

meaning, `O idolators of the Quraysh,'

خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أُوْلَيِكُمْ

better than these,

meaning better than the nations that were mentioned here, who were destroyed on account of their disbelief in the Messengers and rejecting the Scriptures. `Are you better than these?'

أَمْ لَكُم بَرَاءةٌ فِي الزُّبُرِ



Or have you immunity in the Divine Scriptures,

`do you have immunity from Allah that the torment and punishment will not touch you?'

Allah said about the Quraysh,

أَمْ يَقُولُونَ نَحْنُ جَمِيعٌ مُّنتَصِرٌ