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Muhammad Asad
Did We not destroy [so many of] those [sinners] of olden days
Arthur John Arberry
Did We not destroy the ancients
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Did We not destroy the men of old (for their evil)
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Transliteration-2
alam nuh'liki l-awalīn
Word by Word (2021)
Did not We destroy the former (people)?
Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
Did We not destroy [so many of] those [sinners] of olden days
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
Destroyed We not the former folk
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Did We not destroy the men of old (for their evil)
Mustafa Khattab 2018
Did We not destroy earlier disbelievers?
Safi Kaskas 2025
Did We not destroy the earlier people?
Wahiduddin Khan
Did We not destroy the earlier peoples
Shakir
Did We not destroy the former generations
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Caused We not the ancient ones to perish?
T.B.Irving
Did We not wipe out ancient men?
Abdul Hye
Did We not destroy the previous generations (for evil deeds)?
Saeed Malik
Did WE not eliminate the former ones?
The Study Quran
Did We not destroy those of old
Talal Itani & AI (2025)
Did We not destroy the former peoples?
Talal Itani (2012)
Did We not destroy the ancients
Dr. Kamal Omar
Did We not destroy the initial people
M. Farook Malik
Did We not destroy the former generations for their evil deeds
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Did We not cause the earliest people to perish
Muhammad Sarwar
Did We not destroy the ancient people
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Did We not destroy the earlier people
Shabbir Ahmed
Did We not annihilate the former generations
Dr. Munir Munshey
Did We not wipe out the unbelievers of earlier times
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Did We not destroy the people before (for their evil ways)
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
Did We not destroy the former peoples
[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)
Did We not destroy the ancient people?
Abdel Haleem
Did We not destroy the first [of them]
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Destroyed We not the ancients
Ahmed Ali
Have We not destroyed the earlier generations
Aisha Bewley
Did We not destroy the earlier peoples,
Ali Ãœnal
Did We not destroy the ancient peoples (who denied)
Ali Quli Qara'i
Did We not destroy the ancients
Hamid S. Aziz
Did We not destroy the former generations
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
Did We not destroy the earlier ones?
Bilal Muhammad 2018
Did We not destroy people in the past
Musharraf Hussain
Didn’t We destroy the previous generations?
Maududi
Did We not destroy many a nation of the earlier times
Mohammad Shafi
Did We not destroy the earlier generations
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Did We not destroy the ancients?
Rashad Khalifa
Did we not annihilate the earlier generations
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Did We not destroy the ancient
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Did We not destroy the former generations
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
Did We not destroy the first/beginners
Bijan Moeinian
Remember how I (God) destroyed the former generation of disbelievers;…
Faridul Haque
Did We not destroy the earlier people
Sher Ali
Did WE not destroy the earlier peoples
Edip Yuksel
Did We not destroy the ancient people
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Did We not destroy the people (who denied) before
Amatul Rahman Omar
Did We not destroy the earlier peoples
Hilali - Khan
Did We not destroy the ancients
Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works
Arthur John Arberry
Did We not destroy the ancients
George Sale
Have We not destroyed the obstinate unbelievers of old
Edward Henry Palmer
Have we not destroyed those of yore
John Medows Rodwell
Have we not destroyed them of old
N J Dawood 2014
Did We not obliterate the early generation
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Shuaib Abdullahi
Did We not (Alam') annihilate (-Nuh'liki) the predecessors (El'Awwaliin)?
Fode Drame
Did We not destroy the people of the ancient times?
MunirMezyed2023
Did We not destroyed the ancients (for their evil deeds)?
Mustaqim
Did We not destroy the earlier communities?
Fadel Soliman-The Bridges Translation
Did We not destroy the ancients,
Linda "iLham" Barto
Did We not destroy ancient peoples?
Irving/Hegab
Did We not wipe out ancient men?
Samy Mahdy
Did We not destroy the formers?
Qarai
Did We not destroy the former generations,
Thomas Cleary
Did We not annihilate peoples of earlier times?
Ahmed Hulusi
Did We not destroy the former people?
Mubarakpuri
Did We not destroy the ancients
A. S. Mohamed
Did We not annihilate the previous ones,
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
Did We not destroy the men of old
[Al-Muntakhab]
Did We not destroy those who charged Our Messengers with falsehood among the predecessors
Mir Aneesuddin
Did We not destroy the ancients?
The Wise Quran Project
Did We not destroy the former people?
Obsolete and/or older editions
Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)
Did We not destroy the men of old (for their evil)
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Did We not destroy the ancient people
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
Did We not destroy the ancient people
OLD Word by Word
Did not We destroy the former (people)
Transliteration
Alam nuhliki al-awwaleena