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Rabbin şehirlerin anasına, onlara ayetlerimizi okuyacak bir peygamber göndermedikçe onları yok etmiş değildir. Zaten Biz yalnız, halkı zalim olan şehirleri yok etmişizdir.

Diyanet İşleriall-rights-reserved

Rabbin, kendilerine âyetlerimizi okuyan bir peygamberi memleketlerin ana merkezlerine göndermedikçe, memleketleri helâk edici değildir. Zaten biz, ancak halkı zalim olan memleketleri helâk etmişizdir.

Elmalılı Hamdi Yazırpublic-domain

Rabbin, kendilerine ayetlerimizi tilavet eden (okuyup aktaran) bir elçiyi şehirlerin merkezine gönderinceye kadar o şehirleri helak edici değildir. (Zaten) biz halkı zalim olan şehirlerden başkasını da helak ediciler değildik.

Mehmet Okuyanall-rights-reserved

Nor was thy Lord the one to destroy a population until He had sent to its centre a messenger, rehearsing to them Our Signs; nor are We going to destroy a population except when its members practise iniquity.

A. Yusuf Alipublic-domain

Your Lord would never destroy towns without first raising a messenger in their midst to recite Our messages to them, nor would We destroy towns unless their inhabitants were evildoers.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleemall-rights-reserved

And never did thy Lord destroy the townships, till He had raised up in their mother(-town) a messenger reciting unto them Our revelations. And never did We destroy the townships unless the folk thereof were evil-doers.

M. Pickthallpublic-domain

And never would your Lord have destroyed the cities until He had sent to their mother [i.e., principal city] a messenger reciting to them Our verses. And We would not destroy the cities except while their people were wrongdoers.

Saheeh Internationalall-rights-reserved

وما كان ربك -أيها الرسول- مهلك القرى التي حول "مكة" في زمانك حتى يبعث في أمها -وهي "مكة"- رسولا يتلو عليهم آياتنا، وما كنا مهلكي القرى إلا وأهلها ظالمون لأنفسهم بكفرهم بالله ومعصيته، فهم بذلك مستحقون للعقوبة والنكال.

Tafsir al-Muyassarfree-distribution