They almost provoked you, to expel you from the land. In that case, they would not have lasted after you, except briefly.
Al-Isra' 17:76
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وَإِنْ كَادُوا لَيَسْتَفِزُّونَكَ مِنَ الْأَرْضِ لِيُخْرِجُوكَ مِنْهَا ۖ وَإِذًا لَا يَلْبَثُونَ خِلَافَكَ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا
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They almost provoked you, to expel you from the land. In that case, they would not have lasted after you, except briefly.
They almost scared you away from the land, trying to make you leave. But if they did, they wouldn't stay there much longer after you.
They almost drove you out of the land, to make you leave — but if they had, they wouldn't have stayed there long after you.
They nearly provoked you to drive you out of the land, to expel you from it — and then they would not have remained after you except briefly.
And they almost provoked you, to expel you from the land. But then they would not have lasted after you, except for a short while.
And they almost provoked you, to expel you from the land. But then they would not have lasted after you, except for a short while.
And indeed, they were about to provoke [i.e., drive] you from the land [i.e., Makkah] to evict you therefrom. And then [when they do], they will not remain [there] after you, except for a little.
And verily they were about to frighten you so much as to drive you out from the land. But in that case they would not have stayed (therein) after you, except for a little while.
They were about to provoke you so as to drive you out of the land [of Makkah], but then they would not have remained after you, except for a little while.
Their purpose was to scare thee off the land, in order to expel thee; but in that case they would not have stayed (therein) after thee, except for a little while.
And they indeed wished to scare thee from the land that they might drive thee forth from thence, and then they would have stayed (there) but a little after thee.
Indeed they came near to unsettling you, so that they might expel you from the land, but in that case they themselves would not have stayed on for very long after you.
They were bent upon uprooting you from this land and driving you away from it. But were they to succeed, they would not be able to remain after you more than a little while.
They were about to hound you out of the land, to expel you from it, but then they would not have stayed after you but a little.
Wain kadoo layastafizzoonaka mina alardi liyukhrijooka minha waithan la yalbathoona khilafaka illa qaleelan