Al-Baqarah 2:78

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وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ الْكِتَابَ إِلَّا أَمَانِيَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ

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And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.

ClearQuran • Talal Itani • Allah

And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.

ClearQuran • Talal Itani • God

Some of them don't know the Book at all. They only have wishes, and they just guess.

ClearQuran for Kids • Talal Itani

Some of them can't read or write, and they don't know the Scripture — only wishful thinking and assumptions.

ClearQuran for Teens • Talal Itani

Among them are the unlettered who know nothing of the Scripture but wishful thinking, and they do nothing but speculate.

ClearQuran • AI-assisted

And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.

Community • Allah

And among them are uneducated who know the Scripture only through hearsay, and they only speculate.

Community • God

And among them are unlettered ones who do not know the Scripture except [indulgement in] wishful thinking, but they are only assuming.

Saheeh International

And there are among them (Jews) unlettered people, who know not the Book, but they trust upon false desires and they but guess.

Hilali and Khan

And among them, there are illiterate people, who know nothing of the Scripture except wishful thinking, and they do nothing but guesswork.

Rowwad Translation Center

And there are among them illiterates, who know not the Book, but (see therein their own) desires, and they do nothing but conjecture.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess.

Marmaduke Pickthall

There are among them unlettered people who have no real knowledge of the Scriptures, knowing only their own wishful thinking and following only conjecture.

Wahiduddin Khan

Then there are among them some un-lettered people who have no knowledge of the Book but depend upon empty hopes and are guided by mere conjecture and guess-work.

Abul A'la Maududi

And among them are the illiterate who know nothing of the Book except hearsay, and they only make conjectures.

Ali Quli Qarai

Waminhum ommiyyoona la yaAAlamoona alkitaba illa amaniyya wain hum illa yathunnoona

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