An-Naml 27:34

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قَالَتْ إِنَّ الْمُلُوكَ إِذَا دَخَلُوا قَرْيَةً أَفْسَدُوهَا وَجَعَلُوا أَعِزَّةَ أَهْلِهَا أَذِلَّةً ۖ وَكَذَٰلِكَ يَفْعَلُونَ

القرآن الكريم

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She said, “When kings enter a city, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.

ClearQuran • Talal Itani • Allah

She said, “When kings enter a city, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.

ClearQuran • Talal Itani • God

She said, "When kings enter a town, they ruin it, and they make its strongest people weak. That's what they always do.

ClearQuran for Kids • Talal Itani

She said, "When kings enter a town, they ruin it and humiliate its proudest people — that's what they always do.

ClearQuran for Teens • Talal Itani

She said, “Truly, when kings enter a town, they ruin it and reduce its most honored people to the lowest. And so they do.

ClearQuran • AI-assisted

She said, “When kings enter a town, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.

Community • Allah

She said, “When kings enter a town, they devastate it, and subjugate its dignified people. Thus they always do.

Community • God

She said, "Indeed kings - when they enter a city, they ruin it and render the honored of its people humbled. And thus do they do.

Saheeh International

She said: "Verily kings, when they enter a town (country), they despoil it and make the most honourable amongst its people the lowest. And thus they do.

Hilali and Khan

She said, “When kings enter a town, they ravage it and humiliate its notables; this is what they really do.

Rowwad Translation Center

She said: "Kings, when they enter a country, despoil it, and make the noblest of its people its meanest thus do they behave.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

She said: Lo! kings, when they enter a township, ruin it and make the honour of its people shame. Thus will they do.

Marmaduke Pickthall

She said, "Surely, when mighty kings invade a country, they despoil it and humiliate its noblest inhabitants, these men will do the same,

Wahiduddin Khan

The Queen said: "When the kings enter a country they cause corruption in it and abase those of its people who are held in honour. This is what they are wont to do.

Abul A'la Maududi

She said, ‘Indeed when kings enter a town, they devastate it, and make the mightiest of its people the weakest. That is how they act.

Ali Quli Qarai

Qalat inna almulooka itha dakhaloo qaryatan afsadooha wajaAAaloo aAAizzata ahliha athillatan wakathalika yafAAaloona

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