They also said, “If only this Quran was sent down to a man of importance from the two cities.”
Az-Zukhruf 43:31
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وَقَالُوا لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنُ عَلَىٰ رَجُلٍ مِنَ الْقَرْيَتَيْنِ عَظِيمٍ
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They also said, “If only this Quran was sent down to a man of importance from the two cities.”
And they said, "Why wasn't this Quran given to an important man from one of the two towns?"
They also said, "Why wasn't this Quran sent down to an important man from one of the two cities?"
They said, “Why was this Quran not sent down to a great man from one of the two cities?”
And they said, “Why was this Quran not sent down to a man of importance from the two towns?”
And they said, “Why was this Quran not sent down to a man of importance from the two towns?”
And they said, "Why was this Qur’ān not sent down upon a great man from [one of] the two cities?"
And they say: "Why is not this Qur’ân sent down to some great man of the two towns (Makkah and Tâ’if)?"
And they said, “Why was this Qur’an not sent down to a great man from one of the two towns?”
Also, they say: "Why is not this Qur'an sent down to some leading man in either of the two (chief) cities?"
And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?
They said, "Why was this Quran not sent down to one of the great men of the two cities?"
They say: “Why was this Qur'an not sent down upon some great man from the two (main) cities?”
And they said, ‘Why was not this Quran sent down to some great man from the two cities?’
Waqaloo lawla nuzzila hatha alquranu AAala rajulin mina alqaryatayni AAatheemun