(43:31) And they said, “Why was this Qur’an not sent down upon a great man from [one of] the two cities?”
Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali and Muhammad Muhsin Khan,
(43:31) And they say: “Why is not this Quran sent down to some great man of the two towns (Makkah and Ta’if)?”
Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall
(43:31) And they say: If only this Qur’an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(43:31) Also, they say: “Why is not this Qur’an sent down to some leading man in either of the two (chief) cities?”
Mohammad Habib Shakir
(43:31) And they say: Why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the two towns?
Dr. Ghali
(43:31) And they have said, “Had this Qur’an been successively sent down upon a man of eminence in the two towns?” (Makkah and At-TaÉif)
Ali Unal
(43:31) They also say: “If only this Quran had been sent down on a man of leading position of the two (chief) cities!”
Amatul Rahman Omar
(43:31) Moreover they said, `Why has not this Qur´ân been revealed to some man of importance from (either of) the two townships (- Makkah or Tâ´if, the two centres of social and political life).´
Literal
(43:31) And they said: “If only this the Koran was descended on a great man from the two villages/urban cities.”
Ahmed Ali
(43:31) They also said: “Why was this Qur’an not sent down to some great man of the two cities?”
A. J. Arberry
(43:31) They say, ‘Why was this Koran not sent down upon some man of moment in the two cities?’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
(43:31) And they say: wherefore hath not this Qur’an been revealed to a man of the two cities who was great.
Maulana Mohammad Ali
(43:31)-
Muhammad Sarwar
(43:31) Then they said, “Why this Quran had not been revealed to a man from either of the two great towns”.
Hamid Abdul Aziz
(43:31) And they say, “Why was not this Quran revealed to a man of importance in the two towns?”
Faridul Haque
(43:31) And they said, Why was the Quran not sent down upon some chieftain of these two great towns? (The chiefs of Mecca and Taif).
Talal Itani
(43:31) They also said, If only this Quran was sent down to a man of importance from the two cities.
Ahmed Raza Khan
(43:31) And they said, Why was the Quran not sent down upon some chieftain of these two great towns? (The chiefs of Mecca and Taif).
Wahiduddin Khan
(43:31) They said, “Why was this Quran not sent down to one of the great men of the two cities?”
Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri
(43:31) And they say: “Why is not this Qur’an sent down to some great man of the two towns”
Ali Quli Qarai
(43:31) And they said, Why was not this Quran sent down to some great man from the two cities?
Hasan al-Fatih Qaribullah and Ahmad Darwish
(43:31) They also said: ‘Why was this Koran not sent down to a great man from the two Villages’
That is translated surah Az Zukhruf ayat 31 (QS 43: 31) in arabic and english text, may be useful.
Waqaloo lawla nuzzila hatha alquranu AAala rajulin mina alqaryatayni AAatheemun
