Al-Mu'minun Verse 81

But they ˹just˺ say what their predecessors said.

But they say the like of what the earlier peoples said.

Nay, but they said the like of what the ancients said.

But, like others before them,

Aye! they say the like of that which said the ancients.

On the contrary they say things similar to what the ancients said.

Nay, but they say the like of what their predecessors of yore had said.

And talk as did the people of old.

On the contrary, they said the same as what the former people used to say.

Indeed, they say, just like what the former peoples said.

(Instead of using their reason), they only speak as the former (disbelieving) peoples spoke.

But (rather than trying to understand) they repeated what the former people had said.

But they said similar/equal (to) what the first/beginners said.

On the contrary, they said the same as what the former people used to say.

And He it is Who gives you life and death; and His is the alternation of the night and the day; have you then no sense?

Nay, but they say the like of what the men of old said.

And He it is Who gives life and causes death, and His is the alternation of the night and the day. Do you not then understand?

Nay, they say the like of what the ancients said:

Nay, but they say the like of that which said the men of old;

They say exactly the same thing as the people who lived before.

No, but they said what the ancients said before them:

Nay, but they say the like of what the men of old said.

But they say the same as the ancients said,

But they say the like of what the ancients said.

Nay, but they say the like of what the ancients said.

قَالُوا أَيِذَا مِتْنَا وَكُنَّا تُرَابًا وَعِظَامًا أَيِنَّا لَمَبْعُوثُونَ