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قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ فِي الْاَرْضِ مَلٰٓئِكَةٌ يَمْشُونَ مُطْمَئِنّ۪ينَ لَنَزَّلْنَا عَلَيْهِمْ مِنَ السَّمَٓاءِ مَلَكاً رَسُولاً

Qul law kana fee al-ardi mala-ikatunyamshoona mutma-inneena lanazzalna AAalayhim mina assama-imalakan rasoola

Say: ‘If there had been angels on the earth going about in peace, We would have sent down to them an angel from heaven as Messenger. ’

  • Progressive Muslims

    Say: "If the Earth had Angels walking about in security, We would have sent down to them from heaven an Angel as a messenger. "

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Say, "If angels walked about and dwelled in the earth, We would have sent an angel from the heaven as Messenger. " (43:60).

  • Sam Gerrans

    Say thou: “Had there been in the earth angels walking securely, We would have sent down upon them from the sky an angel as messenger.”

  • The Monotheist Group

    Say: "If the earth had angels walking about in security, We would have sent down to them from the heaven an angel as a messenger."

  • Edip-Layth

    Say, "If the earth had controllers walking about at ease, We would have sent down to them from heaven an controller as a messenger."

  • Aisha Bewley

    Say: ‘If there had been angels on the earth going about in peace, We would have sent down to them an angel from heaven as Messenger. ’

  • Rashad Khalifa

    Say, "If the earth were inhabited by angels, we would have sent down to them from the sky an angel messenger."

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Say: "If angels had peopled the earth and walked about in peace and quiet, We would surely have sent to them an angel as messenger.

  • Sahih International

    Say, "If there were upon the earth angels walking securely, We would have sent down to them from the heaven an angel [as a] messenger. "

  • Muhammad Asad

    Say: "If angels were walking about on earth as their natural abode, We would indeed have sent down unto them an angel out of heaven as Our apostle. "

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Say: If there were in the earth angels walking secure, We had sent down for them from heaven an angel as messenger.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    Say to them: "If it were possible for angels to feel safe and secure when they move about on the ground here below, We would have sent down a divine Messenger".

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Say: "I would have sent an angel as My Messenger, if the earth was populated by the angels!"

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Say: "If there were on the earth, angels walking about in peace and security, We should certainly have sent down for them from the heaven an angel as a Messenger."

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Say, "If there were settled, on earth, angels walking about in peace and quiet, We should certainly have sent them down from the heavens an angel for a messenger."

  • Mustafa Khattab

    Say, ˹O Prophet,˺ "Had there been angels walking the earth, well settled, We would have surely sent down for them an angel from heaven as a messenger."

  • Taqi Usmani

    Say, "Had there been angels (living) on the earth, walking about in peace, We would have certainly sent down an angel from the heavens as a messenger."

  • Abdul Haleem

    Say, ‘If there were angels walking about on earth, feeling at home, We would have sent them an angel from Heaven as a messenger.’

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Say: 'Had there been in the earth angels walking. at peace, We would have sent down upon them out of heaven an angel as Messenger.'

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Say, 'Were there angels on the earth walking in quiet, we had surely sent them an angel as an apostle. '

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Say, "Had there been on the earth settled angels walking about, then We would surely have sent them an angel as a messenger. "

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Say, "If there were in the earth Angels walking composed, indeed We would have been sending down upon them from the heaven an Angel as a Messenger. "

  • George Sale

    Answer, if the angels had walked on earth as familiar inhabitants thereof, We had surely sent down unto them from heaven an angel for our apostle.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Say; "If on the earth, there were placed, angels walking about in peace and (quiet) security, We should certainly have sent them down from the heavens an angel as a messenger. "

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Say, `Had there been angels on the earth (in place of human beings) walking about secure and sound We (too) would have invariably sent down an angel from heaven as a Messenger to them. '

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Say, ‘Had there been angels in the earth, walking around and residing [in it like humans do], We would have sent down to them from the heaven an angel as apostle. ’