24. Surah An-Nur, Verse 12

If only when you heard it the believing men and women should have thought good of their own selves and said: "This is an obvious lie!"

Why do not the believing men and believing women, whenever such a rumor is heard, think the best of one another and say, "This is an obvious falsehood?"

Oh, that when you heard it, the believing men and the believing women had but thought good of themselves and said: “This is a clear falsehood!”

If only when you heard it the believing males and the believing females should have thought good of their own selves and said: "This is an obvious lie!"

If only when you heard it the acknowledging men and women should have thought good of themselves and said: "This is an obvious lie!"

Why, when you heard it, did you not, as men and women of the muminun, instinctively think good thoughts and say, ‘This is obviously a lie’?

When you heard it, the believing men and the believing women should have had better thoughts about themselves, and should have said, "This is obviously a big lie."

Why did the faithful men and women not think well of their people when they heard this, and said: "This is a clear lie?"

Why, when you heard it, did not the believing men and believing women think good of one another and say, "This is an obvious falsehood"?

Why do not the believing men and women, whenever such [a rumour] is heard, think the best of one another and say, "This is an obvious falsehood"?

Why did not the believers, men and women, when ye heard it, think good of their own own folk, and say: It is a manifest untruth?

If only the Muslims -men and women- as they heard the rumour realized, as they should have, that they are people of mind and reasoned high of Providence and of those who conformed to His will and thought of themselves as the model of chastity, and rejected the charge as falsehood personified!

When the rumors started to circulate, the believers should have shown their goodness of heart saying: "This is a great slander. "

Why then, did not the believers, men and women, when you heard it (the slander), think good of their own people and say: "This (charge) is an obvious lie[1]?"

Why did not the believers - men and women - when ye heard of the affair,- put the best construction on it in their own minds and say, "This (charge) is an obvious lie"?

If only the believing men and women had thought well of one another, when you heard this ˹rumour˺, and said, "This is clearly ˹an outrageous˺ slander!"

Why - when you (O believers) heard of it - did the believing men and the believing women not think well about their own selves, and (why did they not) say, "This is a manifest lie".

When you heard the lie, why did believing men and women not think well of their own people and declare, ‘This is obviously a lie’?

Why, when you heard it, did the believing men and women not of their own account think good thoughts, and say, 'This is a manifest calumny'?

Why did not, when ye heard it, the believing men and believing women think good in themselves, and say, 'This is an obvious lie?'

Verily, those who spread the slander are a gang among you. Deem it not as an evil for you. Nay, it is good for you. Every man of them shall have what he has earned of sin; and he among them who had the greater share (took the lead), for him is an awful doom.

If the men believers and the women believers had thought good (thoughts) of themselves as you heard it and they would have said, "This is an evident falsehood. "

Did not the faithful men, and the faithful women, when ye heard this, judge in their own minds for the best; and say, this is a manifest falsehood?

Why then, did not the believers —men and women — When you heard of the incident— Put the best reasons after it in their own minds and say, "This (slander) is an open lie?"

When you heard of this (accusation) why did not the believing men and believing women have a better opinion in respect of their own people and say, `This (charge) is an obvious lie?'

When you [first] heard about it, why did not the faithful, men and women, think well of their folks, and say, ‘This is an obvious calumny’?