9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 126
اَوَلَا يَرَوْنَ اَنَّهُمْ يُفْتَنُونَ ف۪ي كُلِّ عَامٍ مَرَّةً اَوْ مَرَّتَيْنِ ثُمَّ لَا يَتُوبُونَ وَلَا هُمْ يَذَّكَّرُونَ
Awa la yarawna annahum yuftanoonafee kulli AAamin marratan aw marratayni thumma layatooboona wala hum yaththakkaroon
Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year? But still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed.
- Progressive Muslims
Do they not see they are tested every calendar year once or twice, but then they do not repent, nor do they remember.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Don't they see that they are tested once or twice each year (at your hands 9:14)? Still they do not repent, nor pay heed.
- Sam Gerrans
See they not that they are subjected to means of denial once or twice every year? Then do they turn not in repentance, nor do they take heed.
- The Monotheist Group
Do they not see they are tested every year once or twice? But then they do not repent, nor do they remember.
- Edip-Layth
Do they not see they are tested every calendar year once or twice? Yet, they do not repent, nor do they take heed.
- Aisha Bewley
Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year? But still they do not turn back. They do not pay heed.
- Rashad Khalifa
Do they not see that they suffer from exacting trials every year once or twice? Yet, they consistently fail to repent, and fail to take heed?
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Do they not know that they are tried every year once or twice? Even then they do not repent and take heed.
- Sahih International
Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice but then they do not repent nor do they remember?
- Muhammad Asad
Are they, then, not aware that they are being tested year-in, year-out? And yet, they do not repent and do not bethink themselves [of God];
- Marmaduke Pickthall
See they not that they are tested once or twice in every year? Still they turn not in repentance, neither pay they heed.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Do they not perceive by physical and mental sight what is below the surface! They are subjected to a severe test and a strain and they are put to straits once or twice every year that they may hopefully in lowliest plight repentant stand, but they neither repent nor do they reflect.
- Bijan Moeinian
Do they not see that each year their faith is put to test once or twice. Yet they do not learn any lesson and do not repent (or adjust their attitudes.)
- Al-Hilali & Khan
See they not that they are put in trial once or twice every year (with different kinds of calamities, disease, famine)? Yet, they turn not in repentance, nor do they learn a lesson (from it).
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
See they not that they are tried every year once or twice? Yet they turn not in repentance, and they take no heed.
- Mustafa Khattab
Do they not see that they are tried once or twice every year?[1] Yet they neither repent nor do they learn a lesson.
- Taqi Usmani
Do they not see that they are put to trial every year once or twice; still they neither repent, nor do they take lesson?
- Abdul Haleem
Can they not see that they are afflicted once or twice a year? Yet they neither repent nor take heed.
- Arthur John Arberry
Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice? Yet still they do not repent, nor do they remember.
- E. Henry Palmer
Do they not see that they are tried in every year once or twice? Yet they do not turn again, nor do they mind!
- Hamid S. Aziz
Do they not see that they are tried once or twice in every year? Yet they do not turn in repentance, nor do they heed.
- Mahmoud Ghali
And do they not see that they are tempted every season once or twice? (Yet) they do not repent thereafter nor do they constantly remember.
- George Sale
Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice? Yet they repent not, neither are they warned.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice? Yet they do not turn in repentance, and they do not pay attention (to what they do).
- Amatul Rahman Omar
Do they not see that they are tried every year once or twice. Still they do not repent nor would they take heed.
- Ali Quli Qarai
Do they not see that they are tried once or twice every year? Yet they neither repent, nor do they take admonition.