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 Post subject: Verses 43:5-8
PostPosted: 04 Jun 2009, 16:47 
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 Post subject: Re: Verses 43:5-8
PostPosted: 10 Oct 2013, 21:49 
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{43:5} Then should We turn the message away, disregarding you, because you are a transgressing people?

I suggest,
{43:5} Should We then elide the Reminder away from you, overlooking, because you have been an excessive folk?

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{43:6} And how many a prophet We sent among the former peoples,

Excellent translation, but I think we can get away with saying "the formers." This way, we would have one English word instead of two, matching the one Arabic word! So, I suggest,
{43:6} And how many a prophet We sent among the formers.

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{43:7} But there would not come to them a prophet except that they used to ridicule him.

I suggest,
{43:7} And never did come to them a prophet but that they would be ridiculing him.

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{43:8} And We destroyed greater than them in [striking] power, and the example of the former peoples has preceded.

I'd only make the interjection integral, since the word بطش does not mean any power, but specifically means striking power. So, I suggest,
{43:8} And We destroyed greater than them in striking power, and the example of the formers has preceded.

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