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Muhammad

The Qur’an Verse 38

Verse 1,511 of 6,236

Canonical reference 11.38

Arabic

Tanzil Quran Text 1.1, Uthmani

وَيَصْنَعُ ٱلْفُلْكَ وَكُلَّمَا مَرَّ عَلَيْهِ مَلَأٌۭ مِّن قَوْمِهِۦ سَخِرُوا۟ مِنْهُ ۚ قَالَ إِن تَسْخَرُوا۟ مِنَّا فَإِنَّا نَسْخَرُ مِنكُمْ كَمَا تَسْخَرُونَ

French

Muhammad Hamidullah · Le Saint Coran, traduction Muhammad Hamidullah

Et il construisait l'arche. Et chaque fois que des notables de son peuple passaient près de lui, ils se moquaient de lui. Il dit: «Si vous vous moquez de nous, eh bien, nous nous moquerons de vous, comme vous vous moquez [de nous].

English

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall · The Meaning of the Glorious Koran (1930)

And he was building the ship, and every time that chieftains of his people passed him, they made mock of him. He said: Though ye make mock of Us, yet We mock at you even as ye mock;

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