إِنْ هَذَا إِلَّا خُلُقُ الْأَوَّلِينَ

Popular Translations

Muhammad Asad

This [religion of ours] is none other than that to which our forebears clung

Arthur John Arberry

this is nothing but the habit of the ancients

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

"This is no other than a customary device of the ancients

Arabic

إِنْ هَـٰذَآ إِلَّا خُلُقُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ ۝١٣٧

Transliteration

in hādhā illā khuluqu l-awalīn