Muhammad Habib Shakir: Certainly we are promised this, and (so were) our fathers aforetime; this is naught but stories of those of old.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali: "Such things have been promised to us and to our fathers before! they are nothing but tales of the ancients!"
M.Pickthall: We were already promised this, we and our forefathers. Lo! this is naught but fables of the men of old.
Amatul Rahmân Omer: `Surely, we and our forefathers have already been given such promises before. These are nothing but only fables of the former people.´
Maulana Mohammad Ali: They say: When we die and become dust and bones, shall we then be raised up?
