10:16 qul law shaa-al-laahu maa talawtuhuu 'Alaykum wa laa adraakum bihii faqad labithtu fiykum 'Umuram min qablih* afalaa ta'Åqiluun

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Ahmed Raza Khan: Mohammed Aqib Qadri:
Say, "Had Allah willed I would not have recited it to you nor would He have made it known to you; so before this * I have spent an age among you; so do you not have sense?"(* Before Allah’s command to recite the Qur’an to you.)

Yusuf Ali:
Say: "If Allah had so willed, I should not have rehearsed it to you, nor would He have made it known to you. A whole life-time before this have I tarried amongst you: will ye not then understand?"

Pickthal:
Say: If Allah had so willed I should not have recited it to you nor would He have made it known to you. I dwelt among you a whole lifetime before it (came to me). Have ye then no sense?