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“you and your forefathers preceding you.”
nyinyi na baba zenu wa zamani?

said moosa, “your lord and the lord of your forefathers preceding you.”
(musa) akasema: ndiye mola wenu mlezi, na mola mlezi wa baba zenu wa kwanza.

it has been made permissible for you the night preceding fasting to go to your wives [for sexual relations].
mmehalalishiwa usiku wa saumu kuingiliana na wake zenu. wao ni vazi kwenu, na nyinyi ni vazi kwao.

within less than a week after the beginning of the protests more than 20,000 demonstrators roamed the streets of vienna, preceding any mass media coverage.
ndani ya juma moja baada ya kuanza kwa maandamano, zaidi ya waandamanaji 20,000 walivamia mitaa ya vienna, wakitangulia kabla ya habari za vyombo vya habari vya kale.

then the preceding one will say to the succeeding one: you are no better than us: so taste the punishment you have earned."
na wa mwanzo wao watawaambia wa mwisho wao: basi nyinyi pia hamkuwa na ubora kuliko sisi. basi onjeni adhabu kwa sababu ya mliyo kuwa mkiyachuma.

and the preceding groups will say to the latter, “so you too were no better than us, therefore taste the punishment for what you have done!”
na wa mwanzo wao watawaambia wa mwisho wao: basi nyinyi pia hamkuwa na ubora kuliko sisi. basi onjeni adhabu kwa sababu ya mliyo kuwa mkiyachuma.

we have indeed heard a book, sent down after moosa, which confirms the books preceding it, and guides towards the truth and the straight path.”
sisi tumesikia kitabu kilicho teremshwa baada ya musa, kinacho sadikisha yaliyo kuwa kabla yake, na kinacho ongoza kwenye haki na kwenye njia iliyo nyooka.

and we have already known the preceding [generations] among you, and we have already known the later [ones to come].
na tunawajua walio tangulia katika nyinyi, na tunawajua walio taakhari.

the heart did not deny, what it saw. (the holy prophet was bestowed with seeing allah – see also preceding verses 8, 9, 10.)
moyo haukusema uwongo uliyo yaona.

then the preceding ones will say to the succeeding ones: 'you were in no way superior to us; taste, then, this torment for your deeds.'
na wa mwanzo wao watawaambia wa mwisho wao: basi nyinyi pia hamkuwa na ubora kuliko sisi. basi onjeni adhabu kwa sababu ya mliyo kuwa mkiyachuma.

and (remember) lout (lot), when he said to his people: "do you commit the worst sin such as none preceding you has committed in the 'alamin (mankind and jinns)?
na tulimtuma lut', alipo waambia watu wake: je, mnafanya uchafu ambao hajakutangulieni yeyote kwa uchafu huo katika viumbe vyote!