Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Did you, then, think that We created you in mere idle play, and that you would not have to return to Us?”
Arthur John Arberry
What, did you think that We created you only for sport, and that you would not be returned to Us?
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
"Did ye then think that We had created you in jest, and that ye would not be brought back to Us (for account)?"
Arabic
أَفَحَسِبۡتُمۡ أَنَّمَا خَلَقۡنَـٰكُمۡ عَبَثࣰا وَأَنَّكُمۡ إِلَیۡنَا لَا تُرۡجَعُونَ ١١٥
Transliteration (2021)
afaḥasib'tum annamā khalaqnākum ʿabathan wa-annakum ilaynā lā tur'jaʿūn