And had We made it a recital in a foreign tongue, they would have surely said: wherefore are the verses thereof not detailed? A foreign tongue and an Arab! Say thou: Unto those who have believed it is a guidance and a healing: and those who believe not, - in their ears there is a heaviness, and Unto them it is blindness. These are they who are cried Unto from a place far-off.
و اگر [اين كتاب را] قرآنى غير عربى گردانيده بوديم، قطعاً مى‌گفتند: «چرا آيه‌هاى آن روشن بيان نشده؟ كتابى غير عربى و [مخاطب آن‌] عرب زبان؟» بگو: «اين [كتاب‌] براى كسانى كه ايمان آورده‌اند رهنمود و درمانى است، و كسانى كه ايمان نمى‌آورند در گوشهايشان سنگينى است و قرآن برايشان نامفهوم است، و [گويى‌] آنان را از جايى دور ندا مى‌دهند!