Yet they did not differ about it until knowledge came to them, through rivalries among themselves. If the Word of your Lord, (staying) it for a time ordained, had not preceded it, the matter would have been settled among them. But those who came to inherit the Book after them are also in doubt and disturbed about it.
知識がかれらに下った後，間もなくかれらの間の嫉妬によって分派が出来た。定められた時に関し，あなたの主からの御言葉がなかったならば，（問題は）かれらの間でとっくに解決されたであろう。だがかれらの後，啓典を継いでいる者たちはそれに就いて（未だに）疑いを抱いている。