43:31
وَقَالُوا لَوْلَا نُزِّلَ هَٰذَا الْقُرْآنُ عَلَىٰ رَجُلٍ مِّنَ الْقَرْيَتَيْنِ عَظِيمٍ
Transliteration:
Waqaloo lawla nuzzila hatha alqur-anu AAala rajulin mina alqaryatayni AAatheemun
Word by Word:
And they say, "Why not was sent down this the Quran to a man, from the two towns, great?"
Translations:
And they say, too, Why was not this Qur'an bestowed from on high on some great man of the two cities?"
Also, they say: "Why is not this Qur'an sent down to some leading man in either of the two (chief) cities?"
And they say: If only this Qur'an had been revealed to some great man of the two towns?
And they say: Why was not this Qur'an revealed to a man of importance in the two towns?
And they said, "Why was this Qur'an not sent down upon a great man from [one of] the two cities?"