Al-Baqara 2:78
The Cow · ayah 78 of 286
وَمِنْهُمْ أُمِّيُّونَ لَا يَعْلَمُونَ ٱلْكِتَٰبَ إِلَّآ أَمَانِىَّ وَإِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا يَظُنُّونَ
Waminhum ommiyyoona la yaAAlamoonaalkitaba illa amaniyya wa-in hum illayathunnoon
"And among them are unlettered ones who do not know the Scripture except [indulgement in] wishful thinking, but they are only assuming."
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Other English translations
Abdel Haleem (Oxford)+
"Some of them are uneducated, and know the Scripture only through wish-ful thinking. They rely on guesswork."
Pickthall (classic)+
"Among them are unlettered folk who know the Scripture not except from hearsay. They but guess."
Yusuf Ali (classic)+
"And there are among them illiterates, who know not the Book, but (see therein their own) desires, and they do nothing but conjecture."