وَمَا

You did not read any scripture before this, nor did you write it down with your right hand; otherwise the falsifiers would have doubted

And thou (O Muhammad) wast not a reader of any scripture before it, nor didst thou write it with thy right hand, for then might those have doubted, who follow falsehood

Thou didst not recite any book (of revelation) before it: with that right hand of thine thou didst not transcribe one: else might they who treat it as a vain thing have justly doubted

Thou couldst not recite before this any book, nor write it with thy right hand, for in that case those who deem it vain would have doubted

and not you were he recites from his before from writing and not you write with him by your right hand then he was in doubt the one who works falsehoods

Generated from a table of word-by-word decisions, not written as prose. Arabic word order is preserved, so it reads stiffly and is not a substitute for a translation written by a person. Every verse is rendered, but the whole remains under review: words marked as judgement rest on weaker evidence than the rest and are flagged in place. No tafsir, hadith or existing translation was consulted.