Sura- 28 [ Al Qasas mecca 49 ]

The Quranic Text & Ali’s version:

وَمَا كُنتَ بِجَانِبِ الطُّورِ إِذْ نَادَيْنَا...

28:46. Nor wast thou at the side of (the Mountain of) Tur when We called (to Moses),

...وَلَكِن رَّحْمَةً مِّن رَّبِّكَ لِتُنذِرَ قَوْمًا مَّا أَتَاهُم مِّن نَّذِيرٍ مِّن قَبْلِكَ...

Yet (art thou sent) as a Mercy from thy Lord, to give warning to a people to whom no warner had come before thee:

C3379. This people was the Quraish.

'Though thou didst not see how Moses was invested with the prophetic office at Mount Tur, thou hast had similar experience thyself, and We have sent thee to the Quraish to warn them of all their sins, and to repent and come into the Faith'.

...لَعَلَّهُمْ يَتَذَكَّرُونَ ﴿٤٦﴾

in order that they may receive admonition.

Asad’s Version:

28:46 And neither wert thou present on the slope of Mount Sinai when We called out [to Moses]:" but [thou, too, art sent] as an act of thy Sustainer's grace, to warn people to whom no warner has come before thee, so that they might bethink themselves (of Us];