Virtues of the Quran's Chapters and Verses
Special Virtues of the Qur'an's Chapters and Verses 53
عَنْ جَابِرٍ، رضى الله عنه قَالَ خَرَجَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صلى الله عليه وسلم عَلَى أَصْحَابِهِ فَقَرَأَ عَلَيْهِمْ سُورَةَ الرَّحْمَنِ مِنْ أَوَّلِهَا إِلَى آخِرِهَا فَسَكَتُوا فَقَالَ " لَقَدْ قَرَأْتُهَا عَلَى الْجِنِّ لَيْلَةَ الْجِنِّ فَكَانُوا أَحْسَنَ مَرْدُودًا مِنْكُمْ كُنْتُ كُلَّمَا أَتَيْتُ عَلَى قَوْلِهِ : ( فبأَىِّ آلاَءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ ) قَالُوا لاَ بِشَيْءٍ مِنْ نِعَمِكَ رَبَّنَا نُكَذِّبُ فَلَكَ الْحَمْدُ ". .
Jābir (may Allah be pleased with him) said: The Messenger of Allah (Allah bless him and grant him peace) came out to his Companions and recited Sūrat al-Raḥmān for them from beginning to end. They were silent. He said, ‘I recited it to the jinn on the Night of the Jinn, and they responded better than you did. Whenever I came to His words, “So which of your Lord’s favors will you both deny?” they said, “We deny none of Your favors, our Lord; to You belongs all praise.”’
Translation notes
" لَقَدْ قَرَأْتُهَا عَلَى الْجِنِّ لَيْلَةَ الْجِنِّ فَكَانُوا أَحْسَنَ مَرْدُودًا مِنْكُمْ كُنْتُ كُلَّمَا أَتَيْتُ عَلَى قَوْلِهِ : ( فبأَىِّ آلاَءِ رَبِّكُمَا تُكَذِّبَانِ ) قَالُوا لاَ بِشَيْءٍ مِنْ نِعَمِكَ رَبَّنَا نُكَذِّبُ فَلَكَ الْحَمْدُ ".
The Arabic addresses two (رَبِّكُمَا / تُكَذِّبَانِ); the English witness uses the singular/plural-ambiguous “you” and does not preserve the dual.
Should English make the dual address explicit here, for example with “you both”?