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   Peace, 

Clearly, you are incorrect because every reputable translation contradicts RK's translation (which is what you are clearly using):

I knew you would come up with this answer and that is y i specifically asked you to verify the arabic text and understand the tense of the verse.I challenge you to prove that the verse isnt in the past tense.Just becoz the majority thinks something is right doesnt necessarily make it right,does it?Plus how many of the translators uve mentioned are arabic speakers??Not many if any im sure.FYI ,RK was an Egyptian with Arabic as his mother toungue.

You refuse to verify the verse.May be following the majority and the so called scholars is how you determine what is right and wrong in religion.Well its your choice .No compulsion from my side.

That is because most translations say that "some" of the signs have already come, not all of them.  If all the signs have already come, don't you think that the last hour would have come already?  What would be the point of all the signs when, 1,500 years later, the hour still hasn't come yet?
Look it up again and u will see MOST translations does not say"some" in them.Well it doesnt matter what most translations say coz it can be wrong.So if u look at the arabic text,there is no arabic word with the meaning "some" in the verse.If there is please lemme know.The verse simply says that the signs of the hour have come which means all signs of the hour till the Quran's revelation(which itself is a sign) have already come.Now what are the signs after the Quran's revelation??This has been specifically mentioned in the Quran and they are the "smoke prophecy" and the appearance of GOG and MAGOG.These are the ONLY remaining signs.I fail to understand y GOD chose not to specifically mention Jesus's second coming and leave it for the so called scholars to figure out. 

Below r the translation comparisons.

Yusuf Ali
Do they then only wait for the Hour,- that it should come on them of a sudden? But already have come some tokens thereof, and when it (actually) is on them, how can they benefit then by their admonition? 

Pickthal
Await they aught save the Hour, that it should come upon them unawares? And the beginnings thereof have already come. But how, when it hath come upon them, can they take their warning? 

Arberry
Are they looking for aught but the Hour, that it shall come upon them suddenly? Already its tokens have come; so, when it has come to them, how shall they have their Reminder?

Shakir
Do they then wait for aught but the hour that it should come to them all of a sudden? Now indeed the tokens of it have (already) come, but how shall they have their reminder when it comes on them? 

Sarwar
Are they waiting for the Hour of Doom to suddenly approach them? Its signs have already appeared. How will they then come to their senses when the Hour itself will approach them?.

Khalifa
Are they waiting until the Hour comes to them suddenly? All the signs thereof have already come. Once the Hour comes to them, how will they benefit from their message? 

Hilali/Khan
Do they then await (anything) other than the Hour, that it should come upon them suddenly? But some of its portents (indications and signs) have already come, and when it (actually) is on them, how can they benefit then by their reminder?

H/K/Saheeh
Then do they await except that the Hour should come upon them unexpectedly? But already there have come [some of] its indications. Then what good to them, when it has come, will be their remembrance? 

Malik
Are they waiting for the Hour of Doom to overtake them all of a sudden? Do they not know that its signs have already come and when it will actually overtake them, what chance will they have to benefit by this admonition?[18]

QXP
Are they, then, waiting for the Hour that may come upon them suddenly? And the signs of confrontation have already appeared. And when it comes to them, how shall their understanding (of the Truth) will help them? 

Maulana Ali
Wait they for aught but the Hour that it should come upon them of a sudden? Now tokens thereof have already come. But how will they have their reminder, when it comes on them?

Free Minds
So are they waiting until the Hour comes to them suddenly? For its conditions have already been met. But once it comes to them, how will they benefit from their message? 

Qaribullah 
Are they looking except for the Hour to overtake them suddenly? Its signs have come. But how will they be reminded when it has come to them?

JM Rodwell
For what do the infidels wait, but that the Hour come suddenly on them? Already are its signs come, and when it hath come on them indeed, how can they be warned then?

Asad
Are, then, they [whose hearts are sealed] waiting for the Last Hour - [waiting] that it come upon them of a sudden? But it has already been foretold! [Lit., "its indications have already come": a reference to the many Quranic predictions of its inevitability, as well as to the evidence, accessible to every unprejudiced mind, of the temporal finality of all creation.] And what will their remembrance [of their past sins] avail them, once it has come upon them? [I.e., "of what benefit will be to them, when the Last Hour comes, their dawning awareness of having sinned, and their belated repentance?"]

Edited by haris30432 - 12 April 2010 at 10:33pm