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Ali Quli Qara'i
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But the only answer of his people was that they said, ‘Expel them from your town! They are indeed a puritanical lot.’
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Pickthal
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And the answer of his people was only that they said (one to another): Turn them out of your township. They are folk, forsooth, who keep pure.
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Shakir
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And the answer of his people was no other than that they said: Turn them out of your town, surely they are a people who seek to purify (themselves).
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Yusufali
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And his people gave no answer but this: they said, "Drive them out of your city: these are indeed men who want to be clean and pure!"
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