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YUSUFALI : Why did not the believers - men and women - when ye heard of the affair,- put the best construction on it in their own minds and say, "This (charge) is an obvious lie"?

PICKTHAL : Why did not the believers, men and women, when ye heard it, think good of their own own folk, and say: It is a manifest untruth?

SHAKIR : Why did not the believing men and the believing women, when you heard it, think well of their own people, and say: This is an evident falsehood?

M& HILALI : Why then, did not the believers, men and women, when you heard it (the slander) think good of their own people and say: "This (charge) is an obvious lie?"