Translation:

31. Also they say: "Why is not this Qur'an sent down to some leading man in either of the two (Chief) cities?"

Notes (Tafseer)

4634. The world judges by its own low standards. From a worldly point of view, the holy Prophet was poor and an orphan. Why, they thought, should he be so richly endowed in spiritual knowledge and power? If such a gift had to come to a man among them, it was the right (they foolishly said) of one of the chiefs in either the sacred city of Makkah, or the fertile garden-city of Taif!