The word(s) "nay" appears 158 time(s) in 149 verse(s) in Quran in Muhammad Habib Shakir translation.

(91) nay, they are in doubt, they sport.

(92) nay! do those who have wrought evil deeds think that We will make them like those who believe and do good-- that their life and their death shall be equal? Evil it is that they judge.

(93) nay! they say: He has forged it. Say: If I have forged it, you do not control anything for me from Allah; He knows best what you utter concerning it; He is enough as a witness between me and you, and He is the Forgiving, the Merciful.

(94) So when they saw it as a cloud appearing in the sky advancing towards their valleys, they said: This is a cloud which will give us rain. nay! it is what you sought to hasten on, a blast of wind in which is a painful punishment,

(95) Why did not then those help them whom they took for gods besides Allah to draw (them) nigh (to Him)? nay! they were lost to them; and this was their lie and what they forged.

(96) Do they not then reflect on the Quran? nay, on the hearts there are locks.

(97) Those of the dwellers of the desert who were left behind will say to you: Our property and our families kept us busy, so ask forgiveness for us. They say with their tongues what is not in their hearts. Say: Then who can control anything for you from Allah if He intends to do you harm or if He intends to do you good; nay, Allah is Aware of what you do:

(98) nay! you rather thought that the Apostle and the believers would not return to their families ever, and that was made fairseeming to your hearts and you thought an evil thought and you were a people doomed to perish.

(99) Those who are left behind will say when you set forth for the gaining of acquisitions: Allow us (that) we may follow you. They desire to change the world of Allah. Say: By no means shall you follow us; thus did Allah say before. But they will say: nay! you are jealous of us. nay! they do not understand but a little.

(100) nay! they wonder that there has come to them a warner from among themselves, so the unbelievers say: This is a wonderful thing: