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Quran 37:36

Surah As-Saaffaat, Verse 36

Juz 23 · Page 447 · Ruku 387 · Meccan

وَيَقُولُونَ أَئِنَّا لَتَارِكُوٓا۟ ءَالِهَتِنَا لِشَاعِرٍ مَّجْنُونٍۭ

Word by word

وَيَقُولُونَ wayaqūlūna And they say أَئِنَّا a-innā Are we لَتَارِكُوٓا۟ latārikū to leave ءَالِهَتِنَا ālihatinā our gods لِشَاعِرٍۢ lishāʿirin for a poet مَّجْنُونٍۭ majnūnin mad

Transliteration

Wayaqooloona a-inna latarikoo alihatinalishaAAirin majnoon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

And said: Shall we forsake our gods for a mad poet?

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And say: "What! shall we give up our gods for the sake of a Poet possessed?"

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

( ويقولون أئنا لتاركو آلهتنا لشاعر مجنون ) أي : أنحن نترك عبادة آلهتنا وآلهة آبائنا عن قول [ هذا ] الشاعر المجنون ، يعنون رسول الله - صلى الله عليه وسلم - ؟ !

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.