Al-Qur'an Surah At-Tur Verse 32

Mufti Taqi Usmani

Is it their intellects that direct them to (say) this, or are they a rebellious people?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Or do their ˹intelligent˺ minds prompt them to this ˹paradox˺?[[ The pagan leaders claimed to be Mecca’s most intelligent minds. So this verse questions their intelligence, arguing that the Prophet (ﷺ) cannot be a madman and a poet at the same time. ]] Or are they ˹just˺ a transgressing people?

Ruwwad Translation Center

Do their minds prompt them to say such things, or are they a transgressing people?

A. J. Arberry

Or do their intellects bid them do this? Or are they an insolent people?

Abdul Haleem

does their reason really tell them to do this, or are they simply insolent people?

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Enjoin them their understandings to this? or are they a people conumacious?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this, or are they but a people transgressing beyond bounds?

Abul Ala Maududi

Do their minds prompt them to say such things, or are they a people immersed in transgression?”

Ahmed Ali

Does their reasoning prompt them to this, or they are a people rebellious?

Ahmed Raza Khan

Is this what their senses tell them, or are they a rebellious people?

Ali Quli Qarai

Is it their intellect which prompts them to [say] this, or are they a rebellious lot?

Ali Ünal

Do their minds urge them to such (absurd falsehoods), or are they a people (in the habit of being) rebellious and outrageous?

Amatul Rahman Omar

As a matter of fact their reason prompts them to (think of the Prophet in) these (terms). They are, rather, a people transgressing limits.

English Literal

Or their minds/dreams order/command them with that, or they are a tyrannizing/arrogant nation?

Faridul Haque

Is this what their senses tell them, or are they a rebellious people?

Hamid S. Aziz

Nay! Do their understandings bid them this? Or are they a people transgressing beyond bounds?

Hilali & Khan

Do their minds command them this [i.e. to tell a lie against you (Muhammad SAW)] or are they people exceeding the bounds (i.e. from Belief in Allah to disbelief).

Maulana Mohammad Ali

Say: Wait, I too wait along with you.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

Nay! do their understandings bid them this? Or are they an inordinate people?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Do their minds command them to do this, or are they an outrageous folk?

Muhammad Sarwar

Does their reason tell them to say this or is it because they are a rebellious people?

Qaribullah & Darwish

Or, do their intellects order them to do this? Or, are they an insolent people?

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Or do their minds command them this or are they people transgressing all bounds

Wahiduddin Khan

is it their minds that prompt them [to say] this, or are they merely insolent people?

Talal Itani

Or is it that their dreams compel them to this? Or are they aggressive people?

Tafsir jalalayn

Or do their faculties of understanding prompt them to [say] this?, their saying to him; [you are either] a sorcerer, a poet, a soothsayer or a madman, in other words, they do not [in reality] prompt them to [say] this. Or (am, [in effect] means bal, `rather') are they a rebellious lot?, because of their obstinacy.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ أَحْلَمُهُم بِهَذَا

Or do their minds command them this,

`do their minds command them to tell these lies against you (O Muhammad), even though they know in their hearts that they are untrue and false,'

أَمْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَ



or are they people transgressing all bounds?

`surely, they are misguided, stubborn and unjust people, and this is why they say what they say about you (O Muhammad). '

Allah the Exalted said