Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

They listen not to the exalted assembly, and they are pelted from every side,

لَا يَسَّمَّعُونَ اِلَى الْمَلَأِ الْاَعْلٰى وَيُقْذَفُونَ مِنْ كُلِّ جَانِبٍۗ
La yassammaAAoona ila almala-ial-aAAla wayuqthafoona min kulli janib
#wordmeaningroot
1Not
2yassammaʿūnathey may listenسمع
3ilāto
4l-mala-ithe assemblyملا
5l-aʿlā[the] exaltedعلو
6wayuq'dhafūnaare peltedقذف
7minfrom
8kullieveryكلل
9jānibinsideجنب
  • Aisha Bewley

    They cannot eavesdrop on the Highest Assembly and they are stoned from every side,

  • Progressive Muslims

    They cannot listen to the command up high; and they are bombarded from every side.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Repelled faraway from the Truth, the 'occult sciences' despite their boisterous claims, can get not a hint of what Divine Revelation is.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    They listen not to the exalted assembly, and they are pelted from every side,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    They cannot listen to the command up high; and they are bombarded from every side.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    They cannot listen to the command up high; and they are bombarded from every side.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    They cannot spy on the High Society; they get bombarded from every side.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    So that they are not able to listen to the angels of higher (echelons), and are pelted from all sides

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    they may not listen to the exalted assembly and are pelted from every side,

  • Muhammad Asad

    they should not be able to overhear the host on high, but shall be repelled from all sides,

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    They cannot listen to the Highest Chiefs for they are pelted from every side,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    These satans cannot listen to what transpires in the High Council for they are pelted away from every side

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    Who peers inquisitively into the realm making an effort to hear what is discussed in the August Assembly, but they are debarred, being assailed with flames on every side,

  • Bijan Moeinian

    These satans cannot break into the communication system of those who are close to God as they are on defensive.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    They cannot listen to the higher group (angels) for they are pelted from every side.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    (So) they should not strain their ears in the direction of the Exalted Assembly but be cast away from every side,

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    They cannot listen to the highest assembly ˹of angels˺ for they are pelted from every side,

  • Taqi Usmani

    They cannot listen to the Upper Realm and are hit from every side

  • Abdul Haleem

    they cannot eavesdrop on the Higher Assembly––pelted from every side,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    they listen not to the High Council, for they are pelted from every side,

  • E. Henry Palmer

    that they may not listen to the exalted chiefs; for they are hurled at from every side,

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    They cannot listen to the exalted assembly and they are thrown at from every side,

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    They do not overhear the most Exalted Chiefs, (i. e., angels) and they are pelted (with hurled meteors) from every side,

  • George Sale

    that they may not listen to the discourse of the exalted princes, -- for they are darted at from every side,

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    (So that) they (the Satans') should not try to hear from the direction of the Exalted Assembly (of men and angels in Allah’s service and worship) but (they) be thrown out from every side,

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    They (having no access to the source of prophecy) cannot listen to (what goes on in) the exalted assembly (of the arch angels). They are reproached (for their false conjectures) from every side,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    They do not eavesdrop on the Supernal Elite but are shot at from every side,