Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

They give ear, and most of them are liars.

يُلْقُونَ السَّمْعَ وَاَكْثَرُهُمْ كَاذِبُونَۜ
Yulqoona assamAAa waaktharuhum kathiboon
#wordmeaningroot
1yul'qūnaThey pass onلقي
2l-samʿa(what is) heardسمع
3wa-aktharuhumand most of themكثر
4kādhibūna(are) liarsكذب
  • Aisha Bewley

    They give them a hearing and most of them are liars.

  • Progressive Muslims

    They claim to listen, but most of them are liars.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    They listen for lies and rumors, and most of them make up lies.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    They give ear, and most of them are liars.

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    Theyclaim to listen, but most of them are liars.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    They claim to listen, but most of them are liars.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    They pretend to listen, but most of them are liars.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Who listens to you (for spreading rumours); but most of them are liars.

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

    They pass on what is heard, and most of them are liars.

  • Muhammad Asad

    who readily lend ear , and most of whom lie to others as well.

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    They listen eagerly, but most of them are liars.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    on those who whisper hearsay in the ears of people; and most of them are liars.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    who open their hearts' ears to misrepresentations and vanities and to what the Devils impart to them of falsities and most of them (those who relate and those who receive) are liars. The pagans labelled the Quran as poetry and the Prophet as a poet while the difference is obviously vast. A. The Quran invites to a straight course aiming at a specific Purpose and a useful end. The Prophet's words together with his deeds accord, he does not say something today and cancels it tomorrow nor does he yield to emotions and desires but insists on a divine course of action and does not change nor deviate. On the other hand poets are captives of their emotions, their imagination and of the changing atmospheres and temperaments. When pleased they say one thing and when displeased they say another thing, whereas the Quran adheres eternally to the same thing. B. Poets may be good poets (poets of literary merit), poetic antiquarian (poet with another quality), poeticule (insignificant ), poetaster (a writer of trashy verse) a rhymester. Some of them engage in feigning and devising fables and others aim to please. C. Therefore those whose ruling passion conquers reason who refer their way of life and course of action to the region of poetry or emotions are wasting their days in vanity.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Such people whisper hearsay into ears, but most of them are liars.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Who gives ear (to the devils and they pour what they may have heard of the Unseen from the angels), and most of them are liars.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    (Into whose ears) they pour hearsay vanities, and most of them are liars.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    who gives an ˹attentive˺ ear ˹to half-truths˺, mostly passing on sheer lies. 

  • Taqi Usmani

    They give ear to hear (secretly,) and most of them tell lies.

  • Abdul Haleem

    who readily lends an ear to them, and most of them are liars:

  • Arthur John Arberry

    They give ear, but most of them are liars.

  • E. Henry Palmer

    and impart what they have heard; but most of them are liars.

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    They descend upon every wicked liar,

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    They are eager on hearing, and most of them are liars.

  • George Sale

    They learn what is heard; but the greater part of them are liars.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    (In their ears) they fill half-true, worthless things, and most of them are liars.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Who listen eagerly (to what the evil ones say), yet mostly they tell them lies.

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    They eavesdrop, and most of them are liars.