# 52. Surah At-Tur, Verse 32 - **Surah:** 52. Surah At-Tur (The Mount) — سورة الطور - **Verse:** 32 / 49 · **Juz:** 27 · **Mushaf page:** 524 - **Source:** https://quran.so/surah-at-tur/verse-32 ## Arabic اَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ اَحْلَامُهُمْ بِهٰذَٓا اَمْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَۚ ## Transcription Am ta/muruhum ahlamuhum bihathaam hum qawmun taghoon ## Translations ### Aisha Bewley Is it their intellects that direct them to say this or is it that they are an unbridled people? ### Progressive Muslims Or do their dreams dictate this to them, or are they a transgressing people ### Shabbir Ahmed Do they behave like this because they would rather dream their lives through? Is this behavior really commanded by their intellect? Or is it that they are a people who wish to live without any moral bounds? ### Sam Gerrans — The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation If their reason commands them this: or if they are a people transgressing all bounds: ### The Monotheist Group — The Quran: A Monotheist Translation Or do their dreams dictate this to them, or are they a transgressing people? ### Rashad Khalifa — The Final Testament Is it their dreams that dictate their behavior, or are they naturally wicked? ### Mohamed Ahmed - Samira Does their reasoning prompt them to this, or they are a people rebellious? ### Sahih International — (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley) Or do their minds command them to [say] this, or are they a transgressing people? ### Muhammad Asad Is it their minds that bid them [to take] this [attitude] - or are they [simply] people filled with overweening arrogance? ### Marmaduke Pickthall Do their minds command them to do this, or are they an outrageous folk? ### Abul A'la Maududi — Tafhim commentary Do their minds prompt them to say such things, or are they a people immersed in transgression?"[1] _Footnotes_ - [1] In these two sentences, the opponents’ entire propaganda has been nailed, and they have been completely exposed. The reasoning briefly is this: These Qaraish chiefs and elders pose as very wise people, but does their intellect tell them that they should call a person a poet when he is not a poet, and call him a madman when he is well-known for his wisdom among the people, and dub him a sorcerer when he does not have the remotest association with sorcery? Then, if you are passing these judgments only on the basis of intellect and reason, you should have passed one judgment, and not so many contradictory judgments simultaneously. After all, how can one and the same man be a poet and a madman and a sorcerer at one and the same time? If he is mad, he can then neither be a sorcerer nor a poet. If he is a sorcerer, he cannot be a poet, and if he is a poet, he cannot be a sorcerer, for the language and diction and themes of poetry are quite different from the language and themes of sorcery. The one who knows the distinctions between poetry and sorcery cannot possibly call and regard the same discourse both as poetry and as sorcery at one and the same time. Therefore, it is evident that these contradictory things are being said against the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) not on the basis of intellect and reason but only due to obduracy and stubbornness, and the big chiefs of the nation blinded by their prejudice and enmity are leveling absurd charges which no serious person can regard as worthy of any attention. (For further explanation, see (E.N. 104 of Surah Al-Aaraf); (E.N. 3 of Surah Younus); (E.Ns 53, 54, of Surah Bani-Israil); (E.Ns 130, 131,140, 142-144 of Surah Ash- Shuara). ### Abdel Khalek Himmat — Al- Muntakhab Or is it the hope they found on a basis of a mental concept of what is not true, or on what they see in a dream or a vision steering their feeble minds to an unwarranted course of action, or is it on a basis of obstinacy and transgression? ### Bijan Moeinian Are these contradictory accusations [calling Mohammad an intelligent poet and at the same time a mad man, for example] the fruit of their thoughts or the manifestation of their wicked nature? ### Al-Hilali & Khan Do their minds command them this [i.e. to tell a lie against you (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)] or are they people transgressing all bounds? ### Abdullah Yusuf Ali Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this, or are they but a people transgressing beyond bounds? ### Mustafa Khattab — The Clear Quran Or do their ˹intelligent˺ minds prompt them to this ˹paradox˺?[1] Or are they ˹just˺ a transgressing people? ### Taqi Usmani Is it their intellects that direct them to (say) this, or are they a rebellious people? ### Abdul Haleem does their reason really tell them to do this, or are they simply insolent people? ### Arthur John Arberry Or do their intellects bid them do this? Or are they an insolent people? ### E. Henry Palmer Do their dreams bid them this? or are they an outrageous people? ### Hamid S. Aziz Nay! Do their understandings bid them this? Or are they a people transgressing beyond bounds? ### Mahmoud Ghali Or even do their immature understandings command them to do this? ### George Sale Do their mature understandings bid them say this; or are they people who perversely transgress? ### Syed Vickar Ahamed Or do they in their capacity to understand take themselves to this (way of lying), or are they only people exceeding beyond (their) bounds? ### 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. ### Ali Quli Qarai Is it their intellect which prompts them to [say] this, or are they a rebellious lot? ### Ahmed Hulusi — Türkçe Kur'an Çözümü Onlara bunu akılları mı emrediyor; yoksa onlar küstah bir toplum mu? ### Ali Bulaç — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Türkçe Anlamı Yoksa bunu kendilerine saçma akılları mı emrediyor? Yoksa onlar azgın bir kavim midir? ### Bayraktar Bayraklı — Yeni Bir Anlayışın Işığında Kur'an Meali Onlara akılları mı bunu emrediyor? Yoksa onlar azgınlar topluluğu mudurlar? ### Diyanet İşleri — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Meali Bunu kendilerine akılları mı emrediyor, yoksa onlar azgın bir topluluk mudur? ### Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Yoksa onlara bunu (bu tenakuzu) akılları mı emrediyor? Yoksa azgın bir kavım mıdırlar? ### Elmalılı (sadeleştirilmiş) Yoksa onlara bunu (bu çelişkiyi) akılları mı emrediyor, ya da onlar azgın bir topluluk mudurlar? ### Gültekin Onan Yoksa bunu kendilerine saçma akılları mı buyuruyor? Yoksa onlar azgın bir kavim midir? ### Hasan Basri Çantay — Kur'an-ı Hakim ve Meal-i Kerim Yahud bunu kendilerine akılları mı emrediyor, yoksa onlar azgınlar güruhu mudur? ### İbni Kesir Bunu kendilerine akılları mı buyuruyor, yoksa onlar, azgın bir kavim midirler? ### Muhammed Esed — Kur'an Mesajı Akılları mı onlara bu (tavrı takınmaları)nı telkin ediyor, yoksa (bu hal) (sadece) kaba bir küstahlığın eseri midir? ### Şaban Piriş — Kur'an-ı Kerim Türkçe Anlamı Yoksa onlar, bunu rüyalarında mı gördüler? Yoksa onlar, azgın bir toplum mudur? ### Süleyman Ateş — Kur'an-ı Kerim ve Yüce Meali Akılları mı bunu kendilerine emrediyor, yoksa onlar azgın bir topluluk mudur? ### Yaşar Nuri Öztürk — Kur'an-ı Kerim Meali Acaba bunu onlara hayalleri mi emrediyor yoksa bunlar azmış bir topluluk mu? ### Mustafa İslamoğlu — Hayat Kitabı Kur’an Yoksa onları bu tavra savruk akılları mı sevk ediyor? Sakın onlar isyanda sınır tanımayan azgın bir topluluk olmasın?! ### Erhan Aktaş (Eski Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Yoksa onların akılları böyle mi istiyor? Yoksa onlar azgın bir toplum mu? ### Ali Rıza Safa — Kur'an-ı Kerim Gerçek Yoksa akılları mı bunu yaptırıyor? Yoksa onlar, azıtmış bir toplum mu? ### Süleymaniye Vakfı (Eski Baskı) — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Bu duygusallıktan uzak bir karar gereği midir? Yoksa onlar bir azgınlar topluluğu mudur? ### Mehmet Okuyan — Kur’an Meal-Tefsir Onlara akılları mı bunu emrediyor; yoksa onlar azgın bir topluluk mudur? ### Erhan Aktaş (10. Baskı) — Kerim Kur'an Yoksa onların düşleri böyle mi istiyor? Yoksa onlar azgın bir halk mı? ### Erhan Aktaş — Kerim Kur'an Yoksa onların düşleri böyle mi istiyor? Yoksa onlar azgın bir halk mı? ### Süleymaniye Vakfı — Süleymaniye Vakfı Meali Bunu onlara akılları mı emrediyor, yoksa onlar hadlerini aşan bir topluluk mu[1]? _Footnotes_ - [1] [Zariyat 51/53.](https://quran.so/51/53) ## Words | # | word | meaning | root | |---|---|---|---| | 1 | أَمْ — am | Or | — | | 2 | تَأْمُرُهُمْ — tamuruhum | command them | امر — Elif-Mim-Ra | | 3 | أَحْلَـٰمُهُم — aḥlāmuhum | their minds | حلم — Ha-Lam-Mim | | 4 | بِهَـٰذَآ ۚ — bihādhā | this | — | | 5 | أَمْ — am | or | — | | 6 | هُمْ — hum | they | — | | 7 | قَوْمٌۭ — qawmun | (are) a people | قوم — Kaf-Vav-Mim | | 8 | طَاغُونَ — ṭāghūna | transgressing | طغي — Ta-Gayn-Ye | --- Previous: https://quran.so/surah-at-tur/verse-31.md · Next: https://quran.so/surah-at-tur/verse-33.md Retrieved: 2026-08-15 Quran.so — https://quran.so — CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — When quoting, name the translator.