سورة الأنبياء، الآية ٦٥
ثُمَّ نُكِسُوا۟ عَلَىٰ رُءُوسِهِمْ لَقَدْ عَلِمْتَ مَا هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ يَنطِقُونَ ٦٥
thumma nukisū ʿalā ruūsihim laqad ʿalim'ta mā hāulāi yanṭiqūna
Then they reversed themselves,893 [saying], "You have already known that these do not speak!"
[893] After first admitting their error, they were seized by pride and obstinacy.
Verse 65 of Surah Al-Anbya (21:65), a Meccan surah, is in juz 17, on page 327 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
80 recitations by 74 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
They then returned to their stubbornness and denial, saying, “O Abraham! You know, surely, that these idols cannot speak, so how can you then tell us to ask them?” They intended it to be an evidence in their favour, but it became an evidence against them.
Then they turned to their obstinacy24, [saying], “You already know that they cannot speak.”
[24] After first admitting their error.
Then they turned to themselves (their first thought and said): "Indeed you [Ibrâhîm (Abraham)] know well that these (idols) speak not!"
And they were utterly confounded, and they said: Well thou knowest that these speak not.
Then were they confounded with shame: (they said), "Thou knowest full well that these (idols) do not speak!"
Then they were made to hang down their heads: Certainly you know that they do not speak.
Thereafter they were made to relapse (Literally: they were turned upon their heads) (into idolatry), (saying), "Indeed you already know that these (can) in no way pronounce (a word)."
