سورة المعارج، الآية ٣٧
عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ ٣٧
ʿani l-yamīni waʿani l-shimāli ʿizīna
[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?1756
[1756] They sat at a distance in order to oppose and mock the Prophet (ﷺ), claiming that they would enter Paradise before the believers.
Verse 37 of Surah Al-Ma’arij (70:37), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 569 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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Surrounding you from your right and left, in groups upon groups.
from the right and from the left, in crowds13?
[13] Some pagans of Makkah gathered around the Prophet (ﷺ) mocking and opposing him, claiming that if there is in fact a Hereafter, they would enter Paradise before the believers.
(Sitting) in groups on the right and on the left (of you, O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)?
On the right and on the left, in groups?
From the right and from the left, in crowds?
On the right hand and on the left, in sundry parties?
On the right and on the left in sundry batches?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِذْ يَتَلَقَّى ٱلْمُتَلَقِّيَانِ عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ قَعِيدٌ
When the two receivers [i.e., recording angels] receive, seated on the right and on the left.
