سورة القمر، الآية ٢٤
فَقَالُوٓا۟ أَبَشَرًا مِّنَّا وَٰحِدًا نَّتَّبِعُهُۥٓ إِنَّآ إِذًا لَّفِى ضَلَٰلٍ وَسُعُرٍ ٢٤
faqālū abasharan minnā wāḥidan nattabiʿuhu innā idhan lafī ḍalālin wasuʿurin
And said, "Is it one human being1582 among us that we should follow? Indeed, we would then be in error and madness.
[1582] i.e., the prophet Ṣāliḥ.
Verse 24 of Surah Al-Qamar (54:24), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 529 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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They condemningly said: Shall we follow a human from our species, who is alone? If we follow him in this state, we will be astray from what is correct and will be in difficulty.
They said, “Shall we follow a single human being9 from among us? Then we would surely be in error and insanity!
[9] i.e., Prophet Sālih (عليه السلام).
And they said: "A man, alone among us - shall we follow him? Truly then we should be in error and distress (or madness)!"
For they said; Is it a mortal man, alone among us, that we are to follow? Then indeed we should fall into error and madness.
For they said: "What! a man! a Solitary one from among ourselves! shall we follow such a one? Truly should we then be straying in mind, and mad!
So they said: What! a single mortal from among us! Shall we follow him? Most surely we shall in that case be in sure error and distress:
So they said, "Should we closely follow a mortal, one out of ourselves? Lo, surely we are indeed in error and insanity!
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
إِنِّىٓ إِذًا لَّفِى ضَلَٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ
Indeed, I would then be in manifest error.
