سورة الطور، الآية ٣٢
أَمْ تَأْمُرُهُمْ أَحْلَٰمُهُم بِهَٰذَآ أَمْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَ ٣٢
am tamuruhum aḥlāmuhum bihādhā am hum qawmun ṭāghūna
Or do their minds1558 command them to [say] this, or are they a transgressing people?
[1558] In this expression is also a subtle allusion to the leaders of the Quraysh, who considered themselves to be great minds.
Verse 32 of Surah At-Tur (52:32), a Meccan surah, is in juz 27, on page 525 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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Or do their minds tell them to say: “He is a soothsayer and insane?” So they combine what cannot gather in one person, but rather they are a people who trespass the bounds, hence they do not return to any sacred law or intellect.
Do their minds12 prompt them to say such things, or are they transgressing people?
[12] The leaders of pagans in Makkah claimed to be of great minds. Here it questions their intelligence, arguing that a man cannot be a madman and a poet at the same time.
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?
Do their minds command them to do this, or are they an outrageous folk?
Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this, or are they but a people transgressing beyond bounds?
Nay! do their understandings bid them this? Or are they an inordinate people?
Or even do their immature understandings command them to do this?
