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Al-Isra 47

Ayah 47 of 111 · Meccan

نَّحۡنُ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا يَسۡتَمِعُونَ بِهِۦٓ إِذۡ يَسۡتَمِعُونَ إِلَيۡكَ وَإِذۡ هُمۡ نَجۡوَىٰٓ إِذۡ يَقُولُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلٗا مَّسۡحُورًا ٤٧

We are most knowing of how they listen to it when they listen to you and [of] when they are in private conversation, when the wrongdoers say, "You follow not but a man affected by magic."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. نَّحۡنُWenaḥnu
  2. أَعۡلَمُknow bestaʿlamu
  3. بِمَا[of] whatbimā
  4. يَسۡتَمِعُونَthey listenyastamiʿūna
  5. بِهِۦٓto [it]bihi
  6. إِذۡwhenidh
  7. يَسۡتَمِعُونَthey listenyastamiʿūna
  8. إِلَيۡكَto youilayka
  9. وَإِذۡand whenwa-idh
  10. هُمۡtheyhum
  11. نَجۡوَىٰٓ(are) in private conversationnajwā
  12. إِذۡwhenidh
  13. يَقُولُsayyaqūlu
  14. ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَthe wrongdoersl-ẓālimūna
  15. إِنNotin
  16. تَتَّبِعُونَyou followtattabiʿūna
  17. إِلَّاbutillā
  18. رَجُلٗاa manrajulan
  19. مَّسۡحُورًاbewitchedmasḥūran

Tafsir

I know best the way their leaders listen to the Qur’ān. They do not want to take guidance from it, but they want to mock at it and disrupt your recitation. I also know best what they secretly confer about with respect to their denial of and preventing others from it, when these people who wrong themselves by their denial say: You - O People - are only following a man who is bewitched and confused.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran