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Al-Ma'arij 37

Ayah 37 of 44 · Meccan

عَنِ ٱلۡيَمِينِ وَعَنِ ٱلشِّمَالِ عِزِينَ ٣٧

[To sit] on [your] right and [your] left in separate groups?1

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 They sat at a distance in order to oppose and mock the Prophet (ﷺ), claiming that they would enter Paradise before the believers.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. عَنِOnʿani
  2. ٱلۡيَمِينِthe rightl-yamīni
  3. وَعَنِand onwaʿani
  4. ٱلشِّمَالِthe leftl-shimāli
  5. عِزِينَ(in) separate groupsʿizīna

Tafsir

Surrounding you from your right and left, in groups upon groups.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran