Quran 24:15 — An-Noor, verse 15
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
When you took it up with your tongues, and spoke with your mouths things you did not know [to be true], you thought it was trivial but to God it was very serious.
إِذْ تَلَقَّوْنَهُ بِأَلْسِنَتِكُمْ وَتَقُولُونَ بِأَفْوَاهِكُمْ مَا لَيْسَ لَكُمْ بِهِ عِلْمٌ وَتَحْسَبُونَهُ هَيِّنًا وَهُوَ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ عَظِيمٌ
idh talaqqawnahu bi-alsinatikum wataqūlūna bi-afwāhikum mā laysa lakum bihi ʿil'mun wataḥsabūnahu hayyinan wahuwa ʿinda l-lahi ʿaẓīmun
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- When you received it on your tongues, and were speaking with your mouths that whereof you had no knowledge, and reckoned it a light thing, and with God it was a mighty thing --
- Muhammad Asad
- when you take it up with your tongues, uttering with your mouths something of which you have no knowledge, and deeming it a light matter whereas in the sight of God it is an awful thing!
- Sahih International
- When you received it with your tongues and said with your mouths that of which you had no knowledge and thought it was insignificant while it was, in the sight of Allāh, tremendous.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | إِذْidh | When | — |
| 2 | تَلَقَّوْنَهُۥtalaqqawnahu | you received it | لقي |
| 3 | بِأَلْسِنَتِكُمْbi-alsinatikum | with your tongues | لسن |
| 4 | وَتَقُولُونَwataqūlūna | and you said | قول |
| 5 | بِأَفْوَاهِكُمbi-afwāhikum | with your mouths | فوه |
| 6 | مَّاmā | what | — |
| 7 | لَيْسَlaysa | not | ليس |
| 8 | لَكُمlakum | for you | — |
| 9 | بِهِۦbihi | of it | — |
| 10 | عِلْمٌۭʿil'mun | any knowledge | علم |
| 11 | وَتَحْسَبُونَهُۥwataḥsabūnahu | and you thought it | حسب |
| 12 | هَيِّنًۭاhayyinan | (was) insignificant | هون |
| 13 | وَهُوَwahuwa | while it | — |
| 14 | عِندَʿinda | (was) near Allah | عند |
| 15 | ٱللَّهِl-lahi | (was) near Allah | أله |
| 16 | عَظِيمٌۭʿaẓīmun | great | عظم |