Quran 38:63 — Saad, verse 63
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
and took as a laughing-stock? Have our eyes missed them?’
أَتَّخَذْنَاهُمْ سِخْرِيًّا أَمْ زَاغَتْ عَنْهُمُ الْأَبْصَارُ
attakhadhnāhum sikh'riyyan am zāghat ʿanhumu l-abṣāru
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- What, did we take them for a laughing-stock? Or have our eyes swerved away from them?'
- Muhammad Asad
- [and] whom we made the target of our derision? Or is it that [they are here, and] our eyes have missed them?”
- Sahih International
- Is it [because] we took them in ridicule, or has [our] vision turned away from them?"
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | أَتَّخَذْنَـٰهُمْattakhadhnāhum | Did we take them | أخذ |
| 2 | سِخْرِيًّاsikh'riyyan | (in) ridicule | سخر |
| 3 | أَمْam | or | — |
| 4 | زَاغَتْzāghat | has turned away | زيغ |
| 5 | عَنْهُمُʿanhumu | from them | — |
| 6 | ٱلْأَبْصَـٰرُl-abṣāru | the vision | بصر |