Quran 26:223 Word by Word & Translations
26:223 Word by Word (2021)
26:223 Arabic
26:223 Transliteration
They pass on (what is) heard, and most of them (are) liars.
26:223 Arabic
يُلْقُونَ ٱلسَّمْعَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ كَٰذِبُونَ
26:223 Transliteration
Yulqoona alssamAAa waaktharuhum kathiboona
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
Theyclaim to listen, but most of them are liars
Abdel Haleem
who readily lends an ear to them, and most of them are liars
Abdul Hye
who gives ear (to the devils), most of them are liars,
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Who give ear, and most of them are liars
Ahmed Ali
Who listens to you (for spreading rumours); but most of them are liars
Ahmed Hulusi
Those who betray themselves give ear to (the devils – delusive ideas in their subconscious) and most of them are liars.
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
The devils cast upon them their own hearings and most of them are liars.
Aisha Bewley
They give them a hearing and most of them are liars.
Ali Ünal
They (the satans) give ear eagerly (to the conversations of the angels, and whisper to every forger lost in sin as if they received something), but they (both the satans and their sinful agents) are liars in most of their words
Ali Quli Qara'i
They eavesdrop, and most of them are liars
Amatul Rahman Omar
Who listen eagerly (to what the evil ones say), yet mostly they tell them lies
Arthur John Arberry
They give ear, but most of them are liars
Bakhtiari Nejad
who gives ear (and listens to the devils), and most of them are liars.
Bijan Moeinian
Such people whisper hearsay into ears, but most of them are liars
Bilal Muhammad 2018
They repeat what they hear, though most of the deny it
Corpus.Quran
They pass on (what is) heard and most of them (are) liars
Dr. Kamal Omar
They transmit (without getting confirmed) what is heard and most of them are untrue in speech
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
but most of them are ones who lie.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Who pour (into their ears) hearsay and most of them are liars
Dr. Munir Munshey
And (they) feed them heresies; Most of them are liars
Edward Henry Palmer
and impart what they have heard; but most of them are liars
Faridul Haque
The devils convey upon them what they heard, but most of them are liars
Fode Drame
They [devils] strain their hearing while most of them are liars.
George Sale
They learn what is heard; but the greater part of them are liars
Hamid S. Aziz
And impart what they have heard; but most of them are liars
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
They listen, but most of them are liars
Hilali - Khan
Who gives ear (to the devils and they pour what they may have heard of the unseen from the angels), and most of them are liars
Irving/Hegab
They even try to eavesdrop, since most of them are liars;
John Medows Rodwell
They impart what they have heard; - but most of them are liars
Linda "iLham" Barto
They repeat what [gossip] is heard, and most of them are liars.
Maududi
on those who whisper hearsay in the ears of people; and most of them are liars
Maulana Muhammad Ali
They give ear, and most of them are liars
Mir Aneesuddin
they deliver hearsay and most of them are liars.
Mohammad Shafi
They (the devils) pass on hearsays to them (sinful turncoats). And most of them (the devils) lie
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
They listen attentively the hearing/listening , and most of them (are) lying/denying
Muhammad Asad
who readily lend ear [to every falsehood], and most of whom lie to others as well
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
They are eager on hearing, and most of them are liars
Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall
They listen eagerly, but most of them are liars
Muhammad Sarwar
The satans try to listen to the heavens but many of them are liars
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
They give ear to hear (secretly,) and most of them tell lies
Munir Mezyed
They give ear, but most of them are liars.
MunirMezyed2023
They give ear, but most of them are liars.
Musharraf Hussain
who listens readily, and who is a liar.
Mustafa Khattab 2018
who gives an ˹attentive˺ ear ˹to half-truths˺, mostly passing on sheer lies.
Mustaqim
They listen out, but most of them are liars.
N J Dawood 2014
They eagerly listen, but most of them are liars
Rashad Khalifa
They pretend to listen, but most of them are liars.
Safi Kaskas
who readily lends an ear, but most of them are liars.
Samy Mahdy
They eavesdrop on the listening, and most of them are liars.
Shabbir Ahmed
They listen for lies and rumors, and most of them make up lies
Shakir
They incline their ears, and most of them are liars
Sher Ali
They strain their ears towards heaven, and most of them are liars
Syed Vickar Ahamed
(In their ears) they fill half-true, worthless things, and most of them are liars
T.B.Irving
They even try to eavesdrop, since most of them are liars;
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
They lend an ear, but most of them are liars.
Talal Itani (2012)
They give ear, and most of them are liars
The Study Quran
eavesdropping, and most of them are liars
The Wise Quran
They pass on what is heard; and most of them are liars.
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)
They pass on what is heard, and most of them are liars
Wahiduddin Khan
who lends an ear to them, and most of them are liars
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
(Into whose ears) they pour hearsay vanities, and most of them are liars