Quran 26 : 223

They pass on (what is) heard, and most of them (are) liars.
يُلْقُونَ
Yulqūna
ٱلسَّمْعَ
Assamʿa
وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ
Waaktharuhum
كَٰذِبُونَ
Kaādhibūna

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Theyclaim to listen, but most of them are liars

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

(Into whose ears) they pour hearsay vanities, and most of them are liars

Wahiduddin Khan

who lends an ear to them, and most of them are liars

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

They pass on what is heard, and most of them are liars

The Wise Quran

They pass on what is heard; and most of them are liars.

The Study Quran

eavesdropping, and most of them are liars

Talal Itani (2012)

They give ear, and most of them are liars

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

They lend an ear, but most of them are liars.

T.B.Irving

They even try to eavesdrop, since most of them are liars;

Syed Vickar Ahamed

(In their ears) they fill half-true, worthless things, and most of them are liars

Sher Ali

They strain their ears towards heaven, and most of them are liars

Shakir

They incline their ears, and most of them are liars

Shabbir Ahmed

They listen for lies and rumors, and most of them make up lies

Samy Mahdy

They eavesdrop on the listening, and most of them are liars.

Safi Kaskas

who readily lends an ear, but most of them are liars.

Rashad Khalifa

They pretend to listen, but most of them are liars.

N J Dawood 2014

They eagerly listen, but most of them are liars

Mustaqim

They listen out, but most of them are liars.

Mustafa Khattab 2018

who gives an ˹attentive˺ ear ˹to half-truths˺, mostly passing on sheer lies.

Musharraf Hussain

who listens readily, and who is a liar.

MunirMezyed2023

They give ear, but most of them are liars.

Munir Mezyed

They give ear, but most of them are liars.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

They give ear to hear (secretly,) and most of them tell lies

Muhammad Sarwar

The satans try to listen to the heavens but many of them are liars

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

They listen eagerly, but most of them are liars

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

They are eager on hearing, and most of them are liars

Muhammad Asad

who readily lend ear [to every falsehood], and most of whom lie to others as well

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

They listen attentively the hearing/listening , and most of them (are) lying/denying

Mohammad Shafi

They (the devils) pass on hearsays to them (sinful turncoats). And most of them (the devils) lie

Mir Aneesuddin

they deliver hearsay and most of them are liars.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

They give ear, and most of them are liars

Maududi

on those who whisper hearsay in the ears of people; and most of them are liars

Linda "iLham" Barto

They repeat what [gossip] is heard, and most of them are liars.

John Medows Rodwell

They impart what they have heard; - but most of them are liars

Irving/Hegab

They even try to eavesdrop, since 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

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

They listen, but most of them are liars

Hamid S. Aziz

And impart what they have heard; but most of them are liars

George Sale

They learn what is heard; but the greater part of them are liars

Fode Drame

They [devils] strain their hearing while most of them are liars.

Faridul Haque

The devils convey upon them what they heard, but most of them are liars

Edward Henry Palmer

and impart what they have heard; but most of them are liars

Dr. Munir Munshey

And (they) feed them heresies; Most of them are liars

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Who pour (into their ears) hearsay and most of them are liars

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

but most of them are ones who lie.

Dr. Kamal Omar

They transmit (without getting confirmed) what is heard and most of them are untrue in speech

Corpus.Quran

They pass on (what is) heard and most of them (are) liars

Bilal Muhammad 2018

They repeat what they hear, though most of the deny it

Bijan Moeinian

Such people whisper hearsay into ears, but most of them are liars

Bakhtiari Nejad

who gives ear (and listens to the devils), and most of them are liars.

Arthur John Arberry

They give ear, but most of them are liars

Amatul Rahman Omar

Who listen eagerly (to what the evil ones say), yet mostly they tell them lies

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

Aisha Bewley

They give them a hearing and most of them are liars.

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

The devils cast upon them their own hearings and 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 Ali

Who listens to you (for spreading rumours); but most of them are liars

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Who give ear, and most of them are liars

Abdul Hye

who gives ear (to the devils), most of them are liars,

Abdel Haleem

who readily lends an ear to them, and most of them are liars