Al-Mu'minun Verse 67

boasting of the Sacred House, and babbling ˹nonsense about the Quran˺ by night.”

feeling proud of this [Sacred House], spending night in evil talks [about the Qur’an].”

waxing proud against it, talking foolish talk by night.'

and spent the evening making fun of [the Quran].’

Stiff-necked, discoursing thereof by night, reviling.

"In arrogance; talking nonsense about the (Qur'an), like one telling fables by night."

behaving arrogantly, and making fun, and talking nonsense (about the Book in your nightly chats)."

Insolently, treating them like tales told at night."

“Priding yourself in serving the Sacred Mosque; at night you utter indecent stories in it, while discarding the truth.”

being disdainful of it, talking nonsense in your nightly sessions.’

"Behaving arrogantly, and talking nonsense (about the Messenger and the Religion he conveys) in your nightly conversations."

`Treating them with disdain and arrogance, talking nonsense about this (Qur´ân) by night (in your meetings), you gave (it) up.´

Arrogantly conversing at night, you speak disgustedly/obscenely with (about) it.

"Priding yourself in serving the Sacred Mosque; at night you utter indecent stories in it, while discarding the truth."

My revelations were recited to you, but you turned back upon your heels,

In pride (they Quraish pagans and polytheists of Makkah used to feel proud that they are the dwellers of Makkah sanctuary Haram), talking evil about it (the Quran) by night.

My messages were indeed recited to you, but you used to turn back on your heels

In arrogance; talking nonsense about the Quran, and left him like one telling fables by night.

In scorn thereof. Nightly did ye rave together.

and arrogantly mocked and reviled them.

being proud against it, talking foolishness by night.

In pride, talking evil about it by night.

in arrogance, as if you were abandoning a story-teller.

Arrogant towards it—talked nonsense about it—disregarded it.

disdainful, of [embracing] faith, because of it, that is, because of the [Sacred] House or the [Meccan] Sanctuary and their being inhabitants thereof, secure, in contrast to [the situation with] all [other] peoples in their hometowns, while in [your] night sessions (smiran is a circumstantial qualifier,) in other words, they come together to converse at night around the [Sacred] House, you talked nonsense' ([if read as] tahjurna, the third form [from hajara] means [while] `you disregarded' the Qur'n; [but if read] as the fourth form [tuhjirna, from ahjara] it means [while] `you speak falsehood' about the Prophet and the Qur'n).

In pride, talking evil about it by night.

refers to the arrogant pride which the Quraysh felt because they believed themselves to be the guardians of the Ka`bah, when in fact this was not the case.

As An-Nasa'i said in his Tafsir of this Ayah in his Sunan;

Ahmad bin Sulayman told us that Ubaydullah told us from Isra`il, from Abdul-A`la that he heard Sa`id bin Jubayr narrating that Ibn Abbas said,

"Talking by late night became disapproved of when this Ayah was revealed;

مُسْتَكْبِرِينَ بِهِ سَامِرًا تَهْجُرُونَ


In pride, talking evil about it by night.

He said,

"They boasted about the Ka`bah and said, `We are its people who stay up talking at night.'

They used to boast and stay up and talk at night around the Ka`bah. They did not use it for the proper purpose, and so in effect they had abandoned it."