Adh-Dhariyat Verse 53

Have they passed this ˹cliché˺ down to one another? In fact, they have ˹all˺ been a transgressing people.

Did they suggest this to one another? Rather they are a transgressing people.

What, have they bequeathed it one to another? Nay, but they are an insolent people.

Did they tell one another to do this? No! They are a people who exceed all bounds,

Have they bequeathed its Unto each other! Nay! they are a people contumacious.

Is this the legacy they have transmitted, one to another? Nay, they are themselves a people transgressing beyond bounds!

Have they arrived at a common understanding concerning this? No; but they are a people given to transgression.

Is this the legacy they have passed down from one to the other? In fact, they are a rebellious people.

What! Have they willed this utterance to one another? In fact they are a rebellious people.

Did they enjoin this upon one another?! Rather, they were a rebellious lot.

Have they bequeathed this to one another (by way of response)? They were indeed a rebellious people.

Have they bequeathed this (way of saying things) to one another. The fact is they themselves are a people who transgress limits.

Do they command/entrust with it? But they are a tyrannizing/arrogant nation.

What! Have they willed this utterance to one another? In fact they are a rebellious people.

Is this the legacy (or tradition) they have transmitted to each other? Nay! They are a people extravagant (transgressing beyond bounds).

Have they (the people of the past) transmitted this saying to these (Quraish pagans)? Nay, they are themselves a people transgressing beyond bounds (in disbelief)!

Thus there came not a messenger to those before them but they said: An enchanter or a madman!

Have they charged each other with this? Nay! they are an inordinate people.

Have they handed down (the saying) as an heirloom one unto another? Nay, but they are froward folk.

Have they inherited such dealings with the Prophets from their predecessors or are they a rebellious people?

Have they handed this down from one to another? No, rather, they are an insolent nation.

Have they transmitted this saying to these Nay, they are themselves a people transgressing beyond bounds!

Have they handed this down to one another? They are certainly a people who exceed all bounds,

Did they recommend it to one another? In fact, they are rebellious people.

Have they, all, enjoined this upon one another? (an interrogative intended as a denial). Nay, but they are an insolent folk, [a folk] whose own [proclivity to] insolence has made them all say the same thing.

أَتَوَاصَوْا بِهِ

Have they transmitted this saying to these,

meaning, have those of the past taught these words to the people of the present?

بَلْ هُمْ قَوْمٌ طَاغُونَ



Nay, they are themselves a people transgressing beyond bounds!

They are tyrannical people whose hearts are the same. Therefore, the latter said the same as those before them have said.

Allah the Exalted said