Verse. 1820

١٥ - ٱلْحِجْر

15 - Al-Hijr

اِلَّا مَنِ اسْتَرَقَ السَّمْعَ فَاَتْبَعَہٗ شِہَابٌ مُّبِيْنٌ۝۱۸
Illa mani istaraqa alssamAAa faatbaAAahu shihabun mubeenun

English

Ahmed Ali

Except the ones who listen on the sly, yet they are chased away by a shooting flame.

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (save him who stealeth the hearing, and them doth a clear flame pursue) they are pursued by a bright, burning star.

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : except the one who listens by stealth — he is pursued by a clear flame, a shining meteor that burns him, or pierces him or drives him insane.