15. Surah Al-Hijr, Verse 72
لَعَمْرُكَ اِنَّهُمْ لَف۪ي سَكْرَتِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ
LaAAamruka innahum lafee sakratihimyaAAmahoona
By your life! They were wandering blindly in their drunkenness!
- Progressive Muslims
By your life, they are in their drunkenness, blundering.
- Shabbir Ahmed
The Messengers said to Lot, "They won't listen to you even if you preach them all your life. " They were totally intoxicated, stumbling up and down.
- Sam Gerrans
By thy life, they were in their intoxication wandering blindly!
- The Monotheist Group
By your life, they are in their intoxication, blundering.
- Edip-Layth
By your life, they are in their drunkenness, blundering.
- Aisha Bewley
By your life! They were wandering blindly in their drunkenness!
- Rashad Khalifa
But, alas, they were totally blinded by their lust.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Verily by your life they were utterly confused in their (lustful) drunkenness.
- Sahih International
By your life, [O Muúammad], indeed they were, in their intoxication, wandering blindly.
- Muhammad Asad
[But the angels spoke thus:] "As thou livest, [O Lot, they will not listen to thee:] behold, in their delirium [of lust] they are but blindly stumbling to and fro!"
- Marmaduke Pickthall
By thy life (O Muhammad) they moved blindly in the frenzy of approaching death.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
"To your life, O prophets" he was told, "they -the wicked- are wandering here and there being deceived by their vain illusive sensuous perception which shall melt when the sun beams glow".
- Bijan Moeinian
Alas they were drunk and out of their mind.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Verily, by your life (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم), in their wild intoxication, they were wandering blindly.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Verily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their wild intoxication, they wander in distraction, to and fro.
- Mustafa Khattab
By your life ˹O Prophet˺,[1] they certainly wandered blindly, intoxicated ˹by lust˺.
- Taqi Usmani
By your life, (O prophet) they were wandering blindly in their intoxication (misguidance).
- Abdul Haleem
By your life [Prophet], they wandered on in their wild intoxication
- Arthur John Arberry
By thy life, they wandered blindly in their dazzlement,
- E. Henry Palmer
By thy life! verily, they were surely in their intoxication blindly wandering on!-
- Hamid S. Aziz
By your life (O Muhammad)! In their frenzy of intoxication (passion) they went blindly (distractedly) to and fro.
- Mahmoud Ghali
By your life, surely they were indeed blundering in their stupor.
- George Sale
As thou livest they wander in their folly.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
Surely, by your life (O Prophet), in their wild misled condition (of intoxication), they wander distracted back and forth.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
(Prophet!) by your (holy) life and by your true faith these (your opponents) are (also) wandering distractedly in a fit of frenzy.
- Ali Quli Qarai
By your life, they were bewildered in their drunkenness.