52. Surah At-Tur, Verse 32

Or do their dreams dictate this to them, or are they a transgressing people

Do they behave like this because they would rather dream their lives through? Is this behavior really commanded by their intellect? Or is it that they are a people who wish to live without any moral bounds?

If their reason commands them this: or if they are a people transgressing all bounds:

Or do their dreams dictate this to them, or are they a transgressing people?

Or do their dreams dictate this to them, or are they a transgressing people?

Is it their intellects that direct them to say this or is it that they are an unbridled people?

Is it their dreams that dictate their behavior, or are they naturally wicked?

Does their reasoning prompt them to this, or they are a people rebellious?

Or do their minds command them to [say] this, or are they a transgressing people?

Is it their minds that bid them [to take] this [attitude] - or are they [simply] people filled with overweening arrogance?

Do their minds command them to do this, or are they an outrageous folk?

Or is it the hope they found on a basis of a mental concept of what is not true, or on what they see in a dream or a vision steering their feeble minds to an unwarranted course of action, or is it on a basis of obstinacy and transgression?

Are these contradictory accusations [calling Mohammad an intelligent poet and at the same time a mad man, for example] the fruit of their thoughts or the manifestation of their wicked nature?

Do their minds command them this [i.e. to tell a lie against you (Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم)] or are they people transgressing all bounds?

Is it that their faculties of understanding urge them to this, or are they but a people transgressing beyond bounds?

Or do their ˹intelligent˺ minds prompt them to this ˹paradox˺?[1] Or are they ˹just˺ a transgressing people?

Is it their intellects that direct them to (say) this, or are they a rebellious people?

does their reason really tell them to do this, or are they simply insolent people?

Or do their intellects bid them do this? Or are they an insolent people?

Do their dreams bid them this? or are they an outrageous people?

Nay! Do their understandings bid them this? Or are they a people transgressing beyond bounds?

Or even do their immature understandings command them to do this?

Do their mature understandings bid them say this; or are they people who perversely transgress?

Or do they in their capacity to understand take themselves to this (way of lying), or are they only people exceeding beyond (their) bounds?

As a matter of fact their reason prompts them to (think of the Prophet in) these (terms). They are, rather, a people transgressing limits.

Is it their intellect which prompts them to [say] this, or are they a rebellious lot?