Surah An-Naml — Verse 54
The Ant · 27:54 · 54/93
وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِۦٓ أَتَأْتُونَ ٱلْفَـٰحِشَةَ وَأَنتُمْ تُبْصِرُونَ
Walootan ith qalaliqawmihi ata'toona alfahishata waantum tubsiroon
Translations of this verse 11
Saheeh International
And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit immorality while you are seeing?
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
We also sent Lot to his people. He said to them, ‘How can you commit this outrage with your eyes wide open?
Marmaduke Pickthall
And Lot! when he said unto his folk: Will ye commit abomination knowingly?
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
(We also sent) Lut (as a messenger): behold, He said to his people, "Do ye do what is shameful though ye see (its iniquity)?
Mufti Taqi Usmani
And (We sent) LūT when he said to his people, “Do you commit the shameful act while you can see (its shamefulness)?
Al-Hilali & Khan
And (remember) Lût (Lot)! When he said to his people. Do you commit Al-Fâhishah (evil, great sin, every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse, sodomy) while you see (one another doing evil without any screen)?"
Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)
We also sent Lot, and recall when he told his people: "Do you commit shameless acts with your eyes open?
Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an
AND [thus, too, did We save] Lot, when he said unto his people: “Would you commit this abomination with your eyes open (to its being against all nature)?
Rowwad · source edition
And [remember] Lot, when he said to his people, “Do you commit this shameful act[16] while seeing [one another][17]?
Notes
[16] i.e., sodomy. [17] i.e., publicly, or while you are aware [that it is wrong].
Noor International · source edition
(54) And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit immorality[1081] while you are seeing?[1082]
Notes
[1081]- Homosexual acts. [1082]- i.e., openly. Another meaning is "...while you are aware [that it is wrong]."
Hilali and Khan · source edition
54. And (remember) Lût (Lot)! When he said to his people.[2] Do you commit Al-Fâhishah (evil, great sin, every kind of unlawful sexual intercourse, sodomy) while you see (one another doing evil without any screen)?"
Notes
[2] (V.27:54) i.e. the town of Sodom in Palestine - the place where the Dead Sea is now. (See the book of history by Ibn Kathir ‘The Stories of the Prophets’). (كتاب التاريخ لابن كثير).