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

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

Or is it their dreams compelling them to say this? Or are they people full of tyranny?

am tamuruhum aḥlāmuhum bihādhā am hum qawmun ṭāghūn

Or command them their minds this, or they (are) a people transgressing?

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

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˺? Or are they ˹just˺ a transgressing people?

Or is it their dreams compelling them to say this? Or are they people full of tyranny?

is it their minds that prompt them [to say] this, or are they merely insolent people

Nay! do their understandings bid them this? Or are they an inordinate people

Or command their faculties of understanding to this? Or are they a folk, ones who are defiant?

Do their fancies order them to do this or are they arrogant folk?"

Or do their minds command them this (to tell a lie against you)? Or are they people exceeding all bounds (from belief to disbelief)?

Do their minds command them to this, or are they a rebellious people

Do their delusions command them for this, or they are a nation of those who exceed the bounds

Does their faculties of reasoning prompt them to say this? Or is it merely that they are wicked people

Or is it that their dreams compel them to this? Or are they aggressive people

Or even do their immature understandings command them to do this

Does their reason tell them to say this or is it because they are a rebellious people

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

Is it (really) their intellect that instructs them (to say) this? Or are they a nation guilty of excess

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

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

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

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

Enjoin them their understandings to this? or are they a people conumacious

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

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

Do their minds urge them to such (absurd falsehoods), or are they a people (in the habit of being) rebellious and outrageous

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

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

Or does their imagination (and dreams) order them to this, or are they disobedient people

Is it that their mind leads them to this, or are they just a people transgressing beyond bounds

Or do their minds tell them to say this? Or are they simply a bunch of unruly people?

Do their minds prompt them to say such things, or are they a people immersed in transgression?"

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

Do their visions dictate this to them — or are they people committing transgression

Do their wisdom tell them this or they are people contumacious?

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

Or, do their intellects order them to do this? Or, are they an insolent people

Or do their understandings bid them this? Or are they an inordinate people

Or their minds/dreams order/command them with that, or they are a tyrannizing/arrogant nation

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

Is this what their senses tell them, or are they a rebellious people

Does their reason enjoin this upon them or are they a rebellious people

Do their mental faculties suggest them this (foolishness), or are they rioters and rebels

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

Do their minds command them this (i.e. to tell a lie against you (Muhammad SAW)) or are they people exceeding the bounds (i.e. from Belief in Allah to disbelief)

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

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

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

Is it their dreams which inspire them with this? or is it that they are a perverse people

Or does their reason bid them say this? Or is it that they are wicked people

Do their own minds urge them toward this? Or are they just a sinful people?

Do their fancies order them to do this or are they arrogant folk?"

Is it their minds that suggest this to them or are they an insolent people?

Or do their understandings enjoin them to (utter) this (statement) or are they a rebellious people?

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

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

Or command them their minds this, or they (are) a people transgressing