Surah Qalam ayat 51 Tafsir Quran 68:51

﴿وَإِن يَكَادُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا لَيُزْلِقُونَكَ بِأَبْصَارِهِمْ لَمَّا سَمِعُوا الذِّكْرَ وَيَقُولُونَ إِنَّهُ لَمَجْنُونٌ﴾
[ القلم: 51]

68:51 And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes when they hear the message, and they say, "Indeed, he is mad."

Indeed those who disbelieve would almost throw you down to the ground read la-yuzliqūnaka or la-yazliqūnaka with their looks looking at you in a severe way almost hurling you to the ground or making you fall from your place when they hear the Reminder the Qur’ān and they say out of envy ‘He is truly a madman!’ on account of the Qur’ān that he has brought.

When the infidels hear you O Muhammad recite the Quran they turn their attention to you and their eyes almost breathe vengeance; their ill-will and their hatred forged in their bosoms that their tongues must vent, have vented your accusation of being a demoniac

(68:51) When the unbelievers hear this Exhortation, they look at you as though they would knock you off your feet with their (hostile) glances. *35 They say: 'Surely he is afflicted with madness';

And indeed, those who disbelieve would almost meaning

*35) " Would trip you up ": " Would eat you up with their eyes ".
For a similar expression of the Makkan disbelievers' rage and fury against the Holy Prophet, see also Bani Isra'il: 73-77.

 

( And lo! those who disbelieve ) the disbelievers of Mecca ( would fain disconcert thee ) would kill you ( with their eyes ) and it is said this means: they would give you the evil eye ( when they hear the Reminder ) when they hear you recite the Qur’an, ( and they ) i.e. the people of Mecca ( say: Lo! he is ) i.e. Muhammad ( indeed mad ) bewitched;

And verily, those who disbelieve would almost make you slip with their eyes through hatredness when they hear the Reminder (the Quran), and they say: "Verily, he (Muhammad SAW) is a madman!"

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