لَعَمْرُكَ إِنَّهُمْ لَفِي سَكْرَتِهِمْ يَعْمَهُونَ

Popular Translations

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!"

Arthur John Arberry

By thy life, they wandered blindly in their dazzlement

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Verily, by thy life (O Prophet), in their wild intoxication, they wander in distraction, to and fro

Arabic

لَعَمۡرُكَ إِنَّهُمۡ لَفِی سَكۡرَتِهِمۡ یَعۡمَهُونَ ۝٧٢

Transliteration (2021)

laʿamruka innahum lafī sakratihim yaʿmahūn