Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
so that anyone who seeks to learn [the unknowable] by stealth is pursued by a flame clear to see
Arthur John Arberry
excepting such as listens by stealth -- and he is pursued by a manifest flame
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
But any that gains a hearing by stealth, is pursued by a flaming fire, bright (to see)
Arabic
إِلَّا مَنِ ٱسۡتَرَقَ ٱلسَّمۡعَ فَأَتۡبَعَهُۥ شِهَابࣱ مُّبِینࣱ ١٨
Transliteration (2021)
illā mani is'taraqa l-samʿa fa-atbaʿahu shihābun mubīnu