Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[so that] they [who seek to learn the unknowable] should not be able to overhear the host on high, but shall be repelled from all sides
Arthur John Arberry
they listen not to the High Council, for they are pelted from every side
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
(So) they should not strain their ears in the direction of the Exalted Assembly but be cast away from every side
Arabic
لَّا یَسَّمَّعُونَ إِلَى ٱلۡمَلَإِ ٱلۡأَعۡلَىٰ وَیُقۡذَفُونَ مِن كُلِّ جَانِبࣲ ٨
Transliteration (2021)
lā yassammaʿūna ilā l-mala-i l-aʿlā wayuq'dhafūna min kulli jānibi