Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
Muhammad Asad
Must you really approach men with lust instead of women? Nay, but you are people without any awareness (of right and wrong)!”
M. M. Pickthall
Must ye needs lust after men instead of women? Nay, but ye are folk who act senselessly
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Would ye really approach men in your lusts rather than women? Nay, ye are a people (grossly) ignorant
The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab
Do you really lust after men instead of women? In fact, you are ˹only˺ a people acting ignorantly.”
Safi Kaskas
You lust after men instead of women? You are ignorant people.”
Wahiduddin Khan
Must you go lustfully to men instead of women? Indeed, you are a people who are deeply ignorant
Shakir
What! do you indeed approach men lustfully rather than women? Nay, you are a people who act ignorantly
Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar
Why approach you men with lust instead of women? Nay! You are a folk who are ignorant.
T.B.Irving
Do you approach men passionately instead of women? Indeed you are folk who act out of ignorance!"
Abdul Hye
Why do you come to men with lust instead of women? Nay, but you are a people who are ignorant.”
The Study Quran
Do you really come with desire unto men instead of women? Nay, but you are an ignorant people!
Talal Itani & AI (2024)
Do you approach men with lust instead of women? You are a people acting ignorantly.”
Talal Itani (2012)
Do you lust after men instead of women? You are truly ignorant people.'
Dr. Kamal Omar
Is it (that) surely you people indeed approach men in sexual lust instead of women? Nay, you are a nation: you behave senselessly.
Do you approach men for your sexual desires instead of women? The fact is that you are a people steeped in ignorance."
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali
Do you (really) come up with lust to men rather than women? No indeed, you are a people who are ignorant."
Muhammad Sarwar
Do you have carnal relations with men rather than women? You are ignorant people"
Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Is it that you really come to men lustfully instead of women? No, you are a people committing acts of ignorance
Shabbir Ahmed
You approach men with lust instead of women. Nay, you are people who disregard what you know (27:54)."
Dr. Munir Munshey
"Instead of women, do you turn to men to gratify your carnal urges? Indeed, you are an utterly foolish nation!"
Syed Vickar Ahamed
"Would you really run after men in your excessive (sexual) desire rather than after women? No! You are a people (totally) ignorant!"
Do you indeed approach men with desire instead of women? Rather, you are a people behaving ignorantly."
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)
"You are approaching the men out of lust instead of the women! No, you are an ignorant people!"
Abdel Haleem
How can you lust after men instead of women? What fools you are!’
Abdul Majid Daryabadi
Would ye go in lustfully unto men instead of women? Aye! ye are a people addicted to ignorant ways
Ahmed Ali
You lust after men in place of women. You are indeed a stolid people."
Aisha Bewley
Do you come with lust to men instead of women? You are a people who are deeply ignorant.´
Ali Ünal
"Will you go with lust to men in place of women? You are indeed an ignorant people with no sense (of decency and right and wrong)
Ali Quli Qara'i
Do you approach men with [sexual] desire instead of women?! Rather you are a senseless lot!’
Hamid S. Aziz
Must you needs lust after men instead of women? Nay! You are a senseless people."
Ali Bakhtiari Nejad
Do you approach men lustfully instead of women? You are ignorant people.”
A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)
"Are you really attracted to men more than, in addition to, or instead of women?" No, but you are unaware
Musharraf Hussain
Do you approach other men with lust rather than women? You people are utterly foolish.”
Maududi
Do you lustfully approach men instead of women? Nay, you engage in acts of sheer ignorance."
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)
"You are approaching the men out of desire instead of the women! Indeed, you are an ignorant people.
Mohammad Shafi
"How could you really go to men instead of to women for sexual gratification? Nay, but you are a stupid people!"
Controversial or status undetermined works
Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)
Do you approach men lustfully leaving women? Rather you are a people ignorant.
"You practice sex with the men, lustfully, instead of the women. Indeed, you are ignorant people."
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Do you approach men lustfully instead of women! No, you are an ignorant nation.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Will you come to men lustfully rather than women? Nay, you are a people who act ignorantly
Muhammad Ahmed & Samira
Are you that you are coming/doing/committing (E) the men (with) a lust/desire/craving from other than the women, but you are a nation being lowly/ignorant
Bijan Moeinian
What kind of people you are that prefers men to women for the gratification of your sexual desires? What a foolish people you are [unaware of punishment in reserve for you.]
Faridul Haque
“What! You lustfully go towards men, leaving the women?! In fact, you are an ignorant people.”
Sher Ali
What ! do you approach men lustfully rather than women? Nay, you are indeed an ignorant people.
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri
Do you approach men rather than women to satisfy your sexual desire? The truth is that you are ignorant people.
Amatul Rahman Omar
`What! (is it true) you approach men instead of (your) women to satisfy (your) lust? Nay, you are indeed a people who act senselessly.
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali
"Do you approach men in your lusts rather than women? Nay, but you are a people who behave senselessly."
New, Partial, or In Progress Translations
Fode Drame
Do you go to the men for the fulfillment of your lust instead of the women? Nay! You are a people who are ignorant.”
Munir Mezyed
What! Do you indeed approach men lustfully instead of women? Nay, but you are truly a people living in utter ignorance.”
Sahib Mustaqim Bleher
Do you come to men with lust instead of women? But you are an ignorant people.
Linda “iLHam” Barto
“Why would you [men] go to other men for sex rather than women? You are an ignorant people.”
Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation
Do you approach men with lust instead of women? Rather you are an ignorant people.”
Irving & Mohamed Hegab
Do you approach men passionately instead of women? Indeed you are folk who act out of ignorance!"
Samy Mahdy
Are you coming to the men as desires without the women? Nay, but you are kinfolk who ignore.”
Sayyid Qutb
Would you approach men with lust rather than women? You are a grossly ignorant people.'
Ahmed Hulusi
“Do you leave the women and lustfully sleep with men? No, you are a people in ignorance.”
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
What! Do you approach men lustfully instead of women? No, you are a people that are ignorant
"Certainly" he continued, "you have sensuous desire for men in lieu of women; you are a people who are indeed ignorant and indeed impudent, a people who have no shame of their sins"
Mir Aneesuddin
What! Do you indeed lustfully approach men besides women? No, you are an ignorant people?
The Wise Quran
Do you indeed surely approach men lustfully rather than women? Nay, you are people who are ignorant.'