Those who set the Ranks
37. Aṣ-Ṣāffāt
الصافات
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وَيَقُولُونَ
أَئِنَّا
لَتَارِكُو
آلِهَتِنَا
لِشَاعِرٍ
مَّجْنُونٍ
wa-yaqūlūna ʾa-ʾinnā la-tārikū ʾālihatinā li-shāʿirin majnūnin
And say: "What! shall we give up our gods for the sake of a Poet possessed?"
— Abdullah Yusufali
and [they would] say, ‘Shall we abandon our gods for a crazy poet?’