Quran Ayah ad-Dukhan (Smoke, The Evident Smoke) 44:14 - 70+ Translation Comparison

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Muhammad Asad

whereupon they turned their backs on him and said, “Taught [by others] is he, a madman”

Arthur John Arberry

then they turned away from him and said, 'A man tutored, possessed!

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!"

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Arabic

ثُمَّ تَوَلَّوۡا۟ عَنۡهُ وَقَالُوا۟ مُعَلَّمࣱ مَّجۡنُونٌ ۝١٤

Transliteration (2021)

thumma tawallaw ʿanhu waqālū muʿallamun majnūnu

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Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more

Then they turned away from him and said, "One taught, a mad man."

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

whereupon they turned their backs on him and said, “Taught [by others] is he, a madman”

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!"

M. M. Pickthall

And they had turned away from him and said: One taught (by others), a madman

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

then they turned away from him, saying, “A madman, taught by others!”?

Wahiduddin Khan

Then they turned away from him and said, He is a madman, taught by others

Safi Kaskas

and they turned away from him saying, "He is tutored but possessed.”

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Again, they turned away from him and they said: He is one who is taught by others, one who is possessed.

T.B.Irving

Then they turned away from him and said: "He has been taught it; [he´s] so crazy!"

Shakir

Yet they turned their backs on him and said: One taught (by others), a madman

Abdul Hye

Yet, they turn away from him (Muhammad) and said: “He (Muhammad) is a madman, taught (by others)!”

Saeed Malik

They had turned away from him then, and had said, "A coached man, possessed is he."

The Study Quran

Then they turned away from him and said, “He is taught, possessed.

Talal Itani & AI (2025)

Then they turned away from him and said, "A madman, taught by others."

Talal Itani (2012)

But they turned away from him, and said, 'Educated, but crazy!'

M. Farook Malik

yet they deny him, saying: "He is a madman, taught by others!"

Dr. Kamal Omar

Then they turned away from him and said: “A tutored fanatic!”

Dr. Munir Munshey

At that time, they turned away and said, "He is a lunatic being coached by others."

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Yet they turned away from him and said: "Taught (by others), he is a madman (possessed by evil)!"

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Then they turned away from him and said, "[He was] taught [and is] a madman."

Muhammad Sarwar

and they turned away, saying, "He is a trained and insane person"

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Then they turned away from him, and said, .(He is) tutored, crazy

Shabbir Ahmed

Whereupon they had turned away from him, and said, "Taught and tutored is he, a man possessed?"

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

(Yet) thereafter they turned away from him and said, "A man taught (by others), a madman!"

Hamid S. Aziz

Butt they had turned their backs on him and said, "He is one taught by others, a madman."

Abdel Haleem

they turned their backs on him, saying, ‘He is tutored! He is possessed!’

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Yet they turned away from him and said: one tutored, one distraced

Ahmed Ali

But they turned away from him, and said: "He is well-instructed, (but) possessed."

Aisha Bewley

But then they turned away from him and said, ´He is an instructed madman!´

Ali Ünal

But they turn away from him and say (of him): "One taught by others, a madman."

Ali Quli Qara'i

but they turned away from him, and said, ‘A tutored madman?’

[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)

But then, they turned away from him and said: "Well educated, but crazy!"

Musharraf Hussain

they turn away from him and say, “He’s been taught by someone and is possessed!”

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Yet they turn away from him and say, “Tutored by others, a person possessed.

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

and they turned away from him and they said: “A mad man taught (by others).”?

Maududi

yet they turned away from him and said: "This is a well-tutored madman."

Mohammad Shafi

But then they had turned away from him saying he was a crazy man, just repeating what he had learnt from others

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Then they turned away from him and said, 'He is tutored, madman'.

Rashad Khalifa

But they turned away from him, saying, "Well educated, but crazy!"

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

but then they turned away from him, saying: 'He is tutored, mad!

Faridul Haque

Whereas they had then turned away from him and said, “He is a madman, tutored!”

Bijan Moeinian

[When there was still the opportunity], they turned away from the Prophet saying: “He is well educated but unfortunately gone crazy!”

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Yet they turned away from him and said: One taught (by others); a madman

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

Then they turned away from Him and they said: "Taught/instructed/informed, mad/insane."

Sher Ali

And yet they turned away from him and said, `He is tutored, a man possessed !

Edip Yuksel

But they turned away from him and said, "Clearly educated, but crazy!"

Amatul Rahman Omar

Yet they turned away from him and said, `He is a man tutored (by others), a man bereft of his senses.

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

But they turned their faces from him and (denigrating) they said: ‘(He) is a tutored madman.

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

Then they had turned away from him (Messenger Muhammad SAW) and said: "One (Muhammad SAW) taught (by a human being), a madman!"

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

N J Dawood (2014)

and they denied him, and said: ‘A well taught madman!‘

Arthur John Arberry

then they turned away from him and said, 'A man tutored, possessed!

Edward Henry Palmer

and when they turned their backs away from him and said, 'Taught! mad!

George Sale

but they retired from him, saying, this man is instructed by others, or is a distracted person

John Medows Rodwell

And they turned their backs on him, and said, "Taught by others, possessed?"

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Shuaib Abdullahi

and (Thumma) they turned away (Tawallaw') from him (Än'hu) and (Wa) said (Qaalu'), "A crazy (Maj'nuun) teacher (Muällamun)"?

Fode Drame

But they turned away from him and they said, “A madman who had been instructed.”

Munir Mezyed

Yet they turned away from him and said: “A lunatic, taught by others."

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

Then they turned away and said: he has been taught and is possessed.

Linda “iLHam” Barto

Yet they turned away from him and said, “He’s been coached! He’s possessed!”

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

then they turned away from him and said, “(He is) taught (by others), a madman!”

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

Then they turned away from him and said: "He has been taught it; [he's] so crazy!"

Samy Mahdy

Then they turned away from him, and said, "[He was] taught [and was] a madman."

Ali Quli Qarai

but they turned away from him, and said, ‘A tutored madman?’

Ahmed Hulusi

But they turned away from him and said, “He is a well instructed madman (possessed).”

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

Then they had turned away from him and said: "(He is) one taught, a madman!"

A. S. Mohamed

then they turned away from him and said, "An educated madman"?

Mir Aneesuddin

then they had turned away from him while saying, “One taught (by others), one under the influence of jinn.”

Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim

And they turned a deaf ear and refused to listen and they turned their backs upon him, accusing him at one time of "being taught by others " and at another time "a demoniac, possessed by an evil spirit"

The Wise Quran Project

Then they turned away from him and they said, 'One taught, mad.'

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

Yet they turn away from him and say: "Tutored (by others), a man possessed!"

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

But then, they turned away from him and said: "Clearly educated, but crazy!

[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition)

But they turned away from him and said: "Clearly educated, but crazy!"

OLD Literal Word for Word

Then they turned away from and said, "One taught, a mad man.

OLD Transliteration

Thumma tawallaw AAanhu waqaloo muAAallamun majnoonun

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