نَّحْنُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا يَسْتَمِعُونَ بِهِۦٓ إِذْ يَسْتَمِعُونَ إِلَيْكَ وَإِذْ هُمْ نَجْوَىٰٓ إِذْ يَقُولُ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ إِن تَتَّبِعُونَ إِلَّا رَجُلًۭا مَّسْحُورًا
nahnu a'lamu bimaa yastami'oona biheee iz yastami'oona ilaika wa iz hum najwaaa iz yaqooluz zaalimoona in tattabi'oona illaa rajulam mas hooraa
We are most knowing of how they listen to it when they listen to you and [of] when they are in private conversation, when the wrongdoers say, "You follow not but a man affected by magic."
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17:47Ayah 1111
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We know best what they listen to the reason for which they listen to it in order to mock it when they listen to you to your recital and when they are in secret counsel holding secret talks among themselves in other words when they talk when idh substitutes for the preceding idh ‘when’ the evildoers say in their secret conversation ‘You are only following a man bewitched one duped his mind overcome’.
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