ق : ١٧

  • إِذۡ When
  • يَتَلَقَّى receive
  • ٱلۡمُتَلَقِّيَانِ the two receivers
  • عَنِ on
  • ٱلۡيَمِينِ the right
  • وَعَنِ and on
  • ٱلشِّمَالِ the left
  • قَعِيدٞ seated
When the two receivers [i.e., recording angels] receive,1 seated on the right and on the left.
Footnotes
1 And record each word and deed.
When (idh is dependent because of an implied udhkur, 'mention') the two Receivers, the two angels charged with [recording] a person's deeds, receive, [when they] observe and record, seated, that is, [while] both of them are sitting (qa'eedun, 'seated', is the subject, the predicate of which is the preceding [clause]), on the right and on the left, [hand side] of him -