ٱلْقَمَر : ٢٤

  • فَقَالُوٓاْ And said
  • أَبَشَرٗا Is (it) a human being
  • مِّنَّا among us
  • وَٰحِدٗا one
  • نَّتَّبِعُهُۥٓ (that) we should follow him
  • إِنَّآ Indeed we
  • إِذٗا then
  • لَّفِي (will be) surely in
  • ضَلَٰلٖ error
  • وَسُعُرٍ and madness
And said, "Is it one human being1 among us that we should follow? Indeed, we would then be in error and madness.
Footnotes
1 - i.e., the prophet Ṣāliḥ.
and they said, 'Is it a mortal (basharan is in the accusative because it is governed [by a succeeding verb]) alone among us (minnaa waahidan are both adjectives of basharan) that we are to follow? (nattabi'uhu, this explains the verb which renders it [basharan, 'mortal'] accusative; the interrogative is meant as a negative, in other words: why should we follow him when there are many of us and he is only one among us and not a king? That is to say, we will not follow him). Then indeed, if we were to follow him, we would be in error, a parting with reason, and insanity!