You are here: Home » Chapter 21 » Verse 65 » Translation
Sura 21
Aya 65
65
ثُمَّ نُكِسوا عَلىٰ رُءوسِهِم لَقَد عَلِمتَ ما هٰؤُلاءِ يَنطِقونَ

Muhammad Asad

But then they relapsed into their former way of thinking1 and said: "Thou knowest very well that these [idols] cannot speak!"
  • Lit., "they were turned upside down upon their heads": an idiomatic phrase denoting a "mental somersault" - in this case, a sudden reversal of their readiness to exonerate Abraham and a return to their former suspicion.