Surah As-Saffat (الصافات) • Those who set the Ranks

Quran 37:28

37:28

قَالُوٓا۟ إِنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ تَأْتُونَنَا عَنِ ٱلْيَمِينِ

qālū innakum kuntum tatūnanā ʿani l-yamīni

They will say, "Indeed, you used to come at us from the right."

— Saheeh International

They will say, ‘You came to us from a position of power.’

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

They will say: "It was you who used to come to us from the right side [i.e. from the right side of one of us and beautify for us every evil, enjoin on us polytheism, and stop us from the truth i.e. Islâmic Monotheism and from every good deed]."

— Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Muhammad Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali

Juz 23Page 447meccan

Word by Word

قَالُوٓا۟qālūThey will say
إِنَّكُمْinnakumIndeed, you
كُنتُمْkuntum[you] used (to)
تَأْتُونَنَاtatūnanācome (to) us
عَنِʿanifrom
ٱلْيَمِينِl-yamīnithe right