Meaning: their tongues · Also translated as: tongue, in your tongue, my tongue, with the language
Forms in the Quran
لِسَانِ×5
أَلْسِنَتَهُم×3
بِأَلْسِنَتِهِمْ×2
بِلِسَانِ×2
أَلْسِنَتُكُمُ×2
بِلِسَانِكَ×2
لِّسَانِى×2
لِسَانًا×2
Its root in the classical dictionaries
اللسان: الجارحة وقوتها، وقوله: واحلل عقدة من لساني [طه/ 27] يعني به من قوة لسانه، فإن العقدة لم تكن في الجارحة، وإنما كانت في قوته التي هي النطق به، ويقال: لكل قوم لسان ولسن بكسر اللام، أي: لغة. قال تعالى: فإنما يسرناه بلسانك [الدخان/ 58] ، وقال: بلسان عربي مبين [الشعراء/ 195] ، واختلاف ألسنتكم وألوانكم
اللام والسين والنون أصل صحيح واحد، يدل على طول لطيف غير بائن، في عضو أو غيره. من ذلك اللسان، معروف، وهو مذكر والجمع ألسن، فإذا كثر فهي الألسنة. ويقال لسنته، إذا أخذته بلسانك. قال طرفة:
There is among them
A section who distort
The Book with their tongues
(As they read) you would think
It is a part of the Book,
But it is no part
Of the Book; and they say,
That is from God,"
But it is not from God:
It is they who tell
A lie against God,
And (well) they know it!
Of the Jews there are those
Who displace words
From their (right) places,
And say: "We hear
And we disobey";
And "Hear what is not
Heard"; and "Rā’inā";—
With a twist of their tongues
And a slander to Faith.
If only they had said:
"We hear and we obey;
And "Do hear";
And "Do look at us":
It would have been better
For them, and more proper;
But God hath cursed them
For their Unbelief; and but few
Of them will believe.
Curses were pronounced
On those among the Children
Of Israel who rejected Faith,
By the tongue of David
And of Jesus the son of Mary:
Because they disobeyed
And persisted in Excesses.
We sent not an apostle
Except (to teach) in the language
Of his (own) people, in order
To make (things) clear to them.
Now God leaves straying
Those whom He pleases
And guides whom He pleases:
And He is Exalted in Power,
Full of Wisdom.
They attribute to God
What they hate (for themselves),
And their tongues assert
The falsehood that all good things
Are for themselves: without doubt
For them is the Fire, and they
Will be the first to be
Hastened on into it!
We know indeed that they
Say, "It is a man that.
Teaches him." The tongue
Of him they wickedly point to
Is notably foreign, while this
Is Arabic, pure and clear.
But say not—for any false thing
That your tongues may put forth,—
"This is lawful, and this
Is forbidden," so as to ascribe
False things to God. For those
Who ascribe false things
To God, will never prosper.
So have We made
The (Qur-ān) easy
In thine own tongue,
That with it thou mayest give
Glad tidings to the righteous,
And warnings to people
Given to contention.
Behold, ye received it
On your tongues,
And said out of your mouths
Things of which ye had
No knowledge; and ye thought
It to be a light matter,
While it was most serious
In the sight of God.
"And my brother Aaron—
He is more eloquent in speech
Than I: so send him
With me as a helper,
To confirm (and strengthen) me:
For I fear that they may
Accuse me of falsehood."
And among His Signs
Is the creation of the heavens
And the earth, and the variations
In your languages
And your colours: verily
In that are Signs
For those who know.
Covetous over you
Then when fear comes,
Thou wilt see them looking
To thee, their eyes revolving,
Like (those of) one over whom
Hovers death: but when
The fear is past,
They will smite you
With sharp tongues, covetous
Of goods. Such men have
No faith, and so God
Has made their deeds
Of none effect: and that
Is easy for God.
And before this, was
The Book of Moses
As a guide and a mercy:
And this Book confirms (it)
In the Arabic tongue;
To admonish the unjust,
And as Glad Tidings.
To those who do right.