The Holy Quran 26:223 — Surah Ash-Shu'ara

Arabic text

يُلْقُونَ ٱلسَّمْعَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ كَـٰذِبُونَ

Translation

They cast (convey to fortune-tellers) what they hear (from the discussions of the angels concerning future events) and most of them are liars (together with something they overhear from the angels, they tell fortune-tellers hundreds of lies).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The devils bring false reports: that is, whatever one or two incomplete words about particular matters of the unseen the devils manage to overhear and run off with, they mix a hundred lies into them and pass them on to their soothsayer friends. Such is the reality of their “revelation”.

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