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Quran 27:80

Surah An-Naml, Verse 80

Juz 20 · Page 384 · Ruku 332 · Meccan

إِنَّكَ لَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ وَلَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ ٱلدُّعَآءَ إِذَا وَلَّوْا۟ مُدْبِرِينَ

Word by word

إِنَّكَ innaka Indeed, you لَا lā (can) not تُسْمِعُ tus'miʿu cause to hear ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ l-mawtā the dead وَلَا walā and not تُسْمِعُ tus'miʿu can you cause to hear ٱلصُّمَّ l-ṣuma the deaf ٱلدُّعَآءَ l-duʿāa the call إِذَا idhā when وَلَّوْا۟ wallaw they turn back مُدْبِرِينَ mud'birīna retreating

Transliteration

Innaka la tusmiAAu almawta walatusmiAAu assumma adduAAaa ithawallaw mudbireen

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Lo! thou canst not make the dead to hear, nor canst thou make the deaf to hear the call when they have turned to flee;

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Truly thou canst not cause the dead to listen, nor canst thou cause the deaf to hear the call, (especially) when they turn back in retreat.

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

( إنك لا تسمع الموتى ) أي : لا تسمعهم شيئا ينفعهم ، فكذلك هؤلاء على قلوبهم غشاوة ، وفي آذانهم وقر الكفر ; ولهذا قال : ( إنك لا تسمع الموتى ولا تسمع الصم الدعاء إذا ولوا مدبرين )

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.