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Quran 41:4

Surah Fussilat, Verse 4

Juz 24 · Page 477 · Ruku 413 · Meccan

بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا فَأَعْرَضَ أَكْثَرُهُمْ فَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ

Word by word

بَشِيرًۭا bashīran A giver of glad tidings وَنَذِيرًۭا wanadhīran and a warner فَأَعْرَضَ fa-aʿraḍa but turn away أَكْثَرُهُمْ aktharuhum most of them فَهُمْ fahum so they لَا lā (do) not يَسْمَعُونَ yasmaʿūna hear

Transliteration

Basheeran wanatheeran faaAAradaaktharuhum fahum la yasmaAAoon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Good tidings and a warning. But most of them turn away so that they hear not.

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Giving good news and admonition: yet most of them turn away, and so they hear not.

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

( بشيرا ونذيرا ) أي : تارة يبشر المؤمنين ، وتارة ينذر الكافرين ، ( فأعرض أكثرهم فهم لا يسمعون ) أي : أكثر قريش ، فهم لا يفهمون منه شيئا مع بيانه ووضوحه .

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.