Wala takoonoo kaallatheena qaloo samiAAna wahum la yasmaAAoona
English
Ahmed Ali
And do not be like those who say: "We have heard," but do not hear.
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (be not) in transgression; it is also said that this means: be not in obedience, (as those who say, we hear) we obey, the reference here being to the banu 'abd al-dar, al-nadr ibn al-harith and his host, (and they hear not) they obey not.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and do not be as those who say, ‘we hear,’ and they hear not, in such a way as to reflect and heed admonition — these are either the hypocrites or the idolaters.
