Verse. 3239

٢٧ - ٱلنَّمْل

27 - An-Naml

اِنَّكَ لَا تُسْمِعُ الْمَوْتٰى وَلَا تُسْمِـــعُ الصُّمَّ الدُّعَاۗءَ اِذَا وَلَّوْا مُدْبِرِيْنَ۝۸۰
Innaka la tusmiAAu almawta wala tusmiAAu alssumma aldduAAaa itha wallaw mudbireena

English

Ahmed Ali

You cannot make the dead to listen, or the deaf to hear the call, when they have turned their backs,

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (lo! thou canst not) o muhammad (make the dead) of hearts; and it is said: those who are like the dead, (to hear, nor canst thou make the deaf) those whose hearts are dead; it is also said that this means: those who pretend to be deaf (to hear the call) your call to the truth and guidance (when they have turned) turn away (to flee) from the truth and guidance;

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : indeed you cannot make the dead hear, nor can you make the deaf hear the call when (al-du‘ā’a idhā, read by pronouncing both hamzas, or by not pronouncing the second one, eliding it with the yā’) they have turned their backs [upon you];