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Fatir 14

Ayah 14 of 45 · Meccan

إِن تَدۡعُوهُمۡ لَا يَسۡمَعُواْ دُعَآءَكُمۡ وَلَوۡ سَمِعُواْ مَا ٱسۡتَجَابُواْ لَكُمۡۖ وَيَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ يَكۡفُرُونَ بِشِرۡكِكُمۡۚ وَلَا يُنَبِّئُكَ مِثۡلُ خَبِيرٖ ١٤

If you invoke them, they do not hear your supplication; and if they heard, they would not respond to you. And on the Day of Resurrection they will deny your association.1 And none can inform you like [one] Aware [of all matters].

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Of them with Allāh or your worship of them.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. إِنIfin
  2. تَدۡعُوهُمۡyou invoke themtadʿūhum
  3. لَاnotlā
  4. يَسۡمَعُواْthey hearyasmaʿū
  5. دُعَآءَكُمۡyour callduʿāakum
  6. وَلَوۡand ifwalaw
  7. سَمِعُواْthey heardsamiʿū
  8. مَاnotmā
  9. ٱسۡتَجَابُواْthey (would) respondis'tajābū
  10. لَكُمۡۖto youlakum
  11. وَيَوۡمَAnd (on the) Daywayawma
  12. ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ(of) the Resurrectionl-qiyāmati
  13. يَكۡفُرُونَthey will denyyakfurūna
  14. بِشِرۡكِكُمۡۚyour associationbishir'kikum
  15. وَلَاAnd nonewalā
  16. يُنَبِّئُكَcan inform youyunabbi-uka
  17. مِثۡلُlikemith'lu
  18. خَبِيرٖ(the) All-Awarekhabīrin

Tafsir

If you call your gods, they cannot hear your call, because they are inanimate objects which have no life in them nor can they hear. And if they could hear your calling them, for argument’s sake, they could not respond to you. And on the day of judgment they will disassociate themselves from your idolatry and your worshipping them, so there is nobody who can inform you, O Messenger, more truthfully than Allah.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran