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Fussilat 26

Ayah 26 of 54 · Meccan

وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لَا تَسۡمَعُواْ لِهَٰذَا ٱلۡقُرۡءَانِ وَٱلۡغَوۡاْ فِيهِ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَغۡلِبُونَ ٢٦

And those who disbelieve say, "Do not listen to this Qur’ān and speak noisily1 during [the recitation of] it that perhaps you will overcome."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Other meanings include "speak improperly" and/or "make a clamor." The purpose of this was to prevent the hearing or understanding of the Qur’ān.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَقَالَAnd saidwaqāla
  2. ٱلَّذِينَthose whoalladhīna
  3. كَفَرُواْdisbelievekafarū
  4. لَا(Do) notlā
  5. تَسۡمَعُواْlistentasmaʿū
  6. لِهَٰذَاto thislihādhā
  7. ٱلۡقُرۡءَانِQuranl-qur'āni
  8. وَٱلۡغَوۡاْand make noisewal-ghaw
  9. فِيهِthereinfīhi
  10. لَعَلَّكُمۡso that you maylaʿallakum
  11. تَغۡلِبُونَovercometaghlibūna

Tafsir

When they became helpless in countering evidence with evidence, the disbelievers said, urging one another, “Do not listen to this Qur’ān that Muhammad recites to you and do not submit to it, rather, shout and raise your voices when he recites it to you so that perhaps you can gain the upper hand over him and he stops reciting and calling towards it, then we will be relieved of him.”

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran