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Al-A'raf 198

Ayah 198 of 206 · Meccan

وَإِن تَدۡعُوهُمۡ إِلَى ٱلۡهُدَىٰ لَا يَسۡمَعُواْۖ وَتَرَىٰهُمۡ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَيۡكَ وَهُمۡ لَا يُبۡصِرُونَ ١٩٨

And if you invite them to guidance, they do not hear; and you see them looking at you while they do not see.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. وَإِنAnd ifwa-in
  2. تَدۡعُوهُمۡyou call themtadʿūhum
  3. إِلَىtoilā
  4. ٱلۡهُدَىٰthe guidancel-hudā
  5. لَاnotlā
  6. يَسۡمَعُواْۖdo they notyasmaʿū
  7. وَتَرَىٰهُمۡAnd you see themwatarāhum
  8. يَنظُرُونَlookingyanẓurūna
  9. إِلَيۡكَat youilayka
  10. وَهُمۡbut they wahum
  11. لَاnotlā
  12. يُبۡصِرُونَ(do) they seeyub'ṣirūna

Tafsir

If you call your idols which you worship instead of Allah to the right path and steadfastness, they will not hear you calling them. You see them facing you with painted eyes, objects that cannot see! For they used to make statues in the form of people and animals, with hands, feet and eyes, but they were just objects, inanimate and unable to move.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran