سُوْرَةُ النَّمْلِ
Surah An-Naml (27) — Ayah 80
إِنَّكَ لَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ وَلَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ ٱلدُّعَآءَ إِذَا وَلَّوْا۟ مُدْبِرِينَ ﴿80﴾
Translation by Dr. Muhammad Muhsin Khan & Dr. Taqi-ud-Din al-Hilali
Verily, you cannot make the dead to hear nor can you make the deaf to hear the call (i.e. benefit them and similarly the disbelievers), when they flee, turning their backs.
Word by Word — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
إِنَّكَ
innaka
Indeed, you
لَا
lā
(can) not
تُسْمِعُ
tus'miʿu
cause to hear
ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ
l-mawtā
the dead
وَلَا
walā
and not
تُسْمِعُ
tus'miʿu
can you cause to hear
ٱلصُّمَّ
l-ṣuma
the deaf
ٱلدُّعَآءَ
l-duʿāa
the call
إِذَا
idhā
when
وَلَّوْا۟
wallaw
they turn back
مُدْبِرِينَ
mud'birīna
retreating
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan — Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf
Tafsir Ahsan al-Bayan is a well-known Quran commentary by Hafiz Salahuddin Yusuf, a renowned Salafi (Ahl al-Hadith) scholar from Pakistan. This tafsir explains the meanings of the Quran in accordance with the methodology of the Salaf (early righteous generations), relying on authentic sources and straightforward language. Due to its reliability and adherence to sound Islamic scholarship, the Saudi government publishes and distributes this tafsir among the Hujjaj (pilgrims) visiting the Haramain. The tafsir is originally written in Urdu, translated to English by tohed.com.
80-1. This is the second reason for not caring about these disbelievers and relying only on Allah: these people are dead, who cannot benefit from hearing anything, or they are deaf, who neither hear nor understand, nor are they guided. It is as if the disbelievers are likened to the dead, who have neither sense nor intellect, and to the deaf, who neither listen to admonition and advice nor accept the invitation to Allah.
