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An-Naml 27:80

إِنَّكَ لَا تُسۡمِعُ ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ وَلَا تُسۡمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ ٱلدُّعَآءَ إِذَا وَلَّوۡاْ مُدۡبِرِينَ

You certainly cannot make the dead hear ˹the truth˺. Nor can you make the deaf hear the call when they turn their backs and walk away.

Word by word

إِنَّكَ
innaka
Indeed you
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
(can)not
Vocabulary
تُسۡمِعُ
tus'miʿu
cause to hear
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ
l-mawtā
the dead
Vocabulary
Root: موت
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
تُسۡمِعُ
tus'miʿu
can you cause to hear
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
ٱلصُّمَّ
l-ṣuma
the deaf
Vocabulary
Root: صمم
ٱلدُّعَآءَ
l-duʿāa
the call
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
إِذَا
idhā
when
Vocabulary
وَلَّوۡاْ
wallaw
they turn back
Vocabulary
Root: ولي
مُدۡبِرِينَ
mud'birīna
retreating
Vocabulary
Root: دبر

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Root and lemma annotations: Quranic Arabic Corpus © 2011 Kais Dukes (GPL), based on Tanzil text. Grammar tag guide. Only verified word alignments are annotated; missing roots are not guessed. A verse may be a phrase or span several sentences.