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Ar-Rum 30:52

فَإِنَّكَ لَا تُسۡمِعُ ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ وَلَا تُسۡمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ ٱلدُّعَآءَ إِذَا وَلَّوۡاْ مُدۡبِرِينَ

So you ˹O Prophet˺ 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

فَإِنَّكَ
fa-innaka
So indeed, you
Vocabulary
لَا
lā
(can) not
Vocabulary
تُسۡمِعُ
tus'miʿu
make the dead hear
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ
l-mawtā
make the dead hear
Vocabulary
Root: موت
وَلَا
walā
and not
Vocabulary
تُسۡمِعُ
tus'miʿu
make the deaf hear
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
ٱلصُّمَّ
l-ṣuma
make the deaf hear
Vocabulary
Root: صمم
ٱلدُّعَآءَ
l-duʿāa
the call
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
إِذَا
idhā
when
Vocabulary
وَلَّوۡاْ
wallaw
they turn
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.