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Al-A'raf 7:198

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

If you ˹idolaters˺ call them to guidance, they cannot hear. And you ˹O Prophet˺ may see them facing towards you, but they cannot see.

Word by word

وَإِن
wa-in
And if
Vocabulary
تَدۡعُوهُمۡ
tadʿūhum
you call them
Vocabulary
Root: دعو
إِلَى
ilā
to
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ٱلۡهُدَىٰ
l-hudā
the guidance
Vocabulary
Root: هدي
لَا
lā
not
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يَسۡمَعُواْۖ
yasmaʿū
do they not
Vocabulary
Root: سمع
وَتَرَىٰهُمۡ
watarāhum
And you see them
Vocabulary
Root: راي
يَنظُرُونَ
yanẓurūna
looking
Vocabulary
Root: نظر
إِلَيۡكَ
ilayka
at you
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وَهُمۡ
wahum
but they
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لَا
lā
not
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يُبۡصِرُونَ
yub'ṣirūna
(do) they see
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Root: بصر

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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.