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Surah Al-Anfal, Verse 21

سورة الأنفال، الآية ٢١

8:21 Juz 9 Hizb 18 Page 179 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 8:21

وَلَا تَكُونُوا۟ كَٱلَّذِينَ قَالُوا۟ سَمِعْنَا وَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ ۝٢١

Transliteration

walā takūnū ka-alladhīna qālū samiʿ'nā wahum lā yasmaʿūna

Translation

And do not be like those who say, "We have heard," while they do not hear.

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Verse 21 of Surah Al-Anfal (8:21), a Medinan surah, is in juz 9, on page 179 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 21

Al-Mukhtasar

And do not be O you believers, like the hypocrites and idolators who when the verses of Allah are recited to them, say that they have heard the Qur’ān that has been recited to them, when they have not listened in a reflective way, learning from it so that they would benefit from what they heard.

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Other translations of verse 21

And do not be like those¹⁰ who say, “We hear,” while they do not actually listen.

Notes

[10] i.e., the hypocrites and/or the disbelievers.

And be not like those who say: "We have heard," but they hear not.

Be not as those who say, we hear, and they hear not.

Nor be like those who say, "We hear," but listen not:

And be not like those who said, We hear, and they did not obey.

And do not be as the ones who have said, "We hear, " and they do not hear.

Verse 21 word by word

وَلَا walā And (do) not
تَكُونُوا۟ takūnū be ك و ن
كَٱلَّذِينَ ka-alladhīna like those who
قَالُوا۟ qālū say ق و ل
سَمِعْنَا samiʿ'nā We heard س م ع
وَهُمْ wahum while they
لَا lā (do) not
يَسْمَعُونَ yasmaʿūna hear س م ع

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