سورة الأعراف، الآية ١٩٣
وَإِن تَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰ لَا يَتَّبِعُوكُمْ سَوَآءٌ عَلَيْكُمْ أَدَعَوْتُمُوهُمْ أَمْ أَنتُمْ صَٰمِتُونَ ١٩٣
wa-in tadʿūhum ilā l-hudā lā yattabiʿūkum sawāon ʿalaykum adaʿawtumūhum am antum ṣāmitūna
And if you [believers] invite them to guidance, they will not follow you. It is all the same for you whether you invite them or you are silent.
Verse 193 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:193), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 175 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
78 recitations by 72 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
And If you call these idols which you take as gods to guidance, they will not respond to what you call them to, nor can they follow you. It is the same whether you call them, or keep silent, because they are just objects, and are not conscious: they do not hear, and they cannot speak.
If you call them to guidance, they will not follow you; it is the same whether you call them or remain silent.
And if you call them to guidance, they follow you not. It is the same for you whether you call them or you keep silent.
And if ye call them to the Guidance, they follow you not. Whether ye call them or are silent is all one for you.
If ye call them to guidance, they will not obey: For you it is the same whether ye call them or ye hold your peace!
And if you invite them to guidance, they will not follow you; it is the same to you whether you invite them or you are silent.
And in case you (i.e. the believers) call them to the guidance, they do not ever follow you; equal it is to you whether you call them, or whether you are silent..
إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ يَٰٓأَبَتِ لِمَ تَعْبُدُ مَا لَا يَسْمَعُ وَلَا يُبْصِرُ وَلَا يُغْنِى عَنكَ شَيْـًٔا
[Mention] when he said to his father, "O my father, why do you worship that which does not hear and does not see and will not benefit you at all?
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَإِن تَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰ لَا يَسْمَعُوا۟ وَتَرَىٰهُمْ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَيْكَ وَهُمْ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ
And if you invite them to guidance, they do not hear; and you see them looking at you while they do not see.
