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Surah Al-Furqan, Verse 44

سورة الفرقان، الآية ٤٤

25:44 Juz 19 Hizb 37 Page 364 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 25:44

أَمْ تَحْسَبُ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ أَوْ يَعْقِلُونَ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا كَٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا ۝٤٤

Transliteration

am taḥsabu anna aktharahum yasmaʿūna aw yaʿqilūna in hum illā kal-anʿāmi bal hum aḍallu sabīlan

Translation

Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? They are not except like livestock.1027 Rather, they are [even] more astray in [their] way.

Notes

[1027] i.e., cattle or sheep, that follow without question wherever they are led.

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Verse 44 of Surah Al-Furqan (25:44), a Meccan surah, is in juz 19, on page 364 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 44

Al-Mukhtasar

Rather, do you - O Messenger - think that most of those whom you call towards Allah’s Oneness and obedience, hear with acceptance or understand the arguments and proofs? They are just like cattle in terms of their hearing, comprehension and understanding. Rather, they are further from the path than cattle are.

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Other translations of verse 44

Do you think that most of them hear or understand?22 They are just like cattle23, rather they are further astray from the right way.

Notes

[22] They follow others blindly.
[23] i.e., like livestock or sheep, that follow without asking wherever they are led.

Or do you think that most of them hear or understand? They are only like cattle - nay, they are even farther astray from the Path (i.e. even worse than cattle).

Or deemest thou that most of them hear or understand? They are but as the cattle - nay, but they are farther astray?

Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or understand? They are only like cattle;- nay, they are worse astray in Path.

Or do you think that most of them do hear or understand? They are nothing but as cattle; nay, they are straying farther off from the path.

Or even do you reckon that most of them hear or consider? Decidedly they are (nothing) except as the cattle. (Ancam inclues cattle, camels, sheep and goats) No indeed, they have erred further from the way.

Verse 44 word by word

  1. أَمْ am Or
  2. تَحْسَبُ taḥsabu do you think ح س ب
  3. أَنَّ anna that
  4. أَكْثَرَهُمْ aktharahum most of them ك ث ر
  5. يَسْمَعُونَ yasmaʿūna hear س م ع
  6. أَوْ aw or
  7. يَعْقِلُونَ yaʿqilūna understand ع ق ل
  8. إِنْ in Not
  9. هُمْ hum they
  10. إِلَّا illā (are) except
  11. كَٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ kal-anʿāmi like cattle ن ع م
  12. بَلْ bal Nay
  13. هُمْ hum they
  14. أَضَلُّ aḍallu (are) more astray ض ل ل
  15. سَبِيلًا sabīlan (from the) way س ب ل

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  • Al-A’raf 7:179

    وَلَقَدْ ذَرَأْنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرًا مِّنَ ٱلْجِنِّ وَٱلْإِنسِ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ لَّا يَفْقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ أَعْيُنٌ لَّا يُبْصِرُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمْ ءَاذَانٌ لَّا يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَآ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ كَٱلْأَنْعَٰمِ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْغَٰفِلُونَ

    And We have certainly created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind. They have hearts with which they do not understand, they have eyes with which they do not see, and they have ears with which they do not hear. Those are like livestock; rather, they are more astray. It is they who are the heedless.

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