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Surah Az-Zukhruf, Verse 40

سورة الزخرف، الآية ٤٠

43:40 Juz 25 Hizb 50 Page 492 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 43:40

أَفَأَنتَ تُسْمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ أَوْ تَهْدِى ٱلْعُمْىَ وَمَن كَانَ فِى ضَلَٰلٍ مُّبِينٍ ۝٤٠

Transliteration

afa-anta tus'miʿu l-ṣuma aw tahdī l-ʿum'ya waman kāna fī ḍalālin mubīnin

Translation

Then will you make the deaf hear, [O Muḥammad], or guide the blind or he who is in clear error?

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Verse 40 of Surah Az-Zukhruf (43:40), a Meccan surah, is in juz 25, on page 492 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 40

Al-Mukhtasar

Indeed, these people are deaf from hearing the truth and blind from seeing. O Messenger! Are you then capable of making the deaf hear, guiding the blind, or guiding the one clearly astray from the straight path?

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Other translations of verse 40

Can you make the deaf hear, or guide the blind or the one who is clearly misguided?

Can you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم) make the deaf to hear, or can you guide the blind or him who is in manifest error?

Canst thou (Muhammad) make the deaf to hear, or canst thou guide the blind or him who is in error manifest?

Canst thou then make the deaf to hear, or give direction to the blind or to such as (wander) in manifest error?

What! can you then make the deaf to hear or guide the blind and him who is in clear error?

Will you (i.e., the Prophet) then make the deaf to hear, or will you guide the blind and him who is in evident error?

Verse 40 word by word

  1. أَفَأَنتَ afa-anta Then can you
  2. تُسْمِعُ tus'miʿu cause to hear س م ع
  3. ٱلصُّمَّ l-ṣuma the deaf ص م م
  4. أَوْ aw or
  5. تَهْدِى tahdī guide ه د ي
  6. ٱلْعُمْىَ l-ʿum'ya the blind ع م ي
  7. وَمَن waman and (one) who
  8. كَانَ kāna is ك و ن
  9. فِى fī in
  10. ضَلَٰلٍ ḍalālin an error ض ل ل
  11. مُّبِينٍ mubīnin clear ب ي ن

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