Text of verse 10:42
وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَسْتَمِعُونَ إِلَيْكَ أَفَأَنتَ تُسْمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ وَلَوْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ ٤٢
Transliteration
wamin'hum man yastamiʿūna ilayka afa-anta tus'miʿu l-ṣuma walaw kānū lā yaʿqilūna
Translation
And among them are those who listen to you. But can you cause the deaf to hear [i.e., benefit from this hearing], although they will not use reason?
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 42 of Surah Yunus (10:42), a Meccan surah, is in juz 11, on page 213 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 42
Al-Mukhtasar
And some of the idolaters listen to you O Messenger as you recite the Qur’ān not wanting to accept it and follow it. Are you able to make deaf people hear? Likewise you cannot guide those who are deaf to the truth, as they will not understand it.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Yunus
Other translations of verse 42
Among them are some who listen to you, but can you make the deaf hear, even though they have no understanding?
And among them are some who listen to you, but can you make the deaf to hear - even though they apprehend not?
And of them are some who listen unto thee. But canst thou make the deaf to hear even though they apprehend not?
Among them are some who (pretend to) listen to thee: But canst thou make the deaf to hear,- even though they are without understanding?
And there are those of them who hear you, but can you make the deaf to hear though they will not understand?
And of them are the ones who listen to you; will you then make the deaf to hear (even) if they do not consider?.
Verse 42 word by word
وَمِنْهُم
wamin'hum And among them
مَّن
man (are some) who
يَسْتَمِعُونَ
yastamiʿūna listen س م ع
إِلَيْكَ
ilayka to you
أَفَأَنتَ
afa-anta But (can) you
تُسْمِعُ
tus'miʿu cause the deaf to hear س م ع
ٱلصُّمَّ
l-ṣuma cause the deaf to hear ص م م
وَلَوْ
walaw even though
كَانُوا۟
kānū they [were] ك و ن
لَا
lā (do) not
يَعْقِلُونَ
yaʿqilūna use reason ع ق ل
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Surah Yunus
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