Deafness to the truth

The verses

Closest to the group’s centre first.

• Ar-Room 30:52✦ skyread

  فَإِنَّكَ لَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ وَلَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ ٱلدُّعَآءَ إِذَا وَلَّوْا۟ مُدْبِرِينَ

  So indeed, you will not make the dead hear, nor will you make the deaf hear the call when they turn their backs, retreating.

• An-Naml 27:80✦ skyread

  إِنَّكَ لَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلْمَوْتَىٰ وَلَا تُسْمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ ٱلدُّعَآءَ إِذَا وَلَّوْا۟ مُدْبِرِينَ

  Indeed, you will not make the dead hear, nor will you make the deaf hear the call when they have turned their backs retreating.

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:212✦ skyread

  إِنَّهُمْ عَنِ ٱلسَّمْعِ لَمَعْزُولُونَ

  Indeed they, from [its] hearing, are removed.

• Fussilat 41:4✦ skyread

  بَشِيرًا وَنَذِيرًا فَأَعْرَضَ أَكْثَرُهُمْ فَهُمْ لَا يَسْمَعُونَ

  As a giver of good tidings and a warner; but most of them turn away, so they do not hear.

• Al-Kahf 18:101✦ skyread

  ٱلَّذِينَ كَانَتْ أَعْيُنُهُمْ فِى غِطَآءٍ عَن ذِكْرِى وَكَانُوا۟ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ سَمْعًا

  Those whose eyes had been within a cover [removed] from My remembrance, and they were not able to hear.

• Yunus 10:42✦ skyread

  وَمِنْهُم مَّن يَسْتَمِعُونَ إِلَيْكَ أَفَأَنتَ تُسْمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ وَلَوْ كَانُوا۟ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ

  And among them are those who listen to you. But can you cause the deaf to hear, although they will not use reason?

• Al-Hijr 15:13✦ skyread

  لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِۦ وَقَدْ خَلَتْ سُنَّةُ ٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

  They will not believe in it, while there has already occurred the precedent of the former peoples.

• Yaseen 36:7✦ skyread

  لَقَدْ حَقَّ ٱلْقَوْلُ عَلَىٰٓ أَكْثَرِهِمْ فَهُمْ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ

  Already the word has come into effect upon most of them, so they do not believe.

• Al-Anbiyaa 21:100✦ skyread

  لَهُمْ فِيهَا زَفِيرٌ وَهُمْ فِيهَا لَا يَسْمَعُونَ

  For them therein is heavy sighing, and they therein will not hear.

• Ash-Shu'araa 26:6✦ skyread

  فَقَدْ كَذَّبُوا۟ فَسَيَأْتِيهِمْ أَنۢبَٰٓؤُا۟ مَا كَانُوا۟ بِهِۦ يَسْتَهْزِءُونَ

  For they have already denied, but there will come to them the news of that which they used to ridicule.

• Al-Ma'aarij 70:17✦ skyread

  تَدْعُوا۟ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ

  It invites he who turned his back [on truth] and went away [from obedience]

Where it falls

These verses across the book in reading order. Most of them sit in Ash-Shu'araa.

How it sounds

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