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Scholarly commentary explaining a verse — its context, its meaning and how the scholars have understood it.

Al-A'raf 7:198

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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.

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Tafsir Muyassar

Ministry of Islamic Affairs, Saudi Arabia

وإن تدعوا -أيها المشركون- آلهتكم إلى الاستقامة والسداد لا يسمعوا دعاءكم، وترى -أيها الرسول- آلهة هؤلاء المشركين مِن عبدة الأوثان يقابلونك كالناظر إليك وهم لا يبصرون; لأنهم لا أبصار لهم ولا بصائر.

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