ٱلنَّمْل : ٦٦

  • بَلِ Nay
  • ٱدَّـٰرَكَ is arrested
  • عِلۡمُهُمۡ their knowledge
  • فِي of
  • ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِۚ the Hereafter
  • بَلۡ Nay
  • هُمۡ they
  • فِي (are) in
  • شَكّٖ doubt
  • مِّنۡهَاۖ about it
  • بَلۡ Nay
  • هُم they
  • مِّنۡهَا about it
  • عَمُونَ (are) blind
Rather, their knowledge is arrested concerning the Hereafter. Rather, they are in doubt about it. Rather, they are, concerning it, blind.
Nay, has their knowledge come to comprise (read adraka, similar to the [4th verbal] form akrama, 'he was kind to'; a variant reading has iddaaraka, which is actually tadaaraka, with the taa' changed into a daal and assimilated with the [other] daal, and a conjunctive hamza added, meaning, 'attained' or 'caught up with') the Hereafter?, such that they [have reason to] ask about the time of its coming - not so: Nay, for they are in doubt of it. Rather they are blind to it ('amoona, 'blind', as in blindness of the heart; this [statement] is rhetorically more powerful than the preceding one; the origin [of the term] is 'amiyoon, but the damma vowel is deemed too heavy for the yaa' and has been moved to the meem, after dropping its kasra vowel).