فُصِّلَت : ٥

  • وَقَالُواْ And they say
  • قُلُوبُنَا Our hearts
  • فِيٓ (are) in
  • أَكِنَّةٖ coverings
  • مِّمَّا from what
  • تَدۡعُونَآ you call us
  • إِلَيۡهِ to it
  • وَفِيٓ and in
  • ءَاذَانِنَا our ears
  • وَقۡرٞ (is) deafness
  • وَمِنۢ and between us
  • بَيۡنِنَا and between us
  • وَبَيۡنِكَ and between you
  • حِجَابٞ (is) a screen
  • فَٱعۡمَلۡ So work
  • إِنَّنَا indeed, we
  • عَٰمِلُونَ (are) working
And they say, "Our hearts are within coverings [i.e., screened] from that to which you invite us, and in our ears is deafness, and between us and you is a partition, so work;1 indeed, we are working."
Footnotes
1 - For your own religion or work against us.
And they say, to the Prophet, 'Our hearts are veiled, [they are] masked, from that to which you call us, and in our ears there is a deafness and between us and you there is a partition, a variance over religion, so act, according to your religion; indeed we shall be acting!', according to our religion.