ٱلْأَنْعَام : ٢٥

  • وَمِنۡهُم And among them
  • مَّن (are those) who
  • يَسۡتَمِعُ listen
  • إِلَيۡكَۖ to you
  • وَجَعَلۡنَا but We have placed
  • عَلَىٰ over
  • قُلُوبِهِمۡ their hearts
  • أَكِنَّةً coverings
  • أَن lest
  • يَفۡقَهُوهُ they understand it
  • وَفِيٓ and in
  • ءَاذَانِهِمۡ their ears
  • وَقۡرٗاۚ deafness
  • وَإِن And if
  • يَرَوۡاْ they see
  • كُلَّ every
  • ءَايَةٖ sign
  • لَّا not
  • يُؤۡمِنُواْ will they believe
  • بِهَاۖ in it
  • حَتَّىٰٓ Until
  • إِذَا when
  • جَآءُوكَ they come to you
  • يُجَٰدِلُونَكَ and argue with you
  • يَقُولُ say
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • كَفَرُوٓاْ disbelieved
  • إِنۡ Not
  • هَٰذَآ (is) this
  • إِلَّآ but
  • أَسَٰطِيرُ (the) tales
  • ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ (of) the former (people)
And among them are those who listen to you,1 but We have placed over their hearts coverings, lest they understand it, and in their ears deafness. And if they should see every sign, they will not believe in it. Even when they come to you arguing with you, those who disbelieve say, "This is not but legends of the former peoples."
Footnotes
1 - When you recite the Qur’ān.
And there are some of them who listen to you, when you recite, and We have placed veils, covers, upon their hearts so that they do not understand it, [so that] they [do not] comprehend Al-Qur'an; and in their ears a heaviness, a deafness, so that they do not hear it with a willingness to accept it. And if they were to see every sign, they would not believe in it, so that when they come to you to argue with you, the disbelievers say, 'This, Qur'aan, is nothing but the fables, the lies, of the ancients', similar to [their] jokes and strange tales (asaateer, 'fables', is the plural of ustoora).