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صُمٌّ بُكْمٌ عُمْيٌ فَهُمْ لَا يَرْجِعُونَۙ

Summun bukmun AAumyun fahum layarjiAAoon

Deaf, dumb, blind. They will not return.

  • Progressive Muslims

    Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not revert.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Deaf, dumb and blind of Reason! They will not return to begin their journey in the right direction (until they use their faculties of perception and reasoning ((8:22), (16:76), (17:36)).

  • Sam Gerrans

    Deaf, dumb, blind; so they will not return.

  • The Monotheist Group

    Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not return.

  • Edip-Layth

    Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not revert.

  • Aisha Bewley

    Deaf, dumb, blind. They will not return.

  • Rashad Khalifa

    Deaf, dumb, and blind; they fail to return.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    They are deaf, dumb and blind, and shall never return;

  • Sahih International

    Deaf, dumb and blind - so they will not return [to the right path].

  • Muhammad Asad

    Deaf, dumb, blind - and they cannot turn back.

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Deaf, dumb and blind; and they return not.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    Deaf and dumb, insensible to light, they are unable to retrace their steps that lead them into error.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Now they are deaf, dumb, blind and without guidance; naturally they can not find their way back to the right path.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    They are deaf, dumb, and blind, so they return not (to the Right Path).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not return (to the path).

  • Mustafa Khattab

    They are ˹wilfully˺ deaf, dumb, and blind, so they will never return ˹to the Right Path˺.

  • Taqi Usmani

    Deaf, dumb and blind, they shall not return.

  • Abdul Haleem

    deaf, dumb, and blind: they will never return.

  • Arthur John Arberry

    deaf, dumb, blind -- so they shall not return;

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Deafness, dumbness, blindness, and they shall not return!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Deaf, dumb, blind, and they shall not return!

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Deaf, dumb, blind, so they will not return.

  • George Sale

    they are deaf, dumb, and blind, therefore will they not repent.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    They are deaf, dumb, and blind, so they will not return (to the right path).

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    (They are) deaf, dumb, (and) blind, so they will not return (to the right path).

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Deaf, dumb, and blind, they will not come back.