7. Surah Al-A'raf, Verse 198
وَاِنْ تَدْعُوهُمْ اِلَى الْهُدٰى لَا يَسْمَعُواۜ وَتَرٰيهُمْ يَنْظُرُونَ اِلَيْكَ وَهُمْ لَا يُبْصِرُونَ
Wa-in tadAAoohum ila alhuda layasmaAAoo watarahum yanthuroona ilayka wahumla yubsiroon
If you call them to guidance, they do not hear. You see them looking at you, yet they do not see.
- Progressive Muslims
And if you invite them to the guidance, they do not listen. And you see them looking at you, while they do not see.
- Shabbir Ahmed
Such people are lost in their reverence of false deities. When you invite them to Guidance, they hear without listening and you see them looking at you, but they see not.
- Sam Gerrans
And if you invite them to guidance, they hear not; and thou seest them looking at thee, but they see not.
- The Monotheist Group
And when you invite them to the guidance, they do not listen. And you see them looking at you, while they do not see.
- Edip-Layth
If you invite them to the guidance, they do not listen; you see them looking at you, while they do not see.
- Aisha Bewley
If you call them to guidance, they do not hear. You see them looking at you, yet they do not see.
- Rashad Khalifa
When you invite them to the guidance, they do not hear. And you see them looking at you, but they do not see.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
When you call upon them for guidance, they do not hear. When you think they are looking at you, (in fact) they cannot see."
- Sahih International
And if you invite them to guidance, they do not hear; and you see them looking at you while they do not see.
- Muhammad Asad
and if you pray unto them for guidance, they do not hear; and though thou mayest imagine that they behold thee, they do not see. "
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And if ye (Muslims) call them to the guidance they hear not; and thou (Muhammad) seest them looking toward thee, but they see not.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
"And if you should invoke them to offer you counsel they cannot hear you, and you can see their artificial eyes staring vacantly at you, unable to see".
- Bijan Moeinian
When you invite them to the right path, their ears does not process your call. Although it seems that they are looking at you, they do not see nothing.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And if you call them to guidance, they hear not and you will see them looking at you, yet they see not.
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
If thou callest them to guidance, they hear not. Thou wilt see them looking at thee, but they see not.
- Mustafa Khattab
If you ˹idolaters˺ call them to guidance, they cannot hear. And you ˹O Prophet˺ may see them facing towards you, but they cannot see.
- Taqi Usmani
If you call them for guidance, they shall not hear. You see them as if they are looking at you, while they cannot see.
- Abdul Haleem
If you [believers] call such people to guidance, they do not hear. You [Prophet] may observe them looking at you, but they can-not see.
- Arthur John Arberry
If you call them to the guidance they do not hear; and thou seest them looking at thee, unperceiving.
- E. Henry Palmer
But if ye call them unto the guidance they will not hear, thou mayest see them looking towards thee, yet they do not see.
- Hamid S. Aziz
But if you call them unto the guidance, they hear not. You will see them looking at you, yet they see not.
- Mahmoud Ghali
And in case you call them to the guidance, they do not hear, and you see them looking at you, and they do not behold. .
- George Sale
And if you invite them to guidance, they hear not. And thou seest them looking towards thee, but they see not.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
If you call them to guidance— They will not hear, you will see them looking at you, yet they do not see.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
And if you call these (polytheists) to guidance they will not even be able to hear (you speak). And though you see them (as if they are) looking at you while (as a matter of fact) they do not see (anything being absent minded as they are).
- Ali Quli Qarai
If you call them to guidance, they will not hear. You see them observing you, but they do not perceive.