Al-Qur'an Surah Az-Zukhruf Verse 40

Mufti Taqi Usmani

So, can you (O prophet) make the deaf to hear, or can you show the way to the blind and the one who is in open error?

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

Can you make the deaf hear, or guide the blind or those clearly astray?

Ruwwad Translation Center

Can you make the deaf hear, or guide the blind or the one who is clearly misguided?

A. J. Arberry

What, shalt thou make the deaf to hear, or shalt thou guide the blind and him who is in manifest error?

Abdul Haleem

Can you [Prophet] make the deaf hear? Or guide either the blind or those who are in gross error?

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Wherefore canst thou make the deaf to hear, or canst thou guide the blind or him who is is error manifest?

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Canst thou then make the deaf to hear, or give direction to the blind or to such as (wander) in manifest error?

Abul Ala Maududi

Can you, (O Prophet), then make the deaf hear, or direct to the Right Way the blind or one lost in manifest error?

Ahmed Ali

Can you make the deaf to hear, or show the blind, and those lost in clear error, the way?

Ahmed Raza Khan

So will you make the deaf listen or show the path to the blind, and to those who are in open error? (The disbelievers whose hearts are sealed, are deaf and blind to the truth).

Ali Quli Qarai

Can you, then, make the deaf hear or guide the blind and those who are in manifest error?

Ali Ünal

(Although this is the truth and clear to you, O Messenger,) can you make the deaf hear or guide the blind and him who is lost in obvious error?

Amatul Rahman Omar

(In this state of theirs, Prophet!) would you make the deaf to hear, or guide the blind and him who is (engrossed) in glaring error.

English Literal

So do you make the deaf hear/listen, or guide the blind/confused , and who was in a clear/evident misguidance?

Faridul Haque

So will you make the deaf listen or show the path to the blind, and to those who are in open error? (The disbelievers whose hearts are sealed, are deaf and blind to the truth).

Hamid S. Aziz

What! Can you (O Muhammad) make the deaf to hear or guide the blind and him who is in clear error?

Hilali & Khan

Can you (O Muhammad SAW) make the deaf to hear, or can you guide the blind or him who is in manifest error?

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And as you did wrong, it will profit you naught this day that you are sharers in the chastisement.

Mohammad Habib Shakir

What! can you then make the deaf to hear or guide the blind and him who is in clear error?

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Canst thou (Muhammad) make the deaf to hear, or canst thou guide the blind or him who is in error manifest?

Muhammad Sarwar

(Muhammad), can you make the deaf hear or guide the blind or the one who is clearly in error?

Qaribullah & Darwish

What, will you make the deaf hear, or guide the blind and he who is in clear error?

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

Can you make the deaf to hear, or can you guide the blind or him who is in manifest error

Wahiduddin Khan

Can you [Prophet] make the deaf hear? Or guide either the blind or those who are in manifest error?

Talal Itani

Can you make the deaf hear, or guide the blind, and him who is in evident error?

Tafsir jalalayn

Can you, then, make the deaf hear, or can you guide the blind and one who is in manifest error?, in other words, such [individuals] will not believe.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

Can you make the deaf to hear, or can you guide the blind or him who is in manifest error?

means, `that is not up to you. All you have to do is convey the Message, but you do not have to guide them. Allah guides whomsoever He wills and sends astray whomsoever He wills, and He is Wise and Just in doing so.'
Allah's Vengeance upon the Enemies of His Messenger will surely come to pass

Allah further says;

فَإِمَّا نَذْهَبَنَّ بِكَ فَإِنَّا مِنْهُم مُّنتَقِمُونَ