The Holy Quran 25:44 — Surah Al-Furqan

Arabic text

أَمْ تَحْسَبُ أَنَّ أَكْثَرَهُمْ يَسْمَعُونَ أَوْ يَعْقِلُونَ ۚ إِنْ هُمْ إِلَّا كَٱلْأَنْعَـٰمِ ۖ بَلْ هُمْ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا

Translation

Or do you think that most of them hear (with the intention of accepting) or understand (everything they are told) ? (This is not the case because) They are merely like animals, but even more astray. (Whereas animals still realise that they should avoid things that cause them harm, the Kuffaar plunge further into kufr and sin that will cause them the worst harm in both worlds.)

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The disbelievers are worse than cattle: that is, whatever admonitions you recite to them, they are mere cattle, nay, worse than them: what have they to do with hearing or understanding? Cattle, at any rate, bow their necks before the master who rears them; they recognise their benefactor and have some sense of the beneficial and the harmful; let them loose…

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