The Holy Quran 27:81 — Surah An-Naml

Arabic text

وَمَآ أَنتَ بِهَـٰدِى ٱلْعُمْىِ عَن ضَلَـٰلَتِهِمْ ۖ إِن تُسْمِعُ إِلَّا مَن يُؤْمِنُ بِـَٔايَـٰتِنَا فَهُم مُّسْلِمُونَ

Translation

(Similarly,) You cannot guide the blind from their deviation (when they stray). You can guide only those who believe in Our Aayaat and who are Muslims (people who have submitted themselves to Allaah).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The disbelievers are like the blind and the deaf: that is, just as addressing a dead man or calling a deaf person, especially when he is walking away with his back turned and pays no attention whatsoever to the caller, is of no benefit to them, such is the state of these deniers whose hearts have died, whose hearts' ears have gone deaf, and who have no wish…

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