The Holy Quran 2:171 — Surah Al-Baqarah

Arabic text

وَمَثَلُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا۟ كَمَثَلِ ٱلَّذِى يَنْعِقُ بِمَا لَا يَسْمَعُ إِلَّا دُعَآءً وَنِدَآءً ۚ صُمٌّۢ بُكْمٌ عُمْىٌ فَهُمْ لَا يَعْقِلُونَ

Translation

The comparison of those who commit kufr (and those calling them to Islaam) is like a person who calls something (some animal) that can hear only a call and a sound (without understanding what is being said). Deaf, dumb and blind, they cannot understand (neither do they have knowledge nor do they want to hear what the knowledgeable people say).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

The example of the disbelievers: that is, calling these disbelievers to the path of guidance is like someone calling to the animals of the wild, which understand nothing but the sound. Such is the state of those people who neither have knowledge themselves nor accept the word of those who have knowledge.

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