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Quran-27:80 Surah An-naml English Translation,Transliteration and Tafsir(Tafseer).

Transliteration:( Innaka laa tusmi'ul mawtaa wa laa tusmi'us summad du'aaa izaa wallaw mudbireen )

80. Undoubtedly you can not make the dead hear (146), and nor you can make the deaf to hear the call, when they turn showing their backs.

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Surah An-Naml Ayat 80 Tafsir (Commentry)



  • Tafseer-e-Naeemi (Ahmad Yaar Khan)
  • Ibn Kathir
  • Ala-Madudi

146. Here corpses denote death of the heart i.e. by infidels and the blind is meant their hearts are blind. Otherwise they would not have been contrasted with faith.
The listening of the corpse is proven from the Holy QURAN and the Ahadith. Its commentary is the following verse "Certainly it is not the eyes that are blind but are the hearts which are in the breasts" (S22-V46). It is for this reason that it is Sunnat to extend greetings to dead in the cemetary.
It is obligatory to extend greetings to the Holy Prophet صلى الله عليه وآله وسلم in Tashahood, although extending greeting to the deaf, or he may be able to hear but is unable to reply is not permissible.

 

Ibn-Kathir

The tafsir of Surah Naml verse 80 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Naml ayat 76 which provides the complete commentary from verse 76 through 81.

(27:80) Surely you cannot make the dead hear you,[97] nor can you make the deaf hear your call if they turn back in flight,[98]

97. “The dead” the ones whose consciences are dead and whose stubbornness, obstinacy and love of the usage and custom have deprived them of the sense of discrimination between the truth and falsehood.

98. That is, “Who not only close their ears against what you say, but slink away from the place where they fear they aught hear what you say.”

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