The Wind-Curved Sandhills
46. Al-'Aḥqāf
الأحقاف
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46:26
وَلَقَدْ
مَكَّنَّاهُمْ
فِيمَا
إِن
مَّكَّنَّاكُمْ
فِيهِ
وَجَعَلْنَا
لَهُمْ
سَمْعًا
وَأَبْصَارًا
وَأَفْئِدَةً
فَمَا
أَغْنَى
عَنْهُمْ
سَمْعُهُمْ
وَلَا
أَبْصَارُهُمْ
وَلَا
أَفْئِدَتُهُم
مِّن
شَيْءٍ
إِذْ
كَانُوا
يَجْحَدُونَ
بِآيَاتِ
اللَّهِ
وَحَاقَ
بِهِم
مَّا
كَانُوا
بِهِ
يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
wa-la-qad makkannāhum fī-mā ʾin makkannākum fīhi wa-jaʿalnā lahum samʿan wa-ʾabṣāran wa-ʾafʾidatan fa-mā ʾaghnā ʿanhum samʿuhum wa-lā ʾabṣāruhum wa-lā ʾafʾidatuhum min shayʾin ʾidh kānū yajḥadūna bi-ʾāyāti llāhi wa-ḥāqa bihim mā kānū bihī yastahziʾūna
And We had firmly established them in a (prosperity and) power which We have not given to you (ye Quraish!) and We had endowed them with (faculties of) hearing, seeing, heart and intellect: but of no profit to them were their (faculties of) hearing, sight, and heart and intellect, when they went on rejecting the Signs of Allah; and they were (completely) encircled by that which they used to mock at!
— Abdullah Yusufali
Certainly We had granted them power in respects that We have not granted you, and We had vested them with hearing and sight and hearts. But neither their hearing availed them in any way nor did their sight, nor their hearts when they used to impugn the signs of Allah. So they were besieged by what they used to deride.
