The Wind-Curved Sandhills
46. Al-'Aḥqāf
الأحقاف

al-Aḥqāf (The Sandhills)

ٱلْأَحْقَاف

46:26
46:26

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 kānū bihī yastahziʾūna

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.

Ali Quli Qarai