The Heights
7. Al-A'rāf
الأعراف

al-A‘rāf (The Elevations)

ٱلْأَعْرَاف

7:100

أَوَلَمْ

يَهْدِ

لِلَّذِينَ

يَرِثُونَ

الْأَرْضَ

مِن

بَعْدِ

أَهْلِهَا

أَن

لَّوْ

نَشَاءُ

أَصَبْنَاهُم

بِذُنُوبِهِمْ

وَنَطْبَعُ

عَلَى

قُلُوبِهِمْ

فَهُمْ

لَا

يَسْمَعُونَ

ʾa-wa-lam yahdi li-lladhīna yarithūna l-ʾarḍa min baʿdi ʾahlihā ʾan law nashāʾu ʾaṣabnāhum bi-dhunūbihim wa-naṭbaʿu ʿalā qulūbihim fa-hum yasmaʿūna

Is it not a lesson for the successors of the past generations that had We wanted, We could have punished them for their sins, sealed their hearts and deprived them of hearing?

Muhammad Sarwar