Quran 41:44 — Fussilat, verse 44
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
If We had made it a foreign Quran, they would have said, ‘If only its verses were clear! What? Foreign speech to an Arab?’ Say, ‘It is guidance and healing for those who have faith, but the ears of the disbelievers are heavy, they are blind to it, it is as if they are being called from a distant place.’
وَلَوْ جَعَلْنَاهُ قُرْآنًا أَعْجَمِيًّا لَقَالُوا لَوْلَا فُصِّلَتْ آيَاتُهُ ۖ أَأَعْجَمِيٌّ وَعَرَبِيٌّ ۗ قُلْ هُوَ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا هُدًى وَشِفَاءٌ ۖ وَالَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ فِي آذَانِهِمْ وَقْرٌ وَهُوَ عَلَيْهِمْ عَمًى ۚ أُولَـٰئِكَ يُنَادَوْنَ مِنْ مَكَانٍ بَعِيدٍ
walaw jaʿalnāhu qur'ānan aʿjamiyyan laqālū lawlā fuṣṣilat āyātuhu āʿ'jamiyyun waʿarabiyyun qul huwa lilladhīna āmanū hudan washifāon wa-alladhīna lā yu'minūna fī ādhānihim waqrun wahuwa ʿalayhim ʿaman ulāika yunādawna min makānin baʿīdin
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- If We had made it a barbarous Koran, they would have said, 'Why are its signs not distinguished? What, barbarous and Arabic?' Say: 'To the believers it is a guidance, and a healing; but those who believe not, in their ears is a heaviness, and to them it is a blindness; those -- they are called from a far place.'
- Muhammad Asad
- Now if We had willed this [divine writ] to be a discourse in a non-Arabic tongue, they [who now reject it] would surely have said, “Why is it that its messages have not been spelled out clearly? Why - [a message in] a non-Arabic tongue, and [its bearer] an Arab?” Say: “Unto all who have attained to faith, this [divine writ] is a guidance and a source of health; but as for those who will not believe - in their ears is deafness, and so it remains obscure to them: they are [like people who are] being called from too far away.
- Sahih International
- And if We had made it a foreign [i.e., non-Arabic] Qur’ān, they would have said, "Why are its verses not explained in detail [in our language]? Is it a foreign [recitation] and an Arab [messenger]?" Say, "It is, for those who believe, a guidance and cure." And those who do not believe - in their ears is deafness, and it is upon them blindness. Those are being called from a distant place.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَلَوْwalaw | And if | — |
| 2 | جَعَلْنَـٰهُjaʿalnāhu | We (had) made it | جعل |
| 3 | قُرْءَانًاqur'ānan | a Quran | قرأ |
| 4 | أَعْجَمِيًّۭاaʿjamiyyan | (in) a foreign (language) | عجم |
| 5 | لَّقَالُوا۟laqālū | they (would have) said | قول |
| 6 | لَوْلَاlawlā | Why not | — |
| 7 | فُصِّلَتْfuṣṣilat | are explained in detail | فصل |
| 8 | ءَايَـٰتُهُۥٓ ۖāyātuhu | its verses | أيي |
| 9 | ءَا۬عْجَمِىٌّۭāʿ'jamiyyun | (Is it) a foreign (language) | عجم |
| 10 | وَعَرَبِىٌّۭ ۗwaʿarabiyyun | and an Arab | عرب |
| 11 | قُلْqul | Say | قول |
| 12 | هُوَhuwa | It (is) | — |
| 13 | لِلَّذِينَlilladhīna | for those who | — |
| 14 | ءَامَنُوا۟āmanū | believe | أمن |
| 15 | هُدًۭىhudan | a guidance | هدي |
| 16 | وَشِفَآءٌۭ ۖwashifāon | and a healing | شفي |
| 17 | وَٱلَّذِينَwa-alladhīna | And those who | — |
| 18 | لَاlā | (do) not | — |
| 19 | يُؤْمِنُونَyu'minūna | believe | أمن |
| 20 | فِىٓfī | in | — |
| 21 | ءَاذَانِهِمْādhānihim | their ears | أذن |
| 22 | وَقْرٌۭwaqrun | (is) deafness | وقر |
| 23 | وَهُوَwahuwa | and it | — |
| 24 | عَلَيْهِمْʿalayhim | (is) for them | — |
| 25 | عَمًى ۚʿaman | blindness | عمي |
| 26 | أُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَulāika | Those | — |
| 27 | يُنَادَوْنَyunādawna | are being called | ندو |
| 28 | مِنmin | from | — |
| 29 | مَّكَانٍۭmakānin | a place | كون |
| 30 | بَعِيدٍۢbaʿīdin | far | بعد |