Quran 46:26 — Al-Ahqaf, verse 26
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
We had established them in a way we have not established you [people of Mecca]; We gave them hearing, sight, and hearts, yet their hearing, sight, and hearts were of no use to them, since they denied God’s revelations. They were overwhelmed by the punishment they had mocked.
وَلَقَدْ مَكَّنَّاهُمْ فِيمَا إِنْ مَكَّنَّاكُمْ فِيهِ وَجَعَلْنَا لَهُمْ سَمْعًا وَأَبْصَارًا وَأَفْئِدَةً فَمَا أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُمْ سَمْعُهُمْ وَلَا أَبْصَارُهُمْ وَلَا أَفْئِدَتُهُمْ مِنْ شَيْءٍ إِذْ كَانُوا يَجْحَدُونَ بِآيَاتِ اللَّهِ وَحَاقَ بِهِمْ مَا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
walaqad makkannāhum fīmā in makkannākum fīhi wajaʿalnā lahum samʿan wa-abṣāran wa-afidatan famā aghnā ʿanhum samʿuhum walā abṣāruhum walā afidatuhum min shayin idh kānū yajḥadūna biāyāti l-lahi waḥāqa bihim mā kānū bihi yastahziūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- And We had established them in that wherein We have not established you, and We appointed for them hearing, and sight, and hearts; and yet their hearing, their sight and their hearts availed them nothing, since they denied the signs of God, and they were encompassed by that they mocked at.
- Muhammad Asad
- And yet, We had established them securely in a manner in which We have never established you, [O people of later times;] and We had endowed them with hearing, and sight, and [knowledgeable] hearts: but neither their hearing, nor their sight, nor their hearts were of the least avail to them, seeing that they went on rejecting God’s messages; and [in the end] they were overwhelmed by the very thing which they had been wont to deride.
- Sahih International
- And We had certainly established them in such as We have not established you, and We made for them hearing and vision and hearts [i.e., intellect]. But their hearing and vision and hearts availed them not from anything [of the punishment] when they were [continually] rejecting the signs of Allāh; and they were enveloped by what they used to ridicule.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَلَقَدْwalaqad | And certainly | — |
| 2 | مَكَّنَّـٰهُمْmakkannāhum | We had established them | مكن |
| 3 | فِيمَآfīmā | in what | — |
| 4 | إِنin | not | — |
| 5 | مَّكَّنَّـٰكُمْmakkannākum | We have established you | مكن |
| 6 | فِيهِfīhi | in it | — |
| 7 | وَجَعَلْنَاwajaʿalnā | and We made | جعل |
| 8 | لَهُمْlahum | for them | — |
| 9 | سَمْعًۭاsamʿan | hearing | سمع |
| 10 | وَأَبْصَـٰرًۭاwa-abṣāran | and vision | بصر |
| 11 | وَأَفْـِٔدَةًۭwa-afidatan | and hearts | فأد |
| 12 | فَمَآfamā | But not | — |
| 13 | أَغْنَىٰaghnā | availed | غني |
| 14 | عَنْهُمْʿanhum | them | — |
| 15 | سَمْعُهُمْsamʿuhum | their hearing | سمع |
| 16 | وَلَآwalā | and not | — |
| 17 | أَبْصَـٰرُهُمْabṣāruhum | their vision | بصر |
| 18 | وَلَآwalā | and not | — |
| 19 | أَفْـِٔدَتُهُمafidatuhum | their hearts | فأد |
| 20 | مِّنmin | any | — |
| 21 | شَىْءٍshayin | thing | شيأ |
| 22 | إِذْidh | when | — |
| 23 | كَانُوا۟kānū | they were | كون |
| 24 | يَجْحَدُونَyajḥadūna | rejecting | جحد |
| 25 | بِـَٔايَـٰتِbiāyāti | (the) Signs | أيي |
| 26 | ٱللَّهِl-lahi | (of) Allah | أله |
| 27 | وَحَاقَwaḥāqa | and enveloped | حيق |
| 28 | بِهِمbihim | them | — |
| 29 | مَّاmā | what | — |
| 30 | كَانُوا۟kānū | they used to | كون |
| 31 | بِهِۦbihi | [at it] | — |
| 32 | يَسْتَهْزِءُونَyastahziūna | ridicule | هزأ |