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Surah al-Hajj (The Pilgrimage ) 22 : 46

أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَتَكُونَ لَهُمْ قُلُوبٌ يَعْقِلُونَ بِهَآ أَوْ ءَاذَانٌ يَسْمَعُونَ بِهَا ۖ فَإِنَّهَا لَا تَعْمَى ٱلْأَبْصَٰرُ وَلَٰكِن تَعْمَى ٱلْقُلُوبُ ٱلَّتِى فِى ٱلصُّدُورِ

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 Muhsin Khan
 Pickthall
 Yusuf Ali
Quran Project
So have they not travelled through the earth and have hearts by which to reason and ears by which to hear? For indeed, it is not eyes that are blinded, but blinded are the hearts which are within the breasts.

Qur'an Dictionary

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Word Arabic word
(22:46:1)
(22:46:2)
yasīrū
they traveled
(22:46:3)
(22:46:4)
l-arḍi
the land
(22:46:5)
fatakūna
and is
(22:46:6)
(22:46:7)
qulūbun
hearts
(22:46:8)
yaʿqilūna
(to) reason
(22:46:9)
(22:46:10)
(22:46:11)
ādhānun
ears
(22:46:12)
yasmaʿūna
(to) hear
(22:46:13)
(22:46:14)
(22:46:15)
(22:46:16)
taʿmā
(are) blinded
(22:46:17)
l-abṣāru
the eyes
(22:46:18)
(22:46:19)
taʿmā
(are) blinded
(22:46:20)
l-qulūbu
the hearts
(22:46:21)
allatī
which
(22:46:22)
(22:46:23)
l-ṣudūri
the breasts

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Explanatory Note

As the sūrah portrays these scenes, it adds another rhetorical question about their effects on unbelievers. Emphasis is here placed on the location of hearts in people’s bodies, which serves to amplify the blindness of those hearts in particular. Had those hearts been able to reflect on the scenes portrayed, they would have remembered and people’s eyes would have been tearful. They would have moved towards faith, at least as a result of fearing an end like the ones that befell other communities.

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As this Surah contains the characteristics of both the Makkan and the Madīnan Surahs the commentators have differed as to its period of revelation but in the light of its style and themes we are of the opinion that a part of it (v. 1-24) was sent down in the last stage of the Makkan life of the Prophet a little before migration and the rest (v. 25-78) during the first stage of his Madinah life. That is why this Surah combines the characteristics of both the Makkan and the Madinah Surahs.

According to Ibn Abbas, Mujahid, Qatadah and other great commentators, v. 39 is the first verse that grants the Muslims permission to wage war. Collections of hadith and books on the life of the Prophet confirm that after this permission actual preparations for war were started and the first expedition was sent to the coast of the Red Sea in Safar 2 A.H. which is known as the Expedition of Waddan or Al-Abwa.

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