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وَلَوْ نَشَآءُ لَطَمَسْنَا عَلَىٰٓ أَعْيُنِهِمْ فَٱسْتَبَقُوا۟ ٱلصِّرَٰطَ فَأَنَّىٰ يُبْصِرُونَ

Word by word

وَلَوْ

And if

Preposition

نَشَآءُ

We willed

Verb

Root: شيأ

لَطَمَسْنَا

We (would have) surely obliterated

Verb

Root: طمس

عَلَىٰٓ

[over]

Preposition

أَعْيُنِهِمْ

their eyes

Noun

Root: عين

فَٱسْتَبَقُوا۟

then they (would) race

Verb

Root: سبق

ٱلصِّرَٰطَ

(to find) the path

Noun

Root: صرط

فَأَنَّىٰ

then how

Preposition

يُبْصِرُونَ

(could) they see

Verb

Root: بصر

Translation

If it had been our Will, We could surely have blotted out their eyes; then should they have run about groping for the Path, but how could they have seen?

A. Yusuf Ali · EN · public-domain

Hem dileseydik gözlerini üzerinden silme kör ediverirdik de yola dökülürlerdi. Fakat nereden görecekler?

Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır · TR · public-domain

Dileseydik gözlerini elbette silip (kör eder)dik de yolu bulmaya koşuşurlardı; (bu durumda) nasıl görebilirler ki!

Mehmet Okuyan · TR · all-rights-reserved

And had We willed, We verily could have quenched their eyesight so that they should struggle for the way. Then how could they have seen?

M. Pickthall · EN · public-domain