Tafsir Ibn Abbas: Az-Zukhruf, Ayah 40
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Can you then make the deaf hear or can you guide the blind and one who is in manifest error? in other words such individuals will not believe.
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Ibn Abbas Commentary
(Canst thou) O Muhammad (make the deaf to hear) make the one who pretends to be deaf hear the Truth and guidance, (or canst thou guide the blind) or guide the disbeliever to see the Truth and guidance (or him who is in error manifest) whom you cannot guide to the guidance?