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Surah 7. Al-A'raf, Ayah 193

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وَإِن تَدْعُوهُمْ إِلَى ٱلْهُدَىٰ لَا يَتَّبِعُوكُمْ ۚ سَوَآءٌ عَلَيْكُمْ أَدَعَوْتُمُوهُمْ أَمْ أَنتُمْ صَـٰمِتُونَ Qur’an Al-A'raf (7:193)
Wain tadAAoohum il a alhud a l a yattabiAAookum saw a on AAalaykum adaAAawtumoohum am antum sa mitoon a
and, if you pray to them for guidance, do not respond to you?158 As far as you are concerned, it is all one whether you invoke them or keep silent.
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

Lit., "do not follow you". As regards my translation of in tad'uhum ila 'l-huda as "if you pray to them for guidance" (instead of the erroneous - but common - translation "if you invite [or "call"] them to guidance"), see Zamakhshari, Razi and Ibn Kathir. Cf. also verse {198} below.

If you invite them to guidance they will not follow you. It will be all the same for you whether you call them or hold your peace.
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
And if you 'idolaters' call upon them for guidance, they cannot respond to you. It is all the same whether you call them or remain silent.
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
And if ye call them to the Guidance, they follow you not. Whether ye call them or are silent is all one to them.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
If ye call them to guidance they will not obey: for you it is the same whether ye call them or ye hold your peace! 1166
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

When false worship takes root, the teacher of Truth finds much to discourage him. As far as he is concerned, it seems as if he has produced no effect. Yet his duty is to continue his work, in the spirit of verse 199 below, forgiving all opposition, teaching what is right, and not joining the ignorant in their attitude of doubt and indecision.

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