Tafsir for verses: 26:72, 26:73
قَالَ هَلۡ يَسۡمَعُونَكُمۡ إِذۡ تَدۡعُونَ ٧٢ ﴿72﴾ أَوۡ يَنفَعُونَكُمۡ أَوۡ يَضُرُّونَ ٧٣ ﴿73﴾
72He said, “Do they listen to you when you call (them) 73or do they bring benefit to you or harm?”
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Commentary
It is necessary in 'they hear you' to consider the omission of the added word. Its meaning is: do they hear your supplication? And Qatadah read: 'they hear you', meaning: do they hear you respond to your supplication? And are they capable of that? It has come in the present tense while being placed in 'if' to narrate the past situation. Its meaning is: recall the past situations in which you used to call upon them, and say: did they ever hear or make you hear? This is more effective in reprimanding.
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