Meaning: they listen · Also translated as: listen, so listen, then listen, you hear
Forms in the Quran
يَسْتَمِعُونَ×6
يَسْتَمِعُ×3
فَٱسْتَمِعُوا۟×2
فَٱسْتَمِعْ×1
ٱسْتَمَعُوهُ×1
تَسْتَمِعُونَ×1
وَٱسْتَمِعْ×1
ٱسْتَمَعَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
السمع: قوة في الأذن به يدرك الأصوات، وفعله يقال له السمع أيضا، وقد سمع سمعا.
قوله تعالى: ﴿واسمع غير مسمع﴾ [النساء: 46] كانوا اليهود لعنهم الله، يقولون له: اسمع ظاهرا، وفي أنفسهم: لا سمعت. وقيل: معناه: غير مجاب إلى ما تدعونا إليه. ومنه قوله: «الله إني أعوذ بك من دعاء لا يسمع» أي لا يجاب. وقول المصلي: «سمع الله لمن حمده» أي أجابه وقبله. وإنما قيل ذلك لأن غرض الداعي قبول دعائه وإجابته، فأوقع…
Of them there are some
Who (pretend to) listen to thee;
But We have thrown
Veils on their hearts,
So they understand it not,
And deafness in their ears;
If they saw every one
Of the Signs, not they
Will believe in them;
In so much that
When they come to thee,
They (but) dispute with thee;
The Unbelievers say:
"These are nothing
But tales of the ancients."
We know best why it is
They listen, when they listen
To thee; and when they
Meet in private conference,
Behold, the wicked say,
"Ye follow none other than
A man bewitched!"
O men! Here is
A parable set forth!
Listen to it! Those
On whom, besides God,
Ye call, cannot create
(Even) a fly, if they all
Met together for the purpose!
And if the fly should snatch
Away anything from them,
They would have no power
To release it from the fly.
Feeble are those who petition
And those whom they petition!
Those who listen
To the Word,
And follow
The best (meaning) in it:
Those are the ones
Whom God has guided, and those
Are the ones endued
With understanding.
Behold, We turned
Towards thee a company
Of Jinns (quietly) listening
To the Qur-ān: when they
Stood in the presence
Thereof, they said, "Listen
In silence!" When the (reading)
Was finished, they returned
To their people, to warn
(Them of their sins).
And among them are men
Who listen to thee,
But in the end, when they
Go out from thee,
They say to those who
Have received Knowledge,
"What is it he said
Just then?" Such are
Men whose hearts God
Has sealed, and who
Follow their own lusts.
Or have they a ladder,
By which they can (climb
Up to heaven and) listen
(To its secrets)? Then let
(Such a) listener of theirs
Produce a manifest proof.