Surat Ar-Rum Verse No. 52: Reading and listening
Translation of the verse 52 from Surah Ar-Rum : Number of verses 60 - - page 410 - Part 21.
﴾فَإِنَّكَ لَا تُسۡمِعُ ٱلۡمَوۡتَىٰ وَلَا تُسۡمِعُ ٱلصُّمَّ ٱلدُّعَآءَ إِذَا وَلَّوۡاْ مُدۡبِرِينَ ﴿
[ الروم: 52]
So verily, you (O Muhammad SAW) cannot make the dead to hear (i.e. the disbelievers, etc.), nor can you make the deaf to hear the call, when they show their backs, turning away.
English - Sahih International
So indeed, you will not make the dead hear, nor will you make the deaf hear the call when they turn their backs, retreating.
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(30:52) (O Prophet), you cannot make the dead hear, *76 nor can you make the deaf hear your call when they turn back in retreat, *77
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
*76) That is, those whose consciences have become dead, whose moral selves have become devoid of life, whose self-worship and stubbornness and obstinacy have destroyed their capacity to understand and accept the Truth.
*77) "The deaf" : those who have put locks on their minds and hearts so that they do not understand anything although they hear everything; then, when such people also try that the message of the Truth should not at all eater their ears, and they should avoid and keep away from the inviter, nobody can make them hear and understand anything.