Quran-35:22 Surah Fatir English Translation,Transliteration and Tafsir(Tafseer).

وَمَا يَسۡتَوِي ٱلۡأَحۡيَآءُ وَلَا ٱلۡأَمۡوَٰتُۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ يُسۡمِعُ مَن يَشَآءُۖ وَمَآ أَنتَ بِمُسۡمِعٖ مَّن فِي ٱلۡقُبُورِ

Transliteration:( Wa mā yastawī al-aḥyāʾu wa lā al-amwāt; inna Allāha yusmiʿu man yashāʾu wa mā anta bimusmiʿin man fī alqubūr )

22. And the living and the dead can never be equal [67] Indeed Allah causes him to hear whom[68] He Pleases but you cannot make those who are lying in their graves( 69) to hear. (Kanzul Imaan Translation)

(22) And not equal are the living and the dead. Indeed, Allāh causes to hear whom He wills, but you cannot make hear those in the graves.[1249] (Saheen International Translation)

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Surah Fatir Ayat 22 Tafsir (Commentry)

Tafseer-e-Naeemi (Ahmad Yaar Khan)
Ibn Kathir
Ala-Madudi
Shaheen International

67. By the living is meant the believers, while the dead signify the infidels

68. If Allah Almighty wishes He could enable His beloved servants to hear soft sounds from a distance, like Hazrat Sulaiman (On whom be peace) who could hear the sound of the ant from a distance of three miles. And if He so desires He would not let a person hear the sound of the canon from nearby, by making the person totally deaf.Â If He desires He can enable the dead to hear and if He desires, He could make some of those that are living to be deaf.

69. Here those in the grave denote infidels. Otherwise, the dead do listen. That is the reason why greeting the inmates of the grave is sunnat In every Salaah greeting is extended to Holy Prophet because the Messenger of Allah is alive and is able to see all things near and far.Hazrat Saleh and Hazrat Shuaib (On them he peace) had spoken people who were totally destroyed. Therefore, at another place, after this. It is stated "You only make those to hear who believe in Our signâ€ (530 V53)

Ibn-Kathir

The tafsir of Surah Fatir verse 22 by Ibn Kathir is unavailable here.
Please refer to Surah Fatir ayat 19 which provides the complete commentary from verse 19 through 26.

(35:22) nor are the living and the dead alike.[42] Allah makes to hear whomsoever He wishes, but you, (O Prophet), cannot cause to hear those who are in their graves.[43]

Ala-Maududi

(35:22) nor are the living and the dead alike.^[42] Allah makes to hear whomsoever He wishes, but you, (O Prophet), cannot cause to hear those who are in their graves.^[43]

42. In these comparisons the present and the future of a believer and a disbeliever have been contrasted. There is a person who has closed his eyes to the realities and does not care to see as to what truth the whole system of the universe and his own existence itself are pointing. There is the other person, whose eyes are open and who clearly sees that everything outside and inside himself bears evidence to the Unity of God and to man’s answerability before him. There is a person, who is wandering blindly in the superstitions of ignorance and the darkness of presumptions and speculations, and is not inclined to benefit by the light of the candle lit by the Prophet. There is the other person, whose eyes are open and who, as soon as the light spread by the Prophet appears before him, comes to realize that all the ways being followed by the polytheists and the disbelievers and the atheists lead to destruction, and the way to success is only that which has been shown by the Messenger of God. Now how can it be possible that the attitude of the two persons be the same in the world and the two may follow one and the same path together? And how can this also be possible, either that the two should meet the same end and should both end up in the dust after death? Neither should one be punished for his wrongdoings, nor the other be rewarded for his righteous conduct. The sentence, “the cool shade and the heat of the sun are not alike” points to the same fate. The one will be provided shelter under the shade of Allah’s mercy and the other will burn in the fire of Hell. Thus, the notions that the two will ultimately meet the same end, is utterly false. In the end, the believer has been likened to the living and the stubborn disbeliever to the dead. That is, the believer is he whose feeling, understanding and perception are alive and whose conscience is making him aware of the distinction between the good and the evil every moment. Contrary to this, the person who has been, wholly lost in the prejudices of disbelief is even worse than the blind person who is wandering about in darkness. Nay, he is like a dead person who has no sense or feeling left in him.

43. That is, as for the powers of Allah, they are unlimited. He can even make the stones to hear. But it is not within the power of the Messenger to make those people to listen to him whose consciences have become dead and whose ears deaf to every call to the truth. He can only make those people to hear him, who are inclined to listen to every reasonable thing.

(22) And not equal are the living and the dead. Indeed, Allāh causes to hear whom He wills, but you cannot make hear those in the graves.[1249]

[1249]- The four comparisons given by Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) in verses 19-22 are those of the believer and unbeliever, various kinds of misbelief and (true) belief, Paradise and Hellfire, and those receptive to guidance and those unreceptive.