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Quran 21:66

Surah Al-Anbiyaa, Verse 66

Juz 17 · Page 327 · Ruku 282 · Meccan

قَالَ أَفَتَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَنفَعُكُمْ شَيْـًٔا وَلَا يَضُرُّكُمْ

Word by word

قَالَ qāla He said أَفَتَعْبُدُونَ afataʿbudūna Then do you worship مِن min besides دُونِ dūni besides ٱللَّهِ l-lahi Allah مَا mā what لَا lā (does) not يَنفَعُكُمْ yanfaʿukum benefit you شَيْـًۭٔا shayan (in) anything وَلَا walā and not يَضُرُّكُمْ yaḍurrukum harms you

Transliteration

Qala afataAAbudoona min dooni Allahima la yanfaAAukum shay-an wala yadurrukum

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

He said: Worship ye then instead of Allah that which cannot profit you at all, nor harm you?

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

(Abraham) said, "Do ye then worship, besides Allah, things that can neither be of any good to you nor do you harm?

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

فعندها قال لهم إبراهيم لما اعترفوا بذلك : ( أفتعبدون من دون الله ما لا ينفعكم شيئا ولا يضركم ) أي : إذا كانت لا تنطق ، وهي لا تضر ولا تنفع ، فلم تعبدونها من دون الله .

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.