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Quran 39:50

Surah Az-Zumar, Verse 50

Juz 24 · Page 464 · Ruku 400 · Meccan

قَدْ قَالَهَا ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ

Word by word

قَدْ qad Indeed قَالَهَا qālahā said it ٱلَّذِينَ alladhīna those مِن min before them قَبْلِهِمْ qablihim before them فَمَآ famā but (did) not أَغْنَىٰ aghnā avail عَنْهُم ʿanhum them مَّا mā what كَانُوا۟ kānū they used to يَكْسِبُونَ yaksibūna earn

Transliteration

Qad qalaha allatheenamin qablihim fama aghna AAanhum ma kanooyaksiboon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Those before them said it, yet (all) that they had earned availed them not;

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Thus did the (generations) before them say! But all that they did was of no profit to them.

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

( قد قالها الذين من قبلهم ) أي : قد قال هذه المقالة وزعم هذا الزعم وادعى هذه الدعوى ، كثير ممن سلف من الأمم ( فما أغنى عنهم ما كانوا يكسبون ) أي : فما صح قولهم ولا منعهم جمعهم وما كانوا يكسبون .

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.