Surah Az-Zumar — Verse 50
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قَدْ قَالَهَا ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ
Qad qalaha allatheenamin qablihim fama aghna AAanhum ma kanooyaksiboon
Translations of this verse 7
Saheeh International
Those before them had already said it, but they were not availed by what they used to earn.
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem
Those who lived before them said the same. What they did was of no use to them;
Marmaduke Pickthall
Those before them said it, yet (all) that they had earned availed them not;
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Thus did the (generations) before them say! But all that they did was of no profit to them.
Mufti Taqi Usmani
The same was said by those before them, but what they used to earn was of no avail to them,
Al-Hilali & Khan
Verily, those before them said it, yet (all) that they had earned availed them not.
Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)
Their predecessors also said the same, but their earnings proved of no avail to them,