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

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 11

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,

Muhammad Asad — The Message of the Qur’an

The same did say [to themselves many of] those who lived before their time; but of no avail to them was all that they had ever achieved:

Rowwad · source edition

It was already said by those before them[13], but all what they earned was of no avail to them,

Notes

[13] Such as Korah. See 28:76-81.