Surah 20. Ta-ha, Ayah 89
| أَفَلَا يَرَوْنَ أَلَّا يَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهِمْ قَوْلًا وَلَا يَمْلِكُ لَهُمْ ضَرًّا وَلَا نَفْعًا |
| Transliteration | : | 'a- fa- laa yarawn 'an laa yarjic 'ilay -him qawl(an) wa- laa yamlik la- -hum d.arr(an) wa- laa nafc(an) |
| Pickthall | : | See they not, then, that it returneth no saying unto them and possesseth for them neither hurt nor use? |
| Asad | : | Why - did they not see that [the thing] could not give them any response, and had no power to harm or to benefit them? |
| Malik | : | What! Could they not see that it did not respond to them and that it could neither harm them nor help them? |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Could they not see that it could not return them a word (for answer) and that it had no power either to harm them or to do them good? 2612 |
Note - 2612This is a parenthetical comment. How blind the people
were! They had seen Signs of the true living God, and yet
they were willing to worship this dead image! The true
living God had spoken in definite words of command, while
this calf could only emit some sounds of lowing, which
were themselves contrived by the fraud of the priests.
This image could do neither good nor harm, while Allah
was the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Universe, Whose
Mercy was unbounded and Whose Wrath was terrible.
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This is a parenthetical comment. How blind the people were! They had seen Signs of the true living God, and yet they were willing to worship this dead image! The true living God had spoken in definite words of command, while this calf could only emit some sounds of lowing, which were themselves contrived by the fraud of the priests. This image could do neither good nor harm, while Allah was the Cherisher and Sustainer of the Universe, Whose Mercy was unbounded and Whose Wrath was terrible. |
