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Surah 16. An-Nahl, Ayah 73

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وَيَعْبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَمْلِكُ لَهُمْ رِزْقًا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَـٰوَٰتِ وَٱلْأَرْضِ شَيْـًٔا وَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ Qur’an An-Nahl (16:73)
WayaAAbudoona min dooni All a hi m a l a yamliku lahum rizqan mina a l ssam a w a ti wa a lar d i shayan wal a yasta t eeAAoon a
and will they [continue to] worship, instead of God, something that has it not within its power to provide for them any sustenance whatever from the heavens or the earth,83 and can do nothing at all?
  - Mohammad Asad
Mohammad Asad

For the comprehensive meaning embodied in the term rizq, see the first sentence of note [4] on 2:3 .

They worship those deities other than Allah, who neither provide them anything for sustenance from the heavens or the earth, nor have any power to do so?
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Yet they worship besides Allah those 'idols' who do not afford them any provision from the heavens and the earth, nor do they have the power to.
  - Mustafa Khattab
Mustafa Khattab
And they worship beside Allah that which owneth no provision whatsoever for them from the heavens or the earth, nor have they (whom they worship) any power.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Marmaduke Pickthall
And worship others than Allah such as have no power of providing them for sustenance with anything in heavens or earth and cannot possibly have such power? 2105
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Abdullah Yusuf Ali

"Sustenance" (rizq) in all this passage (xvi. 65-74), as elsewhere, implies all that is necessary for man's life and growth, physical, mental, moral, and spiritual. Milk, fruit, and honey are examples of physical gifts, with a metaphorical reference to mental and moral health; family life is an example of moral and social and (ultimately) spiritual opportunities in the life of man; and in xvi. 65 is an example of rain in the physical world as a type of Allah's revelation in the spiritual world.

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