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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
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

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
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
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
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

"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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