سورة الأعراف، الآية ١٣٩
إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ مُتَبَّرٌ مَّا هُمْ فِيهِ وَبَٰطِلٌ مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ ١٣٩
inna hāulāi mutabbarun mā hum fīhi wabāṭilun mā kānū yaʿmalūna
Indeed, those [worshippers] - destroyed is that in which they are [engaged], and worthless is whatever they were doing."
Verse 139 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:139), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 167 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.
78 recitations by 72 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
'These people who are worshipping idols are ruined, and all of their works and devotion is false and worthless because they are worshipping other than Allah.'
Indeed, what they follow is doomed to destruction and what they do is worthless.”
[Mûsâ (Moses) added:] "Verily, these people will be destroyed for that which they are engaged in (idols-worship). And all that they are doing is in vain."
Lo! as for these, their way will be destroyed and all that they are doing is in vain.
"As to these folk,- the cult they are in is (but) a fragment of a ruin, and vain is the (worship) which they practise."
(As to) these, surely that about which they are shall be brought to naught and that which they do is vain.
Surely, whatever (idols) these (people consecrated themselves to) will be completely annihilated, and whatever they were doing is untrue.".
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ فِى ٱلْـَٔاخِرَةِ إِلَّا ٱلنَّارُ وَحَبِطَ مَا صَنَعُوا۟ فِيهَا وَبَٰطِلٌ مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَعْمَلُونَ
Those are the ones for whom there is not in the Hereafter but the Fire. And lost is what they did therein, and worthless is what they used to do.
