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Surah Al-A’raf, Verse 192

سورة الأعراف، الآية ١٩٢

7:192 Juz 9 Hizb 18 Page 175 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 7:192

وَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ لَهُمْ نَصْرًا وَلَآ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَنصُرُونَ ۝١٩٢

Transliteration

walā yastaṭīʿūna lahum naṣran walā anfusahum yanṣurūna

Translation

And they [i.e., the false deities] are unable to [give] them help, nor can they help themselves.

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Verse 192 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:192), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 175 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 72 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 192

Al-Mukhtasar

These things that are worshipped instead of Allah cannot help those who worship them, and cannot even help themselves, so worshipping them is clearly foolish and ignorant.

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Other translations of verse 192

They cannot help them, nor can they help themselves.

No help can they give them, nor can they help themselves.

And cannot give them help, nor can they help themselves?

No aid can they give them, nor can they aid themselves!

And they have no power to give them help, nor can they help themselves.

And that are unable to vindicate them, neither will they vindicate themselves?.

Verse 192 word by word

وَلَا walā And not
يَسْتَطِيعُونَ yastaṭīʿūna they are able ط و ع
لَهُمْ lahum to (give) them
نَصْرًا naṣran any help ن ص ر
وَلَآ walā and not
أَنفُسَهُمْ anfusahum themselves ن ف س
يَنصُرُونَ yanṣurūna can they help ن ص ر

Verses related to verse 192

Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

As-Saffat 37:93
فَرَاغَ عَلَيْهِمْ ضَرْبًۢا بِٱلْيَمِينِ

And he turned upon them a blow with [his] right hand.
Al-Anbya 21:58
فَجَعَلَهُمْ جُذَٰذًا إِلَّا كَبِيرًا لَّهُمْ لَعَلَّهُمْ إِلَيْهِ يَرْجِعُونَ

So he made them into fragments, except a large one among them, that they might return to it [and question].

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