سورة الأعراف، الآية ١٩٧
وَٱلَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِهِۦ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ نَصْرَكُمْ وَلَآ أَنفُسَهُمْ يَنصُرُونَ ١٩٧
wa-alladhīna tadʿūna min dūnihi lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣrakum walā anfusahum yanṣurūna
And those you call upon besides Him are unable to help you, nor can they help themselves."
Verse 197 of Surah Al-A’raf (7:197), a Meccan surah, is in juz 9, on page 176 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.
Those you call upon O idolators from amongst these idols, are not able to help you, and are not able to help themselves. For they are utterly incapable, unable to do anything. So how can you call upon them instead of calling upon Allah?
But those whom you supplicate besides Him cannot help you, nor can they help themselves.”
And those whom you call upon besides Him (Allâh) cannot help you nor can they help themselves.
They on whom ye call beside Him have no power to help you, nor can they help you, nor can they help themselves.
"But those ye call upon besides Him, are unable to help you, and indeed to help themselves."
And those whom you call upon besides Him are not able to help you, nor can they help themselves.
And the ones you invoke apart from Him are neither able to vindicate you nor to vindicate themselves.".
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
يُولِجُ ٱلَّيْلَ فِى ٱلنَّهَارِ وَيُولِجُ ٱلنَّهَارَ فِى ٱلَّيْلِ وَسَخَّرَ ٱلشَّمْسَ وَٱلْقَمَرَ كُلٌّ يَجْرِى لِأَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى ذَٰلِكُمُ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّكُمْ لَهُ ٱلْمُلْكُ وَٱلَّذِينَ تَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِهِۦ مَا يَمْلِكُونَ مِن قِطْمِيرٍ
He causes the night to enter the day, and He causes the day to enter the night and has subjected the sun and the moon - each running [its course] for a specified term. That is Allāh, your Lord; to Him belongs sovereignty. And those whom you invoke other than Him do not possess [as much as] the membrane of a date seed.
