سورة الحجر، الآية ٨٤
فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ ٨٤
famā aghnā ʿanhum mā kānū yaksibūna
So nothing availed them [from] what they used to earn.
Verse 84 of Surah Al-Hijr (15:84), a Meccan surah, is in juz 14, on page 266 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
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The wealth and the dwellings that they had gained did not ward off Allah’s punishment.
Nothing of what they earned was of any avail to them.
And all that they used to earn availed them not.
And that which they were wont to count as gain availed them not.
And of no avail to them was all that they did (with such art and care)!
And what they earned did not avail them.
Then in no way did whatever they used to earn avail them.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
قَدْ قَالَهَا ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ
Those before them had already said it, but they were not availed by what they used to earn.
أَفَلَمْ يَسِيرُوا۟ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَيَنظُرُوا۟ كَيْفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلَّذِينَ مِن قَبْلِهِمْ كَانُوٓا۟ أَكْثَرَ مِنْهُمْ وَأَشَدَّ قُوَّةً وَءَاثَارًا فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَمَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يَكْسِبُونَ
Have they not traveled through the land and observed how was the end of those before them? They were more numerous than themselves and greater in strength and in impression on the land, but they were not availed by what they used to earn.
مَآ أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا۟ يُمَتَّعُونَ
They would not be availed by the enjoyment with which they were provided.
