سورة مريم، الآية ٤٢
إِذْ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ يَٰٓأَبَتِ لِمَ تَعْبُدُ مَا لَا يَسْمَعُ وَلَا يُبْصِرُ وَلَا يُغْنِى عَنكَ شَيْـًٔا ٤٢
idh qāla li-abīhi yāabati lima taʿbudu mā lā yasmaʿu walā yub'ṣiru walā yugh'nī ʿanka shayan
[Mention] when he said to his father, "O my father, why do you worship that which does not hear and does not see and will not benefit you at all?
Verse 42 of Surah Maryam (19:42), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 308 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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When he said to his father Azar: “O father, why do you worship besides Allah an idol which does not hear your supplication if you supplicate it, does not see your worship when you worship it, does not remove harm from you and does not bring any benefit to you?
When he said to his father, “O my dear father, why do you worship something that neither hears nor sees nor benefits you in any way?
When he said to his father: "O my father! Why do you worship that which hears not, sees not and cannot avail you in anything?
When he said unto his father: O my father! Why worshippest thou that which heareth not nor seeth, nor can in aught avail thee?
Behold, he said to his father: "O my father! why worship that which heareth not and seeth not, and can profit thee nothing?
When he said to his father; O my father! why do you worship what neither hears nor sees, nor does it avail you in the least:
As he said to his father, "O my father, why do you worship that which neither hears nor beholds, nor avails you anything?
