سورة طه، الآية ٨٩
أَفَلَا يَرَوْنَ أَلَّا يَرْجِعُ إِلَيْهِمْ قَوْلًا وَلَا يَمْلِكُ لَهُمْ ضَرًّا وَلَا نَفْعًا ٨٩
afalā yarawna allā yarjiʿu ilayhim qawlan walā yamliku lahum ḍarran walā nafʿan
Did they not see that it could not return to them any speech [i.e., response] and that it did not possess for them any harm or benefit?
Verse 89 of Surah Taha (20:89), a Meccan surah, is in juz 16, on page 318 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Do these people who were tempted by the calf and then worshipped it not see that the calf does not speak or respond to them, nor does it have the ability to remove harm from them or others or bring benefit for itself or others?
Do they not see that it does not respond a word to them, nor does it have the power to harm or benefit them?
Did they not see that it could not return them a word (for answer), and that it had no power either to harm them or to do them good?
See they not, then, that it returneth no saying unto them and possesseth for them neither hurt nor use?
Could they not see that it could not return them a word (for answer), and that it had no power either to harm them or to do them good?
What! could they not see that it did not return to them a reply, and (that) it did not control any harm or benefit for them?
Do they not then see that it does not return any speech to them, neither does it possess (any power) for harm or profit to them?
