سورة يس، الآية ٧٤
وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ ءَالِهَةً لَّعَلَّهُمْ يُنصَرُونَ ٧٤
wa-ittakhadhū min dūni l-lahi ālihatan laʿallahum yunṣarūna
But they have taken besides Allāh [false] deities that perhaps they would be helped.
Verse 74 of Surah Ya-Sin (36:74), a Meccan surah, is in juz 23, on page 445 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 71 reciters.
77 recitations by 71 reciters: pick one and it plays in the player.
The idolaters have taken other deities instead of Allah whom they worship, hoping that they will help them and save them from the punishment of Allah.
Yet they have taken other gods besides Allah, hoping that they may be helped.
And they have taken besides Allâh âlihah (gods), hoping that they might be helped (by those so-called gods).
And they have taken (other) gods beside Allah, in order that they may be helped.
Yet they take (for worship) gods other than Allah, (hoping) that they might be helped!
And they have taken gods besides Allah that they may be helped.
And they have taken to themselves, apart from Allah, gods that possibly they would be given victory.
إِنَّا خَلَقْنَا ٱلْإِنسَٰنَ مِن نُّطْفَةٍ أَمْشَاجٍ نَّبْتَلِيهِ فَجَعَلْنَٰهُ سَمِيعًۢا بَصِيرًا
Indeed, We created man from a sperm-drop mixture that We may try him; and We made him hearing and seeing.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
وَٱتَّخَذُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ ءَالِهَةً لِّيَكُونُوا۟ لَهُمْ عِزًّا
And they have taken besides Allāh [false] deities that they would be for them [a source of] honor.
