سورة يس، الآية ٧٥
لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ نَصْرَهُمْ وَهُمْ لَهُمْ جُندٌ مُّحْضَرُونَ ٧٥
lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣrahum wahum lahum jundun muḥ'ḍarūna
They are not able to help them, and they [themselves] are for them soldiers in attendance.1282
[1282] Maintaining and protecting their "gods." Another interpretation is that they (i.e., the gods) will be soldiers set against them in Hellfire.
Verse 75 of Surah Ya-Sin (36:75), 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.
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Those deities that they have taken are not able to help themselves, let alone help whoever worships them instead of Allah. The worshippers, together with their idols, will all be brought to the punishment but will all protest innocence from one another.
They cannot help them, yet they serve them as their dedicated guards21.
[21] Or their idols or so-called gods will be assembled to witness the punishment of their worshipers on the Day of Judgment.
They cannot help them, but they will be brought forward as a troop against those who worshipped them (at the time of Reckoning).
It is not in their power to help them; but they (the worshippers) are unto them a host in arms.
They have not the power to help them: but they will be brought up (before Our Judgment-seat) as a troop (to be condemned).
(But) they shall not be able to assist them, and they shall be a host brought up before them.
They are unable to vindicate them, (though) they (The disbelievers) be hosts (readily) presented to them.
