The Quran

سورة النّحل

Surah Al-Nahl 16:73

The Bee · Verse 73 of 128

وَيَعْبُدُونَ مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ مَا لَا يَمْلِكُ لَهُمْ رِزْقًا مِنَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ شَيْئًا وَلَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

And they worship, apart from Allâh, such things as possess no authority to grant them any provision from the heavens and the earth, nor can they (ever) have such power in fact.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

And worship others than Allah,- such as have no power of providing them, for sustenance, with anything in heavens or earth, and cannot possibly have such power?

Ahmed Ali

Yet they worship those apart from God who cannot provide for them any sustenance from the heavens or the earth, nor will they have power to do so.

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Ali Unal

And do they worship, apart from God, what has no ownership of any provision in the heavens and the earth with which to provide for them, nor have they (whom they falsely worship) any capacity (to take on, still less, discharge such a task)?

Daryabadi

And they worship, beside Allah, that which owneth them not any provision from the heavens and the earth, and they cannot

Faridul Haque

And they worship such besides Allah, who do not have power to provide them any sustenance from the heavens or the earth, nor can they do anything.

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And they serve besides Allah that which controls for them no sustenance at all from the heavens and the earth; nor have they any power.

Maulvi Sher Ali

And they worship beside ALLAH such as have no power to bestow on them any gift from the heavens and the earth, nor can they ever have such power.

Muhammad Asad

and will they [continue to] worship, instead of God, something that has it not within its power to provide for them any sustenance whatever from the heavens or the earth, and can do nothing at all?

Muhammad Musin Khan

And they worship others besides Allah, such as do not and cannot own any provision for them from the heavens or the earth.

Muhammad Pickthall

And they worship beside Allah that which owneth no provision whatsoever for them from the heavens or the earth, nor have they (whom they worship) any power.

Muhammad Sarwar

Do they worship things other than God which neither provide them with any sustenance from the heavens and the earth nor have the ability to do so?.

Muhammed ali Shakir

And they serve besides Allah that which does not control for them any sustenance at all from the heavens and the earth, nor have they any power.

Rashad Khalifa

Yet, they worship beside GOD what possesses no provisions for them in the heavens, nor on earth, nor can provide them with anything.

Shabbir Ahmed

And they worship besides God that which owns no provision for them from the heavens and the earth, nor they have any power.