سورة الحَجّ

Surah Al-Hajj 22:12

The Pilgrimage · Verse 12 of 78

يَدْعُو مِنْ دُونِ اللَّهِ مَا لَا يَضُرُّهُ وَمَا لَا يَنْفَعُهُ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ الضَّلَالُ الْبَعِيدُ

Abdul Mannan Omar

He calls, apart from Allâh, upon the things which can do him neither harm nor good. That, indeed, is straying far away.

They call on such deities, besides Allah, as can neither hurt nor profit them: that is straying far indeed (from the Way)!

Leaving God they pray to those who cannot harm or profit them. That is the limit of going astray.

12 more translations

He invokes, apart from God, that which can neither harm nor benefit him. That indeed is straying very far away.

He calleth upon that, beside Allah, which can neither hurt him nor profit him! that! it is a straying far-off.

They worship such, beside Allah, which neither harms them nor benefits them; this only is the extreme error.

He calls besides Allah on that which harms him not, nor benefits him; that is straying far.

He calls beside ALLAH on that which can neither harm him nor benefit him. That is indeed straying far away.

[By behaving thus,] he invokes, instead of God, something that can neither harm nor benefit him [and] this is indeed the utmost one can go astray.

He calls besides Allah unto that which hurts him not, nor profits him. That is a straying far away.

He calleth, beside Allah, unto that which hurteth him not nor benefiteth him. That is the far error.

They worship things instead of God which can neither harm them nor benefit them. This is indeed to stray far away from the right path.

He calls besides Allah upon that which does not harm him and that which does not profit him, that is the great straying.

He idolizes beside GOD what possesses no power to harm him or benefit him; such is the real straying.

He calls, instead of God, on what neither can harm him nor benefit him. That is the utmost straying.