سورة الزُّمَر
Surah Al-Zumar 39:50
The Multitudes · Verse 50 of 75
قَدْ قَالَهَا الَّذِينَ مِنْ قَبْلِهِمْ فَمَا أَغْنَىٰ عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يَكْسِبُونَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
Their predecessors had said the same thing, yet all their acquisitions were of no avail to them,
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Thus did the (generations) before them say! But all that they did was of no profit to them.
Ahmed Ali
Those before them had also said so, and yet nothing of what they did availed them in the least.
12 more translations
Ali Unal
Those who lived before them (and adopted the same attitude and followed a similar way) said it (too); but all that they achieved (in the world) was of no avail to them.
Daryabadi
Surely those who were before them said it, yet there availed them not that which they had been earning.
Faridul Haque
Those before them also said the same, so their earnings did not benefit them at all.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Those before them did say it indeed, but what they earned availed them not.
Maulvi Sher Ali
Those who were before said the same thing, yet all that they earned availed them not.
Muhammad Asad
The same did say [to themselves many of] those who lived before their time; but of no avail to them was all that they had ever achieved:
Muhammad Musin Khan
Verily, those before them said it, yet (all) that they had earned availed them not.
Muhammad Pickthall
Those before them said it, yet (all) that they had earned availed them not;
Muhammad Sarwar
People who lived before them had also said, "Our wealth has been earned by our own merits." What they had earned was of no benefit to them
Muhammed ali Shakir
Those before them did say it indeed, but what they earned availed them not.
Rashad Khalifa
Those before them have uttered the same thing, and their earnings did not help them in the least.
Shabbir Ahmed
Those before them said the same thing, but what they earned did not avail them in the least.