وَأَنْ لَيْسَ لِلْإِنْسَانِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَى

Popular Translations

Muhammad Asad

and that nought shall be accounted unto man but what he is striving for

Arthur John Arberry

and that a man shall have to his account only as he has laboured

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

That man can have nothing but what he strives for

Arabic

وَأَن لَّیۡسَ لِلۡإِنسَـٰنِ إِلَّا مَا سَعَىٰ ۝٣٩

Transliteration (2021)

wa-an laysa lil'insāni illā mā saʿ