Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Why-did they not see that [the thing] could not give them any response, and had no power to harm or to benefit them
Arthur John Arberry
What? Did they not see that thing returned no speech unto them, neither had any power to hurt or profit them
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Could they not see that it could not return them a word (for answer), and that it had no power either to harm them or to do them good
Arabic
أَفَلَا یَرَوۡنَ أَلَّا یَرۡجِعُ إِلَیۡهِمۡ قَوۡلࣰا وَلَا یَمۡلِكُ لَهُمۡ ضَرࣰّا وَلَا نَفۡعࣰا ٨٩
Transliteration (2021)
afalā yarawna allā yarjiʿu ilayhim qawlan walā yamliku lahum ḍarran walā nafʿa