Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

What will it avail them, what they enjoyed?

مَٓا اَغْنٰى عَنْهُمْ مَا كَانُوا يُمَتَّعُونَۜ
Ma aghna AAanhum ma kanooyumattaAAoon
#wordmeaningroot
1Not
2aghnā(will) availغني
3ʿanhumthem
4what
5kānūenjoyment they were givenكون
6yumattaʿūnaenjoyment they were givenمتع
  • Aisha Bewley

    that what they enjoyed will be of any use to them?

  • Progressive Muslims

    All they luxury they were given will not avail them.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Then, of what avail will be their past enjoyments?

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    What will it avail them, what they enjoyed?

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    All the luxury they were given will not avail them.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    The luxury they were given will not avail them.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Their vast resources did not help them in the least.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Of what avail shall their enjoyment be to them?

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    They would not be availed by the enjoyment with which they were provided.

  • Muhammad Asad

    of what avail to them will be all their past enjoyments?

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    (How) that wherewith they were contented naught availeth them?

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    of what avail will be the provisions of life which they have been granted to enjoy?

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    There and then never shall their possessions and the use af all that afforded them pleasure and advantages avail them or defend them against Allah's decreed punishment!

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Their material possessions did not help them the least.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    All that with which they used to enjoy shall not avail them.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    It will profit them not that they enjoyed (this life)!

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    would that enjoyment be of any benefit to them ˹at all˺?

  • Taqi Usmani

    what help can they receive from the comforts they were given to enjoy?

  • Abdul Haleem

    what good would their past enjoyment be to them?

  • Arthur John Arberry

    what will it then avail them, the enjoyment of days they were given?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    that will not avail them which they had to enjoy!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And then there comes to them that which they are promised,

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    In no way will avail them whatever they had been given to enjoy.

  • George Sale

    what will that which they have enjoyed profit them?

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    It will not help them that they enjoyed (this life)!

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    That (respite) which they were allowed to enjoy will be of no avail to them?

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    of what avail to them will be that which they were given to enjoy?