Verse 39:51 | inQuran

English - Hazrat Molavi Sher Ali ^ra

Those who were before them said the same thing, yet all that they had earned availed them not;

English - Five Volume Translation

Those who were before them said the same thing, yet all that they had earned availed them not;[3473]

English - Short Commentary Translation

Those who were before them said the same thing, yet all that they had earned availed them not.

اردو ترجمہ مرزا طاہر احمد خلیفة المسیح الرابعؒ

یقیناً ان لوگوں نے جو اُن سے پہلے تھے یہی بات کہی تھی۔ پس جو کسب وہ کرتے تھے ان کے کسی کام نہ آسکا۔

French

Ceux qui les ont devancés disaient la même chose ; cependant tout ce qu’ils avaient acquis ne leur servit à rien ;

German

Die vor ihnen waren, sprachen auch schon so, doch all das, was sie erworben, nützte ihnen nichts;

Chinese

他们之前的人曾说了同样的话, 但是他们往常所做的一切对他们都没有用处。

Italian

Quelli che erano venuti prima di loro erano soliti dire la stessa cosa, eppure tutto quello che si erano guadagnati non servì loro a nulla.

Spanish

Quienes existieron antes que ellos dijeron lo mismo, y sin embargo todo lo que habían conseguido no les sirvió de nada;

اردو تفسیرِ صغیر

یہی (بات) ان سے پہلے لوگ بھی کہہ چکے ہیں۔ پھر بھی اُن کے اعمال اُن کے کام نہ آئے۔

اردو ترجمہ مودودی

یہی بات ان سے پہلے گزرے ہوئے لوگ بھی کہہ چکے ہیں، مگر جو کچھ وہ کماتے تھے وہ ان کے کسی کام نہ آیا

English - Sahih

Those before them had already said it, but they were not availed by what they used to earn.

اردو ترجمہ احمد علی

بے شک یہی بات وہ لوگ کہہ چکے ہیں جو ان سے پہلے تھے پس ان کے نہ کام آیا جو کچھ وہ کماتے رہے

English - Talal Itani

Indeed, said it those before them, but (did) not avail them what they used to earn.

Chinese Commentary ^*

اردہ تفصیرِ صغیر نوٹس ^*

English - Arberry

So said those that were before them; but that they earned did not avail them,

English - Maududi

Their predecessors also said the same, but their earnings proved of no avail to them,

English - Ahmed Ali

Those before them had also said so, and yet nothing of what they did availed them in the least.

English - Yusuf Ali

Thus did the (generations) before them say! But all that they did was of no profit to them.

English - Five Volume Commentary ^*

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Commentary:

The verse means to say that the attitude of conceit and self-praise to which reference has been made in the previous verse has also proved the undoing of many a people in the past.

English - Short Commentary Notes ^*

English - Pickthall

Those before them said it, yet (all) that they had earned availed them not;

English - Muhammad Ali ^ra

Those before them did say it indeed, but what they earned availed them not.

English - Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan ^ra

Those who were before them said the same thing, yet all that they had earned availed them not;

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