36. Surah Ya-Sin, Verse 75
لَا يَسْتَط۪يعُونَ نَصْرَهُمْۙ وَهُمْ لَهُمْ جُنْدٌ مُحْضَرُونَ
La yastateeAAoona nasrahumwahum lahum jundun muhdaroon
They cannot help them even though they are an army mobilised in their support.
- Progressive Muslims
They cannot help them. And they become to them as foot-soldiers.
- Shabbir Ahmed
It is beyond their power to help them, and in effect such people end up guarding their false gods like committed hosts.
- Sam Gerrans
They cannot help them, and they are for them a force summoned.
- The Monotheist Group
They cannot help them; while they are soldiers for them.
- Edip-Layth
They cannot help them. They become to them as foot-soldiers.
- Aisha Bewley
They cannot help them even though they are an army mobilised in their support.
- Rashad Khalifa
On the contrary, they cannot help them; they end up serving them as devoted soldiers.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
They will not be able to help them and will be brought (to Us) as their levied troops.
- Sahih International
They are not able to help them, and they [themselves] are for them soldiers in attendance.
- Muhammad Asad
they are unable to succour their devotees, even though to them they may [appear to] be hosts drawn up [for succour].
- Marmaduke Pickthall
It is not in their power to help them; but they (the worshippers) are unto them a host in arms.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
When in fact the false gods have no power to be of avail to them ever, not to mention their total inability to afford them help. On the contrary it is the infidels who afford them protection and round about them they are garrisoned like a camp of faithful soldiery.
- Bijan Moeinian
Whatever they worship [idols, money, boss, spouse, etc. ] can not help them; yet they stand as an ever ready army at their service!
- Al-Hilali & Khan
They cannot help them, but they will be brought forward as a troop against those who worshipped them (at the time of Reckoning).
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
They have not the power to help them: but they will be brought up (before Our Judgment-seat) as a troop (to be condemned).
- Mustafa Khattab
They cannot help the pagans, even though they serve the idols as dedicated guards.[1]
- Taqi Usmani
They cannot help them, rather they (the disbelievers themselves) are (like) an army brought forth for (protecting) them (the so-called co-gods)
- Abdul Haleem
though these could not do so even if they called a whole army of them together!
- Arthur John Arberry
They cannot help them, though they be hosts made ready for them.
- E. Henry Palmer
They cannot help them; yet are they a host ready for them.
- Hamid S. Aziz
But they shall not be able to assist them, and they shall be a host brought up before them.
- Mahmoud Ghali
They are unable to vindicate them, (though) they (The disbelievers) be hosts (readily) presented to them.
- George Sale
but they are not able to give them any assistance: Yet are they a party of troops ready to defend them.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
They (the gods) have not the power to help them: But they (the unbelievers) will be brought forward (for Judgment) as a (whole) group (to be punished).
- Amatul Rahman Omar
These (false gods) are not capable of helping them. On the contrary these (gods) will (turn out for them to) be a host (of rebels) brought (before the Almighty to receive their due punishment).
- Ali Quli Qarai
[Yet] they cannot help them, while they [themselves] are ready warriors for them.