Verse. 4823

٥٣ - ٱلنَّجْم

53 - An-Najm

وَاَنْ لَّيْسَ لِلْاِنْسَانِ اِلَّا مَا سَعٰى۝۳۹ۙ
Waan laysa lilinsani illa ma saAAa

English

Ahmed Ali

That a man receives but only that for which he strives;

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Tafseer

'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī

تفسير : (and that man) on the day of judgement (hath only that for which he maketh effort) he has only that which he has earned of good or evil in the life of the world,

Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī

تفسير : and that (wa-an, to be understood as wa-annahu) man shall have only what he [himself] strives for, of good [deeds], and so he shall not have anything of [the reward for] good [deeds] striven for by another;