The Thunder
13. Ar-Raʿd
الرعد
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لَهُ
دَعْوَةُ
الْحَقِّ
وَالَّذِينَ
يَدْعُونَ
مِن
دُونِهِ
لَا
يَسْتَجِيبُونَ
لَهُم
بِشَيْءٍ
إِلَّا
كَبَاسِطِ
كَفَّيْهِ
إِلَى
الْمَاءِ
لِيَبْلُغَ
فَاهُ
وَمَا
هُوَ
بِبَالِغِهِ
وَمَا
دُعَاءُ
الْكَافِرِينَ
إِلَّا
فِي
ضَلَالٍ
lahū daʿwatu l-ḥaqqi wa-lladhīna yadʿūna min dūnihī lā yastajībūna lahum bi-shayʾin ʾillā ka-bāsiṭi kaffayhi ʾilā l-māʾi li-yablugha fāhu wa-mā huwa bi-bālighihī wa-mā duʿāʾu l-kāfirīna ʾillā fī ḍalālin
For Him (alone) is prayer in Truth: any others that they call upon besides Him hear them no more than if they were to stretch forth their hands for water to reach their mouths but it reaches them not: for the prayer of those without Faith is nothing but (futile) wandering (in the mind).
— Abdullah Yusufali
[Only] to Him belongs the true invocation; and those whom they invoke besides Him do not answer them in any wise—like someone who stretches his hands towards water [desiring] that it should reach his mouth, but it does not reach it—and the invocations of the faithless only go awry.
