The Troops
39. Az-Zumar
الزمر
Page #464
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قَدْ
قَالَهَا
الَّذِينَ
مِن
قَبْلِهِمْ
فَمَا
أَغْنَى
عَنْهُم
مَّا
كَانُوا
يَكْسِبُونَ
qad qālahā lladhīna min qablihim fa-mā ʾaghnā ʿanhum mā kānū yaksibūna
Those who were before them [also] said that, but what they used to earn did not avail them.
— Ali Quli Qarai
Thus did the (generations) before them say! But all that they did was of no profit to them.
