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Qur’an 88:7 Al-Ghashiyah, verse 7

لَّا يُسْمِنُ وَلَا يُغْنِى مِن جُوعٍۢ

Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger.

Translation: Saheeh International. Brackets mark words added for clarity.

Surah
Al-Ghashiyah (88)
Verse
7 of 26
Revealed
Makki
Juz
30
Mushaf page
592

Word by word

ArabicTransliterationMeaningRoot
لَّاlāNot
يُسْمِنُyus'minuit nourishesس م ن
وَلَاwalāand not
يُغْنِىyugh'nīit availsغ ن ي
مِنminfrom
جُوعٍۢjūʿinhungerج و ع

Tap a root to see every word built from it. Root and lemma data: Quranic Arabic Corpus (Kais Dukes, University of Leeds), revised by quran-morphology, GNU GPL. All sources.

In context

The verses around 88:7 in Al-Ghashiyah.

  • 88:5تُسْقَىٰ مِنْ عَيْنٍ ءَانِيَةٍۢThey will be given drink from a boiling spring.
  • 88:6لَّيْسَ لَهُمْ طَعَامٌ إِلَّا مِن ضَرِيعٍۢFor them there will be no food except from a poisonous, thorny plant
  • 88:8وُجُوهٌۭ يَوْمَئِذٍۢ نَّاعِمَةٌۭ[Other] faces, that Day, will show pleasure.
  • 88:9لِّسَعْيِهَا رَاضِيَةٌۭWith their effort [they are] satisfied

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