Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
[By behaving thus,] he invokes, instead of God, something that can neither harm nor benefit him: [and] this is indeed the utmost one can go astray
Arthur John Arberry
He calls, apart from God, upon that which hurts him not, and which neither profits him anything; that is indeed the far error
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
They call on such deities, besides Allah, as can neither hurt nor profit them: that is straying far indeed (from the Way)
Arabic
یَدۡعُوا۟ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا یَضُرُّهُۥ وَمَا لَا یَنفَعُهُۥۚ ذَ ٰلِكَ هُوَ ٱلضَّلَـٰلُ ٱلۡبَعِیدُ ١٢
Transliteration (2021)
yadʿū min dūni l-lahi mā lā yaḍurruhu wamā lā yanfaʿuhu dhālika huwa l-ḍalālu l-baʿīd