Quran 53 : 39

And that is not for man except what he strives (for),
وَأَن
Waan
لَّيْسَ
Llaysa
لِلْإِنسَٰنِ
Liliinsaāni
إِلَّا
Iillā
مَا
سَعَىٰ
Saʿaāā

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

And man will have what he sought.

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

That man can have nothing but what he strives for

Wahiduddin Khan

and that man shall have only that for which he strives

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

And that there is not for man except that [good] for which he strive

The Wise Quran

And that man shall have only that for which he strives;

The Study Quran

that man shall have naught but that for which he endeavored

Talal Itani (2012)

And that the human being attains only what he strives for

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

And that man attains only what he strives for.

T.B.Irving

That everyman receives only what he makes an effort for:

Syed Vickar Ahamed

And that man can have nothing except what he works (hard) for

Sher Ali

And that man will have nothing but what he strives for

Shakir

And that man shall have nothing but what he strives for

Shabbir Ahmed

- ii And that every human being shall be responsible for, and compensated for, his labor

Samy Mahdy

And that there was not for the human except what he was striving for.

Safi Kaskas

that a human being attains only what he strives for,

Rashad Khalifa

Every human being is responsible for his own works.

N J Dawood 2014

and that man shall be judged only by his labours

Mustaqim

And that man only gets what he strives for.

Mustafa Khattab 2018

and that each person will only have what they endeavoured towards,

Musharraf Hussain

and each person will have what he strived for.

MunirMezyed2023

Man will have only what he (seriously) strives for.

Munir Mezyed

Man will have only what he (seriously) strives for.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

and that a man shall not deserve but (the reward of) his own effort

Muhammad Sarwar

nor can man achieve anything without hard labor

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

And that man hath only that for which he maketh effort

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

And that man will have nothing except that for which he has endeavored (to achieve)

Muhammad Asad

and that nought shall be accounted unto man but what he is striving for

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

And that (E) (there is) not to the human except what he strived/endeavored

Mohammad Shafi

And that man gets nothing but what he strives for

Mir Aneesuddin

and that there is nothing for man except that which he strives for

Maulana Muhammad Ali

And (of) Abraham who fulfilled (commandments)

Maududi

and that man shall have nothing but what he has striven for

Linda "iLham" Barto

[They witnessed] that a person can have nothing but that for which he/she strives.

John Medows Rodwell

And that nothing shall be reckoned to a man but that for which he hath made efforts

Irving/Hegab

That everyman receives only what he makes an effort for:

Hilali - Khan

And that man can have nothing but what he does (good or bad)

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

and that everyone shall have in his account only that which he worked for

Hamid S. Aziz

And that man shall have nothing but what he strives for

George Sale

and that nothing shall be imputed to a man for righteousness, except his own labour

Fode Drame

And that there is nothing for the man except that for which he has labored.

Faridul Haque

And that man will not obtain anything except what he strove for

Edward Henry Palmer

and that man shall have only that for which he strives

Dr. Munir Munshey

That man deserves nothing, except for what he strives

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

And that man (according to justice) will get only that for which he strives. (As for bounty, no one has any right to it. That is merely Allah’s bestowal and pleasure, granting as much as He wills to whom He pleases.

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

The human being is not but what he endeavored for

Dr. Kamal Omar

and that (there is) not (available) to a human being except what he strove (for)

Corpus.Quran

And that is not for man except what he strives (for)

Bilal Muhammad 2018

That human beings can have nothing but what they strive for

Bijan Moeinian

“That man will be fully repaid for whatever he has done.”

Bakhtiari Nejad

and that there is not (any reward) for human being except what he has worked for.

Arthur John Arberry

and that a man shall have to his account only as he has laboured

Amatul Rahman Omar

And that a human being will have (to his account) what he strives for

Ali Ünal

And that human has only that for which he labors

Ali Quli Qara'i

and that nothing belongs to man except what he strives for

Aisha Bewley

that man will have nothing but what he strives for;

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

And that the man will not get but what he endeavors.

Ahmed Hulusi

And man will only accrue the results (consequences) of his own deeds (what manifests through him; his thoughts and actions)!

Ahmed Ali

That a man receives but only that for which he strives

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

And that for man shall be naught save that wherefor he endeavoureth

Abdul Hye

that a human can have nothing except what he strives for,

Abdel Haleem

that man will only have what he has worked towards