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quran:14:18

The example of those who disbelieve in their Lord is ˹that˺ their deeds are like ashes which the wind blows forcefully on a stormy day; they are unable ˹to keep˺ from what they earned a ˹single˺ thing. That is what is extreme error.  

The likeness, the description, of those who disbelieve in their Lord (alladhīna kafarū bi-rabbihim: the subject, substituted by ˹the following, a‘māluhum,˺): their works, the righteous ones, such as kindness ˹to kin˺ or an act of charity — in the way that no benefit can be derived from them ˹it is because these works˺ — are as ashes over which the wind blows hard on a tempestuous day, one in which the winds blow violently, making them as scattered dust, over which none can have power (the genitive ˹clause beginning with ka-ramādin, ‘as ashes’˺ constitutes the predicate of the ˹above-mentioned˺ subject); they, that is, the disbelievers, have no power over anything that they have earned, ˹anything˺ that they had done in ˹their˺ life on earth, in other words, they shall find no reward for it, since this was never a precondition. That is extreme error, ˹extreme˺ perdition!
القرآن:١٤:١٨

مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا بِرَبِّهِمْ ۖ أَعْمَالُهُمْ كَرَمَادٍ اشْتَدَّتْ بِهِ الرِّيحُ فِي يَوْمٍ عَاصِفٍ ۖ لَا يَقْدِرُونَ مِمَّا كَسَبُوا عَلَىٰ شَيْءٍ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ هُوَ الضَّلَالُ الْبَعِيدُ  

{مثل} صفة {الذين كفروا بربهم} مبتدأ ويبدل منه {أعمالهم} الصالحة كصلة وصدقة في عدم الانتفاع بها {كرماد اشتدت به الريح في يوم عاصف} شديد هبوب الريح فجعلته هباءً منثورا لا يقدر عليه والمجرور خبر المبتدأ {لا يقدرون} أي الكفار {مما كسبوا} عملوا في الدنيا {على شيء} أي لا يجدون له ثوابا لعدم شرطه {ذلك هو الضلال} الهلاك {البعيد}.