Fourth Note to “Prison Notebooks”

“His wealth did not avail him, nor his acquisitions.”

مَآ أَغۡنَىٰ عَنۡهُ مَالُهُۥوَمَا كَسَبَ

In other words, neither their money nor their strategy were to any avail. It was all one huge and major disaster and failure.

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