The word(s) "thing" appears 644 time(s) in 587 verse(s) in Quran in Abdullah Yusuf Ali translation.

(531) The Day when their plotting will avail them nothing and no help shall be given them.

(532) These are nothing but names which ye have devised,- ye and your fathers,- for which Allah has sent down no authority (whatever). They follow nothing but conjecture and what their own souls desire!- Even though there has already come to them Guidance from their Lord!

(533) Nay, shall man have (just) anything he hankers after?

(534) But it is to Allah that the End and the Beginning (of all things) belong.

(535) How many-so-ever be the angels in the heavens, their intercession will avail nothing except after Allah has given leave for whom He pleases and that he is acceptable to Him.

(536) But they have no knowledge therein. They follow nothing but conjecture; and conjecture avails nothing against Truth.

(537) Therefore shun those who turn away from Our Message and desire nothing but the life of this world.

(538) That man can have nothing but what he strives for;

(539) Verily, all things have We created in proportion and measure.

(540) Nothing (will there be) to refresh, nor to please: