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2. Surah • 44. Verse
Word Analysis
وَأَنتُمْ
wa-antum
while you
أَفَلَا
afalā
Then, will not
Rashad Khalifa
The Final Testament
Do you exhort the people to be righteous, while forgetting yourselves, though you read the scripture? Do you not understand?
The Monotheist Group
The Quran: A Monotheist Translation
Do you exhort the people to do good, but forget yourselves, while you are reciting the Book? Do you not comprehend?
Edip-Layth
Quran: A Reformist Translation
Do you order the people to do goodness, but forget yourselves, while you are reciting the book? Do you not reason?
Abul A'la Maududi
Tafhim commentary
Do you enjoin righteousness on people and forget your own selves even though you recite the Scripture? Have you no sense?
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Holy Quran Translation
Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people, and forget (To practise it) yourselves, and yet ye study the Scripture? Will ye not understand?
Taqi Usmani
Holy Quran Translation
Do you enjoin righteousness upon others while you ignore your own selves, although you keep reciting the Book? Have you then no sense?
Abdul Haleem
Holy Quran Translation
How can you tell people to do what is right and forget to do it yourselves, even though you recite the Scripture? Have you no sense?
Al-Hilali & Khan
Holy Quran Translation
Enjoin you Al-Birr (piety and righteousness and each and every act of obedience to Allâh) on the people and you forget (to practise it) yourselves,[1] while you recite the Scripture [the Taurât (Torah)]! Have you then no sense?
Marmaduke Pickthall
Holy Quran Translation
Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while ye yourselves forget (to practise it)? And ye are readers of the Scripture! Have ye then no sense?
Mustafa Khattab
The Clear Quran
Do you preach righteousness and fail to practice it yourselves, although you read the Scripture? Do you not understand?
Aisha Bewley
Holy Quran Translation
Do you order people to devoutness and forget yourselves, when you recite the Book? Will you not use your intellect?
Amatul Rahman Omar
Holy Quran Translation
How is it that you enjoin others to do good and neglect your ownselves while you recite the Scripture? Do you not even (after reading the Scripture) abstain (from evils)?
Arthur John Arberry
Holy Quran Translation
Will you bid others to piety, and forget yourselves while you recite the Book? Do you not understand?
Bijan Moeinian
Holy Quran Translation
How is that you invite others to follow the Right path, while forgetting to follow it yourself? And this (hypocrisy) in spite of the fact that you read the Scriptures in which you are ordered to practice the righteousness! [Why are not you consistent?]
Hamid S. Aziz
Holy Quran Translation
Will you order men to piety and forget it yourselves? You read the Book, do you not then understand?
Mahmoud Ghali
Holy Quran Translation
Do you command mankind to benignancy and forget yourselves, and you recite the Book? Do you then not consider?
George Sale
Holy Quran Translation
Will ye command men to do justice, and forget your own souls? Yet ye read the book of the law: Do ye not therefore understand?
Ali Quli Qarai
Holy Quran Translation
Will you bid others to piety and forget yourselves, while you recite the Book? Do you not apply reason?
Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Holy Quran Translation
Will you enjoin good deeds on the others and forget your own selves? You also read the Scriptures, why do you then not understand?
E. Henry Palmer
Holy Quran Translation
Will ye order men to do piety and forget yourselves? ye read the Book, do ye not then understand?
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Holy Quran Translation
Do you enforce right conduct on the people, and forget (to practice it) yourselves, and yet you study the Scripture? Will you not understand?
Shabbir Ahmed
Holy Quran Translation
What! You preach righteousness to others and forget yourselves even though you read the Scripture! Don't you, then, use any sense?
Muhammad Asad
Holy Quran Translation
Do you bid other people to be pious, the while you forget your own selves -and yet you recite the divine writ? Will you not, then, use your reason?;
Progressive Muslims
Holy Quran Translation
Do you order the people to do good, but forget yourselves, while you are reciting the Scripture Do you not understand
Abdel Khalek Himmat
Al- Muntakhab
"Do you enjoin people to pay regard to what is just and right while you wilfully neglect to apply your hearts to wisdom and piety, when you peruse AL- Tawrah, and have knowledge of its text? Do you have no more sense than to indulge yourselves in vanity?"
Sahih International
(Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)
Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?
Sam Gerrans
The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation
Enjoin you virtue upon mankind, and forget yourselves when you recite the Writ? Will you then not use reason!