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23. Surah • 72. Verse
Word Analysis
أَمْ
am
Or
وَهُوَ
wahuwa
and He
Rashad Khalifa
The Final Testament
Are you asking them for a wage? Your Lord's wage is far better. He is the best Provider.
The Monotheist Group
The Quran: A Monotheist Translation
Or do you ask them for a wage? The wage of your Lord is best, and He is the best of providers.
Edip-Layth
Quran: A Reformist Translation
Or do you ask them for a wage? The wage of your Lord is best, and He is the best of providers.
Abdul Haleem
Holy Quran Translation
Do you [Prophet] ask them for any payment? Your Lord’s is the best payment: He is the Best of Providers.
Abul A'la Maududi
Tafhim commentary
Are you asking them for something? What Allah has given you is the best. He is the Best of providers.[1]
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This was yet another proof of the Prophet’s (peace be upon him) Prophethood. He was conveying the message without demanding any recompense for it, and he had no self interest in it. Nay, he had staked his business, reputation, peaceful home life, relationships with the unbelieving kindred for the success of his mission and was being ruthlessly persecuted for its sake. A selfish person could not have risked his all for the sake of only worldly motives. He would rather have exploited the racial and tribal prejudices of his people to become their ruler and leader. On the contrary, his message not only cut at the root of those prejudices but tended to destroy the very bases which helped his tribe to wield influence and authority over the polytheists of Arabia. This is an argument which the Quran has advanced again and again as a proof of the truth of the mission of the other Prophets as well. See(Surah Al-Anaam, Ayat 90); (Surah Yunus, Ayat 72);(Surah Hud, Ayats 29, 51);(Surah Yusuf, Ayat 104);(Surah Ya-Seen, Ayat 21) along with the relevant E.Ns.
Taqi Usmani
Holy Quran Translation
Or is it that you (O Prophet) demand remuneration from them? But the remuneration from your Lord is best, and He is the best of all givers.
Mustafa Khattab
The Clear Quran
Or ˹is it because˺ you ˹O Prophet˺ are asking them for tribute? But the reward of your Lord is best, for He is the Best Provider.
Marmaduke Pickthall
Holy Quran Translation
Or dost thou ask of them (O Muhammad) any tribute? But the bounty of thy Lord is better, for He is Best of all who make provision.
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Holy Quran Translation
Or is it that thou askest them for some recompense? But the recompense of thy Lord is best: He is the Best of those who give sustenance.
Al-Hilali & Khan
Holy Quran Translation
Or is it that you (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم) ask them for some wages? But the recompense of your Lord is better, and He is the Best of those who give sustenance.
E. Henry Palmer
Holy Quran Translation
Or dost thou ask them for a tribute? but the tribute of thy Lord is better, for He is the best of those who provide.
Hamid S. Aziz
Holy Quran Translation
But if the truth were to conform to their desires, verily, the heavens and the earth and whoever is therein would be corrupted. Nay, We brought them their Reminder (The Quran), but from their Reminder they now turn away.
Mahmoud Ghali
Holy Quran Translation
Or (even) do you ask them for tribute? Yet the (bounteous) tribute of your Lord is more charitable, (i. e., better) and He is The Most Charitable of providers.
Ali Quli Qarai
Holy Quran Translation
Do you ask a recompense from them? Yet your Lord’s recompense is better, and He is the best of providers.
Arthur John Arberry
Holy Quran Translation
Or dost thou ask them for tribute? Yet the tribute of thy Lord is better, and He is the best of providers.
George Sale
Holy Quran Translation
Dost thou ask of them any maintenance for thy preaching? Since the maintenance of thy Lord is better; for He is the most bounteous provider.
Aisha Bewley
Holy Quran Translation
Are you asking them for payment? Your Lord’s payment is better. He is the Best of Providers.
Bijan Moeinian
Holy Quran Translation
Is it because you are asking a consulting fee from them? Definitely not for the simple reason that what God gives you is much better than what they would have afforded to pay to you. God is the Best Provider.
Amatul Rahman Omar
Holy Quran Translation
Or do you ask of them a tribute? (There is no such thing) as the tribute of your Lord is the best, for He is the Best of Providers.
Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Holy Quran Translation
Or do you ask of them any tribute? In that case the tribute of your Lord is better, for He is the best of providers.
Muhammad Asad
Holy Quran Translation
Or dost thou [O Muhammad] ask of them any worldly recompense? But [they ought to know that] recompense from thy Sustainer is best, since He is the best of providers!
Abdel Khalek Himmat
Al- Muntakhab
Or do you ask them O Muhammad to pay you for the divine service you render! Never! and they do know that. And they had better realize that the reward granted by Allah, your Creator, far excels what is given by all others, for He is the best Purveyor Who makes provision for the needs of all.
Syed Vickar Ahamed
Holy Quran Translation
Or is it that you ask them for wages or reward? But the repayment of your Lord is best: He is the Best of those who give livelihood (Khair-ur-Razikeen).
Progressive Muslims
Holy Quran Translation
Or do you ask them for a wage The wage of your Lord is best, and He is the best of providers.
Shabbir Ahmed
Holy Quran Translation
(O Messenger) Do you ask them for any tribute? (They must know that) your Sustainer's tribute is best, for, He is the Best of providers.
Sahih International
(Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)
Or do you, [O Muúammad], ask them for payment? But the reward of your Lord is best, and He is the best of providers.
Sam Gerrans
The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation
If thou askest of them payment: then is the reward of thy Lord better; and He is the best of providers.