سورة البَقَرَة
Surah Al-Baqarah 2:44
The Cow · Verse 44 of 286
أَتَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَتَنْسَوْنَ أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ تَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
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)?
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people, and forget (To practise it) yourselves, and yet ye study the Scripture? Will ye not understand?
Ahmed Ali
Will you enjoin good deeds on the others and forget your own selves? You also read the Scriptures, why do you then not understand?
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Ali Unal
Do you enjoin upon people godliness and virtue but forget your own selves, (even) while you recite the Book (and see therein the orders, prohibitions, exhortations and warnings)? Will you not understand and come to your senses?
Daryabadi
Command ye mankind to piety and forget yourselves, the while ye read the Book! Understand then ye not!
Faridul Haque
What! You enjoin righteousness upon people while you forget (to practise it) yourselves, whereas you read the Book? Do you not have sense?
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Do you enjoin men to be good and neglect your own souls while you read the Book? Have you then no sense?
Maulvi Sher Ali
Do you enjoined others to do what is good and forget your ownselves, while you read the book? Will you not then understand?
Muhammad Asad
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?
Muhammad Musin Khan
Enjoin you Al-Birr (piety and righteousness and each and every act of obedience to Allah) on the people and you forget (to practise it) yourselves, while you recite the Scripture [the Taurat (Torah)]! Have you then no sense?
Muhammad Pickthall
Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while ye yourselves forget (to practise it)? And ye are readers of the Scripture! Have ye then no sense?
Muhammad Sarwar
Would you order people to do good deeds and forget to do them yourselves even though you read the Book? Why do you not think?.
Muhammed ali Shakir
What! do you enjoin men to be good and neglect your own souls while you read the Book; have you then no sense?
Rashad Khalifa
Do you exhort the people to be righteous, while forgetting yourselves, though you read the scripture? Do you not understand?
Shabbir Ahmed
Do you exhort people to make room for everyone's welfare and progress in the society, while you disregard practicing what you preach? And all the while you study the scripture! Will you not, then, use your sense?