سورة محَمَّد
Surah Muhammad 47:37
Muhammad · Verse 37 of 38
إِنْ يَسْأَلْكُمُوهَا فَيُحْفِكُمْ تَبْخَلُوا وَيُخْرِجْ أَضْغَانَكُمْ
Abdul Mannan Omar
Should He ask you for it (- your wealth) and press you (for it), you would show stinginess and this (niggardliness) will bring to surface your malice (and hatred towards the divine Faith).
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
If He were to ask you for all of them, and press you, ye would covetously withhold, and He would bring out all your ill-feeling.
Ahmed Ali
If He asks for all you possess and insist upon it, you will become niggardly, and it will bring out your malevolence.
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Ali Unal
If He should ask it of you and press you (to give it), you would covet and withhold, and He would bring out your (suppressed) resentments.
Daryabadi
If He required it of you and importuned you, ye would be niggardly, and He will bring to light your secret malevolence.
Faridul Haque
Were He to ask it from you, and ask in plenty, you would be miserly, and the miserliness would expose the filth within your hearts.
Maulana Muhammad Ali
If He should ask you for it and press you, you will be niggardly, and He will bring forth your malice.
Maulvi Sher Ali
Were HE to ask it of you and press you, you would be niggardly, and HE would bring to light your malice.
Muhammad Asad
[for,] if He were to demand of you all of them, and urge you, you would niggardly cling [to them], and so He would [but] bring out your moral failings.
Muhammad Musin Khan
If He were to ask you of it, and press you, you would covetously withhold, and He will bring out all your (secret) ill-wills.
Muhammad Pickthall
If He should ask it of you and importune you, ye would hoard it, and He would bring to light your (secret) hates.
Muhammad Sarwar
Should He ask for your possessions you would be niggardly as it would be hard for you to give. Thus, He would make your malice become public.
Muhammed ali Shakir
If He should ask you for it and urge you, you will be niggardly, and He will bring forth your malice.
Rashad Khalifa
If He asked you for money, to the extent of creating a hardship for you, you might have become stingy, and your hidden evil might be exposed.
Shabbir Ahmed
If He were to demand and compel you for it, you would cling to it in stinginess, and He would thus reveal your shortcomings.