Quran 2 : 44

Do you order [the] people [the] righteousness and you forget yourselves, while you [you] recite the Book? Then, will not you use reason?
أَتَأْمُرُونَ
Aataamurūna
ٱلنَّاسَ
Annāsa
بِٱلْبِرِّ
Bialbirri
وَتَنسَوْنَ
Watansawna
أَنفُسَكُمْ
Aanfusakum
وَأَنتُمْ
Waantum
تَتْلُونَ
Tatlūna
ٱلْكِتَٰبَ
Alkitaāba
أَفَلَا
Aafalā
تَعْقِلُونَ
Taʿqilūna

Edward Henry Palmer

Will ye order men to do piety and forget yourselves? ye read the Book, do ye not then understand

Hamid S. Aziz

Will you order men to piety and forget it yourselves? You read the Book, do you not then understand

Arthur John Arberry

Will you bid others to piety, and forget yourselves while you recite the Book? Do you not understand

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Command ye mankind to piety and forget yourselves, the while ye read the Book! Understand then ye not

Ali Quli Qara'i

Will you bid others to piety and forget yourselves, while you recite the Book? Do you not apply reason

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

Musharraf Hussain

You tell people to be righteous but forget yourselves, although you read The Book? Don’t you understand?

Safi Kaskas

As you read the Book, do you command others to be virtuous and yet forget yourselves? Don't you comprehend?

The Study Quran

Will you enjoin piety upon mankind, and forget yourselves, while you recite the Book? Do you not understand

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

Would you order righteousness on others and forget it yourselves? Yet you recite the Book, have you no sense

John Medows Rodwell

Will ye enjoin what is right upon others, and forget yourselves? Yet ye read the Book: will ye not understand

Mohammad Shafi

You tell people to be good and you forget your own selves? And you read the Book! Do you not then understand!

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Do you command mankind to benignancy and forget yourselves, and you recite the Book? Do you then not consider

Shakir

What! do you enjoin men to be good and neglect your own souls while you read the Book; have you then no sense

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Do you order righteousness to mankind and forget yourselves whereas you read the Book? Then, have you no sense?

N J Dawood 2014

Would you enjoin people to be charitable and forget yourselves? Yet you recite the Scriptures. Have you no sense

Mir Aneesuddin

What ! you enjoin people to be virtuous and forget it yourselves while you read the book, then have you no sense?

Wahiduddin Khan

Do you admonish others to do good and forget this yourselves? Yet you read the Book. Will you not then understand

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Do you exhort the people to do good, but forget yourselves, while you are reciting the Book? Do you not comprehend?

Aisha Bewley

Do you order people to devoutness and forget yourselves, when you recite the Book? Will you not use your intellect?

The Wise Quran

Do you order mankind with righteousness and forget yourselves, and you recite the Book? Do you then not understand?

Bakhtiari Nejad

Do you instruct people to do good, but you forget to do it yourselves, while you read the book? Do you not understand?

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

Do you command people to righteousness, yet forget yourselves, even while you read the Scriptures? Don’t you understand?

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Do you command others for piety and forget yourselves, whilst you (also) recite the Book (of Allah)? So, do you not think

Mustafa Khattab 2018

Do you preach righteousness and fail to practice it yourselves, although you read the Scripture? Do you not understand?

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

Talal Itani (2012)

Do you command people to virtuous conduct, and forget yourselves, even though you read the Scripture? Do you not understand

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

You command humanity to virtuous conduct and forget yourselves while you relate the Book? Will you not, then, be reasonable?

Dr. Munir Munshey

You exhort others to acquire piety, but forget (to include) yourself. You do recite the scriptures! Have you, 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

Rashad Khalifa

Do you exhort the people to be righteous, while forgetting yourselves, though you read the scripture? Do you not understand?

George Sale

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

Fode Drame

Do you command the mankind unto the piety and you forget yourselves while you rehearse the book? Will you not then understand?

T.B.Irving

Are you ordering people to be virtuous while forgetting it yourselves, even as you recite the Book? Will you not use you reason?

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

Shabbir Ahmed

What! You preach righteousness to others and forget yourselves even though you read the Scripture! Don't you, then, use any sense

Abdel Haleem

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

Linda "iLham" Barto

Do you encourage correct conduct for other people and forget it yourselves? Yet, you recite the (Bible). Will you not understand?

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Do you enjoin righteousness upon others while you ignore your own selves, although you keep reciting the Book? Have you then no sense

Bilal Muhammad 2018

Do you encourage right conduct on people and forget to practice it yourselves, though you study the Scripture? Will you not understand

Corpus.Quran

Do you order [the] people [the] righteousness and you forget yourselves while you [you] recite the Book Then, will not you use reason

Samy Mahdy

Are you commanding the people with the devotion, and forget yourselves, and you are reciting the book? So, will you not be reasoning?

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people, and forget (To practise it) yourselves, and yet ye study the Scripture? Will ye not understand

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

Mustaqim

Would you command people to do right and forget about yourselves, whilst you read the book (of revelation)? Don´t you think straight?

Irving/Hegab

Are you ordering people to be virtuous while forgetting it yourselves, even as you recite the Book (the Torah)? Will you not use you reason?

Maududi

How is it that you enjoin others to follow the Right Way, but forget it yourselves, though you read the Scriptures? Have you no sense at all

Muhammad Marmaduke 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

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Do you enforce right conduct on the people, and forget (to practice it) yourselves, and yet you study the Scripture? Will you not understand

Abdul Hye

Do you enjoin piety and righteousness on the people, and forget (to practice) yourselves when you recite the scripture? Don’t you 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?

MunirMezyed2023

Do you bid others to righteousness and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Don't you have conscious thoughts at least in this sense?

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

Do you order the people with the righteousness/charitability and you forget yourselves, and you are reading/reciting The Book , do you not reason/understand/comprehend

Amatul Rahman 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)

Munir Mezyed

Do you bid others to righteousness and forget yourselves while you recite the ‘Scripture’ (the ‘Torah’)? Do you not possess self- awareness that allows you to understand?

Dr. Kamal Omar

Do you enjoin right conduct on the people and forget (to practice it) yourselves, and you continue to recite Al-Kitab (without understanding it), what then? Don’t you use your sense

Ahmed Hulusi

Do you advise people to experience the beauty formed by Allah’s Names and neglect to experience this yourselves? Though you read the Book (the knowledge of the reality of existence), will you still not use your reason?

Hilali - 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

Ali Ünal

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

Bijan Moeinian

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?]