Quran 2:44 — Al-Baqara, verse 44
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected 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?
أَتَأْمُرُونَ النَّاسَ بِالْبِرِّ وَتَنْسَوْنَ أَنْفُسَكُمْ وَأَنْتُمْ تَتْلُونَ الْكِتَابَ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ
atamurūna l-nāsa bil-biri watansawna anfusakum wa-antum tatlūna l-kitāba afalā taʿqilūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Will you bid others to piety, and forget yourselves while you recite the Book? Do you not 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?;
- Sahih International
- Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ۞ أَتَأْمُرُونَatamurūna | Do you order | أمر |
| 2 | ٱلنَّاسَl-nāsa | [the] people | نوس |
| 3 | بِٱلْبِرِّbil-biri | [the] righteousness | برر |
| 4 | وَتَنسَوْنَwatansawna | and you forget | نسي |
| 5 | أَنفُسَكُمْanfusakum | yourselves | نفس |
| 6 | وَأَنتُمْwa-antum | while you | — |
| 7 | تَتْلُونَtatlūna | [you] recite | تلو |
| 8 | ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ ۚl-kitāba | the Book | كتب |
| 9 | أَفَلَاafalā | Then, will not | — |
| 10 | تَعْقِلُونَtaʿqilūna | you use reason | عقل |