Quran 3:104 — Aal-i-Imraan, verse 104
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
Be a community that calls for what is good, urges what is right, and forbids what is wrong: those who do this are the successful ones.
وَلْتَكُنْ مِنْكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى الْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ ۚ وَأُولَـٰئِكَ هُمُ الْمُفْلِحُونَ
waltakun minkum ummatun yadʿūna ilā l-khayri wayamurūna bil-maʿrūfi wayanhawna ʿani l-munkari wa-ulāika humu l-muf'liḥūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- Let there be one nation of you, calling to good, and bidding to honour, and forbidding dishonour; those are the prosperers.
- Muhammad Asad
- and that there might grow out of you a community [of people] who invite unto all that is good, and enjoin the doing of what is right and forbid the doing of what is wrong: and it is they, they who shall attain to a happy state!
- Sahih International
- And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَلْتَكُنwaltakun | And let there be | كون |
| 2 | مِّنكُمْminkum | among you | — |
| 3 | أُمَّةٌۭummatun | [a] people | أمم |
| 4 | يَدْعُونَyadʿūna | inviting | دعو |
| 5 | إِلَىilā | to | — |
| 6 | ٱلْخَيْرِl-khayri | the good | خير |
| 7 | وَيَأْمُرُونَwayamurūna | [and] enjoining | أمر |
| 8 | بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِbil-maʿrūfi | the right | عرف |
| 9 | وَيَنْهَوْنَwayanhawna | and forbidding | نهي |
| 10 | عَنِʿani | from | — |
| 11 | ٱلْمُنكَرِ ۚl-munkari | the wrong | نكر |
| 12 | وَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَwa-ulāika | and those | — |
| 13 | هُمُhumu | they | — |
| 14 | ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَl-muf'liḥūna | (are) the successful ones | فلح |