Compared Translations of the meaning of the Quran - 2:45 | |
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2:45 واستعينوا بالصبر والصلاة وانها لكبيرة الا على الخاشعين | |
Transliteration | WaistaAAeenoo bialssabri waalssalati wa-innaha lakabeeratun illa AAala alkhashiAAeena |
Literal | And seek support with the patience and the prayers and that it truly is a great/burden (E) except on the humble . |
Yusuf Ali | Nay, seek (Allah's) help with patient perseverance and prayer: It is indeed hard, except to those who bring a lowly spirit,- |
Pickthal | Seek help in patience and prayer; and truly it is hard save for the humble-minded, |
Arberry | Seek you help in patience and prayer, for grievous it is, save to the humble |
Shakir | And seek assistance through patience and prayer, and most surely it is a hard thing except for the humble ones, |
Sarwar | Help yourselves (in your affairs) with patience and prayer. It is a difficult task indeed, but not for the humble ones |
Khalifa | You shall seek help through steadfastness and the Contact Prayers (Salat). This is difficult indeed, but not so for the reverent, |
Hilali/Khan | And seek help in patience and As-Salat (the prayer) and truly it is extremely heavy and hard except for Al-Khashioon (i.e. the true believers in Allah - those who obey Allah with full submission, fear much from His Punishment, and believe in His Promise (Paradise, etc.) and in His Warnings (Hell, etc.)). |
H/K/Saheeh | And seek help through patience and prayer, and indeed, it is difficult except for the humbly submissive [to Allah] |
Malik | Seek Allah’s help with patience and Salah; it is indeed hard except for those who fear Allah,[45] |
QXP | Rather, help yourselves with steadfast patience and establish the Divine System. This is a hard way, but it is made easy for those who are committed. (The System of equity and human equality strikes at the vested interests of the elite, and hence, it is hard for them to support it). |
Maulana Ali | And seek assistance through patience and prayer, and this is hard except for the humble ones, |
Free Minds | And seek help through patience, and the contact-method. It is a difficult thing, but not so for the humble. |
Qaribullah | And seek help in patience and prayer. For it is heavy, except to the humble, |
George Sale | Ask help with perseverance and prayer; this indeed is grievous, unless to the humble, |
JM Rodwell | And seek help with patience and prayer: a hard duty indeed is this, but not to the humble, |
Asad | And seek aid in steadfast patience and prayer: and this, indeed, is a hard thing for all but the humble in spirit, |
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