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Al-Baqarah 44

Ayah 44 of 286 · Medinan

۞ أَتَأۡمُرُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ بِٱلۡبِرِّ وَتَنسَوۡنَ أَنفُسَكُمۡ وَأَنتُمۡ تَتۡلُونَ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَۚ أَفَلَا تَعۡقِلُونَ ٤٤

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget1 yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 Make exceptions of.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. ۞ أَتَأۡمُرُونَDo you orderatamurūna
  2. ٱلنَّاسَ[the] peoplel-nāsa
  3. بِٱلۡبِرِّ[the] righteousnessbil-biri
  4. وَتَنسَوۡنَand you forgetwatansawna
  5. أَنفُسَكُمۡyourselvesanfusakum
  6. وَأَنتُمۡwhile youwa-antum
  7. تَتۡلُونَ[you] recitetatlūna
  8. ٱلۡكِتَٰبَۚthe Bookl-kitāba
  9. أَفَلَاThen, will notafalā
  10. تَعۡقِلُونَyou use reasontaʿqilūna

Tafsir

What is more immoral than telling others to have faith and do good when you, upon reading the Torah, turn away from it and forget it yourselves, while knowing that it orders you to follow Allah’s religion and have faith in His prophets? Have you then no sense?

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran