ٱدۡعُواْ رَبَّكُمۡ تَضَرُّعٗا وَخُفۡيَةًۚ إِنَّهُۥ لَا يُحِبُّ ٱلۡمُعۡتَدِينَ ٥٥
Call upon your Lord in humility and privately; indeed, He does not like transgressors.1
Translation: Saheeh International (English)
1 In supplication or otherwise.
Word by word
Each word's meaning and sound
- ٱدۡعُواْCall uponid'ʿū
- رَبَّكُمۡyour Lordrabbakum
- تَضَرُّعٗاhumblytaḍarruʿan
- وَخُفۡيَةًۚand privatelywakhuf'yatan
- إِنَّهُۥIndeed, Heinnahu
- لَا(does) notlā
- يُحِبُّloveyuḥibbu
- ٱلۡمُعۡتَدِينَthe transgressorsl-muʿ'tadīna
Tafsir
O believers, call on your Lord with complete humility, silently and in private, sincere in your prayer, not showing off, and not worshipping others along with Allah in your prayers. He does not love those who overstep the limits in their prayers; and one of the worst ways someone can do this is by invoking others besides Him, as the idolaters do.
Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran