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Quran 11:51

Surah Hud, Verse 51

Juz 12 · Page 227 · Ruku 187 · Meccan

يَٰقَوْمِ لَآ أَسْـَٔلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا إِنْ أَجْرِىَ إِلَّا عَلَى ٱلَّذِى فَطَرَنِىٓ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ

Word by word

يَـٰقَوْمِ yāqawmi O my people لَآ lā Not أَسْـَٔلُكُمْ asalukum I ask you عَلَيْهِ ʿalayhi for it أَجْرًا ۖ ajran any reward إِنْ in Not أَجْرِىَ ajriya (is) my reward إِلَّا illā except عَلَى ʿalā from ٱلَّذِى alladhī the One Who فَطَرَنِىٓ ۚ faṭaranī created me أَفَلَا afalā Then will not تَعْقِلُونَ taʿqilūna you use reason

Transliteration

Ya qawmi la as-alukum AAalayhiajran in ajriya illa AAala allathee fataraneeafala taAAqiloon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

O my people! I ask of you no reward for it. Lo! my reward is the concern only of Him Who made me. Have ye then no sense?

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

"O my people! I ask of you no reward for this (Message). My reward is from none but Him who created me: Will ye not then understand?

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

وأخبرهم أنه لا يريد منهم أجرة على هذا النصح والبلاغ من الله إنما يبغي ثوابه من الله الذي فطره أفلا تعقلون من يدعوكم إلي ما يصلحكم في الدنيا والآخرة من غير أجرة.

Arabic text: Tanzil Uthmani 1.1 — Tanzil — non-commercial redistribution with attribution.
Translation: Pickthall by Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall — Public domain.
Translation: Yusuf Ali by Abdullah Yusuf Ali — Public domain.
Commentary: تفسير ابن كثير — Public domain.
Word-by-word data via Quran Foundation. Linguistic annotation: the Quranic Arabic Corpus.