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Quran 52:40

Surah At-Tur, Verse 40

Juz 27 · Page 525 · Ruku 459 · Meccan

أَمْ تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ أَجْرًا فَهُم مِّن مَّغْرَمٍ مُّثْقَلُونَ

Word by word

أَمْ am Or تَسْـَٔلُهُمْ tasaluhum (do) you ask from them أَجْرًۭا ajran a payment فَهُم fahum so they مِّن min from مَّغْرَمٍۢ maghramin a debt مُّثْقَلُونَ muth'qalūna (are) overburdened

Transliteration

Am tas-aluhum ajran fahum min maghraminmuthqaloon

Translations

Pickthall — Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

Or askest thou (Muhammad) a fee from them so that they are plunged in debt?

Yusuf Ali — Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Or is it that thou dost ask for a reward, so that they are burdened with a load of debt?-

تفسير ابن كثير — Ismail ibn Kathir

( أم تسألهم أجرا ) أي : أجرة على إبلاغك إياهم رسالة الله ؟ أي : لست تسألهم على ذلك شيئا ، ( فهم من مغرم مثقلون ) أي : فهم من أدنى شيء يتبرمون منه ، ويثقلهم ويشق عليهم ،

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.