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M.Pickthall
31. Slay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and
for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sin.
Yusuf Ali
31. Kill not your children for fear of want: We shall provide sustenance for them as
well as for you: verily the killing of them is a great sin.
M.Pickthall
32. And come not near unto adultery. Lo! it is an abomination and an evil way.
32. Nor come nigh to adultery: for it is a shameful (deed) and an evil opening the
road (to other evils).
M.Pickthall
33. And slay not the life which Allah hath forbidden save with right. Whoso is slain
wrongfully, We have given power unto his heir, but let him not commit excess in
slaying. Lo! he will be helped.
Yusuf Ali
33. Nor take life which Allah has made sacred except for just cause. And if anyone
is slain wrongfully We have given his heir authority (to demand Qisas or to forgive):
but let him not exceed bounds in the matter of taking life: for he is helped (by
the Law).
M.Pickthall
34. Come not near the wealth of the orphan save with that which is better till he
come to strength; and keep the covenant. Lo! of the covenant it will be asked.
Yusuf Ali
34. Come not nigh to the orphan's property except to improve it until he attains
the age of full strength; and fulfil (every) engagement for (every) engagement will
be enquired into (on the Day of Reckoning).
M.Pickthall
35. Fill the measure then ye measure, and weigh with a right balance; that is meet,
and better in the end.
Yusuf Ali
35. Give full measure when ye measure and weigh with a balance that is straight:
that is the most fitting and the most advantageous in the final determination.
M.Pickthall
36. (O man), follow not that whereof thou hast no knowledge. Lo! the hearing and the
sight and the heart of each of these it will be asked.
Yusuf Ali
36. And pursue not that of which thou hast no knowledge; for every act of hearing or
of seeing or of (feeling in) the heart will be enquired into (on the Day of Reckoning).
M.Pickthall
37. And walk not in the earth exultant. Lo! thou canst not rend the earth, nor canst
thou stretch to the height of the hills.
Yusuf Ali
37. Nor walk on the earth with insolence: for thou canst not rend the earth asunder
nor reach the mountains in height.
M.Pickthall
38. The evil of all that is hateful in the sight of thy Lord.
Yusuf Ali
38. Of all such things the evil is hateful in the sight of thy Lord.
M.Pickthall
39. This is (part) of that wisdom wherewith thy Lord hath inspired thee (O Muhammad).
And set not up with Allah any other god, lest thou be cast into hell, reproved,
abandoned.
Yusuf Ali
39. These are among the (precepts of) wisdom which thy Lord Has revealed to thee.
Take not with Allah another object of worship lest thou shouldst be thrown into
Hell blameworthy and rejected.
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