Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side Part 187

026.073 Y: "Or do you good or harm?"

P: Or do they benefit or harm you?

S: Or do they profit you or cause you harm?

026.074 Y: They said: "Nay, but we found our fathers doing thus (what we do)."

P: They said: Nay, but we found our fathers acting on this wise.

S: They said: Nay, we found our fathers doing so.

026.075 Y: He said: "Do ye then see whom ye have been worshipping,"-

P: He said: See now that which ye worship,

S: He said: Have you then considered what you have been worshipping:

026.076 Y: "Ye and your fathers before you?"-

P: Ye and your forefathers!

S: You and your ancient sires.

026.077 Y: "For they are enemies to me; not so the Lord and Cherisher of the Worlds;"

P: Lo! they are (all) an enemy unto me, save the Lord of the Worlds,

S: Surely they are enemies to me, but not (so) the Lord of the worlds;

026.078 Y: "Who created me, and it is He Who guides me;"

P: Who created me, and He doth guide me,

S: Who created me, then He has shown me the way:

026.079 Y: "Who gives me food and drink,"

P: And Who feedeth me and watereth me.

S: And He Who gives me to eat and gives me to drink:

026.080 Y: "And when I am ill, it is He Who cures me;"

P: And when I sicken, then He healeth me,

S: And when I am sick, then He restores me to health

026.081 Y: "Who will cause me to die, and then to life (again);"

P: And Who causeth me to die, then giveth me life (again),

S: And He Who will cause me to die, then give me life;

026.082 Y: "And Who, I hope, will forgive me my faults on the Day of Judgment...."

P: And Who, I ardently hope, will forgive me my sin on the Day of Judgment.

S: And Who, I hope, will forgive me my mistakes on the Day of Judgment.

026.083 Y: "O my Lord! bestow wisdom on me, and join me with the righteous;"

P: My Lord! Vouchsafe me wisdom and unite me to the righteous.

S: My Lord: Grant me wisdom, and join me with the good

026.084 Y: "Grant me honourable mention on the tongue of truth among the latest (generations);"

P: And give unto me a good report in later generations.

S: And ordain for me a goodly mention among posterity

026.085 Y: "Make me one of the inheritors of the Garden of Bliss;"

P: And place me among the inheritors of the Garden of Delight,

S: And make me of the heirs of the garden of bliss

026.086 Y: "Forgive my father, for that he is among those astray;"

P: And forgive my father. Lo! he is of those who err.

S: And forgive my father, for surely he is of those who have gone astray;

026.087 Y: "And let me not be in disgrace on the Day when (men) will be raised up;"-

P: And abase me not on the day when they are raised,

S: And disgrace me not on the day when they are raised

026.088 Y: "The Day whereon neither wealth nor sons will avail,"

P: The day when wealth and sons avail not (any man)

S: The day on which property will not avail, nor sons

026.089 Y: "But only he (will prosper) that brings to Allah a sound heart;"

P: Save him who bringeth unto Allah a whole heart.