103. Surah Al-Asr (The Time)

In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful.

1

YUSUFALI : By (the Token of) Time (through the ages),

PICKTHAL : By the declining day,

SHAKIR : I swear by the time,

M& HILALI : By Al-'Asr (the time).

2

YUSUFALI : Verily Man is in loss,

PICKTHAL : Lo! man is a state of loss,

SHAKIR : Most surely man is in loss,

M& HILALI : Verily! Man is in loss,

3

YUSUFALI : Except such as have Faith, and do righteous deeds, and (join together) in the mutual teaching of Truth, and of Patience and Constancy.

PICKTHAL : Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.

SHAKIR : Except those who believe and do good, and enjoin on each other truth, and enjoin on each other patience.

M& HILALI : Except those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth (i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al-Ma'ruf)which Allah has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (Al-Munkar)which Allah has forbidden), and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allah's Cause during preaching His religion of Islamic Monotheism or Jihad, etc.).