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Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 44

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أَتَأْمُرُونَ ٱلنَّاسَ بِٱلْبِرِّ وَتَنسَوْنَ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَأَنتُمْ تَتْلُونَ ٱلْكِتَـٰبَ ۚ أَفَلَا تَعْقِلُونَ

Atamuroona a l nn a sa bi a lbirri watansawna anfusakum waantum tatloona alkit a ba afal a taAAqiloon a

Do you bid other people to be pious, the while you forget your own selves - and yet you recite the divine writ? Will you not, then, use your reason?

- Mohammad Asad

Would you ask others to be righteous and forget to practice it yourselves? Even though you read your Holy Book? Have you no sense?

- Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik

Do you preach righteousness and fail to practice it yourselves, although you read the Scripture? Do you not understand?

- Mustafa Khattab

Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while ye yourselves forget (to practise it)? And ye are readers of the Scripture! Have ye then no sense?

- Marmaduke Pickthall

Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people and forget (to practice it) yourselves and yet ye study the Scripture? Will ye not understand?

- Abdullah Yusuf Ali