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Surah 4. An-Nisaa', Ayah 98

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إِلَّا ٱلْمُسْتَضْعَفِينَ مِنَ ٱلرِّجَالِ وَٱلنِّسَآءِ وَٱلْوِلْدَٰنِ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُونَ حِيلَةً وَلَا يَهْتَدُونَ سَبِيلًا
Ill a almusta d AAafeena mina a l rrij a li wa al nnis a i wa a lwild a ni l a yasta t eeAAoona h eelatan wal a yahtadoona sabeel a n
But excepted shall be the truly helpless - be they men or women or children - who cannot bring forth any strength and have not been shown the right way:125
  - Mohammad Asad

Or: "cannot find the [right] way" - implying that they are helplessly confused and cannot, therefore, grasp this basic demand of Islam; or, alternatively, that the message relating to this demand has not been adequately conveyed and explained to them.

However, those helpless men, women and children who have neither the means to migrate nor strength to escape,
  - Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam Malik
Except helpless men, women, and children who cannot afford a way out-
  - Mustafa Khattab
Except the feeble among men, and the women, and the children, who are unable to devise a plan and are not shown a way.
  - Marmaduke Pickthall
Except those who are (really) weak and oppressed men women and children who have no means in their power nor (a guide-post) to direct their way. 616
  - Abdullah Yusuf Ali

If through physical, mental, or moral incapacity, we are unable to fight the good fight, we must nevertheless guard ourselves from it. Allah's gracious Mercy will recognise and forgive our weakness if it is real weakness, and not merely an excuse.

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