Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And find thee in need, and make sufficient?

وَوَجَدَكَ عَٓائِلاً فَاَغْنٰىۜ
Wawajadaka AAa-ilan faaghna
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1wawajadakaAnd He found youوجد
2ʿāilanin needعيل
3fa-aghnāso He made self-sufficientغني
  • Aisha Bewley

    Did He not find you impoverished and enrich you?

  • Progressive Muslims

    And He found you in need, so He gave you riches

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And He found you dependent, and made you independent. (Infancy to youth).

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And find thee in need, and make sufficient?

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    And He found you in need, so He gave you riches?

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    He found you in need, so He gave you riches?

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    He found you poor, and made you rich.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Did He not find you poor and enrich you?

  • Sahih International (Umm Muhammad, Mary Kennedy, Amatullah Bantley)

    And He found you poor and made self-sufficient.

  • Muhammad Asad

    And found thee in want, and given thee sufficiency?

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Did He not find thee destitute and enrich (thee)?

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    And did He not find you in want, and then enriched you?*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    And did He not find you needy and He made you independent?

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Have you (Mohammad) forgotten that you were a poor lad and He made you a rich man?

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    And He found you poor and made you rich (self-sufficient with self-contentment)?

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And He found thee in need, and made thee independent.

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    And did He not find you needy then satisfied your needs?

  • Taqi Usmani

    and He found you in need, then made you need-free.

  • Abdul Haleem

    Did He not find you in need and make you self-sufficient?

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Did He not find thee needy, and suffice thee?

  • E. Henry Palmer

    and find thee poor with a family, and nourish thee?

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And find you in need, and enriched you (or made you independent)?

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And He found you in want, so He enriched (you)?

  • George Sale

    And did He not find thee needy, and hath He not enriched thee?

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And He found you in need, and made you independent.

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    And He found you having a large family to support, He freed you from want (of every kind).

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Did He not find you needy, and enrich you?