Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

And inspired it with its immorality and its prudent fear!

فَاَلْهَمَهَا فُجُورَهَا وَتَقْوٰيهَاۙۖ
Faalhamaha fujooraha wataqwaha
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1fa-alhamahāAnd He inspired itلهم
2fujūrahā(to distinguish) its wickednessفجر
3wataqwāhāand its righteousnessوقي
  • Aisha Bewley

    and inspired it with depravity or taqwa,

  • Progressive Muslims

    So He gave it its evil and good.

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    And how it is instilled with the capacity to disintegrate or become secure.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    And inspired it with its immorality and its prudent fear!

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    So He gave it its evil and good.

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    So He gave it its evil and good.

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    Then showed it what is evil and what is good.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    And given the faculty of knowing what is disruptive and what is intrinsic to it.

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

    And inspired it its wickedness and its righteousness,

  • Muhammad Asad

    and how it is imbued with moral failings as well as with consciousness of God!

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    And inspired it (with conscience of) what is wrong for it and (what is) right for it.

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    and imbued it with (the consciousness of) its evil and its piety:*

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    And how He inspired the self with self-abuse and self-indulgence, as well as with reverence and vindication and self-sacrifice and adaptation.

  • Bijan Moeinian

    That God has clearly indicated what is right and what is wrong for man.

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Then He showed him what is wrong for him and what is right for him.

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    And its enlightenment as to its wrong and its right;-

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    then with ˹the knowledge of˺ right and wrong inspired it!

  • Taqi Usmani

    then inspired it with its (instincts of) evil and piety,

  • Abdul Haleem

    and inspired it its own rebellion and piety!

  • Arthur John Arberry

    and inspired it to lewdness and godfearing!

  • E. Henry Palmer

    its sin and its piety!

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    And enlightened it with what is wrong and right for it!

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    So He inspired it to its impiety and piety!

  • George Sale

    and inspired into the same its faculty of distinguishing, and power of choosing, wickedness and piety:

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    And its enlightenment and to its wrong and to its right—

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Then He revealed to it (- the soul, the ways of) its evil and its righteousness,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    and inspired it with its virtues and vices: