Sam Gerrans - The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

“And loosen Thou the knot from my tongue,

وَاحْلُلْ عُقْدَةً مِنْ لِسَان۪يۙ
Wahlul AAuqdatan min lisanee
#wordmeaningroot
1wa-uḥ'lulAnd untieحلل
2ʿuq'datan(the) knotعقد
3minfrom
4lisānīmy tongueلسن
  • Aisha Bewley

    Loosen the knot in my tongue

  • Progressive Muslims

    "And remove the knot in my tongue. "

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Make me eloquent of speech.

  • Sam Gerrans The Qur'an: A Complete Revelation

    “And loosen Thou the knot from my tongue,

  • The Monotheist Group The Quran: A Monotheist Translation

    "And remove the knot in my tongue."

  • Edip-Layth Quran: A Reformist Translation

    "Remove the knot in my tongue."

  • Rashad Khalifa The Final Testament

    "And untie a knot from my tongue.

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Remove the defect of my tongue

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

    And untie the knot from my tongue

  • Muhammad Asad

    and loosen the knot from my tongue

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    And loose a knot from my tongue,

  • Abul A'la Maududi Tafhim commentary

    and loosen the knot from my tongue

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat Al- Muntakhab

    "And loosen my tongue and untie its impeding knot to allow me free expression".

  • Bijan Moeinian

    "Please give my power of speech (which has been impeded as he put fire in his mouth when he was a child)….

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    "And loose the knot (the defect) from my tongue, (i.e. remove the incorrectness from my speech) . (Tafsir At-Tabarî).

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    "And remove the impediment from my speech,

  • Mustafa Khattab The Clear Quran

    and remove the impediment from my tongue

  • Taqi Usmani

    and remove the knot from my tongue,

  • Abdul Haleem

    Untie my tongue,

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Unloose the knot upon my tongue, t

  • E. Henry Palmer

    and loose the knot from my tongue,

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    "And ease my task for me;

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    And loosen a knot from my tongue,

  • George Sale

    And loose the knot of my tongue,

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    "And loosen the knot (that came about when baby Musa put a piece of burning fire in his mouth:) from my tongue (to make me speak more freely),

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    `And remove the impediments from my tongue,

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Remove the hitch from my tongue,