Surah Ali 'Imran — Verse 104

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وَلْتَكُن مِّنكُمْ أُمَّةٌ يَدْعُونَ إِلَى ٱلْخَيْرِ وَيَأْمُرُونَ بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ وَيَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ ٱلْمُنكَرِ ۚ وَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلْمُفْلِحُونَ

Waltakun minkum ommatun yadAAoona ilaalkhayri waya'muroona bilmaAAroofi wayanhawna AAanialmunkari waola-ika humu almuflihoon

Verse recitation

Translations of this verse 7

Saheeh International

And let there be [arising] from you a nation inviting to [all that is] good, enjoining what is right and forbidding what is wrong, and those will be the successful.

M.A.S. Abdel Haleem

Be a community that calls for what is good, urges what is right, and forbids what is wrong: those who do this are the successful ones.

Marmaduke Pickthall

And there may spring from you a nation who invite to goodness, and enjoin right conduct and forbid indecency. Such are they who are successful.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Let there arise out of you a band of people inviting to all that is good, enjoining what is right, and forbidding what is wrong: They are the ones to attain felicity.

Mufti Taqi Usmani

There has to be a group of people from among you who call towards the good, and bid the Fair and forbid the Unfair. And it is these who are successful.

Al-Hilali & Khan

Let there arise out of you a group of people inviting to all that is good (Islâm), enjoining Al-Ma‘rûf (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism and all that Islâm orders one to do) and forbidding Al-Munkar (polytheism and disbelief and all that Islâm has forbidden). And it is they who are the successful.

Abul A'la Maududi (Tafhim)

And from among you there must be a party who invite people to all that is good and enjoin the doing of all that is right and forbid the doing of all that is wrong. It is they who will attain true success.