Welcome to the Quranic Arabic Corpus, an annotated linguistic resource for the Holy Quran. This page shows seven parallel translations in English for the 29th verse of chapter 17 (sūrat l-isrā). Click on the Arabic text to below to see word by word details of the verse's morphology.

Chapter (17) sūrat l-isrā (The Night Journey)

Sahih International: And do not make your hand [as] chained to your neck or extend it completely and [thereby] become blamed and insolvent.

Pickthall: And let not thy hand be chained to thy neck nor open it with a complete opening, lest thou sit down rebuked, denuded.

Yusuf Ali: Make not thy hand tied (like a niggard's) to thy neck, nor stretch it forth to its utmost reach, so that thou become blameworthy and destitute.

Shakir: And do not make your hand to be shackled to your neck nor stretch it forth to the utmost (limit) of its stretching forth, lest you should (afterwards) sit down blamed, stripped off.

Muhammad Sarwar: Do not be stingy nor over generous lest you become empty handed and bankrupt.

Mohsin Khan: And let not your hand be tied (like a miser) to your neck, nor stretch it forth to its utmost reach (like a spendthrift), so that you become blameworthy and in severe poverty.

Arberry: And keep not thy hand chained to thy neck, nor outspread it widespread altogether, or thou wilt sit reproached and denuded.

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See Also

• Verse (17:29) Morphology - description of each Arabic word