6. Sura al-Anam

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:



وَذَرُواْ ظَاهِرَ الإِثْمِ وَبَاطِنَهُ...

6: 120. Eschew all sin, open or secret:

...إِنَّ الَّذِينَ يَكْسِبُونَ الإِثْمَ سَيُجْزَوْنَ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَقْتَرِفُونَ ﴿١٢٠﴾

those who earn sin, will get due recompense for their "earnings."


Other versions:



6: 120 [al-Anam, cattle, Mecca 55]

Asad But abstain from sinning [105], be it open or secret – for, behold, those who commit sins shall be requited for all that they have earned.

Yusuf Ali Eschew all sin open or secret: those who earn sin will get due recompense for their "earnings."

Pickthall Forsake the outwardness of sin and the inwardness thereof. Lo! those who garner sin will be awarded that which they have earned.

Transliteration Wa zaru_ za_hiral ismi wa ba_tinah(u_), innal lazina yaksibu_nal isma sayujzauna bima_ ka_nu_ yaftaru_n(a).