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قُلْ مَا سَاَلْتُكُمْ مِنْ اَجْرٍ فَهُوَ لَكُمْۜ اِنْ اَجْرِيَ اِلَّا عَلَى اللّٰهِۚ وَهُوَ عَلٰى كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَه۪يدٌ

Qul ma saaltukum min ajrin fahuwalakum in ajriya illa AAala Allahi wahuwaAAala kulli shay-in shaheed

Say: ‘I have not asked you for any wage – it is all for you. My wage is the responsibility of Allah alone. He is witness of everything.’

  • Progressive Muslims

    Say: "I have not asked you for any wage; you can keep it. My wage is from God, and He is witness over all things."

  • Shabbir Ahmed

    Say, "Whatever reward do I ask you, it is yours. My reward rests with none but Allah, and He is Witness unto everything."

  • Sam Gerrans

    Say thou: “What I might have asked of you of reward, it is yours. My reward is only upon God; and He is witness over all things.”

  • The Monotheist Group

    Say: "I have not asked you for any wage; for it will be your own. My wage is from God, and He is witness over all things."

  • Edip-Layth

    Say, "I have not asked you for any wage; you can keep it. My wage is from God, and He is witness over all things."

  • Aisha Bewley

    Say: ‘I have not asked you for any wage – it is all for you. My wage is the responsibility of Allah alone. He is witness of everything.’

  • Rashad Khalifa

    Say, "I do not ask you for any wage; you can keep it. My wage comes only from GOD. He witnesses all things."

  • Mohamed Ahmed - Samira

    Say: "The reward I ask is for yourself. My reward is due from none but God; and He is witness over everything."

  • Sahih International

    Say, "Whatever payment I might have asked of you - it is yours. My payment is only from Allah, and He is, over all things, Witness."

  • Muhammad Asad

    Say: "No reward have I ever asked of you [out of anything] that is yours: my reward rests with none but God, and He is witness unto everything!"

  • Marmaduke Pickthall

    Say: Whatever reward I might have asked of you is yours. My reward is the affair of Allah only. He is Witness over all things.

  • Abdel Khalek Himmat

    And say to them: "I never asked of you a price, my advice to you is entirely in your own interest while my reward rests in the hands of Allah Who is Shahidun (Who witnesses all things)".

  • Bijan Moeinian

    Say: "I am not asking for a wage [for my teaching you the truth]; you can keep it. My reward is with God Who witnesses everything [and values my sincerity in accomplishing my mission.]

  • Al-Hilali & Khan

    Say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه وسلم): "Whatever wage I might have asked of you is yours. My wage is from Allâh only, and He is a Witness over all things."

  • Abdullah Yusuf Ali

    Say: "No reward do I ask of you: it is (all) in your interest: my reward is only due from Allah: And He is witness to all things."

  • Mustafa Khattab

    Say, "If I had ever asked you for a reward, you could keep it. My reward is only from Allah. And He is a Witness over all things."

  • Taqi Usmani

    Say, "If I had ever claimed any reward from you, then it is yours. My reward is with none but Allah. And He is witness over every thing."

  • Abdul Haleem

    Say, ‘If I have asked you for any reward, you can keep it. It is God alone who will reward me: He is witness to everything.’

  • Arthur John Arberry

    Say: 'I have asked no wage of you; that shall be yours. My wage falls only upon God; and He is witness over everything.'

  • E. Henry Palmer

    Say, 'I do not ask you for it a hire; that is for yourselves; my hire is only from God, and He is witness over all. '

  • Hamid S. Aziz

    Say, "I exhort you only to one thing that you awake for Allah's sake (or stand up before Allah) in twos or singly, then ponder: there is no madness in your companion (or comrade, fellow-citizen); he is only a Warner to you before a severe doom.

  • Mahmoud Ghali

    Say, "Whatever reward I ask of you, then it is for you (i. e., for benefit and your guidance) Decidedly my reward (falls) upon none except Allah, and He is an Ever - Present Witness over everything."

  • George Sale

    Say, I ask not of you any reward for my preaching; it is your own, either to give or not: My reward is to be expected from God alone; and he is witness over all things.

  • Syed Vickar Ahamed

    Say: "Whatever reward I might have asked from you is yours: My reward is only to come from Allah; And He is a Witness (Shaheed) over all things. "

  • Amatul Rahman Omar

    Say, `Whatever reward I might have asked of you (for my this exhortation) you can keep it with you. (I claim) my reward only from Allâh for He is the Witness over all things.'

  • Ali Quli Qarai

    Say, ‘Whatever reward I may have asked you is for your own good. My [true] reward lies only with Allah, and He is witness to all things.’