17. Surah Al-Isra, Verse 24
وَاخْفِضْ لَهُمَا جَنَاحَ الذُّلِّ مِنَ الرَّحْمَةِ وَقُلْ رَبِّ ارْحَمْهُمَا كَمَا رَبَّيَان۪ي صَغ۪يراًۜ
Wakhfid lahuma janahaaththulli mina arrahmati waqulrabbi irhamhuma kama rabbayanee sagheera
Take them under your wing, out of mercy, with due humility and say: ‘Lord, show mercy to them as they did in looking after me when I was small. ’
- Progressive Muslims
And lower for them the wing of humility through mercy, and Say: "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they have raised me when I was small. "
- Shabbir Ahmed
Lower for them the wing of kindness and humility and say, "My Lord! Bestow upon them Your Mercy as they raised me since I was little. "
- Sam Gerrans
And lower thou to them the wing of gentleness out of mercy, and say thou: “My Lord: have mercy on them, as they brought me up when I was small.”
- The Monotheist Group
And lower for them the wing of humility through mercy, and say: "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they have raised me when I was young."
- Edip-Layth
Lower for them the wing of humility through mercy, and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they have raised me when I was small."
- Aisha Bewley
Take them under your wing, out of mercy, with due humility and say: ‘Lord, show mercy to them as they did in looking after me when I was small. ’
- Rashad Khalifa
And lower for them the wings of humility, and kindness, and say, "My Lord, have mercy on them, for they have raised me from infancy."
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
"And look after them with kindness and love, and say: "O Lord, have mercy on them as they nourished me when I was small. "
- Sahih International
And lower to them the wing of humility out of mercy and say, "My Lord, have mercy upon them as they brought me up [when I was] small. "
- Muhammad Asad
and spread over them humbly the wings of thy tenderness, and say: "O my Sustainer! Bestow Thy grace upon them, even as they cherished and reared me when I was a child!"
- Marmaduke Pickthall
And lower unto them the wing of submission through mercy, and say: My Lord! Have mercy on them both as they did care for me when I was little.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
And lower to them the wing of power in humility, standing manifest of kindness and mercy and invoke Allah to be merciful to them and express your invocatory prayer in words, thus: O Allah, my Creator, I pray and beseech you to extend to them Your mercy in return for bringing me up and setting me on my feet which confess their toilsome care for me in my childhood.
- Bijan Moeinian
You shall be submissive and gentle to your parents and pray for them saying: "My Lord! Have mercy on my parents; they are the ones who [had mercy on me and went through so much trouble and] brought me up.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
And lower unto them the wing of submission and humility through mercy, and say: "My Lord! Bestow on them Your Mercy as they did bring me up when I was young."
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
And, out of kindness, lower to them the wing of humility, and say: "My Lord! bestow on them thy Mercy even as they cherished me in childhood."
- Mustafa Khattab
And be humble with them out of mercy, and pray, "My Lord! Be merciful to them as they raised me when I was young."
- Taqi Usmani
and submit yourself before them in humility out of compassion, and say, "My Lord, be merciful to them as they have brought me up in my childhood."
- Abdul Haleem
and lower your wing in humility towards them in kindness and say, ‘Lord, have mercy on them, just as they cared for me when I was little.’
- Arthur John Arberry
and lower to them the wing of humbleness out of mercy and say; 'My Lord, have mercy upon them, as they raised me up when I was little. '
- E. Henry Palmer
And lower to them the wing of humility out of compassion, and say, 'O Lord! have compassion on them as they brought me up when I was little!'
- Hamid S. Aziz
And lower to them the wing of humility out of compassion, and say, "O Lord! Have compassion on them both for they did take care of me when I was little!"
- Mahmoud Ghali
And lower to them the wing of humbleness out of mercy and say, "Lord! Have mercy on them, as they reared me (when I was) small. "
- George Sale
and submit to behave humbly towards them, out of tender affection, and say, O Lord, have mercy on them both, as they nursed me when I was little.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
And, (out of kindness), lower to them the arm of submission by being humble through mercy, and say: "My Lord! Grant to them Your Mercy as they brought me up (dearly) during my childhood. "
- Amatul Rahman Omar
And lower to them the wings of submissiveness out of tenderness (treating them with humility and compassion). And say (praying for them), `My Lord! have mercy upon them just as they nourished and brought me up as a child.'
- Ali Quli Qarai
Lower the wing of humility to them, out of mercy, and say, ‘My Lord! Have mercy on them, just as they reared me when I was [a] small [child]!’