2. Surah Al-Baqarah, Verse 44

Do you order the people to do good, but forget yourselves, while you are reciting the Scripture Do you not understand

What! You preach righteousness to others and forget yourselves even though you read the Scripture! Don't you, then, use any sense?

Enjoin you virtue upon mankind, and forget yourselves when you recite the Writ? Will you then not use reason!

Do you exhort the people to do good, but forget yourselves, while you are reciting the Book? Do you not comprehend?

Do you order the people to do goodness, but forget yourselves, while you are reciting the book? Do you not reason?

Do you order people to devoutness and forget yourselves, when you recite the Book? Will you not use your intellect?

Do you exhort the people to be righteous, while forgetting yourselves, though you read the scripture? Do you not understand?

Will you enjoin good deeds on the others and forget your own selves? You also read the Scriptures, why do you then not understand?

Do you order righteousness of the people and forget yourselves while you recite the Scripture? Then will you not reason?

Do you bid other people to be pious, the while you forget your own selves -and yet you recite the divine writ? Will you not, then, use your reason?;

Enjoin ye righteousness upon mankind while ye yourselves forget (to practise it)? And ye are readers of the Scripture! Have ye then no sense?

"Do you enjoin people to pay regard to what is just and right while you wilfully neglect to apply your hearts to wisdom and piety, when you peruse AL- Tawrah, and have knowledge of its text? Do you have no more sense than to indulge yourselves in vanity?"

How is that you invite others to follow the Right path, while forgetting to follow it yourself? And this (hypocrisy) in spite of the fact that you read the Scriptures in which you are ordered to practice the righteousness! [Why are not you consistent?]

Enjoin you Al-Birr (piety and righteousness and each and every act of obedience to Allâh) on the people and you forget (to practise it) yourselves,[1] while you recite the Scripture [the Taurât (Torah)]! Have you then no sense?

Do ye enjoin right conduct on the people, and forget (To practise it) yourselves, and yet ye study the Scripture? Will ye not understand?

Do you preach righteousness and fail to practice it yourselves, although you read the Scripture? Do you not understand?

Do you enjoin righteousness upon others while you ignore your own selves, although you keep reciting the Book? Have you then no sense?

How can you tell people to do what is right and forget to do it yourselves, even though you recite the Scripture? Have you no sense?

Will you bid others to piety, and forget yourselves while you recite the Book? Do you not understand?

Will ye order men to do piety and forget yourselves? ye read the Book, do ye not then understand?

Will you order men to piety and forget it yourselves? You read the Book, do you not then understand?

Do you command mankind to benignancy and forget yourselves, and you recite the Book? Do you then not consider?

Will ye command men to do justice, and forget your own souls? Yet ye read the book of the law: Do ye not therefore understand?

Do you enforce right conduct on the people, and forget (to practice it) yourselves, and yet you study the Scripture? Will you not understand?

How is it that you enjoin others to do good and neglect your ownselves while you recite the Scripture? Do you not even (after reading the Scripture) abstain (from evils)?

Will you bid others to piety and forget yourselves, while you recite the Book? Do you not apply reason?