20
Sura Taha
The
Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:
إِنَّ السَّاعَةَ
ءاَتِيَةٌ...
20:
15. "Verily the Hour is coming --
C2545. The
first need is to mend our lives and worship and serve Allah, as in
the last verse.
The
next is to realise the meaning of the Hereafter, when every soul will
get the meed of its conduct in this life.
...أَكَادُ
أُخْفِيهَا
لِتُجْزَى كُلُّ
نَفْسٍ بِمَا
تَسْعَى ﴿١٥﴾
My
design is to keep it hidden -- for every soul to receive its reward
by the measure of its endeavour.
C2546. Ukhfi may
mean either "keep
it hidden",
or "make
it manifest",
and
the Commentators have taken, some one meaning and some the other.
- If
the first is taken, it means that the exact hour or day when the
Judgment comes is hidden from man;
- if
the second, it means that the fact of the Judgment to come is made
known, that man may remember and take warning.
I
think that both meanings are implied. (R).
Others
version:
20:15
Inna alssaAAata atiyatun akadu
okhfeeha litujza kullu nafsin
bima tasAAa
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Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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Muhammad
Asad
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"Behold, [although] I have willed
to keep it hidden, the Last Hour is bound to come,
so that every human being may be recompensed in accordance with
what he strove for [in life].
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M.
M. Pickthall
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Lo! the Hour is surely coming. But I will to keep it hidden,
that every soul may be rewarded for that which it striveth (to
achieve).
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Shakir
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Surely the hour is coming-- I am about to make it manifest-- so
that every soul may be rewarded as it strives:
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Yusuf
Ali
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"Verily the Hour is coming - My
design is to keep it hidden - for every soul to
receive its reward by the measure of its Endeavour.
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[Al-Muntakhab]
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" The predetermined Eventful Hour shall inevitably come to
pass, I almost keep it from the knowledge of others so that
each soul be requited with what is commensurate with its
deeds,"
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[Progressive
Muslims]
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"The Hour is coming, I am nearly
keeping it hidden, so that every soul will be
recompensed with what is strived."
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