4. Sura an-Nisa

Medina 92 [Hijra 4]

The Quranic Text & Ali’s Version:

وَلاَ تَهِنُواْ فِي ابْتِغَاء الْقَوْمِ ...

4: 104. And slacken not in following up the enemy:

... إِن تَكُونُواْ تَأْلَمُونَ فَإِنَّهُمْ يَأْلَمُونَ كَمَا تَأْلَمونَ ...

if ye are suffering hardships, they are suffering similar hardships;

... وَتَرْجُونَ مِنَ اللّهِ مَا لاَ يَرْجُونَ ...

but ye have hope from Allah, while they have none.

C620. Religion should be a source of strength and not of weakness in all our affairs.

If we have to struggle hard and suffer hardships, those without faith have to do the same, with this difference, that the man of Faith is full of hope in Allah, whereas the man without Faith has nothing to sustain him.

... وَكَانَ اللّهُ عَلِيمًا حَكِيمًا ﴿١٠٤﴾

And Allah is full of knowledge and wisdom. 

Pickthall’s Version:

4: 104

Pickthall Relent not in pursuit of the enemy. If ye are suffering, lo! they suffer even as ye suffer and ye hope from Allah that for which they cannot hope. Allah is ever Knower, Wise.

Transliteration Wa la_ tahinu_ fibtiga_'il qaum(i), in taku_nu_ ta'lamu_na fa innahum ya'lamu_na kama_ ta'lamu_n(a), wa taruju_na minalla_hi ma_ la_ yarju_n(a), wa ka_nalla_hu'aliman hakima_(n).