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 Post subject: Verses 68:46-50
PostPosted: 04 Jun 2009, 07:47 
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 Post subject: Re: Verses 68:46-50
PostPosted: 27 Nov 2013, 17:19 
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{68:46} Or do you ask of them a payment, so they are by debt burdened down?

I suggest,
{68:46} Or do you ask of them a wage, so they are by a cost encumbered?

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{68:47} Or have they [knowledge of] the unseen, so they write [it] down?

I suggest,
{68:47} Or is with them [knowledge of] the Beyond, so they write [it] down?

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{68:48} Then be patient for the decision of your Lord, [O Muhammad], and be not like the companion of the fish when he called out while he was distressed.

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{68:48} So, endure [, O Muhammad,] till the judgment of your Lord and do not be like the companion of the whale (Jonah) as he called out, suppressed.

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{68:49} If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been thrown onto the naked shore while he was censured.

I suggest,
{68:49} If not that a favor from his Lord overtook him, he would have been relinquished by the naked shore, censured.

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{68:50} And his Lord chose him and made him of the righteous.

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{68:50} And his Lord selected him and made him of the righteous.

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