Surah 7. Al-A'raf, Ayah 31
| ۞ يَا بَنِي آدَمَ خُذُوا زِينَتَكُمْ عِنْدَ كُلِّ مَسْجِدٍ وَكُلُوا وَاشْرَبُوا وَلَا تُسْرِفُوا ۚ إِنَّهُ لَا يُحِبُّ الْمُسْرِفِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | yaa bane 'aadam khudho zenah -kum cinda kull masjid wa- kulo wa- ishrabo wa- laa tusrifo 'inna -hu laa yuh.ibb al- musrifen |
| Pickthall | : | O Children of Adam! Look to your adornment at every place of worship, and eat and drink, but be not prodigal. Lo! He loveth not the prodigals. |
| Asad | : | O CHILDREN of Adam! Beautify yourselves23 for every act of worship, and eat and drink [freely], but do not waste: verily, He does not love the wasteful! |
| Malik | : | O Children of Adam! Put on your adornment (decent proper dress) when you attend your Masjid at the time of every prayer. Eat and drink, but do not be extravagant; surely He does not love the extravagant. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | O children of Adam! wear your beautiful apparel at every time and place of prayer: eat and drink: but waste not by excess for Allah loveth not the wasters. 1013 |
Note - 23Lit., "take to your adornment (zinah)". According to
Raghib (as quoted in Lane III, 1279 f ), the proper
meaning of zinah is "a [beautifying] thing that does not
disgrace or render unseemly ... either in the present
world or in that which is to come": thus, it signifies
anything of beauty in both the physical and moral
connotations of the word.
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Note - 1013Beautiful apparel: zinat: adornments or apparel for
beautiful living: construed to mean not only clothes that
add grace to the wearer, but toilet and cleanliness,
attention to hair, and other small personal details which
no self-respecting man or woman ought to neglect when
going solemnly even before a great human dignitary, if
only out of respect for the dignity of the occasion. How
much more important it is to attend to these details when
we solemny apply our minds to the Presence of Allah. But
the caution against excess applies: men must not go to
prayer in silks or ornaments appropriate to women.
Similary sober food, good and wholesome, is not to be
divorced from offices of religion; only the caution
against excess applies strictly. A dirty, unkempt,
slovenly Faqir could not claim sanctity in Islam.
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Lit., "take to your adornment (zinah)". According to Raghib (as quoted in Lane III, 1279 f ), the proper meaning of zinah is "a [beautifying] thing that does not disgrace or render unseemly ... either in the present world or in that which is to come": thus, it signifies anything of beauty in both the physical and moral connotations of the word. |
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Beautiful apparel: zinat: adornments or apparel for beautiful living: construed to mean not only clothes that add grace to the wearer, but toilet and cleanliness, attention to hair, and other small personal details which no self-respecting man or woman ought to neglect when going solemnly even before a great human dignitary, if only out of respect for the dignity of the occasion. How much more important it is to attend to these details when we solemny apply our minds to the Presence of Allah. But the caution against excess applies: men must not go to prayer in silks or ornaments appropriate to women. Similary sober food, good and wholesome, is not to be divorced from offices of religion; only the caution against excess applies strictly. A dirty, unkempt, slovenly Faqir could not claim sanctity in Islam. |
