Ayah al-Balad (The City, This Countryside) 90:16

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Muhammad Asad

or of a needy [stranger] lying in the dust –

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Or an indigent man in starvation; (Literally: in dusty circumstances

Safi Kaskas

or a needy person in distress.

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Arabic

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

Arabic

أَوْ مِسْكِينًا ذَا مَتْرَبَةٍ

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aw mis’kīnan dhā matrabatin

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or a poor person in dusty circumstances

Word for Word
Dr. Shehnaz Shaikh, Ms. Kauser Katri, and more

Or a needy person in misery,

Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning

Muhammad Asad

or of a needy [stranger] lying in the dust –

M. M. Pickthall

Or some poor wretch in misery

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Or to the indigent (down) in the dust

The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab

or to a poor person in distress;

Safi Kaskas

or a needy person in distress.

Wahiduddin Khan

or some needy person in distress

Shakir

Or to the poor man lying in the dust

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

or a needy, possessor of misery.

T.B.Irving

or some needy person in distress.

Abdul Hye

or to a poor clinging to dust (out of misery)

The Study Quran

or an indigent, clinging to the dust

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

Or to a destitute in misery.

Talal Itani (2012)

Or a destitute in the dust

Dr. Kamal Omar

or an indigent in full contentment

M. Farook Malik

or to a needy in distress

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

Or an indigent man in starvation; (Literally: in dusty circumstances

Muhammad Sarwar

and downtrodden destitute person, (so that he would be of

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

or to a needy person lying in dust

Shabbir Ahmed

- And helping him who remains needy though he toils in dust

Dr. Munir Munshey

And the needy among the destitute

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Or to the needy one (down) in the dust

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Or a needy person in miser

[The Monotheist Group] (2017 Edition)

Or a poor person in need;

Abdel Haleem

or a poor person in distress

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Or a poor man cleaving to the dust

Ahmed Ali

Or the poor in distress

Aisha Bewley

or a poor man in the dust;

Ali Ünal

Or a poor wretch in misery

Ali Quli Qara'i

or a needy man in desolation

Hamid S. Aziz

Or a destitute lying in the dust (of misery)

Ali Bakhtiari Nejad

or a poor person in ruins (and penniless),

A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018)

Or to the indigent down in the dust

Musharraf Hussain

or a penniless and distressed person.

Maududi

or to a destitute lying in dust

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

Or a poor person in need.

Mohammad Shafi

Or miserable poor man

Controversial or status undetermined works

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Or to a poor man lying in the dust.

Rashad Khalifa

Or the poor who is in need

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

or to a needy person in distress

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Or the poor man lying in the dust

Muhammad Ahmed & Samira

Or a poorest of poor/poor oppressed of poverty

Bijan Moeinian

a stranger which is stricken by poverty)

Faridul Haque

Or of a homeless needy person

Sher Ali

Or, a poor man lying in the dust

Edip Yuksel

Or a poor person in need.

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Or the poverty-stricken destitute who is completely rundown (and homeless)

Amatul Rahman Omar

Or a downtrodden poor man

Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali

Or to a Miskeen (poor) afflicted with misery

Non-Muslim and/or Orientalist works

Arthur John Arberry

or a needy man in misery

George Sale

or the poor man who lieth on the ground

Edward Henry Palmer

or a poor man who lies in the dust

John Medows Rodwell

or the poor that lieth in the dust

N J Dawood (2014)

or a needy man in distress

New, Partial, or In Progress Translations

Saeed Malik

or a poor one, out in the dust.

Shuaib Abdullahi

or (Aw') a poor person (Mis'kiinan) with (Zaa) poverty (Mat'rabat'), 1

Fode Drame

or a needy one in a state most abject.

Munir Mezyed

Or a needy man living in misery,

Sahib Mustaqim Bleher

Or someone poor from amongst the destitute,

Fadel Soliman, Bridges‘ Translation

or a destitute person in the dust,

Linda “iLHam” Barto

…or any poor person in dire need.

Irving & Mohamed Hegab

or some needy person in distress.

Samy Mahdy

Or a needy possessor of indigence.

Sayyid Qutb

or a needy man in distress,

Ali Quli Qarai

or a needy man in desolation,

Thomas Cleary

or a pauper in misery.

Ahmed Hulusi

Or to feed the impoverished one who is in distress.

Safiur Rahman Mubarakpuri

Or to a Miskin cleaving to dust.

Torres Al Haneef (partial translation)

or some poor man in need

Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur‘an al-Karim

Or an indigent who is in dire need

Mir Aneesuddin

or the dusty poor,

The Wise Quran

Or a poor person, a possessor of poverty.

Obsolete and/or older editions

Yusuf Ali (Orig. 1938)

Or to the indigent (down) in the dust

OLD Literal Word for Word

Or a needy person in misery

OLD Transliteration

Aw miskeenan tha matrabatin

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