Text of verse 23:61
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يُسَٰرِعُونَ فِى ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ وَهُمْ لَهَا سَٰبِقُونَ ٦١
Transliteration
ulāika yusāriʿūna fī l-khayrāti wahum lahā sābiqūna
Translation
It is those who hasten to good deeds, and they outstrip [others] therein.
سورة المؤمنون، الآية ٦١
أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَ يُسَٰرِعُونَ فِى ٱلْخَيْرَٰتِ وَهُمْ لَهَا سَٰبِقُونَ ٦١
ulāika yusāriʿūna fī l-khayrāti wahum lahā sābiqūna
It is those who hasten to good deeds, and they outstrip [others] therein.
Verse 61 of Surah Al-Mu’minun (23:61), a Meccan surah, is in juz 18, on page 346 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.
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Those possessing these lofty characteristics hasten towards good deeds, and beat others in performing them. That is why they surpass everyone else.
it is they who hasten to do good deeds, and they are foremost in them.
It is these who hasten in the good deeds, and they are foremost in them [e.g. offering the compulsory Salât (prayers) in their (early) stated, fixed times and so on].
These race for the good things, and they shall win them in the race.
It is these who hasten in every good work, and these who are foremost in them.
These hasten to good things and they are foremost in (attaining) them.
Those (come) swiftly with charitable (deeds), and they are outstrippers to them.