Text of verse 31:19
وَٱقْصِدْ فِى مَشْيِكَ وَٱغْضُضْ مِن صَوْتِكَ إِنَّ أَنكَرَ ٱلْأَصْوَٰتِ لَصَوْتُ ٱلْحَمِيرِ ١٩
Transliteration
wa-iq'ṣid fī mashyika wa-ugh'ḍuḍ min ṣawtika inna ankara l-aṣwāti laṣawtu l-ḥamīri
Translation
And be moderate in your pace and lower your voice; indeed, the most disagreeable of sounds is the voice of donkeys."
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Rachid Maach Nabil Radwan (Noor International) Muhammad Hamidullah
Isa García Noor International (España) Noor International (Latinoamérica) Julio Cortés
Salomo Keyzer
Abubakar Mahmoud Gumi
محمد جوناگڑھی
Bubenheim & Elias
Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani
Hamza Roberto Piccardo
মুহিউদ্দীন খান
Rowwad Tercüme Merkezi Şaban Piriş Ali Özek ve arkadaşları Elmalılı Hamdi Yazır
Kementerian Agama RI
Mahmud Muhammad Abduh
حسین تاجی گلهداری
Abdullah Muhammad Basmeih
Sherif Ahmeti
Məmmədəliyev & Bünyadov
Besim Korkut
馬堅
Ivan Hrbek
Ahsen Böre
三田了一
최영길
Abdul Hameed & Parappoor
Abdulaziz Guroalim Saromantang
Einar Berg
Józef Bielawski
Samir El-Hayek
George Grigore
Эльмир Кулиев
Knut Bernström
ஜான் டிரஸ்ட்
Якуб ибн Нугман
สมาคมนักเรียนเก่าอาหรับ ประเทศไทย
Муҳаммад Содиқ Муҳаммад Юсуф
Verse 19 of Surah Luqman (31:19), a Meccan surah, is in juz 21, on page 412 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.
Tafsir of verse 19
Al-Mukhtasar
Be moderate in your manner of walking: between hastiness and lethargy, displaying dignity. And lower your voice; do not raise it such that it causes inconvenience. Indeed, the most hideous of sounds is that of the donkey because of them being loud.
Tafsir of the whole Surah Luqman
Other translations of verse 19
Be moderate in your gait and lower your voice. Indeed, the most repugnant of voices is the voice of donkeys.”
"And be moderate (or show no insolence) in your walking, and lower your voice. Verily, the harshest of all voices is the braying of the asses."
Be modest in thy bearing and subdue thy voice. Lo! the harshest of all voices is the voice of the ass.
"And be moderate in thy pace, and lower thy voice; for the harshest of sounds without doubt is the braying of the ass."
And pursue the right course in your going about and lower your voice; surely the most hateful of voices is braying of the asses.
And be moderate in your walk, and tone down your voice; surely the most repugnant of voices is indeed that of the asses."
Verse 19 word by word
وَٱقْصِدْ
wa-iq'ṣid And be moderate ق ص د
فِى
fī in
مَشْيِكَ
mashyika your pace م ش ي
وَٱغْضُضْ
wa-ugh'ḍuḍ and lower غ ض ض
مِن
min [of]
صَوْتِكَ
ṣawtika your voice ص و ت
إِنَّ
inna Indeed
أَنكَرَ
ankara (the) harshest ن ك ر
ٱلْأَصْوَٰتِ
l-aṣwāti (of all) sounds ص و ت
لَصَوْتُ
laṣawtu (is) surely (the) voice ص و ت
ٱلْحَمِيرِ
l-ḥamīri (of) the donkeys ح م ر
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