Tell My servants to say what is best. Satan sows discord among them. Satan is to man an open enemy.
Al-Isra' 17:53
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وَقُلْ لِعِبَادِي يَقُولُوا الَّتِي هِيَ أَحْسَنُ ۚ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ يَنْزَغُ بَيْنَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ الشَّيْطَانَ كَانَ لِلْإِنْسَانِ عَدُوًّا مُبِينًا
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Tell My servants to say what is best. Satan sows discord among them. Satan is to man an open enemy.
Tell My servants to say kind and gentle words. Satan tries to make trouble between them. Satan is clearly an enemy to humans.
Tell My servants to speak in the kindest way, because Satan tries to stir trouble between them. Satan has always been a clear enemy to humans.
Tell My servants to speak in the best manner. Surely Satan stirs discord between them. Surely Satan has always been a clear enemy to man.
Tell My worshipers to say what is best. Satan sows discord among them. Satan is to the human being an obvious enemy.
Tell My worshipers to say what is best. Satan sows discord among them. Satan is to the human being an obvious enemy.
And tell My servants to say that which is best. Indeed, Satan induces [dissension] among them. Indeed Satan is ever, to mankind, a clear enemy.
And say to My slaves (i.e. the true believers of Islâmic Monotheism) that they should (only) say those words that are the best. (Because) Shaitân (Satan) verily, sows a state of conflict and disagreements among them. Surely, Shaitân (Satan) is to man a plain enemy.
Tell My slaves that they should say what is best, for Satan sows discord among them. Indeed, Satan is a sworn enemy to mankind.
Say to My servants that they should (only) say those things that are best: for Satan doth sow dissensions among them: For Satan is to man an avowed enemy.
Tell My bondmen to speak that which is kindlier. Lo! the devil soweth discord among them. Lo! the devil is for man an open foe.
Tell My servants that they should always say what is best. Satan stirs up discord among them. Surely, Satan is an outright enemy to man.
Tell My servants, (O Muhammad), to say always that which is best. Verily it is Satan who sows discord among people. Satan indeed is an open enemy to mankind.
Tell My servants to speak in a manner which is the best. Indeed Satan incites ill feeling between them, and Satan is indeed man’s manifest enemy.
Waqul liAAibadee yaqooloo allatee hiya ahsanu inna alshshaytana yanzaghu baynahum inna alshshaytana kana lilinsani AAaduwwan mubeenan