Do you enjoin upon people godliness and virtue but forget your own selves, (even) while you recite the Book (and see therein the orders, prohibitions, exhortations and warnings)? Will you not understand and come to your senses
Would you ask others to be righteous and forget to practice it yourselves? Even though you read your Holy Book? Have you no sense?
Dr. Munir Munshey
You exhort others to acquire piety, but forget (to include) yourself. You do recite the scriptures! Have you, then, no sense
Dr. Kamal Omar
Do you enjoin right conduct on the people and forget (to practice it) yourselves, and you continue to recite Al-Kitab (without understanding it), what then? Don’t you use your sense
How is that you invite others to follow the Right path, while forgetting to follow it yourself? And this (hypocrisy) in spite of the fact that you read the Scriptures in which you are ordered to practice the righteousness! [Why are not you consistent?]
Faridul Haque
What! You enjoin righteousness upon people while you forget (to practise it) yourselves, whereas you read the Book? Do you not have sense
Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah
Would you order righteousness on others and forget it yourselves? Yet you recite the Book, have you no sense
Do you enjoin men to be good and neglect your own souls while you read the Book? Have you then no sense
Muhammad Ahmed - Samira
Do you order the people with the righteousness/charitability and you forget yourselves, and you are reading/reciting The Book , do you not reason/understand/comprehend
How is it that you enjoin others to do good and neglect your ownselves while you recite the Scripture? Do you not even (after reading the Scripture) abstain (from evils)
Enjoin you Al-Birr (piety and righteousness and each and every act of obedience to Allah) on the people and you forget (to practise it) yourselves, while you recite the Scripture (the Taurat (Torah))! Have you then no sense
Do you advise people to experience the beauty formed by Allah’s Names and neglect to experience this yourselves? Though you read the Book (the knowledge of the reality of existence), will you still not use your reason?
Sayyed Abbas Sadr-Ameli
Do you enjoin righteousness upon people while you forget your own selves (to practice it) ? And you read the Scripture? Have you then no sense?
Al-muntakhab fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-Karim
"Do you enjoin people to pay regard to what is just and right while you wilfully neglect to apply your hearts to wisdom and piety, when you peruse AL- Tawrah, and have knowledge of its text? Do you have no more sense than to indulge yourselves in vanity?"