Generally Accepted Translations of the Meaning
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| Muhammad Asad | | [It is] the freeing of one's neck [from the burden of sin] |  |
M. M. Pickthall | | (It is) to free a slave | |
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985) | | (It is:) freeing the bondman | |
Shakir | | (It is) the setting free of a slave | |
Wahiduddin Khan | | It is the freeing of a slave | |
| Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar | | It is the liberating of a bondsperson | |
| T.B.Irving | | [It means] redeeming the captive, | |
| The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab | | It is to free a slave; | |
| Safi Kaskas | | It is to free a slave, | |
| Abdul Hye | | (It is) the freeing of a neck (slave from bondage); | |
| The Study Quran | | [It is] the freeing of a slave | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2011 Edition) | | The freeing of slaves | |
Abdel Haleem | | It is to free a slave | |
Abdul Majid Daryabadi | | It is freeing the neck | |
Ahmed Ali | | To free a neck (from the burden of debt or slavery) | |
Aisha Bewley | | It is freeing a slave | |
Ali Ünal | | It is the freeing of a bondsman (a slave or a captive) | |
Ali Quli Qara'i | | [It is] the freeing of a slave | |
Hamid S. Aziz | | It is freeing captives (or prisoners, slaves, the restricted or bound) | |
Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali | | It is the freeing of a slave, (Literally: the untying of a neck | |
Muhammad Sarwar | | It is the setting free of a slav | |
Muhammad Taqi Usmani | | (It is) freeing of the neck of a slave | |
Shabbir Ahmed | | - Freeing others from bondage, physical or mental, and from any social, economic or political oppression. (Freeing the neck includes all the above meanings plus striving to establish the Divine System wherein the only Master is Allah's Law) | |
Syed Vickar Ahamed | | (It is) freeing the slave | |
Umm Muhammad (Sahih International) | | It is the freeing of a slav | |
Farook Malik | | It is the freeing of a neck (slave) from bondage | |
| Dr. Munir Munshey | | (It is) freeing slaves | |
| Dr. Kamal Omar | | It is freeing or getting freed one (human) neck from (any sort of) enslavement | |
| Talal A. Itani (new translation) | | The freeing of a slave | |
Maududi | | It is freeing someone´s neck from slavery | |
| Ali Bakhtiari Nejad | | (It is) freeing a slave | |
| A.L. Bilal Muhammad et al (2018) | | It is freeing the captive | |
| Musharraf Hussain | | It is to free a slave, | |
[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition) | | The freeing of slaves. | |
| Mohammad Shafi | | Freeing a slave | |
Controversial, deprecated, or status undetermined works
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Bijan Moeinian | | …. what type of actions will put the man in the right path,… | |
| Faridul Haque | | The freeing of a slave | |
| Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah | | (It is) the freeing of a slave | |
Maulana Muhammad Ali | | (It is) to free a slave | |
| Muhammad Ahmed - Samira | | Releasing/freeing a neck/person/slave | |
Sher Ali | | It is the freeing of a slave | |
Rashad Khalifa | | The freeing of slaves | |
| Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi) | | It is the freeing of the neck of a bondman. | |
Amatul Rahman Omar | | (It is) the freeing of a captive (from the bondage of slavery, debt and other afflictions) | |
Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri | | It is freeing a neck (from slavery and subjugation) | |
Muhsin Khan & Muhammad al-Hilali | | (It is) Freeing a neck (slave, etc. | |
