Al-Qur'an Surah Al-Mu'minun Verse 61

Mufti Taqi Usmani

- those people are accelerating towards the (real) good things, and they are the foremost to attain them.

Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

it is they who race to do good deeds, always taking the lead.

Ruwwad Translation Center

it is they who hasten to do good deeds, and they are foremost in them.

A. J. Arberry

those vie in good works, outracing to them.

Abdul Haleem

are the ones who race toward good things, and they will be the first to get them.

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

These are hastening on to good, and they are therein foremost.

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

It is these who hasten in every good work, and these who are foremost in them.

Abul Ala Maududi

it is these who hasten to do good works and vie in so doing with one another.

Ahmed Ali

Are the ones who hasten to goodness and outpace the others.

Ahmed Raza Khan

These people hasten to perform goodness, and it is they who shall reach it first.

Ali Quli Qarai

—it is they who are zealous in [performing] good works and take the lead in them.

Ali Ünal

It is those (illustrious ones) who hasten to do all kinds of virtuous deeds, and they are in a virtuous competition with one another in doing them.

Amatul Rahman Omar

It is they who are quick and eager to do good works to outdo others and it is they who are (the) foremost for these (virtues, and shall win the race).

English Literal

Those, they speed/rush in the goodnesses/generosity, and they are to it racing/surpassing .

Faridul Haque

These people hasten to perform goodness, and it is they who shall reach it first.

Hamid S. Aziz

And those who give what they give with heart afraid because they are about to return unto their Lord,

Hilali & Khan

It is these who race for the good deeds, and they are foremost in them [e.g. offering the compulsory Salat (prayers) in their (early) stated, fixed times and so on].

Maulana Mohammad Ali

And those who give what they give while their hearts are full of fear that to their Lord thy must return --

Mohammad Habib Shakir

These hasten to good things and they are foremost in (attaining) them.

Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

These race for the good things, and they shall win them in the race.

Muhammad Sarwar

to God, these are the ones who really compete with each other in virtuous deeds and are the foremost ones in the task.

Qaribullah & Darwish

those, hasten in good works, outracing to them.

Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

It is these who hasten in the good deeds, and they are foremost in them.

Wahiduddin Khan

it is they who vie with one another in doing good works and shall be the foremost in doing so.

Talal Itani

It is they who race towards goodness. It is they who will reach it first.

Tafsir jalalayn

those [are the ones who] hasten to [perform] good works, and they [are the ones who] shall come out ahead in them, according to God's knowledge.

Tafseer Ibn Kathir

أُوْلَيِكَ يُسَارِعُونَ فِي الْخَيْرَاتِ
It is these who hasten in the good deeds.
This is also how Ibn Abbas, Muhammad bin Ka`b Al-Qurazi and Al-Hasan Al-Basri interpreted this Ayah.

وَهُمْ لَهَا سَابِقُونَ



and they are foremost in them