Translation of the meanings Ayah 3 Surah Al-‘Asr - English Translation - Abdullah Hasan Yaqoub - The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

Ayah: 3

إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَتَوَاصَوۡاْ بِٱلصَّبۡرِ

3. Except those who believe, do righteous deeds, exhort one another to Truth2, and exhort one another to patience3.

2. Here Allāh has shown you, O people in this short chapter what is salvation, and what does Allāh 'God' require of you? He requires to believe in Him and to live a life of humility and submission to His will following His last and final message, the Qur’an, to believe in His messengers whose last is the prophet Muhammad and before him Jesus as living examples for you, to do righteous deeds of praying regularly and paying the poor-rate among other good deeds, to act justly and be fair and righteous in how you treat others and to be devoted and show loving-kindness and compassion giving preference to one another, loving, caring, serving. Advising one another to perform all kinds of good deeds which Allāh has ordained in the Qur’an and through His messenger, the Prophet Muhammad, and abstaining from all kinds of idolatry and sins which Allāh and His messenger has forbidden that will keep you out of heaven.
3. Slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness. To be patient in performaning the good deeds, and patient in abstaining from the evil desires. Patient for the sufferings, harms, which one may encounter in this world.