Translation of the meanings Ayah 2 Surah As-Saff - English Translation - Abdullah Hasan Yaqoub - The Noble Qur'an Encyclopedia

Ayah: 2

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لِمَ تَقُولُونَ مَا لَا تَفۡعَلُونَ

2. O believers, why do you say what you do not 'intend to' do¹?

1. Muhammad, God's messenger (ﷺ) said: “A man will be brought on the Day of Resurrection and judgement and will be cast into Hell, and his intestines will pour forth and he will go round them as a donkey goes round a millstone. The inmates of Hell will gather round him and say: ‘What has happened to you, O so-and-so? Were you not enjoining us to do good and forbidding us to do evil?’ He will reply: ‘Yes, I was enjoining you to do good, but was not doing it myself; and I was forbidding you to do evil, but was doing it myself.'”