“Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. For it (is only) that which it hath earned, and against it (only) that which it hath deserved. Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget, or miss the mark! Our Lord! Lay not on us such a burden as thou didst lay on those before us! Our Lord! Impose not on us that which we have not the strength to bear! Pardon us, absolve us and have mercy on us, Thou, our Protector, and give us victory over the disbelieving folk” — read online, free, in the Pickthall translation.
Qur'an 2:286 — Al-Baqarah“Allah tasketh not a soul beyond its scope. For it (is only) that which it hath earned, and against it (only) that which it hath deserved. Our Lord! Condemn us not if we forget, or miss the mark! Our Lord! Lay not on us such a burden as thou didst lay on those before us! Our Lord! Impose not on us that which we have not the strength to bear! Pardon us, absolve us and have mercy on us, Thou, our Protector, and give us victory over the disbelieving folk”
The closing verse of the longest surah promises that God does not burden a soul beyond what it can bear, that nothing is credited to it but what it has earned, and ends with the prayer: “Our Lord, condemn us not if we forget or err.”
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This is the translation of Marmaduke Pickthall (1930), a respected public domain English rendering of the Qur'an.
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