Chapter 103, 3 verses
আল্লাহর নামে শুরু করছি, পরম করুণাময় পরম দয়ালু; সময়,
In the name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the declining day,
In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. By Al-'Asr (the time).
নিশ্চয়ই মানুষ ক্ষতির মধ্যে আছে,
Lo! man is a state of loss,
Verily, man is in loss,
তবে তারা নয়, যারা ঈমান আনে, সৎকাজ করে, এবং পরস্পরকে সত্যের উপদেশ দেয় ও ধৈর্যের উপদেশ দেয়।
Save those who believe and do good works, and exhort one another to truth and exhort one another to endurance.
Except those who believe (in Islamic Monotheism) and do righteous good deeds, and recommend one another to the truth [i.e. order one another to perform all kinds of good deeds (Al-Ma'ruf) which Allah has ordained, and abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds (Al-Munkar which Allah has forbidden], and recommend one another to patience (for the sufferings, harms, and injuries which one may encounter in Allah's Cause during preaching His religion of Islamic Monotheism or Jihad).