وَأَقِمِ

ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ

طَرَفَيِ

ٱلنَّهَارِ

وَزُلَفٗا

مِّنَ

ٱلَّيۡلِۚ

إِنَّ

ٱلۡحَسَنَٰتِ

يُذۡهِبۡنَ

ٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِۚ

ذَٰلِكَ

ذِكۡرَىٰ

لِلذَّٰكِرِينَ

١١٤

Establish prayer ˹O Prophet˺ at both ends of the day and in the early part of the night.¹ Surely good deeds wipe out evil deeds. That is a reminder for the mindful.

And be patient! Certainly Allah does not discount the reward of the good-doers.

If only there had been among the ˹destroyed˺ peoples before you, ˹O believers,˺ virtuous individuals who forbade corruption in the land—other than the few We had saved ˹from the torment˺. But the wrongdoers ˹only˺ pursued their ˹worldly˺ pleasures, becoming wicked.

And your Lord ˹O Prophet˺ would never destroy a society unjustly while its people were acting rightly.