Waiqsid fee mashyika waoghdud min sawtika inna ankara alaswati lasawtu alhameeri
English
Ahmed Ali
Be moderate in your bearing, and keep your voice low. Surely the most repulsive voice is the donkey's."
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Tafseer
'Abdullāh Ibn 'Abbās / Muḥammad al-Fīrūzabādī
تفسير : (be modest in thy bearing and subdue your voice) lower your voice and do not be sharp-tongued. (lo! the harshest of all voices) he says: the most odious and evil of all voices (is the voice of the ass.
Jalāl al-Dīn al-Maḥallī
تفسير : and be modest in your bearing, being moderate in it, neither dragging slowly nor rushing, but peaceful and dignified, and lower your voice; indeed the most hideous of voices is the donkey’s voice’, beginning [its hideous bray] with an exhalation and ending with an inhalation.
Sahl al-Tustari
تفسير : …for the most abominable of all voices is the braying of an ass.⸢sufyān al-thawrī said, ‘the voice[s] of all things glorify [god] except for the voice of the ass (ḥimār),⸣ for it screeches on account of seeing satan, and this is why god, exalted is he, calls it abominable (munkar).
