003:103

The Holy Qor-aan                                                                                                                 003:103

يٰۤـاَيُّهَا الَّذِيۡنَ اٰمَنُوۡا اتَّقُوا اللّٰهَ حَقَّ تُقٰتِهٖ وَلَا تَمُوۡتُنَّ اِلَّا وَاَنۡـتُمۡ مُّسۡلِمُوۡنَ

Yaa  auy-yo-ha  ul-la-zee-na  aa-ma-noo  (ot)                                                                                  Ta-qo  ol-laa-ha  hauq-qa  to-qaa-tay  he                                                                                      Wa  laa  ta-moo-toon-na  il-laa  wa  aun-toom  moos-lay-moon

Listen, you all who have believed!                                                                                        Do duty to Allah, truthfully afraid of angering Him.                                                      And don’t you die except when you really are submissive.

The Holy Qor-aan has used the Phrase Yaa-auy-yo-hul-la-zee-na-aa-ma-noo many times

• يٰۤ — Yaa — Listen (= Be attentive; hearken; pay attention; O!)
• اَيُّهَا — Auy-yo-ha … (ul) — You all (= All addressees; entire audience; whole lot of listeners)
• ٱلَّذِينَ — Ul-la-zee-na — Those who (= pl., m, 3^rd person. Those articles, things or persons
• اٰمَنُوۡۤ — Aa-ma-noo … (ot) — They Believed (= v., past., pl., 3^rd person. Believed in the Holy Qor-aan; became Moslems. Accepted, acknowledged, admitted or witnessed their entry in Iss-laam. See Commentaries like Islam – 101, Phrase Aa-ma-noo-wa-aa-may-loos … and Believe and Disbelieve that floodlight other aspects how the Holy Qor-aan has used this word)
• اتَّقُوا — Tuq-qo … (ol) — Do duty to (= v., pres., pl., 2^nd person. Love so much that you fear  angering Him. Be clean, righteous and mindful of your duty to God. Become God-fearing, pious and righteous. Clean inner self. Guard against or ward off evil. See Commentary ‘The Righteous‘)
• اللّٰهَ — Laa-ha — Allah (= The One and the Only One Almighty God)
• حَقَّ — Huq-qa — Truthfully (= adv., Justifiably. See Note 003:103 below. As deserved, merited, must, should and ought to be read, recited, followed, practiced upon and shared with others)
• تُقٰتِ — To-qaa-tay — Afraid of angering (= n., Being clean, pious and righteous. Doing duty diligently. Warding off evil. See  اتَّقُوا  above)
• هٖ — He — His (= pro., s., m., 3^rd person. Refers to the Almighty God)
• وَ — Wa — And (= Conj., It links words, phrases or clauses; additionally; but; also; more over; though; when; while; yet; whereupon)

Text in the next six (6) words is repeated in 002:133 and 003:103

• لَا — Laa — Do not (= Absolute denial; never; no; not at all; total negation)
• تَمُوۡتُنَّ — Ta-Moo-toon-na — You die (= v., pres., pl., 2^nd person. Breathe your last. Go to next life after death. Depart from life and this world. Leave the world. Let death overtake you. Live every moment of life until the death comes)
• اِلَّا — Il-laa — Except (= Apart from; besides; except; excluding; save; unless)
• وَ — Wa — And when (= Conj., It links words, phrases or clauses. See وَ  above)
• اَنۡـتُمۡ — Aun-toom — Really you (= pro., pl., m., 2^nd person. You men. Generally this way the Holy Qor-aan addresses both men and women. The first part of the word اَنۡ — that on its own means certainly earnestly, indeed, really, truly, etc., — makes the word convey a state of a totality)
• مُسۡلِمُوۡنَ — Moos-lay-moo-n — Submissive (= n., At peace. Dedicated, devoted, endowed or obedient. In total submission and surrender like a servant. State of being in complete submission and surrender. Subservient. Some translators have narrowed down his word to mean those “in the Faith of Islam (Muslims  – Islamic Monotheism.” 

* Note: 003:103. The word  حَقَّ  (= Huq-qa) has been translated variously such as the following in single words, long phrases and sentences adding words in italics as explanatory.

• As Islam, the Right Faith.
• As n, Appropriateness; equitability; exactness; fairness; just cause; justification; justice; justified conduct; precision. Reasonableness that is absolute, solid and total. Truth.
• As adv when preceded by a بِ with one or more of the following words. Appropriately. Equitably. Exactly. Fairly. Genuinely. Justifiably. Properly. Reasonably. Rightly. Suitably. Totally. Truthfully. With solid good reason. Also, in an appropriate, just, justified, rightful reasonable, rightful and suitable conduct and manner.
• “Fear Allah (by doing all that He has ordered and by abstaining from all that He has forbidden) as He should be feared” [Dr Al-Hilali, Dr Khan].
• “Fear GOD as He should be feared.” [A Yusuf Ali, Ahmad Zidan].
• “As it ought to be” [Allama Nooruddin].
• “As you rightly should” [N J Dawood].
• “In all respects, every moment of your lives, so that death, whenever it overtakes you, should find you in a state of complete submission to Him” [M Zafrulla Khan]
• Not translated here is this word as a verb (= past., s., 3^rd person) since that would be inappropriate. Bur the same word is also a verb and translated appropriately as a such in 007:031.

Reproduced

* Note 002:133. The last six words of verses 002:133 and 003:103 are the same. In 002:133 they are the advice of prophets Abraham and Jacob a.s to their children. In 003:103 they are the direction  to Believers to do duty to God as it should be done – appropriately, diligently and judiciously.

These six words have also been translated as ’till your last breath you remain in the state of a total surrender’ to God Almighty’. Their essence is also conveyed in the Urdu prayer Anjaam Ba-khair Ho.