| Spanish - Cortes : Repele el mal con algo que sea mejor Sabemos bien lo que cuentan• Then, when the good and evil are engaged in a face to face conflict and their nature and merits become apparent and known, after a long drawn out struggle, not many people would be Ieft, who would not start hating the evil and admiring the good | In such discouraging conditions when apparently every way of extending invitation to Islam seemed to be blocked, the Holy Prophet was taught this recipe for breaking the opposition |
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| Tolaklah kejahatan itu dengan cara yakni dengan perbuatan yang lebih baik seperti marah, imbangilah dengan sabar, bodoh imbangilah dengan santunan, dan perbuatan jahat imbangilah dengan lapang dada atau pemaaf maka tiba-tiba orang yang antaramu dan antara dia ada permusuhan seolah-olah menjadi teman yang setia maka jadilah yang dulunya musuhmu kini menjadi teman sejawat dalam hal saling kasih mengasihi, jika kamu mempunyai sikap seperti tersebut | Not to speak of creating dignity and honour for them in the hearts of others, it lowers them in their own esteem, and causes their morale to be weakened and destroyed in the event of every conflict |
Repel Evil with what is better: Then will he between whom and thee was hatred become as it were thy friend and intimate! If you remain quiet in response to an abuse, it will be mere goodness but it will not silence the abuser.
24| Second, it was said that evil should be resisted not by the mere good but' by a superior good, as if to say: "If a person treats you unjustly and you forgive him, it is the mere good | Swahili - Al-Barwani : Kinga maovu kwa kutenda yaliyo mema zaidi Sisi tunajua wayasemayo• Somali - Abduh : Mana eka Wanaag iyo Xumaan reebna oo bixi arrinta fiican markaas waxaa soobixi in midkii col idin dhexyiil uu noqon sokeeye iyo saaxiib• First, it was said that goodness and evil are not equal, as if to say: "Although apparently your opponents might have raised a dreadful storm of mischief and evil, as against which goodness might seem absolutely helpless and powerless, yet evil in itself has a weakness which ultimately causes its own destruction |
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| Lafal Al Ladzii Mubtada, dan Ka-annahu adalah Khabarnya, lafal Idzaa menjadi Zharaf bagi makna Tasybih | The superior good is that you treat the one who iII-treats you wich kindness and lout |
Somali - Abduh : ee Raaci Dhaafso Tan Wanaagsan Midda Xun Anagaa og Waxay Tilmaamiye Sheegi• But if you express good wishes for him in response to his abuses, even the most shameless opponent will feel ashamed, and then would hardly ever be able to employ invectives against you.
18| Melayu - Basmeih : Dan tidaklah sama kesannya dan hukumnya perbuatan yang baik dan perbuatan yang jahat Tolaklah kejahatan yang ditujukan kepadamu dengan cara yang lebih baik; apabila engkau berlaku demikian maka orang yang menaruh rasa permusuhan terhadapmu dengan serta merta akan menjadi seolaholah seorang sahabat karib• Indonesia - Bahasa Indonesia : Tolaklah perbuatan buruk mereka dengan yang lebih baik Kami lebih mengetahui apa yang mereka sifatkan• But such devil-incarnates are as few in the world as the embodiments of goodness are | For, in the first place, the good has a power of its own which wins the hearts and no man however perverted and corrupted, can help esteeming it in his own heart |
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| For as long as man is man, his nature cannot help hating evil | Not only the companions of evil, even its own upholders know in their hearts that they arc liars and wicked people and arc being stubborn for selfish motives |
English - Sahih International : And not equal are the good deed and the bad Repel [evil] by that [deed] which is better; and thereupon the one whom between you and him is enmity [will become] as though he was a devoted friend• 中国语文 - Ma Jian : 善恶不是一样的。 However, it would be wrong to take this general principle in the meaning that every enemy will necessarily become a close friend when you have treated him with the superior good.