Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
Said [Moses]: "Take-me not to task for my having forgotten [myself], and be not hard on me on account of what I have done!"
Arthur John Arberry
He said, 'Do not take me to task that I forgot, neither constrain me to do a thing too difficult.
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
Moses said: "Rebuke me not for forgetting, nor grieve me by raising difficulties in my case."
Arabic
قَالَ لَا تُؤَاخِذۡنِی بِمَا نَسِیتُ وَلَا تُرۡهِقۡنِی مِنۡ أَمۡرِی عُسۡرࣰا ٧٣
Transliteration (2021)
qāla lā tuākhidh'nī bimā nasītu walā tur'hiq'nī min amrī ʿus'ra