Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
But if you are in danger, [pray] walking or riding; and when you are again secure, bear God in mind - since it is He who taught you what you did not previously know
Arthur John Arberry
And if you are in fear, then afoot or mounted; but when you are secure, then remember God, as He taught you the things that you knew not
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
If ye fear (an enemy), pray on foot, or riding, (as may be most convenient), but when ye are in security, celebrate Allah's praises in the manner He has taught you, which ye knew not (before)
Arabic
فَإِنۡ خِفۡتُمۡ فَرِجَالًا أَوۡ رُكۡبَانࣰاۖ فَإِذَاۤ أَمِنتُمۡ فَٱذۡكُرُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ كَمَا عَلَّمَكُم مَّا لَمۡ تَكُونُوا۟ تَعۡلَمُونَ ٢٣٩
Transliteration (2021)
fa-in khif'tum farijālan aw ruk'bānan fa-idhā amintum fa-udh'kurū l-laha kamā ʿallamakum mā lam takūnū taʿlamūn