Al-Ma'ida

O you who have believed! Be faithful to your contracts.

يايها الذين امنوا اوفوا بالعقود

Permitted to you are the livestock beasts, except what is recited to you — without permitting yourselves the hunt, during the inviolable months.

احلت لكم بهيمه الانعم الا ما يتلي عليكم غير محلي الصيد وانتم حرم

O you who have believed! Do not hold as permitted the perceptible markers of God, nor the inviolable month, nor the voluntary offerings, nor the vow-bound offerings, nor those heading toward the Inviolable House, seeking a favor from their Guardian and a good pleasure.

يايها الذين امنوا لا تحلوا شعير الله ولا الشهر الحرام ولا الهدي ولا القليد ولا امين البيت الحرام يبتغون فضلا من ربهم ورضونا

And once these months have passed, hunt.

واذا حللتم فاصطادوا

And let not the hatred of a people, for having barred you from the inviolable place of prostration, drive you to aggression.

ولا يجرمنكم شنان قوم ان صدوكم عن المسجد الحرام ان تعتدوا

Help one another in virtue and guardedness,

وتعاونوا علي البر والتقوي

and do not help one another in transgression and hostility.

ولا تعاونوا علي الاثم والعدون

And guard yourselves toward God:

واتقوا الله

Prohibited to you are: the dead animal, blood, the flesh of swine, that which has been consecrated to other than God, the strangled animal, the animal on the brink of death, the animal in a declining state from illness, the animal dead from a blow of the horn, and what a wild beast has devoured — except what you have purified by fire — as well as the animal slaughtered in common whose shares are then drawn by lot with arrows.

حرمت عليكم الميته والدم ولحم الخنزير وما اهل لغير الله به والمنخنقه والموقوذه والمترديه والنطيحه وما اكل السبع الا ما ذكيتم وما ذبح علي النصب وان تستقسموا بالازلم

That is an overstepping.

ذلكم فسق

Today, those who disown have lost hope of your Law;

اليوم ييس الذين كفروا من دينكم

so do not dread them, but dread Me.

فلا تخشوهم واخشون

Today, I have perfected for you your Law, I have completed My blessing upon you, and I have approved for you being true to God alone as your Law.

اليوم اكملت لكم دينكم واتممت عليكم نعمتي ورضيت لكم الاسلم دينا

They ask you: what is permitted to them?

يسلونك ماذا احل لهم

Say: "Permitted to you are the wholesome things, as well as the hunting animals you have instructed as trainers, teaching them from what God has taught you.

قل احل لكم الطيبت وما علمتم من الجوارح مكلبين تعلمونهن مما علمكم الله

So eat of what they catch for you, and mention the name of God over it.

فكلوا مما امسكن عليكم واذكروا اسم الله عليه

And guard yourselves toward God:

واتقوا الله

Today, the wholesome things are permitted to you. The food of those to whom the Scripture was given is permitted to you, and your food is permitted to them. And the women protected by the marital bond among the believers, and the women protected by the marital bond among those to whom the Scripture was given before you, when you give them their rewards, as men who commit to the marital bond, not in debauchery nor as takers of secret lovers.

اليوم احل لكم الطيبت وطعام الذين اوتوا الكتب حل لكم وطعامكم حل لهم والمحصنت من المومنت والمحصنت من الذين اوتوا الكتب من قبلكم اذا اتيتموهن اجورهن محصنين غير مسفحين ولا متخذي اخدان

O you who have believed! When you rise for the Contact, wash your faces and your hands up to the elbows, and wipe your heads,

يايها الذين امنوا اذا قمتم الي الصلوه فاغسلوا وجوهكم وايديكم الي المرافق وامسحوا بروسكم

and your feet up to the knees.

وارجلكم الي الكعبين

And if you have soiled yourselves, wash yourselves.

وان كنتم جنبا فاطهروا

And if you are sick, or on a journey, or one of you has come from relieving himself, or you have known a woman in intimacy, and you find no water, then aim at wholesome ground, and wipe your faces and your hands with it.

وان كنتم مرضي او علي سفر او جا احد منكم من الغايط او لمستم النسا فلم تجدوا ما فتيمموا صعيدا طيبا فامسحوا بوجوهكم وايديكم منه

God does not want to impose any discomfort on you,

ما يريد الله ليجعل عليكم من حرج

And remember God's blessing upon you, and His solemn engagement, by which He bound you, when you said: "We have heard and we have deferred."

واذكروا نعمه الله عليكم وميثقه الذي واثقكم به اذ قلتم سمعنا واطعنا

And guard yourselves toward God:

واتقوا الله

O you who have believed! Be firm supporters for God, bearing witness with equity,

يايها الذين امنوا كونوا قومين لله شهدا بالقسط

and let not the hatred of a people drive you to not be just.

ولا يجرمنكم شنان قوم علي الا تعدلوا

Be just: it is closer to guardedness.

اعدلوا هو اقرب للتقوي

And guard yourselves toward God:

واتقوا الله

O you who have believed! Remember God's blessing upon you, when a people was minded to stretch out their hands toward you, and He held their hands back from you.

يايها الذين امنوا اذكروا نعمت الله عليكم اذ هم قوم ان يبسطوا اليكم ايديهم فكف ايديهم عنكم

And guard yourselves toward God:

واتقوا الله

God has indeed taken the solemn engagement of the Sons of Israel, and We raised up, among them, twelve leaders.

ولقد اخذ الله ميثق بني اسريل وبعثنا منهم اثني عشر نقيبا

And God said: "I am indeed with you.

وقال الله اني معكم

If you maintain the Contact, give pure liberality, believe in My messengers, champion them, and make God a beautiful loan, I will certainly cover your evil deeds, and I will certainly admit you into gardens beneath which rivers flow.

لين اقمتم الصلوه واتيتم الزكوه وامنتم برسلي وعزرتموهم واقرضتم الله قرضا حسنا لاكفرن عنكم سياتكم ولادخلنكم جنت تجري من تحتها الانهر

For having broken their solemn engagement, We cursed them and made their cores hard: they displace words from their context, and have forgotten a share of what they had been reminded of.

فبما نقضهم ميثقهم لعنهم وجعلنا قلوبهم قسيه يحرفون الكلم عن مواضعه ونسوا حظا مما ذكروا به

And you will not cease to discover among them a betrayal, except a small number of them.

ولا تزال تطلع علي خاينه منهم الا قليلا منهم

So overlook it for them and turn the page:

فاعف عنهم واصفح

And among those who said: "We are indeed the Helpers", We took their solemn engagement, but they forgot a share of what they had been reminded of; We then unleashed among them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Appearance;

ومن الذين قالوا انا نصري اخذنا ميثقهم فنسوا حظا مما ذكروا به فاغرينا بينهم العداوه والبغضا الي يوم القيمه

A light has indeed come to you from God, as well as a clear Scripture, by which God guides whoever follows His good pleasure toward the ways of peace,

قد جاكم من الله نور وكتب مبين يهدي به الله من اتبع رضونه سبل السلم

and brings them out of the darknesses toward the light, with His permission,

ويخرجهم من الظلمت الي النور باذنه

They have indeed disowned, those who said: "God, that is Al-Massih, son of Maryam."

لقد كفر الذين قالوا ان الله هو المسيح ابن مريم

Say: "Who then would hold any power against God, if He wanted to annihilate Al-Massih, son of Maryam, and his mother, and all those on the earth?"

قل فمن يملك من الله شيا ان اراد ان يهلك المسيح ابن مريم وامه ومن في الارض جميعا

To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and of what is between them.

ولله ملك السموت والارض وما بينهما

He creates what He wills.

يخلق ما يشا

And the Reoriented and the Helpers said: "We are the sons of God and His beloved."

وقالت اليهود والنصري نحن ابنوا الله واحبوه

Say: "Why then does He punish you for your offenses?

قل فلم يعذبكم بذنوبكم

You are rather humans, among those He created.

بل انتم بشر ممن خلق

He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills."

يغفر لمن يشا ويعذب من يشا

To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and of what is between them,

ولله ملك السموت والارض وما بينهما

O people of the Scripture! Our messenger has indeed come to you, making clear to you after a break in messengers, lest you say: "No bearer of good tidings nor warner has come to us" — a bearer of good tidings and a warner has thus indeed come to you.

ياهل الكتب قد جاكم رسولنا يبين لكم علي فتره من الرسل ان تقولوا ما جانا من بشير ولا نذير فقد جاكم بشير ونذير

And when Moussa said to his people: "O my people! Remember God's blessing upon you, when He placed among you informants, and made you kings,

واذ قال موسي لقومه يقوم اذكروا نعمه الله عليكم اذ جعل فيكم انبيا وجعلكم ملوكا

O my people! Enter the sanctified land that God has prescribed for you,

يقوم ادخلوا الارض المقدسه التي كتب الله لكم

They said: "O Moussa! There is indeed there a people of tyrants,

قالوا يموسي ان فيها قوما جبارين

and we will indeed not enter it until they have left it;

وانا لن ندخلها حتي يخرجوا منها

Two men, among those who feared, to whom God had granted His blessing, said: "Enter upon them by the gate;

قال رجلان من الذين يخافون انعم الله عليهما ادخلوا عليهم الباب

once you have entered it, you will indeed be the victors.

فاذا دخلتموه فانكم غلبون

He said: "My Guardian, I indeed possess power only over my own Self

قال رب اني لا املك الا نفسي

and my brother;

واخي

He said: "It is, then, prohibited to them, forever,

قال فانها محرمه عليهم

forty years, wandering on the earth.

اربعين سنه يتيهون في الارض

And recite to them, in truth, the information of the two sons of Adam, when each offered an offering: it was accepted from one, and was not accepted from the other.

واتل عليهم نبا ابني ادم بالحق اذ قربا قربانا فتقبل من احدهما ولم يتقبل من الاخر

The latter said: "I will certainly kill you."

قال لاقتلنك

If you stretch out your hand toward me to kill me, I will not stretch out my hand toward you to kill you;

لين بسطت الي يدك لتقتلني ما انا بباسط يدي اليك لاقتلك

I want you to return burdened with my transgression and yours, and to be among the companions of the Fire:

اني اريد ان تبوا باثمي واثمك فتكون من اصحب النار

He said: "Woe to me! Am I unable to be like this raven, and to conceal my brother's nakedness?" And he then found himself among those who regret.

قال يويلتي اعجزت ان اكون مثل هذا الغراب فاوري سوه اخي فاصبح من الندمين من اجل ذلك

That is why We prescribed for the Sons of Israel that whoever kills a Self, without it being for another Self, or for corruption on the earth, it is as if he had killed all mankind together,

كتبنا علي بني اسريل انه من قتل نفسا بغير نفس او فساد في الارض فكانما قتل الناس جميعا

and whoever gives life to one, it is as if he had given life to all mankind together.

ومن احياها فكانما احيا الناس جميعا

The only recompense of those who wage war against God and His messenger, and endeavour to sow corruption on the earth, is that they be massacred, or crucified, or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be exiled from the earth.

انما جزوا الذين يحاربون الله ورسوله ويسعون في الارض فسادا ان يقتلوا او يصلبوا او تقطع ايديهم وارجلهم من خلف او ينفوا من الارض

Indeed, those who disown, were they to possess all that is on earth, and its equivalent with it, to ransom themselves from the punishment of the Day of Appearance, it would not be accepted from them,

ان الذين كفروا لو ان لهم ما في الارض جميعا ومثله معه ليفتدوا به من عذاب يوم القيمه ما تقبل منهم

They will want to come out of the Fire, but they will not come out of it,

يريدون ان يخرجوا من النار وما هم بخرجين منها

And as for the thief, male and female, stop their supports, as a recompense for what they have earned, as an exemplary deterrent from God.

والسارق والسارقه فاقطعوا ايديهما جزا بما كسبا نكلا من الله

But whoever turns back after his wrongdoing, and becomes sound, God turns toward him with clemency.

فمن تاب من بعد ظلمه واصلح فان الله يتوب عليه

Do you not know that to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth?

الم تعلم ان الله له ملك السموت والارض

He punishes whom He wills, and He forgives whom He wills.

يعذب من يشا ويغفر لمن يشا

O messenger! Let not those grieve you who speed into disowning, among those who say: "We have believed" with their mouths, without their cores having believed,

يايها الرسول لا يحزنك الذين يسرعون في الكفر من الذين قالوا امنا بافوههم ولم تومن قلوبهم

nor among the Reoriented, listeners to falsehood, listeners on behalf of another people who has not come to you.

ومن الذين هادوا سمعون للكذب سمعون لقوم اخرين لم ياتوك

They displace words once set in their places, saying: "If you are given this, take it; and if you are not given it, beware."

يحرفون الكلم من بعد مواضعه يقولون ان اوتيتم هذا فخذوه وان لم توتوه فاحذروا

And whoever God wants to put to the trial, you hold nothing for him against God.

ومن يرد الله فتنته فلن تملك له من الله شيا

Those are the ones whose cores God has not wanted to purify.

اوليك الذين لم يرد الله ان يطهر قلوبهم

They have, in the present life, a disgrace,

لهم في الدنيا خزي

Listeners to falsehood, devourers of illicit gain —

سمعون للكذب اكلون للسحت

if they come to you, judge between them, then, or turn away from them;

فان جاوك فاحكم بينهم او اعرض عنهم

and if you turn away from them, they cannot harm you at all.

وان تعرض عنهم فلن يضروك شيا

And if you judge, judge then between them with equity:

وان حكمت فاحكم بينهم بالقسط

And how would they take you as judge, when they have the Tawrah, wherein is the judgment of God, and then they turn their backs after that?

وكيف يحكمونك وعندهم التوريه فيها حكم الله ثم يتولون من بعد ذلك

We sent down the Tawrah, wherein is guidance and light; the informants, who were true to God alone, judged by it the Reoriented, as did the spiritual masters and the rabbis, according to what they were entrusted to preserve of God's Scripture, and they were witnesses to it.

انا انزلنا التوريه فيها هدي ونور يحكم بها النبيون الذين اسلموا للذين هادوا والربنيون والاحبار بما استحفظوا من كتب الله وكانوا عليه شهدا

So do not dread men, but dread Me,

فلا تخشوا الناس واخشون

and do not buy, with My signs, a paltry price.

ولا تشتروا بايتي ثمنا قليلا

And We prescribed for them, in it: the Self in exchange for the Self, the eye in exchange for the eye, the nose in exchange for the nose, the ear in exchange for the ear, the tooth in exchange for the tooth, and for wounds, an investigation.

وكتبنا عليهم فيها ان النفس بالنفس والعين بالعين والانف بالانف والاذن بالاذن والسن بالسن والجروح قصاص

But whoever forgoes it as charity, it serves as an expiation for him.

فمن تصدق به فهو كفاره له

And We made Issa, son of Maryam, follow in their footsteps, confirming what, of the Tawrah, preceded him,

وقفينا علي اثرهم بعيسي ابن مريم مصدقا لما بين يديه من التوريه

And let the people of the Injil judge according to what God sent down in it.

وليحكم اهل الانجيل بما انزل الله فيه

And We have sent down to you the Scripture, in truth, confirming what, of the Scripture, preceded it, and prevailing over it.

وانزلنا اليك الكتب بالحق مصدقا لما بين يديه من الكتب ومهيمنا عليه

Judge, then, between them according to what God has sent down,

فاحكم بينهم بما انزل الله

and do not follow their emotions, away from what has come to you of the truth.

ولا تتبع اهواهم عما جاك من الحق

To each of you, We have assigned a law and a way.

لكل جعلنا منكم شرعه ومنهاجا

And had God willed, He would have made you one community;

ولو شا الله لجعلكم امه وحده

but so as to test you in what He has given you.

ولكن ليبلوكم في ما اتيكم

Race, then, in good deeds.

فاستبقوا الخيرت

And: judge between them according to what God has sent down,

وان احكم بينهم بما انزل الله

and do not follow their emotions,

ولا تتبع اهواهم

and be wary lest they turn you away, through trial, from part of what God has sent down to you.

واحذرهم ان يفتنوك عن بعض ما انزل الله اليك

And if they turn their backs, know then that God wants only to strike them for a part of their offenses.

فان تولوا فاعلم انما يريد الله ان يصيبهم ببعض ذنوبهم

Would they then seek the judgment of the age of ignorance?

افحكم الجهليه يبغون

O you who have believed! Do not take the Reoriented and the Helpers as allies:

يايها الذين امنوا لا تتخذوا اليهود والنصري اوليا

they are allies of one another.

بعضهم اوليا بعض

And whoever among you takes them as allies is then of them.

ومن يتولهم منكم فانه منهم

You see those in whose cores is a sickness speeding among them, saying: "We dread that a setback may strike us";

فتري الذين في قلوبهم مرض يسرعون فيهم يقولون نخشي ان تصيبنا دايره

O you who have believed! Whoever among you renounces his Law — God will bring a people whom He loves and who love Him, humbling itself before the believers, mighty toward those who disown, striving in the way of God, and fearing not the censure of any censurer.

يايها الذين امنوا من يرتد منكم عن دينه فسوف ياتي الله بقوم يحبهم ويحبونه اذله علي المومنين اعزه علي الكفرين يجهدون في سبيل الله ولا يخافون لومه لايم

That is the favor of God, which He grants to whom He wills.

ذلك فضل الله يوتيه من يشا

O you who have believed! Do not take as allies those who have made a mockery and a game of your Law, among those to whom the Scripture was given before you, and those who disown.

يايها الذين امنوا لا تتخذوا الذين اتخذوا دينكم هزوا ولعبا من الذين اوتوا الكتب من قبلكم والكفار اوليا

And when you call to the Contact, they take it for mockery and play:

واذا ناديتم الي الصلوه اتخذوها هزوا ولعبا

Say: "Shall I inform you of a requital worse than that, with God? He whom God has cursed, with whom He was angered, and of whom He made apes and swine, and he who obeyed the Overreacher —

قل هل انبيكم بشر من ذلك مثوبه عند الله من لعنه الله وغضب عليه وجعل منهم القرده والخنازير وعبد الطغوت

And when they come to you, they say: "We have believed" — while they entered with disowning, and left with it.

واذا جاوكم قالوا امنا وقد دخلوا بالكفر وهم قد خرجوا به

And you see many of them speeding into transgression, hostility, and the consumption of illicit gain.

وتري كثيرا منهم يسرعون في الاثم والعدون واكلهم السحت

Why do the spiritual masters and the rabbis not forbid them from uttering transgressive saying and consuming illicit gain!

لولا ينهيهم الربنيون والاحبار عن قولهم الاثم واكلهم السحت

And the Reoriented said: "God's hand is shackled."

وقالت اليهود يد الله مغلوله

May their hands be shackled, and may they be cursed for what they have said!

غلت ايديهم ولعنوا بما قالوا

No, His two hands are wide open: He spends as He wills.

بل يداه مبسوطتان ينفق كيف يشا

And what has been sent down to you from your Guardian will certainly increase, among many of them, immoderation and disowning.

وليزيدن كثيرا منهم ما انزل اليك من ربك طغينا وكفرا

And We have cast among them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Appearance.

والقينا بينهم العدوه والبغضا الي يوم القيمه

Every time they kindle a fire for war, God extinguishes it,

كلما اوقدوا نارا للحرب اطفاها الله

and they endeavour to sow corruption on the earth.

ويسعون في الارض فسادا

And had they maintained the Tawrah, the Injil, and what was sent down to them from their Guardian, they would indeed have eaten of what is above them and of what is beneath their feet.

ولو انهم اقاموا التوريه والانجيل وما انزل اليهم من ربهم لاكلوا من فوقهم ومن تحت ارجلهم

Among them, there is a moderate community,

منهم امه مقتصده

O messenger! Convey what has been sent down to you from your Guardian,

يايها الرسول بلغ ما انزل اليك من ربك

and if you do not do so, you will not have conveyed His message.

وان لم تفعل فما بلغت رسالته

God safeguards you from men.

والله يعصمك من الناس

Say: "O people of the Scripture! You stand on nothing, until you maintain the Tawrah, the Injil, and what has been sent down to you from your Guardian."

قل ياهل الكتب لستم علي شي حتي تقيموا التوريه والانجيل وما انزل اليكم من ربكم

And what has been sent down to you from your Guardian will certainly increase, among many of them, immoderation and disowning.

وليزيدن كثيرا منهم ما انزل اليك من ربك طغينا وكفرا

We indeed took the solemn engagement of the Sons of Israel, and We sent them messengers.

لقد اخذنا ميثق بني اسريل وارسلنا اليهم رسلا

And they thought there would be no trial; they then became blind and deaf; then God turned toward them with clemency; then, again, they became blind and deaf,

وحسبوا الا تكون فتنه فعموا وصموا ثم تاب الله عليهم ثم عموا وصموا

many of them.

كثير منهم

They have indeed disowned, those who said: "God, that is Al-Massih, son of Maryam."

لقد كفر الذين قالوا ان الله هو المسيح ابن مريم

And Al-Massih said: "O Sons of Israel! Obey God, my Guardian and your Guardian.

وقال المسيح يبني اسريل اعبدوا الله ربي وربكم

Whoever associates with God, God indeed prohibits the Garden to him, and his refuge will be the Fire."

انه من يشرك بالله فقد حرم الله عليه الجنه وماويه النار

They have indeed disowned, those who said: "God is the third of three."

لقد كفر الذين قالوا ان الله ثالث ثلثه

But there is no deity except one deity.

وما من اله الا اله وحد

Will they not then turn back to God, and ask His forgiveness?

افلا يتوبون الي الله ويستغفرونه

Al-Massih, son of Maryam, is only a messenger; messengers indeed passed before him,

ما المسيح ابن مريم الا رسول قد خلت من قبله الرسل

and his mother was a veracious woman;

وامه صديقه

both of them ate food.

كانا ياكلان الطعام

Say: "Do you obey, besides God, what holds for you neither harm nor benefit?

قل اتعبدون من دون الله ما لا يملك لكم ضرا ولا نفعا

Say: "O people of the Scripture! Do not exaggerate in your Law, beyond the truth,

قل ياهل الكتب لا تغلوا في دينكم غير الحق

They have been cursed, those among the Sons of Israel who disowned, by the tongue of Dawud and Issa, son of Maryam.

لعن الذين كفروا من بني اسريل علي لسان داود وعيسي ابن مريم

They did not forbid one another a disavowed act which they committed:

كانوا لا يتناهون عن منكر فعلوه

You see many of them allying themselves with those who disown:

تري كثيرا منهم يتولون الذين كفروا

And had they believed in God, in the informant, and in what was sent down to him, they would not have taken them as allies;

ولو كانوا يومنون بالله والنبي وما انزل اليه ما اتخذوهم اوليا

You will certainly find that the most hostile of men toward those who have believed are the Reoriented and those who have associated,

لتجدن اشد الناس عدوه للذين امنوا اليهود والذين اشركوا

and you will certainly find that the closest in affection toward those who have believed are those who say: "We are indeed the Helpers."

ولتجدن اقربهم موده للذين امنوا الذين قالوا انا نصري

God then requited them, for what they said, with gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally.

فاثبهم الله بما قالوا جنت تجري من تحتها الانهر خلدين فيها

O you who have believed! Do not hold as prohibited the wholesome things God has permitted you, and do not cross the limits:

يايها الذين امنوا لا تحرموا طيبت ما احل الله لكم ولا تعتدوا

And eat of what God has provided you, of what is permitted and wholesome,

وكلوا مما رزقكم الله حللا طيبا

God will not hold you to account for idle talk in your oaths,

لا يواخذكم الله باللغو في ايمنكم

but He will hold you to account for the oaths you have firmly concluded.

ولكن يواخذكم بما عقدتم الايمن

The expiation for it will be to feed ten destitute persons, of the best food with which you feed your families, or to clothe them, or to restore the independence of a person bound by a debt;

فكفرته اطعام عشره مسكين من اوسط ما تطعمون اهليكم او كسوتهم او تحرير رقبه

and whoever does not find the means, then an abstention of three days.

فمن لم يجد فصيام ثلثه ايام

That is the expiation of your oaths, when you take oaths.

ذلك كفره ايمنكم اذا حلفتم

And preserve your oaths.

واحفظوا ايمنكم

The Diverter wants only to cast, among you, by wine and games of chance, enmity and hatred, and to bar you from the remembrance of God and from the Contact.

انما يريد الشيطن ان يوقع بينكم العدوه والبغضا في الخمر والميسر ويصدكم عن ذكر الله وعن الصلوه

And defer to God, and defer to the messenger, and beware.

واطيعوا الله واطيعوا الرسول واحذروا

No blame upon those who have believed and done sound deeds, for what they have fed on, so long as they guarded themselves, believed, and did sound deeds, then guarded themselves and believed, then guarded themselves and did good.

ليس علي الذين امنوا وعملوا الصلحت جناح فيما طعموا اذا ما اتقوا وامنوا وعملوا الصلحت ثم اتقوا وامنوا ثم اتقوا واحسنوا

O you who have believed! God will certainly test you with some game that will fall to your hands and your spears, so that God may distinguish who fears Him even though He escapes his senses.

يايها الذين امنوا ليبلونكم الله بشي من الصيد تناله ايديكم ورماحكم ليعلم الله من يخافه بالغيب

O you who have believed! Do not kill game during the inviolable months.

يايها الذين امنوا لا تقتلوا الصيد وانتم حرم

And whoever among you kills it intentionally, an equivalent recompense in cattle, as two just ones among you shall decide, as an offering reaching the Ka'ba, or an expiation consisting of feeding the destitute, or the equivalent of that in abstention, so that he may taste the baleful consequences of his deed.

ومن قتله منكم متعمدا فجزا مثل ما قتل من النعم يحكم به ذوا عدل منكم هديا بلغ الكعبه او كفره طعام مسكين او عدل ذلك صياما ليذوق وبال امره

God has overlooked what is bygone;

عفا الله عما سلف

but whoever relapses, God will take vengeance upon him.

ومن عاد فينتقم الله منه

Permitted to you is the hunt of the sea and its food,

احل لكم صيد البحر وطعامه

as an enjoyment for you and for travelers;

متعا لكم وللسياره

but prohibited to you is the hunt of the land for as long as the inviolable months last.

وحرم عليكم صيد البر ما دمتم حرما

God has made the Ka'ba, the Inviolable House, a support for mankind, as well as the inviolable month, the voluntary offerings, and the vow-bound offerings.

جعل الله الكعبه البيت الحرام قيما للناس والشهر الحرام والهدي والقليد

Only the transmission is incumbent upon the messenger.

ما علي الرسول الا البلغ

Say: "The vile and the wholesome are not equal, even if the abundance of the vile dazzles you."

قل لا يستوي الخبيث والطيب ولو اعجبك كثره الخبيث

O you who have believed! Do not ask about things which, if they appeared to you, would vex you.

يايها الذين امنوا لا تسلوا عن اشيا ان تبد لكم تسوكم

And if you ask them while this Recitation is being sent down, they will appear to you. God has overlooked that.

وان تسلوا عنها حين ينزل القران تبد لكم عفا الله عنها

God did not institute any bahira, sa'iba, wasila, or ham,

ما جعل الله من بحيره ولا سايبه ولا وصيله ولا حام

And when it is said to them: "Come to what God has sent down, and to the messenger", they say: "It suffices us what we found our ancestors upon."

واذا قيل لهم تعالوا الي ما انزل الله والي الرسول قالوا حسبنا ما وجدنا عليه ابانا

O you who have believed! Look to yourselves:

يايها الذين امنوا عليكم انفسكم

he who strays cannot harm you, so long as you let yourselves be guided.

لا يضركم من ضل اذا اهتديتم

O you who have believed! Testimony between you, when death presents itself to one of you, at the time of the testament: two just ones among you, or two others, outside your circle, if you travel through the land and the calamity of death strikes you.

يايها الذين امنوا شهده بينكم اذا حضر احدكم الموت حين الوصيه اثنان ذوا عدل منكم او اخران من غيركم ان انتم ضربتم في الارض فاصبتكم مصيبه الموت

You will hold them both in suspense after the Contact, and they will both swear by God, if you have doubts: "We will not buy anything with it, at any price, even toward a relative,

تحبسونهما من بعد الصلوه فيقسمان بالله ان ارتبتم لا نشتري به ثمنا ولو كان ذا قربي

But if it is discovered that both have been guilty of a transgression, two others will take their place, from among those against whom the wrong was committed, the two nearest, and they will both swear

فان عثر علي انهما استحقا اثما فاخران يقومان مقامهما من الذين استحق عليهم الاولين فيقسمان

by God: "Our testimony is indeed more worthy than theirs, and we have not crossed the limits;

بالله لشهدتنا احق من شهدتهما وما اعتدينا

That is closer to the testimony brought in its proper form, or to their fear that other oaths might be opposed to their oaths.

ذلك ادني ان ياتوا بالشهده علي وجهها او يخافوا ان ترد ايمن بعد ايمنهم

And guard yourselves toward God,

واتقوا الله

and listen.

واسمعوا

The day God brings the messengers together, and says: "What answer were you given?"

يوم يجمع الله الرسل فيقول ماذا اجبتم

when God will say: "O Issa, son of Maryam! Remember My blessing upon you and upon your mother, when I fortified you with the sacred Influx, you spoke to men in the cradle and in your prime,

اذ قال الله يعيسي ابن مريم اذكر نعمتي عليك وعلي ولدتك اذ ايدتك بروح القدس تكلم الناس في المهد وكهلا

and when I taught you the Code, the wisdom, the Tawrah, and the Injil;

واذ علمتك الكتب والحكمه والتوريه والانجيل

and when you created out of clay the form of a bird, with My permission, then breathed into it, and it became a bird, with My permission;

واذ تخلق من الطين كهيه الطير باذني فتنفخ فيها فتكون طيرا باذني

and you restored the born-blind and the leper, with My permission;

وتبري الاكمه والابرص باذني

and when you brought forth the dead, with My permission;

واذ تخرج الموتي باذني

And when I revealed to the disciples: "Believe in Me and in My messenger";

واذ اوحيت الي الحوارين ان امنوا بي وبرسولي

when the disciples said: "O Issa, son of Maryam! Can your Guardian send down to us a table from the sky?"

اذ قال الحواريون يعيسي ابن مريم هل يستطيع ربك ان ينزل علينا مايده من السما

Issa, son of Maryam, said: "O God, our Guardian! Send down to us a table from the sky, that it be for us a festival, for the first of us as for the last, and a sign from You;

قال عيسي ابن مريم اللهم ربنا انزل علينا مايده من السما تكون لنا عيدا لاولنا واخرنا وايه منك

and provide for us;

وارزقنا

And when God will say: "O Issa, son of Maryam! Was it you who said to mankind: Take me, and my mother, as two deities besides God?"

واذ قال الله يعيسي ابن مريم انت قلت للناس اتخذوني وامي الهين من دون الله

He will say: "Glory be to You! It was not for me to say what is not my right.

قال سبحنك ما يكون لي ان اقول ما ليس لي بحق

If I had said it, You would have known it.

ان كنت قلته فقد علمته

You know what is in my Self, and I do not know what is in Your Self.

تعلم ما في نفسي ولا اعلم ما في نفسك

I told them only what You ordered me: Obey God, my Guardian and your Guardian;

ما قلت لهم الا ما امرتني به ان اعبدوا الله ربي وربكم

and I was a witness over them, as long as I was among them;

وكنت عليهم شهيدا ما دمت فيهم

then, when You kept me faithfully, it was You who were the Observer over them.

فلما توفيتني كنت انت الرقيب عليهم

If You punish them, they are Your obedient ones;

ان تعذبهم فانهم عبادك

God will say: "This is the day when veracity will benefit the veracious.

قال الله هذا يوم ينفع الصدقين صدقهم

They have gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, forever."

لهم جنت تجري من تحتها الانهر خلدين فيها ابدا

God is satisfied with them, and they are satisfied with Him.

رضي الله عنهم ورضوا عنه

To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and of what is in them.

لله ملك السموت والارض وما فيهن