THE TABLE - al-Ma'idah
In the name of God, the Gracious, the Merciful.
1. O you who believe! Fulfill your com-mitments. Livestock
animals are permitted for you, except those specified to you; but not wild game
while you are in pilgrim sanctity. God decrees whatever He wills.
2. O you who believe! Do not violate God’s sacraments, nor the
Sacred Month, nor the offerings, nor the garlanded, nor those heading for the
Sacred House seeking blessings from their Lord and approval. When you have left
the pilgrim sanctity, you may hunt. And let not the hatred of people who barred
you from the Sacred Mosque incite you to aggression. And co-operate with one
another in virtuous con-duct and conscience, and do not cooperate with one
another in sin and hostility. And fear God. God is severe in punishment.
3. Prohibited for you are carrion, blood, the flesh of swine,
and animals dedicated to other than God; also the flesh of ani-mals strangled,
killed violently, killed by a fall, gored to death, mangled by wild
ani-mals—except what you rescue, and ani-mals sacrificed on altars; and the
practice of drawing lots. For it is immoral. Today, those who disbelieve have
despaired of your religion, so do not fear them, but fear Me. Today I have
perfected your religion for you, and have completed My favor upon you, and have
approved Islam as a religion for you. But whoever is compelled
by
hunger, with no intent of wrongdo-ing—God is Forgiving and Merciful.
4. They ask you what is permitted for them. Say, “Permitted for
you are all good things, including what trained dogs and falcons catch for
you.” You train them according to what God has taught you. So eat from what
they catch for you, and pronounce God’s name over it. And fear God. God is
Swift in reckoning.
5. Today all good things are made lawful for you. And the food
of those given the Scripture is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for
them. So are chaste believing women, and chaste women from the peo-ple who were
given the Scripture before you, provided you give them their dow-ries, and take
them in marriage, not in adultery, nor as mistresses. But whoever rejects
faith, his work will be in vain, and in the Hereafter he will be among the
los-ers.
6. O you who believe! When you rise to pray, wash your faces,
and your hands and arms to the elbows, and wipe your heads, and your feet to
the ankles. If you had in-tercourse, then purify yourselves. If you are ill, or
travelling, or one of you returns from the toilet, or you had contact with
women, and could not find water, then use some clean sand and wipe your faces
and hands with it. God does not intend to burden you, but He intends to purify
you, and to complete His blessing upon you, that you may be thankful.
7.
And
Remember God’s blessings upon you, and His covenant which He cove-nanted with
you, when you said, “We hear and we obey.” And remain conscious of God, for God
knows what the hearts con-tain.
8.
O
you who believe! Be upright to God, witnessing with justice, and let not the
hatred of a certain people prevent you from acting justly. Adhere to justice,
for that is nearer to piety, and fear God. God is informed of what you do.
9.
God
has promised those who believe and work righteousness: they will have
forgiveness and a great reward.
10. As for those who disbelieve and reject Our revelations—these
are the inmates of Hell.
11. O you who believe! Remember God's blessings upon you; when
certain people intended to extend their hands against you, and He restrained
their hands from you. So reverence God, and in God let the believers put their
trust.
12. God received a pledge from the Chil-dren of Israel, and We
raised among them twelve chiefs. God said, “I am with you; if you perform the
prayer, and pay the alms, and believe in My messengers and support them, and
lend God a loan of righteous-ness, I will remit your sins, and admit you into
Gardens beneath which rivers flow. But whoever among you disbelieves
after-wards—he has strayed from the right way.”
13. Because of their breaking their pledge, We cursed them, and
made their hearts hard. They twist the words out of their context, and they
disregarded some of what they were reminded of. You will al-ways witness deceit
from them, except for a few of them. But pardon them, and over-look. God loves
the doers of good.
14. And from those who say, “We are Christians,” We received
their pledge, but they neglected some of what they were reminded of. So We
provoked enmity and hatred among them until the Day of Res-urrection; God will
then inform them of what they used to craft.
15. O People of the Book! Our Messenger has come to you,
clarifying for you much of what you kept hidden of the Book, and overlooking
much. A light from God has come to you, and a clear Book.
16. God guides with it whoever follows His approval to the ways
of peace, and He brings them out of darkness into light, by His permission, and
He guides them in a straight path.
17. They disbelieve those who say, “God is the Christ, the son of
Mary.” Say, “Who can prevent God, if He willed, from anni-hilating the Christ
son of Mary, and his mother, and everyone on earth?” To God belongs the
sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and what is between them. He creates
whatever He wills, and God has power over everything.
18. The Jews and the Christians say, “We are the children of
God, and His beloved.”
Say, “Why then does He punish you for your sins?” In fact,
you are humans from among those He created. He forgives whom He wills, and He
punishes whom He wills. To God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the
earth and what lies between them, and to Him is the return.
19. O People of the Book! Our Messenger has come to you, making
things clear to you—after a cessation of messengers—so that you cannot say, “No
preacher has come to us, and no warner.” In fact, a preacher has come to you,
and a warner, and God is Capable of everything.
20. When Moses said to his people, “O my people, remember God’s
blessings upon you, when He placed prophets among you, and made you kings, and
gave you what He never gave any other people.”
21. “O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has assigned for
you, and do not turn back, lest you return as losers.”
22. They said, “O Moses, there are tyranni-cal people in it; we
will not enter it until they leave it. If they leave it, we will be entering.”
23. Two men of those who feared, but whom God had blessed, said,
“Go at them by the gate; and when you have entered it, you will prevail. But
put your trust in God, if you are believers.”
24. They said, “O Moses, we will not enter it, ever, as long as
they are in it. So go ahead, you and your Lord, and fight. We are staying right
here.”
25. He said, “My Lord, I have control only over myself and my
brother, so separate between us and between the wicked peo-ple.”
26. He said, “It is forbidden for them for forty years. They
will wander aimlessly in the land. So do not grieve over the defiant people.”
27. And relate to them the true story of Adam's two sons, when
they offered an offering, and it was accepted from one of them, but it was not
accepted from the other. He Said, “I will kill you.” He Said, “God accepts only
from the righteous.”
28. “If you extend your hand to kill me, I will not extend my
hand to kill you; for I fear God, Lord of the Worlds.
29. “I would rather you bear my sin and your sin, and you become
among the in-mates of the Fire. Such is the reward for the evildoers.”
30. Then His soul prompted him to kill his brother, so he killed
him, and became one of the losers.
31. Then God sent a raven digging the ground, to show him how to
cover his brother's corpse. He said, “Woe to me, I am unable to be like this
raven, and bury my brother's corpse.” So he became full of regrets.
32. Because of that We ordained for the Children of Israel—that
whoever kills a person—unless it is for murder or corrup-tion on earth—it is as
if he killed the whole of mankind; and whoever saves a
person, it is as if he saved the whole of mankind. Our
messengers came to them with clarifications, but even after that, many of them
continue to commit excess-es in the land.
33. The punishment for those who fight God and His messenger,
and strive to spread corruption on earth, is that they be killed, or crucified,
or have their hands and feet cut off on opposite sides, or be banished from the
land. That is to disgrace them in this life; and in the Hereafter they will
have a terrible punishment.
34. Except for those who repent before you apprehend them. So
know that God is Forgiving and Merciful.
35. O you who believe! Be conscious of God, and seek the means
of approach to Him, and strive in His cause, so that you may succeed.
36.
As
for those who disbelieve, even if they owned everything on earth, and the like
of it with it, and they offered it to ran-som themselves from the torment of
the Day of Resurrection, it will not be accept-ed from them. For them is a
painful pun-ishment.
37. They will want to leave the Fire, but they will not leave
it. For them is a lasting punishment.
38. As for the thief, whether male or fe-male, cut their hands
as a penalty for what they reaped—a deterrent from God. God is Mighty and Wise.
39.
But
whoever repents after his crime, and reforms, God will accept his repent-ance.
God is Forgiving and Merciful.
40. Do you not know that to God belongs the kingdom of the
heavens and the earth? He punishes whom He wills, and He for-gives whom He
wills. And God is Capable of everything.
41. O Messenger! Do not let those who are quick to disbelief
grieve you—from among those who say with their mouths, “We believe,” but their
hearts do not believe; and from among the Jews—listeners to lies, listeners to
other people who did not come to you. They distort words from their places, and
say, “If you are given this, accept it; but if you are not given it, be-ware.”
Whomever God has willed to di-vert, you have nothing for him from God. Those
are they whose hearts God does not intend to purify. For them is disgrace in
this world, and for them is a great pun-ishment in the Hereafter.
42. Listeners to falsehoods, eaters of illicit earnings. If they
come to you, judge be-tween them, or turn away from them. If you turn away from
them, they will not harm you in the least. But if you judge, judge between them
equitably. God loves the equitable.
43. But why do they come to you for judg-ment, when they have
the Torah, in which is God’s Law? Yet they turn away after that. These are not
believers.
44. We have revealed the Torah, wherein is guidance and light.
The submissive
prophets ruled the Jews according to it, so did the rabbis
and the scholars, as they were required to protect God’s Book, and were witnesses
to it. So do not fear people, but fear Me. And do not sell My revela-tions for
a cheap price. Those who do not rule according to what God revealed are the
unbelievers.
45. And We wrote for them in it: a life for a life, an eye for
an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and an equal
wound for a wound. But whoever forgoes it in charity, it will serve as
atone-ment for him. Those who do not rule ac-cording to what God revealed are
the evil-doers.
46. In their footsteps, We sent Jesus son of Mary, fulfilling
the Torah that preceded him; and We gave him the Gospel, where-in is guidance
and light, and confirming the Torah that preceded him, and guid-ance and
counsel for the righteous.
47. So let the people of the Gospel rule ac-cording to what God
revealed in it. Those who do not rule according to what God revealed are the
sinners.
48. And We revealed to you the Book, with truth, confirming the
Scripture that pre-ceded it, and superseding it. So judge be-tween them
according to what God re-vealed, and do not follow their desires if they differ
from the truth that has come to you. For each of you, We have assigned a law,
and a method. Had God willed, He could have made you a single nation, but He
tests you through what He has given
you. So compete in
righteousness. To God is your return, all of you. Then He will inform you of
what you had disputed.
49. And judge between them according to what God revealed, and
do not follow their desires. And beware of them, lest they lure you away from
some of what God has revealed to you. But if they turn away, know that God
intends to strike them with some of their sins. In fact, a great many people
are corrupt.
50. Is it the laws of the time of ignorance that they desire?
Who is better than God in judgment for a people who are certain?
51. O you who believe! Do not take the Jews and the Christians
as allies; some of them are allies of one another. Whoever of you allies
himself with them is one of them. God does not guide the wrongdoing people.
52. You will see those in whose hearts is sickness racing
towards them. They say, “We fear the wheel of fate may turn against us.” But
perhaps God will bring about victory, or some event of His mak-ing; thereupon
they will regret what they concealed within themselves.
53. Those who believe will say, “Are these the ones who swore by
God with their strongest oaths that they are with you?” Their works have
failed, so they became losers.
54. O you who believe! Whoever of you goes back on his
religion—God will bring a people whom He loves and who love Him, kind towards
the believers, stern
with the disbelievers. They strive in the way of God, and do
not fear the blame of the critic. That is the grace of God. He bestows it upon
whomever He wills. God is Embracing and Knowing.
55. Your allies are God, and His Messen-ger, and those who
believe—those who pray regularly, and give charity, and bow down.
56. Whoever allies himself with God, and His Messenger, and
those who believe— surely the Party of God is the victorious.
57. O you who believe! Do not befriend those who take your
religion in mockery and as a sport, be they from among those who were given the
Scripture before you, or the disbelievers. And obey God, if you are believers.
58. When you call to the prayer, they take it as a joke and a
trifle. That is because they are people who do not reason.
59. Say, “O People of the Scripture, do you resent us only
because we believe in God, and in what was revealed to us, and in what was
revealed previously; and most of you are sinners?”
60. Say, “Shall I inform you of worse than that for retribution
from God? He whom God has cursed, and with whom He be-came angry. And He turned
some of them into apes, and swine, and idol worshipers. These are in a worse
position, and further away from the right way.”
61. When they come to you, they say, “We believe,” though they
have entered with
disbelief, and they
have departed with it. But God is well aware of what they hide.
62. You see many of them competing with one another in sin and
hostility, and their consuming of what is illicit. What they have been doing is
truly evil.
63. Why do the rabbis and the priests not prevent them from
speaking sinfully and from consuming forbidden wealth? Evil is what they have
been doing.
64. The Jews say, “God’s hand is tied.” It is their hands that
are tied, and they are cursed for what they say. In fact, His hands are
outstretched; He gives as He wills. Certainly, what was revealed to your from
your Lord will increase many of them in defiance and blasphemy. And We have
placed between them enmity and hatred, until the Day of Resurrection. Whenever
they kindle the fire of war, God extinguishes it. And they strive to spread
corruption on earth. God does not love the corrupters.
65. Had the People of the Book believed and been righteous, We
would have remit-ted their sins, and admitted them into the Gardens of Bliss.
66. Had they observed the Torah, and the Gospel, and what was
revealed to them from their Lord, they would have con-sumed amply from above
them, and from beneath their feet. Among them is a mod-erate community, but
evil is what many of them are doing.
67. O Messenger, convey what was revealed to you from your Lord.
But if you do not,
then you would not have delivered His message. And God will
protect you from the people. God does not guide the disbe-lieving people.
68. Say, “O People of the Scripture, you have no basis until you
uphold the Torah, and the Gospel, and what is revealed to you from your Lord.”
But what is revealed to you from your Lord will increase many of them in
rebellion and disbelief, so do not be sorry for the disbelieving people.
69. Those who believe, and the Jews, and the Sabians, and the
Christians—whoever believes in God and the Last Day, and does what is
right—they have nothing to fear, nor shall they grieve.
70. We made a covenant with the Children of Israel, and We sent
to them messengers. Whenever a messenger came to them with what their souls did
not desire, some of them they accused of lying, and others they put to death.
71. They assumed there would be no pun-ishment, so they turned
blind and deaf. Then God redeemed them, but then again many of them turned
blind and deaf. But God is Seeing of what they do.
72. They disbelieve those who say, “God is the Messiah the son
of Mary.” But the Messiah himself said, “O Children of Isra-el, worship God, my
Lord and your Lord. Whoever associates others with God, God has forbidden him
Paradise, and his dwell-ing is the Fire. The wrongdoers have no saviors.”
73. They disbelieve those who say, “God is the third of three.”
But there is no deity except the One God. If they do not refrain from what they
say, a painful torment will befall those among them who disbelieve.
74. Will they not repent to God and ask His forgiveness? God is
Forgiving and Merciful.
75. The Messiah son of Mary was only a Messenger, before whom
other Messen-gers had passed away, and his mother was a woman of truth. They
both used to eat food. Note how We make clear the revela-tions to them; then
note how deluded they are.
76. Say, “Do you worship, besides God, what has no power to harm
or benefit you?” But God—He is the Hearer, the Knower.
77. Say, “O People of the Scripture, do not exaggerate in your
religion beyond the truth, and do not follow the opinions of people who went
astray before, and misled many, and themselves strayed off the bal-anced way.”
78. Cursed were those who disbelieved from among the Children of
Israel by the tongue of David and Jesus son of Mary. That is because they
rebelled and used to transgress.
79. They used not to prevent one another from the wrongs they
used to commit. Evil is what they used to do.
80. You will see many of them befriending those who disbelieve.
Terrible is what their
souls prompts them to do. The wrath of God fell upon them,
and in the torment they will remain.
81. Had they believed in God and the Prophet, and in what was
revealed to him, they would not have befriended them. But many of them are
immoral.
82. You will find that the people most hos-tile towards the
believers are the Jews and the polytheists. And you will find that the nearest
in affection towards the believers are those who say, “We are Christians.” That
is because among them are priests and monks, and they are not arrogant.
83. And when they hear what was revealed to the Messenger, you
see their eyes over-flowing with tears, as they recognize the truth in it. They
say, “Our Lord, we have believed, so count us among the witness-es.”
84. “And why should we not believe in God, and in the truth that
has come to us, and hope that our Lord will include us among the righteous
people?”
85. God will reward them for what they say—Gardens beneath which
rivers flow, where they will stay forever. Such is the reward of the righteous.
86. But as for those who disbelieve and deny Our signs—these are
the inmates of the Fire.
87. O you who believe! Do not prohibit the good things God has
permitted for you, and do not commit aggression. God does not love the
aggressors.
88. And eat of the lawful and good things God has provided for
you, and be con-scious of God, in whom you are believers.
89. God does not hold you accountable for your unintended oaths,
but He holds you accountable for your binding oaths. The atonement for it is by
feeding ten needy people from the average of what you feed your families, or by
clothing them, or by freeing a slave. Anyone who lacks the means shall fast for
three days. That is the atonement for breaking your oaths when you have sworn
them. So keep your oaths. Thus God makes clear His Revelations to you, that you
may be grateful.
90. O you who believe! Intoxicants, gam-bling, idolatry, and
divination are abomi-nations of Satan’s doing. Avoid them, so that you may
prosper.
91. Satan wants to provoke strife and ha-tred among you through
intoxicants and gambling, and to prevent you from the remembrance of God, and
from prayer. Will you not desist?
92. Obey God and obey the Messenger, and be cautious. If you
turn away—know that the duty of Our Messenger is clear com-munication.
93. Those who believe and do righteous deeds will not be blamed
for what they may have eaten, provided they obey, and believe, and do good
deeds, then maintain piety and faith, then remain righteous and charitable. God
loves the charitable.
94. O you who believe! God will test you with something of the
game your hands
and spears obtain, that God may know who fears Him at heart.
Whoever commits aggression after that will have a painful punishment.
95. O you who believe! do not kill game while you are in pilgrim
sanctity. Whoever of you kills any intentionally, its penalty shall be a
domestic animal comparable to what he killed, as determined by two hon-est
persons among you—an offering deliv-ered to the Kaabah. Or he may atone by
feeding the needy, or its equivalent in fast-ing, so that he may taste the
consequences of his conduct. God forgives what is past. But whoever repeats,
God will take re-venge on him. God is Almighty, Avenger.
96. Permitted for you is the catch of sea, and its food—as
sustenance for you and for travelers. But forbidden for you is the game of land
while you are in pilgrim sanctity. And fear God, to whom you will be gathered.
97. God has appointed the Kaabah, the Sacred House, a sanctuary
for the people, and the Sacred Month, and the offerings, and the garlanded.
That you may know that God knows everything in the heavens and the earth, and
that God is Cognizant of all things.
98. Know that God is severe in retribution, and that God is
Forgiving and Merciful.
99. The Messenger’s sole duty is to convey. God knows what you
reveal and what you conceal.
100. Say: “The bad and the good are not equal, even though the
abundance of the
possess intelligence, that you may succeed.”
101. O you who believe! Do not ask about things that would
trouble you if disclosed to you. But if you were to ask about them while the
Quran is being revealed, they will become obvious to you. God forgives that.
God is Forgiving and Clement.
102. A people before you asked about them, but then came to
reject them.
103. God did not institute the superstitions of Bahirah, Saibah,
Wasilah, or of Hami; but the disbelievers fabricate lies about God—most of them
do not understand.
104. And when it is said to them, “Come to what God has revealed,
and to the Mes-senger,” they say, “Sufficient for us is what we found our
forefathers upon.” Even if their forefathers knew nothing, and were not guided?
105. O you who believe! You are responsi-ble for your own souls.
He who has strayed cannot harm you if you are guid-ed. To God is you return,
all of you, and He will inform you of what you used to do.
106. O you who believe! When death ap-proaches one of you, let
two reliable per-sons from among you act as witnesses to the making of a
bequest, or two persons from another people if you are travelling in the land
and the event of death ap-proaches you. Engage them after the pray-er; and if
you have doubts, let them swear by God, “We will not sell our testimony
for any price, even if it was a near relative; nor will we
hide the testimony of God, for then we would be sinners.”
107. If it is discovered that they are guilty of perjury: let two
others take their place, two from among those responsible for the claim, and
have them swear by God, “Our testimony is more truthful than their tes-timony,
and we will not be biased, for then we would be wrongdoers.”
108. That makes it more likely that they will give true
testimony, fearing that their oaths might be contradicted by subse-quent oaths.
So fear God, and listen. God does not guide the disobedient people.
109. On the Day when God will gather the messengers, then say,
“What response were you given?” They will say, “We have no knowledge, it is you
who are the Knower of the unseen.”
110. When God will say, “O Jesus son of Mary, recall My favor
upon you and upon your mother, how I supported you with the Holy Spirit. You
spoke to the people from the crib, and in maturity. How I taught you the
Scripture and wisdom, and the Torah and the Gospel. And recall that you molded
from clay the shape of a bird, by My leave, and then you breathed into it, and
it became a bird, by My leave. And you healed the blind and the leprous, by My
leave; and you revived the dead, by My leave. And recall that I restrained the
Children of Israel from you when you brought them the clear miracles. But those
who disbelieved
among them said, `This is nothing but obvious sorcery.'“
111. “And when I inspired the disciples: `Believe in Me and in My
Messenger.' They said, `We have believed, so bear wit-ness that We have submitted.'“
112. “And when the disciples said, 'O Jesus son of Mary, is your
Lord able to bring down for us a feast from heaven?' He said, 'Fear God, if you
are believers.'“
113. They said, “We wish to eat from it, so that our hearts may
be reassured, and know that you have told us the truth, and be among those who
witness it.”
114. Jesus son of Mary said, “O God, our Lord, send down for us a
table from heav-en, to be a festival for us, for the first of us, and the last
of us, and a sign from You; and provide for us, You are the Best of providers.”
115. God said, “I will send it down to you. But whoever among you
disbelieves there-after, I will punish him with a punishment the like of which
I never punish any other being.”
116. And God will say, “O Jesus son of Mary, did you say to the
people, `Take me and my mother as gods rather than God?'“ He will say, “Glory
be to You! It is not for me to say what I have no right to. Had I said it, You
would have known it. You know what is in my soul, and I do not know what is in
your soul. You are the Knower of the hidden.
117. I only told them what You command-ed me: that you shall
worship God, my Lord and your Lord. And I was a witness over them while I was
among them, but when You took me to Yourself, you be-came the Watcher over
them; for You are Witness over everything.
118. If You punish them, they are Your servants; but if You
forgive them, You are the Mighty and Wise.”
119. God will say, “This is a Day when the truthful will benefit
from their truthful-ness.” They will have Gardens beneath which rivers flow,
wherein they will re-main forever. God is pleased with them, and they are
pleased with Him. That is the great attainment.
120. To God belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth
and what lies in them, and He has power over everything.
Translated to English by
TALAL ITANI
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