Al-Ma'idah

In the name of God, the Gracious, the
Merciful.











1. O you who believe! Fulfill your commitments.

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 cooperate
with one another in virtuous conduct
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 animals
strangled, killed violently, killed by a
fall, gored to death, mangled by wild animals—
except what you rescue, and animals
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 wrongdoing—
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 people
who were given the Scripture before
you, provided you give them their dowries,
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 losers.
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 intercourse,
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 covenanted
with you, when you said, “We hear
and we obey.” And remain conscious of
God, for God knows what the hearts contain.
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 Children
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 righteousness,
I will remit your sins, and admit you
into Gardens beneath which rivers flow.
But whoever among you disbelieves afterwards—
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 always
witness deceit from them, except for
a few of them. But pardon them, and overlook.
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 Resurrection;
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 annihilating
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 tyrannical
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 people.”
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 inmates
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 corruption
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 excesses
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 ransom
themselves from the torment of the
Day of Resurrection, it will not be accepted
from them. For them is a painful punishment.
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 female,
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 repentance.
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 forgives
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, beware.”
Whomever God has willed to divert,
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 punishment
in the Hereafter.
42. Listeners to falsehoods, eaters of illicit
earnings. If they come to you, judge between
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 judgment,
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 revelations
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 atonement
for him. Those who do not rule according
to what God revealed are the evildoers.
46. In their footsteps, We sent Jesus son of
Mary, fulfilling the Torah that preceded
him; and We gave him the Gospel, wherein
is guidance and light, and confirming
the Torah that preceded him, and guidance
and counsel for the righteous.
47. So let the people of the Gospel rule according
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 preceded
it, and superseding it. So judge between
them according to what God revealed,
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 making;
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 Messenger,
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 became
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 remitted
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 consumed
amply from above them, and from
beneath their feet. Among them is a moderate
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 disbelieving
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 punishment,
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 Israel,
worship God, my Lord and your Lord.
Whoever associates others with God, God
has forbidden him Paradise, and his dwelling
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 Messengers
had passed away, and his mother was
a woman of truth. They both used to eat
food. Note how We make clear the revelations
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 balanced
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 hostile
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 overflowing
with tears, as they recognize the
truth in it. They say, “Our Lord, we have
believed, so count us among the witnesses.”
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 conscious
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, gambling,
idolatry, and divination are abominations
of Satan’s doing. Avoid them, so
that you may prosper.
91. Satan wants to provoke strife and hatred
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 communication.
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 honest
persons among you—an offering delivered
to the Kaabah. Or he may atone by
feeding the needy, or its equivalent in fasting,
so that he may taste the consequences
of his conduct. God forgives what is past.
But whoever repeats, God will take revenge
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
bad may impress you. So be conscious of
God, O you who 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 Messenger,”
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 responsible
for your own souls. He who has
strayed cannot harm you if you are guided.
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 approaches
one of you, let two reliable persons
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 approaches
you. Engage them after the prayer;
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 testimony,
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 subsequent
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 witness
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 heaven,
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 thereafter,
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 commanded
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 became
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 truthfulness.”
They will have Gardens beneath
which rivers flow, wherein they will remain
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.