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Sura V. Maida, Or The Table Spread. Section 9

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"The Holy Quran", tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934],

Sra V.: Mda, Or The Table Spread.

Section 9

57.
Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo la tattakhithoo allatheena ittakhathoo deenakum huzuwan walaAAiban mina allatheena ootoo alkitaba min qablikum waAlkuffara awliyaa waIttaqoo Allaha in kuntum mu/mineenA

57. 60 O
ye who believe!

Take not for friends

And protectors those

Who take your religion

For a mockery or sport,--

Whether among those

Who received the Scripture

Before you, or among those

Who reject Faith;

But fear ye God,

If ye have Faith (indeed).

58.
Wa-itha nadaytum ila aLssalati ittakhathooha huzuwan walaAAiban thalika bi-annahum qawmun la yaAAqiloonA

58. 61
When ye proclaim

Your call to prayer,

They take it (but)

As mockery and sport;

That is because they are

A people without understanding.

59.
Qul ya ahla alkitabi hal tanqimoona minna illa an amanna biAllahi wama onzila ilayna wama onzila min qablu waanna aktharakum fasiqoonA

59. 62
Say: "O People of the Book!

Do ye disapprove of us

For no other reason than

That we believe in God,

And the revelation

That hath come to us

And that which came

Before (us), and (perhaps)

That most of you

Are rebellious and disobedient?

60.
Qul hal onabbi-okum bisharrin min thalika mathoobatan AAinda Allahi man laAAanahu Allahu waghadiba AAalayhi wajaAAala minhumu alqiradata waAlkhanazeera waAAabada aLttaghooti ola-ika sharrun makanan waadallu AAan sawa-i aLssabeelI

60. 63
Say: "Shall I point out

To you something much worse

Than this, (as judged)

By the treatment it received

From God? Those who

Incurred the curse of God

And His wrath, those of whom some

He transformed into apes and swine,

Those who worshipped Evil;--

These are (many times) worse

In rank, and far more astray

From the even Path!"

61. Wa-itha jaookum qaloo amanna waqad dakhaloo biAlkufri wahum qad kharajoo bihi waAllahu aAAlamu bima kanoo yaktumoonA

61. 64
When they come to thee,

They say: "We believe":

But in fact they enter

With a mind against Faith,

And they go out

With the same.

But God knoweth fully

All that they hide.

62.
Watara katheeran minhum yusariAAoona fee al-ithmi waAlAAudwani waaklihimu aLssuhta labi/sa ma kanoo yaAAmaloonA

62. 65
Many of them dost thou

See, racing each other

In sin and rancour,

And their eating of things

Forbidden. Evil indeed

Are the things that they do.

63.
Lawla yanhahumu aLrrabbaniyyoona waAl-ahbaru AAan qawlihimu al-ithma waaklihimu aLssuhta labi/sa ma kanoo yasnaAAoonA

63. 66
Why do not the Rabbis

And the doctors of law forbid

Them from their (habit

Of
) uttering sinful words

And eating things forbidden?

Evil indeed are their works.

64.
Waqalati alyahoodu yadu Allahi maghloolatun ghullat aydeehim waluAAinoo bima qaloo bal yadahu mabsootatani yunfiqu kayfa yashao walayazeedanna katheeran minhum ma onzila ilayka min rabbika tughyanan wakufran waalqayna baynahumu alAAadawata waAlbaghdaa ila yawmi alqiyamati kullama awqadoo naran lilharbi atfaaha Allahu wayasAAawna fee al-ardi fasadan waAllahu la yuhibbu almufsideenA

64. 67
The Jews say: "God's hand

Is tied up.
" Be their hands

Tied up and be they accursed

For the (blasphemy) they utter.

Nay, both His hands

Are widely outstretched:


He giveth and spendeth

(Of His bounty) as He pleaseth.

But the revelation that

Cometh to thee from God

Increaseth in most of them

Their obstinate rebellion

And blasphemy. Amongst them

We have placed enmity

And hatred till the Day

Of Judgment. Every time

They kindle the fire of war,

God doth extinguish it;

But they (ever) strive

To do mischief on earth.

And God loveth not

Those who do mischief.

65.
Walaw anna ahla alkitabi amanoo waIttaqaw lakaffarna AAanhum sayyi-atihim walaadkhalnahum jannati aLnnaAAeemI

65. 68
If only the People of the Book

Had believed and been righteous,

We should indeed have

Blotted out their iniquities

And admitted them

To Gardens of Bliss.

66.
Walaw annahum aqamoo aLttawrata waAl-injeela wama onzila ilayhim min rabbihim laakaloo min fawqihim wamin tahti arjulihim minhum ommatun muqtasidatun wakatheerun minhum saa ma yaAAmaloonA

66. 69
If only they had stood fast

By the Law, the Gospel,

And all the revelation that was sent

To them from their Lord,

They would have enjoyed

Happiness from every side.'

There is from among them

A party on the right course:


But many of them

Follow a course that is evil.

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