Surah Al-Mā'idah (The Table Spread) in English

1. والذين كفروا وكذبوا بآياتنا أولئك أصحاب الجحيم

   10

   As for those who are faithless and deny Our signs, they shall be the inmates of hell.

   wa-lladhīna kafarū wa-kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā ʾulāʾika ʾaṣḥābu l-jaḥīmi

2. يا أيها الذين آمنوا اذكروا نعمت الله عليكم إذ هم قوم أن يبسطوا إليكم أيديهم فكف أيديهم عنكم واتقوا الله وعلى الله فليتوكل المؤمنون

   11

   O you who have faith! Remember Allah’s blessing upon you when a people set out to extend their hands against you, but He withheld their hands from you, and be wary of Allah, and in Allah let all the faithful put their trust.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū dhkurū niʿmata llāhi ʿalaykum ʾidh hamma qawmun ʾan yabsuṭū ʾilaykum ʾaydiyahum fa-kaffa ʾaydiyahum ʿankum wa-ttaqū llāha wa-ʿalā llāhi fa-l-yatawakkali l-muʾminūna

3. ولقد أخذ الله ميثاق بني إسرائيل وبعثنا منهم اثني عشر نقيبا وقال الله إني معكم لئن أقمتم الصلاة وآتيتم الزكاة وآمنتم برسلي وعزرتموهم وأقرضتم الله قرضا حسنا لأكفرن عنكم سيئاتكم ولأدخلنكم جنات تجري من تحتها الأنهار فمن كفر بعد ذلك منكم فقد ضل سواء السبيل

   12

   Certainly Allah took a pledge from the Children of Israel, and We raised among them twelve chiefs. And Allah said, ‘I am with you! Surely, if you maintain the prayer and give the zakat and have faith in My apostles and support them and lend Allah a good loan, I will surely absolve you of your misdeeds, and I will surely admit you into gardens with streams running in them. But whoever of you disbelieves after that has certainly strayed from the right way.’

   wa-la-qad ʾakhadha llāhu mīthāqa banī ʾisrāʾīla wa-baʿathnā minhumu thnay ʿashara naqīban wa-qāla llāhu ʾinnī maʿakum la-ʾin ʾaqamtumu ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾātaytumu z-zakāta wa-ʾāmantum bi-rusulī wa-ʿazzartumūhum wa-ʾaqraḍtumu llāha qarḍan ḥasanan la-ʾukaffiranna ʿankum sayyiʾātikum wa-la-ʾudkhilannakum jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru fa-man kafara baʿda dhālika minkum fa-qad ḍalla sawāʾa s-sabīli

4. فبما نقضهم ميثاقهم لعناهم وجعلنا قلوبهم قاسية يحرفون الكلم عن مواضعه ونسوا حظا مما ذكروا به ولا تزال تطلع على خائنة منهم إلا قليلا منهم فاعف عنهم واصفح إن الله يحب المحسنين

   13

   Then, because of their breaking their covenant We cursed them and made their hearts hard: they pervert words from their meanings, and have forgotten a part of what they were reminded. You will not cease to learn of some of their treachery, excepting a few of them. Yet excuse them and forbear. Indeed Allah loves the virtuous.

   fa-bi-mā naqḍihim mīthāqahum laʿannāhum wa-jaʿalnā qulūbahum qāsiyatan yuḥarrifūna l-kalima ʿan mawāḍiʿihī wa-nasū ḥaẓẓan mimmā dhukkirū bihī wa-lā tazālu taṭṭaliʿu ʿalā khāʾinatin minhum ʾillā qalīlan minhum fa-ʿfu ʿanhum wa-ṣfaḥ ʾinna llāha yuḥibbu l-muḥsinīna