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

1. ومن الذين قالوا إنا نصارى أخذنا ميثاقهم فنسوا حظا مما ذكروا به فأغرينا بينهم العداوة والبغضاء إلى يوم القيامة وسوف ينبئهم الله بما كانوا يصنعون

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   Also from those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ We took their pledge; but they forgot a part of what they were reminded. So We stirred up enmity and hatred among them until the Day of Resurrection, and soon Allah will inform them concerning what they had been doing.

   wa-mina lladhīna qālū ʾinnā naṣārā ʾakhadhnā mīthāqahum fa-nasū ḥaẓẓan mimmā dhukkirū bihī fa-ʾaghraynā baynahumu l-ʿadāwata wa-l-baghḍāʾa ʾilā yawmi l-qiyāmati wa-sawfa yunabbiʾuhumu llāhu bi-mā kānū yaṣnaʿūna

2. يا أهل الكتاب قد جاءكم رسولنا يبين لكم كثيرا مما كنتم تخفون من الكتاب ويعفو عن كثير قد جاءكم من الله نور وكتاب مبين

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   O People of the Book! Certainly Our Apostle has come to you, clarifying for you much of what you used to hide of the Book, and excusing many [an offense of yours]. Certainly, there has come to you a light from Allah, and a manifest Book.

   yā-ʾahla l-kitābi qad jāʾakum rasūlunā yubayyinu lakum kathīran mimmā kuntum tukhfūna mina l-kitābi wa-yaʿfū ʿan kathīrin qad jāʾakum mina llāhi nūrun wa-kitābun mubīnun

3. يهدي به الله من اتبع رضوانه سبل السلام ويخرجهم من الظلمات إلى النور بإذنه ويهديهم إلى صراط مستقيم

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   With it Allah guides those who follow [the course of] His pleasure to the ways of peace, and brings them out from darkness into light by His will, and guides them to a straight path.

   yahdī bihi llāhu mani ttabaʿa riḍwānahū subula s-salāmi wa-yukhrijuhum mina ẓ-ẓulumāti ʾilā n-nūri bi-ʾidhnihī wa-yahdīhim ʾilā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin

4. لقد كفر الذين قالوا إن الله هو المسيح ابن مريم قل فمن يملك من الله شيئا إن أراد أن يهلك المسيح ابن مريم وأمه ومن في الأرض جميعا ولله ملك السماوات والأرض وما بينهما يخلق ما يشاء والله على كل شيء قدير

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   They are certainly faithless who say, ‘Allah is the Messiah, son of Mary.’ Say, ‘Who can avail anything against Allah should He wish to destroy the Messiah, son of Mary, and his mother, and everyone upon the earth?’ To Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and whatever is between them. He creates whatever He wishes, and Allah has power over all things.

   la-qad kafara lladhīna qālū ʾinna llāha huwa l-masīḥu bnu maryama qul fa-man yamliku mina llāhi shayʾan ʾin ʾarāda ʾan yuhlika l-masīḥa bna maryama wa-ʾummahū wa-man fī l-ʾarḍi jamīʿan wa-li-llāhi mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-mā baynahumā yakhluqu mā yashāʾu wa-llāhu ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun