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

1. قالوا يا موسى إنا لن ندخلها أبدا ما داموا فيها فاذهب أنت وربك فقاتلا إنا هاهنا قاعدون

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   They said, ‘O Moses, we will never enter it so long as they remain in it. Go ahead, you and your Lord, and fight! We will be sitting right here.’

   qālū yā-mūsā ʾinnā lan nadkhulahā ʾabadan mā dāmū fīhā fa-dhhab ʾanta wa-rabbuka fa-qātilā ʾinnā hāhunā qāʿidūna

2. قال رب إني لا أملك إلا نفسي وأخي فافرق بيننا وبين القوم الفاسقين

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   He said, ‘My Lord! I have no power over [anyone] except myself and my brother, so part us from the transgressing lot.’

   qāla rabbi ʾinnī lā ʾamliku ʾillā nafsī wa-ʾakhī fa-fruq baynanā wa-bayna l-qawmi l-fāsiqīna

3. قال فإنها محرمة عليهم أربعين سنة يتيهون في الأرض فلا تأس على القوم الفاسقين

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   He said, ‘It shall be forbidden them for forty years: they shall wander about in the earth. So do not grieve for the transgressing lot.’

   qāla fa-ʾinnahā muḥarramatun ʿalayhim ʾarbaʿīna sanatan yatīhūna fī l-ʾarḍi fa-lā taʾsa ʿalā l-qawmi l-fāsiqīna

4. واتل عليهم نبأ ابني آدم بالحق إذ قربا قربانا فتقبل من أحدهما ولم يتقبل من الآخر قال لأقتلنك قال إنما يتقبل الله من المتقين

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   Relate to them truly the account of Adam’s two sons. When the two of them offered an offering, it was accepted from one of them and not accepted from the other. [One of them] said, ‘Surely I will kill you.’ [The other one] said, ‘Allah accepts only from the Godwary.

   wa-tlu ʿalayhim nabaʾa bnay ʾādama bi-l-ḥaqqi ʾidh qarrabā qurbānan fa-tuqubbila min ʾaḥadihimā wa-lam yutaqabbal mina l-ʾākhari qāla la-ʾaqtulannaka qāla ʾinnamā yataqabbalu llāhu mina l-muttaqīna

5. لئن بسطت إلي يدك لتقتلني ما أنا بباسط يدي إليك لأقتلك إني أخاف الله رب العالمين

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   Even if you extend your hand toward me to kill me, I will not extend my hand toward you to kill you. Indeed, I fear Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.

   la-ʾin basaṭta ʾilayya yadaka li-taqtulanī mā ʾana bi-bāsiṭin yadiya ʾilayka li-ʾaqtulaka ʾinnī ʾakhāfu llāha rabba l-ʿālamīna

6. إني أريد أن تبوء بإثمي وإثمك فتكون من أصحاب النار وذلك جزاء الظالمين

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   I desire that you earn [the burden of] my sin and your sin, to become one of the inmates of the Fire, and such is the requital of the wrongdoers.’

   ʾinnī ʾurīdu ʾan tabūʾa bi-ʾithmī wa-ʾithmika fa-takūna min ʾaṣḥābi n-nāri wa-dhālika jazāʾu ẓ-ẓālimīna

7. فطوعت له نفسه قتل أخيه فقتله فأصبح من الخاسرين

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   So his soul prompted him to kill his brother, and he killed him, and thus became one of the losers.

   fa-ṭawwaʿat lahū nafsuhū qatla ʾakhīhi fa-qatalahū fa-ʾaṣbaḥa mina l-khāsirīna

8. فبعث الله غرابا يبحث في الأرض ليريه كيف يواري سوءة أخيه قال يا ويلتى أعجزت أن أكون مثل هذا الغراب فأواري سوءة أخي فأصبح من النادمين

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   Then Allah sent a crow, exploring in the ground, to show him how to bury the corpse of his brother. He said, ‘Woe to me! Am I unable to be [even] like this crow and bury my brother’s corpse?’ Thus he became regretful.

   fa-baʿatha llāhu ghurāban yabḥathu fī l-ʾarḍi li-yuriyahū kayfa yuwārī sawʾata ʾakhīhi qāla yā-waylatā ʾa-ʿajaztu ʾan ʾakūna mithla hādhā l-ghurābi fa-ʾuwāriya sawʾata ʾakhī fa-ʾaṣbaḥa mina n-nādimīna