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

1. يا أيها الذين آمنوا لا تتخذوا اليهود والنصارى أولياء بعضهم أولياء بعض ومن يتولهم منكم فإنه منهم إن الله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين

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   O you who have faith! Do not take the Jews and the Christians for allies: they are allies of each other. Any of you who allies with them is indeed one of them. Indeed Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā tattakhidhū l-yahūda wa-n-naṣārā ʾawliyāʾa baʿḍuhum ʾawliyāʾu baʿḍin wa-man yatawallahum minkum fa-ʾinnahū minhum ʾinna llāha lā yahdī l-qawma ẓ-ẓālimīna

2. فترى الذين في قلوبهم مرض يسارعون فيهم يقولون نخشى أن تصيبنا دائرة فعسى الله أن يأتي بالفتح أو أمر من عنده فيصبحوا على ما أسروا في أنفسهم نادمين

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   Yet you see those in whose hearts is a sickness rushing to them, saying, ‘We fear lest a turn of fortune should visit us.’ Maybe Allah will bring about a victory, or a command from Him, and then they will be regretful for what they kept secret in their hearts,

   fa-tarā lladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun yusāriʿūna fīhim yaqūlūna nakhshā ʾan tuṣībanā dāʾiratun fa-ʿasā llāhu ʾan yaʾtiya bi-l-fatḥi ʾaw ʾamrin min ʿindihī fa-yuṣbiḥū ʿalā mā ʾasarrū fī ʾanfusihim nādimīna

3. ويقول الذين آمنوا أهؤلاء الذين أقسموا بالله جهد أيمانهم إنهم لمعكم حبطت أعمالهم فأصبحوا خاسرين

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   and the faithful will say, ‘Are these the ones who swore by Allah with solemn oaths that they were with you?!’ Their works have failed, and they have become losers.

   wa-yaqūlu lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾa-hāʾulāʾi lladhīna ʾaqsamū bi-llāhi jahda ʾaymānihim ʾinnahum la-maʿakum ḥabiṭat ʾaʿmāluhum fa-ʾaṣbaḥū khāsirīna

4. يا أيها الذين آمنوا من يرتد منكم عن دينه فسوف يأتي الله بقوم يحبهم ويحبونه أذلة على المؤمنين أعزة على الكافرين يجاهدون في سبيل الله ولا يخافون لومة لائم ذلك فضل الله يؤتيه من يشاء والله واسع عليم

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   O you who have faith! Should any of you desert his religion, Allah will soon bring a people whom He loves and who love Him, [who will be] humble towards the faithful, stern towards the faithless, waging jihad in the way of Allah, not fearing the blame of any blamer. That is Allah’s grace, which He grants to whomever He wishes, and Allah is all-bounteous, all-knowing.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū man yartadda minkum ʿan dīnihī fa-sawfa yaʾtī llāhu bi-qawmin yuḥibbuhum wa-yuḥibbūnahū ʾadhillatin ʿalā l-muʾminīna ʾaʿizzatin ʿalā l-kāfirīna yujāhidūna fī sabīli llāhi wa-lā yakhāfūna lawmata lāʾimin dhālika faḍlu llāhi yuʾtīhi man yashāʾu wa-llāhu wāsiʿun ʿalīmun

5. إنما وليكم الله ورسوله والذين آمنوا الذين يقيمون الصلاة ويؤتون الزكاة وهم راكعون

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   Your guardian is only Allah, His Apostle, and the faithful who maintain the prayer and give the zakat while bowing down.

   ʾinnamā waliyyukumu llāhu wa-rasūluhū wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū lladhīna yuqīmūna ṣ-ṣalāta wa-yuʾtūna z-zakāta wa-hum rākiʿūna

6. ومن يتول الله ورسوله والذين آمنوا فإن حزب الله هم الغالبون

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   Whoever takes for his guardians Allah, His Apostle and the faithful [should know that] the confederates of Allah are indeed the victorious.

   wa-man yatawalla llāha wa-rasūlahū wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū fa-ʾinna ḥizba llāhi humu l-ghālibūna

7. يا أيها الذين آمنوا لا تتخذوا الذين اتخذوا دينكم هزوا ولعبا من الذين أوتوا الكتاب من قبلكم والكفار أولياء واتقوا الله إن كنتم مؤمنين

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   O you who have faith! Do not take those who take your religion in derision and play, from among those who were given the Book before you, and the infidels, as friends, and be wary of Allah, should you be faithful.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā tattakhidhū lladhīna ttakhadhū dīnakum huzuwan wa-laʿiban mina lladhīna ʾūtū l-kitāba min qablikum wa-l-kuffāra ʾawliyāʾa wa-ttaqū llāha ʾin kuntum muʾminīna