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

1. يوم يجمع الله الرسل فيقول ماذا أجبتم قالوا لا علم لنا إنك أنت علام الغيوب

   109

   The day Allah will gather the apostles and say, ‘What was the response to you?’ They will say, ‘We have no knowledge. Indeed You are knower of all that is Unseen.’

   yawma yajmaʿu llāhu r-rusula fa-yaqūlu mādhā ʾujibtum qālū lā ʿilma lanā ʾinnaka ʾanta ʿallāmu l-ghuyūbi

2. إذ قال الله يا عيسى ابن مريم اذكر نعمتي عليك وعلى والدتك إذ أيدتك بروح القدس تكلم الناس في المهد وكهلا وإذ علمتك الكتاب والحكمة والتوراة والإنجيل وإذ تخلق من الطين كهيئة الطير بإذني فتنفخ فيها فتكون طيرا بإذني وتبرئ الأكمه والأبرص بإذني وإذ تخرج الموتى بإذني وإذ كففت بني إسرائيل عنك إذ جئتهم بالبينات فقال الذين كفروا منهم إن هذا إلا سحر مبين

   110

   When Allah will say, O Jesus son of Mary, remember My blessing upon you and upon your mother, when I strengthened you with the Holy Spirit, so you would speak to the people in the cradle and in adulthood, and when I taught you the Book and wisdom, the Torah and the Evangel, and when you would create from clay the form of a bird, with My leave, and you would breathe into it and it would become a bird, with My leave; and you would heal the blind and the leper, with My leave, and you would raise the dead, with My leave; and when I held off [the evil of] the Children of Israel from you when you brought them manifest proofs, whereat the faithless among them said, ‘This is nothing but plain magic.’

   ʾidh qāla llāhu yā-ʿīsā bna maryama dhkur niʿmatī ʿalayka wa-ʿalā wālidatika ʾidh ʾayyadtuka bi-rūḥi l-qudusi tukallimu n-nāsa fī l-mahdi wa-kahlan wa-ʾidh ʿallamtuka l-kitāba wa-l-ḥikmata wa-t-tawrāta wa-l-ʾinjīla wa-ʾidh takhluqu mina ṭ-ṭīni ka-hayʾati ṭ-ṭayri bi-ʾidhnī fa-tanfukhu fīhā fa-takūnu ṭayran bi-ʾidhnī wa-tubriʾu l-ʾakmaha wa-l-ʾabraṣa bi-ʾidhnī wa-ʾidh tukhriju l-mawtā bi-ʾidhnī wa-ʾidh kafaftu banī ʾisrāʾīla ʿanka ʾidh jiʾtahum bi-l-bayyināti fa-qāla lladhīna kafarū minhum ʾin hādhā ʾillā siḥrun mubīnun

3. وإذ أوحيت إلى الحواريين أن آمنوا بي وبرسولي قالوا آمنا واشهد بأننا مسلمون

   111

   And when I inspired the Disciples, [saying], ‘Have faith in Me and My apostle,’ they said, ‘We have faith. Bear witness that we are Muslims.’

   wa-ʾidh ʾawḥaytu ʾilā l-ḥawāriyyīna ʾan ʾāminū bī wa-bi-rasūlī qālū ʾāmannā wa-shhad bi-ʾannanā muslimūna

4. إذ قال الحواريون يا عيسى ابن مريم هل يستطيع ربك أن ينزل علينا مائدة من السماء قال اتقوا الله إن كنتم مؤمنين

   112

   When the Disciples said, ‘O Jesus son of Mary! Can your Lord send down to us a table from the sky?’ Said he, ‘Be wary of Allah, should you be faithful.’

   ʾidh qāla l-ḥawāriyyūna yā-ʿīsā bna maryama hal yastaṭīʿu rabbuka ʾan yunazzila ʿalaynā māʾidatan mina s-samāʾi qāla ttaqū llāha ʾin kuntum muʾminīna

5. قالوا نريد أن نأكل منها وتطمئن قلوبنا ونعلم أن قد صدقتنا ونكون عليها من الشاهدين

   113

   They said, ‘We desire to eat from it, and our hearts will be at rest: we shall know that you have told us the truth, and we shall be among the witnesses to it.’

   qālū nurīdu ʾan naʾkula minhā wa-taṭmaʾinna qulūbunā wa-naʿlama ʾan qad ṣadaqtanā wa-nakūna ʿalayhā mina sh-shāhidīna