The Cow
2. Al-Baqarah
البقرة
al-Baqarah (The Cow)
ٱلْبَقَرَة
2:249
فَلَمَّا
فَصَلَ
طَالُوتُ
بِالْجُنُودِ
قَالَ
إِنَّ
اللَّهَ
مُبْتَلِيكُم
بِنَهَرٍ
فَمَن
شَرِبَ
مِنْهُ
فَلَيْسَ
مِنِّي
وَمَن
لَّمْ
يَطْعَمْهُ
فَإِنَّهُ
مِنِّي
إِلَّا
مَنِ
اغْتَرَفَ
غُرْفَةً
بِيَدِهِ
فَشَرِبُوا
مِنْهُ
إِلَّا
قَلِيلًا
مِّنْهُمْ
فَلَمَّا
جَاوَزَهُ
هُوَ
وَالَّذِينَ
آمَنُوا
مَعَهُ
قَالُوا
لَا
طَاقَةَ
لَنَا
الْيَوْمَ
بِجَالُوتَ
وَجُنُودِهِ
قَالَ
الَّذِينَ
يَظُنُّونَ
أَنَّهُم
مُّلَاقُو
اللَّهِ
كَم
مِّن
فِئَةٍ
قَلِيلَةٍ
غَلَبَتْ
فِئَةً
كَثِيرَةً
بِإِذْنِ
اللَّهِ
وَاللَّهُ
مَعَ
الصَّابِرِينَ
fa-lammā faṣala ṭālūtu bi-l-junūdi qāla ʾinna llāha mubtalīkum bi-naharin fa-man shariba minhu fa-laysa minnī wa-man lam yaṭʿamhu fa-ʾinnahū minnī ʾillā mani ghtarafa ghurfatan bi-yadihī fa-sharibū minhu ʾillā qalīlan minhum fa-lammā jāwazahū huwa wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū maʿahū qālū lā ṭāqata lanā l-yawma bi-jālūta wa-junūdihī qāla lladhīna yaẓunnūna ʾannahum mulāqū llāhi kam min fiʾatin qalīlatin ghalabat fiʾatan kathīratan bi-ʾidhni llāhi wa-llāhu maʿa ṣ-ṣābirīna
When Saul set forth with the army he said, "God will test you with a river. Those who drink its water will not be of my people and those who do not even taste the water or who only taste some of it from within the hollow of their hand, will be my friends. They all drank the water except a few of them. When Saul and those who believed in him crossed the river, his people said, "We do not have the strength to fight against Goliath and his army." Those who thought that they would meet God said, "How often, with God's permission, have small groups defeated the large ones?" God is with those who exercise patience.
