The Cow
2. Al-Baqarah
البقرة
al-Baqarah (The Cow)
ٱلْبَقَرَة
2:283
وَإِن
كُنتُمْ
عَلَى
سَفَرٍ
وَلَمْ
تَجِدُوا
كَاتِبًا
فَرِهَانٌ
مَّقْبُوضَةٌ
فَإِنْ
أَمِنَ
بَعْضُكُم
بَعْضًا
فَلْيُؤَدِّ
الَّذِي
اؤْتُمِنَ
أَمَانَتَهُ
وَلْيَتَّقِ
اللَّهَ
رَبَّهُ
وَلَا
تَكْتُمُوا
الشَّهَادَةَ
وَمَن
يَكْتُمْهَا
فَإِنَّهُ
آثِمٌ
قَلْبُهُ
وَاللَّهُ
بِمَا
تَعْمَلُونَ
عَلِيمٌ
wa-ʾin kuntum ʿalā safarin wa-lam tajidū kātiban fa-rihānun maqbūḍatun fa-ʾin ʾamina baʿḍukum baʿḍan fa-l-yuʾaddi lladhī ʾtumina ʾamānatahū wa-l-yattaqi llāha rabbahū wa-lā taktumū sh-shahādata wa-man yaktumhā fa-ʾinnahū ʾāthimun qalbuhū wa-llāhu bi-mā taʿmalūna ʿalīmun
If you are on a journey where you cannot find a scribe, finalize your contract in the form of a deposit in which the goods are already given to the parties. If you trust each other in such a contract, let him pay back what he has entrusted you with and have fear of God, his Lord. Do not refuse to testify to what you bore witness. Whoever does so has committed a sin. God knows what you do.
