The Women
4. An-Nisā’
النساء

Al Nisā’ (The Women)

ٱلنِّسَاء

4:77
4:77

ʾa-lam tara ʾilā lladhīna qīla lahum kuffū ʾaydiyakum wa-ʾaqīmū ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾātū z-zakāta fa-lammā kutiba ʿalayhimu l-qitālu ʾidhā farīqun minhum yakhshawna n-nāsa ka-khashyati llāhi ʾaw ʾashadda khashyatan wa-qālū rabbanā li-ma katabta ʿalaynā l-qitāla law-lā ʾakhkhartanā ʾilā ʾajalin qarībin qul matāʿu d-dunyā qalīlun wa-l-ʾākhiratu khayrun li-mani ttaqā wa-lā tuẓlamūna fatīlan

Have you not regarded those who were told, ‘Keep your hands off [from warfare], and maintain the prayer and give the zakat’? But when fighting was prescribed for them, behold, a part of them feared the people as if fearing Allah, or were even more afraid, and they said, ‘Our Lord! Why did You prescribe fighting for us? Why did You not respite us for a short time?!’ Say, ‘The enjoyments of this world are trifle and the Hereafter is better for the Godwary, and you will not be wronged so much as a single date-thread.

Ali Quli Qarai