The Table Spread
5. Al-Mā'idah
المائدة
al-Mā’idah (The Table)
ٱلْمَائِدَة
5:106
يَا أَيُّهَا
الَّذِينَ
آمَنُوا
شَهَادَةُ
بَيْنِكُمْ
إِذَا
حَضَرَ
أَحَدَكُمُ
الْمَوْتُ
حِينَ
الْوَصِيَّةِ
اثْنَانِ
ذَوَا
عَدْلٍ
مِّنكُمْ
أَوْ
آخَرَانِ
مِنْ
غَيْرِكُمْ
إِنْ
أَنتُمْ
ضَرَبْتُمْ
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
فَأَصَابَتْكُم
مُّصِيبَةُ
الْمَوْتِ
تَحْبِسُونَهُمَا
مِن
بَعْدِ
الصَّلَاةِ
فَيُقْسِمَانِ
بِاللَّهِ
إِنِ
ارْتَبْتُمْ
لَا
نَشْتَرِي
بِهِ
ثَمَنًا
وَلَوْ
كَانَ
ذَا
قُرْبَى
وَلَا
نَكْتُمُ
شَهَادَةَ
اللَّهِ
إِنَّا
إِذًا
لَّمِنَ
الْآثِمِينَ
yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū shahādatu baynikum ʾidhā ḥaḍara ʾaḥadakumu l-mawtu ḥīna l-waṣiyyati thnāni dhawā ʿadlin minkum ʾaw ʾākharāni min ghayrikum ʾin ʾantum ḍarabtum fī l-ʾarḍi fa-ʾaṣābatkum muṣībatu l-mawti taḥbisūnahumā min baʿdi ṣ-ṣalāti fa-yuqsimāni bi-llāhi ʾini rtabtum lā nashtarī bihī thamanan wa-law kāna dhā qurbā wa-lā naktumu sh-shahādata llāhi ʾinnā ʾidhan la-mina l-ʾāthimīna
Believers, when death approaches any one of you, let two just men from your own people (Muslims) or any two other men (People of the Book) if death befalls you on a journey, bear witness to the bequest. If you have any doubts as to their honesty, detain them and let them take an oath after the prayer, each one of them saying, "I swear by God that my testimony is true. I am not selling the Truth for a paltry price even though the beneficiary would be one of my relatives. I do not hide the testimony which is the right of God, for then I would be one of the sinners."
