The Table Spread
5. Al-Mā'idah
المائدة
Page #109
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وَلَقَدْ
أَخَذَ
اللَّهُ
مِيثَاقَ
بَنِي
إِسْرَائِيلَ
وَبَعَثْنَا
مِنْهُمُ
اثْنَيْ
عَشَرَ
نَقِيبًا
وَقَالَ
اللَّهُ
إِنِّي
مَعَكُمْ
لَئِنْ
أَقَمْتُمُ
الصَّلَاةَ
وَآتَيْتُمُ
الزَّكَاةَ
وَآمَنتُم
بِرُسُلِي
وَعَزَّرْتُمُوهُمْ
وَأَقْرَضْتُمُ
اللَّهَ
قَرْضًا
حَسَنًا
لَّأُكَفِّرَنَّ
عَنكُمْ
سَيِّئَاتِكُمْ
وَلَأُدْخِلَنَّكُمْ
جَنَّاتٍ
تَجْرِي
مِن
تَحْتِهَا
الْأَنْهَارُ
فَمَن
كَفَرَ
بَعْدَ
ذَلِكَ
مِنكُمْ
فَقَدْ
ضَلَّ
سَوَاءَ
السَّبِيلِ
wa-la-qad ʾakhadha llāhu mīthāqa banī ʾisrāʾīla wa-baʿathnā minhumu thnay ʿashara naqīban wa-qāla llāhu ʾinnī maʿakum la-ʾin ʾaqamtumu ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾātaytumu z-zakāta wa-ʾāmantum bi-rusulī wa-ʿazzartumūhum wa-ʾaqraḍtumu llāha qarḍan ḥasanan la-ʾukaffiranna ʿankum sayyiʾātikum wa-la-ʾudkhilannakum jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru fa-man kafara baʿda dhālika minkum fa-qad ḍalla sawāʾa s-sabīli
Certainly Allah took a pledge from the Children of Israel, and We raised among them twelve chiefs. And Allah said, ‘I am with you! Surely, if you maintain the prayer and give the zakat and have faith in My apostles and support them and lend Allah a good loan, I will surely absolve you of your misdeeds, and I will surely admit you into gardens with streams running in them. But whoever of you disbelieves after that has certainly strayed from the right way.’
— Ali Quli Qarai
Allah did aforetime take a covenant from the Children of Israel, and we appointed twelve captains among them. And Allah said: "I am with you: if ye (but) establish regular prayers, practise regular charity, believe in my messengers, honour and assist them, and loan to Allah a beautiful loan, verily I will wipe out from you your evils, and admit you to gardens with rivers flowing beneath; but if any of you, after this, resisteth faith, he hath truly wandered from the path or rectitude."
