The Table Spread
5. Al-Mā'idah
المائدة
al-Mā’idah (The Table)
ٱلْمَائِدَة
5:32
مِنْ
أَجْلِ
ذَلِكَ
كَتَبْنَا
عَلَى
بَنِي
إِسْرَائِيلَ
أَنَّهُ
مَن
قَتَلَ
نَفْسًا
بِغَيْرِ
نَفْسٍ
أَوْ
فَسَادٍ
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
فَكَأَنَّمَا
قَتَلَ
النَّاسَ
جَمِيعًا
وَمَنْ
أَحْيَاهَا
فَكَأَنَّمَا
أَحْيَا
النَّاسَ
جَمِيعًا
وَلَقَدْ
جَاءَتْهُمْ
رُسُلُنَا
بِالْبَيِّنَاتِ
ثُمَّ
إِنَّ
كَثِيرًا
مِّنْهُم
بَعْدَ
ذَلِكَ
فِي
الْأَرْضِ
لَمُسْرِفُونَ
min ʾajli dhālika katabnā ʿalā banī ʾisrāʾīla ʾannahū man qatala nafsan bi-ghayri nafsin ʾaw fasādin fī l-ʾarḍi fa-ka-ʾannamā qatala n-nāsa jamīʿan wa-man ʾaḥyāhā fa-ka-ʾannamā ʾaḥyā n-nāsa jamīʿan wa-la-qad jāʾathum rusulunā bi-l-bayyināti thumma ʾinna kathīran minhum baʿda dhālika fī l-ʾarḍi la-musrifūna
For this reason, We made it a law for the children of Israel that the killing of a person for reasons other than legal retaliation or for stopping corruption in the land is as great a sin as murdering all of mankind. However, to save a life would be as great a virtue as to save all of mankind. Our Messengers had come to them with clear authoritative evidence but many of them (Israelites) thereafter started doing wrong in the land.
