The Table Spread
5. Al-Mā'idah
المائدة

Al Mā’idah (The Table Spread)

ٱلْمَائِدَة

5:45
5:45

wa-katabnā ʿalayhim fīhā ʾanna n-nafsa bi-n-nafsi wa-l-ʿayna bi-l-ʿayni wa-l-ʾanfa bi-l-ʾanfi wa-l-ʾudhuna bi-l-ʾudhuni wa-s-sinna bi-s-sinni wa-l-jurūḥa qiṣāṣun fa-man taṣaddaqa bihī fa-huwa kaffāratun lahū wa-man lam yaḥkum bi-mā ʾanzala llāhu fa-ʾulāʾika humu ẓ-ẓālimūna

In it We prescribed for them: a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, and an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and retaliation for wounds. Yet whoever remits it out of charity, that shall be an atonement for him. Those who do not judge by what Allah has sent down—it is they who are the wrongdoers.

Ali Quli Qarai