The Table Spread
5. Al-Mā'idah
المائدة
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وَلَوْ
كَانُوا
يُؤْمِنُونَ
بِاللَّهِ
وَالنَّبِيِّ
وَمَا
أُنزِلَ
إِلَيْهِ
مَا
اتَّخَذُوهُمْ
أَوْلِيَاءَ
وَلَكِنَّ
كَثِيرًا
مِّنْهُمْ
فَاسِقُونَ
wa-law kānū yuʾminūna bi-llāhi wa-n-nabiyyi wa-mā ʾunzila ʾilayhi mā ttakhadhūhum ʾawliyāʾa wa-lākinna kathīran minhum fāsiqūna
Had they believed in Allah and the Prophet and what has been sent down to him, they would not have taken them for allies. But most of them are transgressors.
— Ali Quli Qarai
If only they had believed in Allah, in the Prophet, and in what hath been revealed to him, never would they have taken them for friends and protectors, but most of them are rebellious wrong-doers.
