The Table Spread
5. Al-Mā'idah
المائدة
al-Mā’idah (The Table)
ٱلْمَائِدَة
5:89
لَا
يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ
اللَّهُ
بِاللَّغْوِ
فِي
أَيْمَانِكُمْ
وَلَكِن
يُؤَاخِذُكُم
بِمَا
عَقَّدتُّمُ
الْأَيْمَانَ
فَكَفَّارَتُهُ
إِطْعَامُ
عَشَرَةِ
مَسَاكِينَ
مِنْ
أَوْسَطِ
مَا
تُطْعِمُونَ
أَهْلِيكُمْ
أَوْ
كِسْوَتُهُمْ
أَوْ
تَحْرِيرُ
رَقَبَةٍ
فَمَن
لَّمْ
يَجِدْ
فَصِيَامُ
ثَلَاثَةِ
أَيَّامٍ
ذَلِكَ
كَفَّارَةُ
أَيْمَانِكُمْ
إِذَا
حَلَفْتُمْ
وَاحْفَظُوا
أَيْمَانَكُمْ
كَذَلِكَ
يُبَيِّنُ
اللَّهُ
لَكُمْ
آيَاتِهِ
لَعَلَّكُمْ
تَشْكُرُونَ
lā yuʾākhidhukumu llāhu bi-l-laghwi fī ʾaymānikum wa-lākin yuʾākhidhukum bi-mā ʿaqqadtumu l-ʾaymāna fa-kaffāratuhū ʾiṭʿāmu ʿasharati masākīna min ʾawsaṭi mā tuṭʿimūna ʾahlīkum ʾaw kiswatuhum ʾaw taḥrīru raqabatin fa-man lam yajid fa-ṣiyāmu thalāthati ʾayyāmin dhālika kaffāratu ʾaymānikum ʾidhā ḥalaftum wa-ḥfaẓū ʾaymānakum ka-dhālika yubayyinu llāhu lakum ʾāyātihī laʿallakum tashkurūna
God will not hold you responsible for your thoughtless oaths. However, He will question you about your deliberate oaths. The expiation for breaking an oath is to feed ten needy people with food, typical of that which you feed to your own people, to clothe them or to set a slave free. One who cannot pay this, he must fast for three days to expiate his oaths. Keep your oaths. Thus, does God explain His Laws so that you will give Him thanks.
