The Repentance
9. At-Tawbah
التوبة
Page #188
9:8
كَيْفَ
وَإِن
يَظْهَرُوا
عَلَيْكُمْ
لَا
يَرْقُبُوا
فِيكُمْ
إِلًّا
وَلَا
ذِمَّةً
يُرْضُونَكُم
بِأَفْوَاهِهِمْ
وَتَأْبَى
قُلُوبُهُمْ
وَأَكْثَرُهُمْ
فَاسِقُونَ
kayfa wa-ʾin yaẓharū ʿalaykum lā yarqubū fīkum ʾillan wa-lā dhimmatan yurḍūnakum bi-ʾafwāhihim wa-taʾbā qulūbuhum wa-ʾaktharuhum fāsiqūna
How? For if, they get the better of you, they will observe toward you neither kinship nor covenant. They please you with their mouths while their hearts spurn you; and most of them are transgressors.
— Ali Quli Qarai
How (can there be such a league), seeing that if they get an advantage over you, they respect not in you the ties either of kinship or of covenant? With (fair words from) their mouths they entice you, but their hearts are averse from you; and most of them are rebellious and wicked.
