Surah 2. Al-Baqara, Ayah 254
| يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا أَنْفِقُوا مِمَّا رَزَقْنَاكُمْ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ يَأْتِيَ يَوْمٌ لَا بَيْعٌ فِيهِ وَلَا خُلَّةٌ وَلَا شَفَاعَةٌ ۗ وَالْكَافِرُونَ هُمُ الظَّالِمُونَ |
| Transliteration | : | yaa 'ayyuhaa 'alladhena 'aamano anfiqo min maa razaqnaa -kum min qabli 'an ya'tiya yawm laa bayc fe -hi wa- laa khullah wa- laa shafaacah wa- al- kaafiron hum az.- z.aalimon |
| Pickthall | : | O ye who believe! Spend of that wherewith We have provided you ere a day come when there will be no trafficking, nor friendship, nor intercession. The disbelievers, they are the wrong-doers. |
| Asad | : | O YOU who have attained to faith! Spend [in Our way] out of what We have granted you as sustenance ere there come a Day246 when there will be no bargaining, and no friendship, and no intercession. And they who deny the truth - it is they who are evildoers! |
| Malik | : | O believers! Spend out of the sustenance which We have provided for you before the arrival of that Day when there will be no bargaining, friendship or intercession. It is the unbelievers who are wrongdoers. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | O ye who believe! spend out of (the bounties) We have provided for you before the day comes when no bargaining (will avail) nor friendship nor intercession. Those who reject faith they are the wrong-doers. 294 295 |
Note - 246I.e., the Day of Judgment. With this exhortation, the
Qur'an returns to the subject of verse {245}: "Who is it
that will offer up unto God a goodly loan?" We may,
therefore, infer that the "spending in God's way" relates
here to every kind of sacrifice in God's cause, and not
merely to the spending of one's possessions.
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Note - 294Spend, i.e, give away in chartiy, or employ in good
works, but do not hoard. Good works would in Islam
include everything that advances the good of one that is
in need whether a neighbor or a stranger or that advances
the good of the community or even the good of the person
himself to whom God has given the bounty. But it must be
real good and there should be no admixture of baser
motives, such as vainglory, or false indulgence, or
encouragement of idleness, or playing off one person
against another. The bounties include mental and
spiritual gifts as well as wealth and material gifts.
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Note - 295Cf. ii. 123 and ii. 48.
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I.e., the Day of Judgment. With this exhortation, the Qur'an returns to the subject of verse {245}: "Who is it that will offer up unto God a goodly loan?" We may, therefore, infer that the "spending in God's way" relates here to every kind of sacrifice in God's cause, and not merely to the spending of one's possessions. |
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Spend, i.e, give away in chartiy, or employ in good works, but do not hoard. Good works would in Islam include everything that advances the good of one that is in need whether a neighbor or a stranger or that advances the good of the community or even the good of the person himself to whom God has given the bounty. But it must be real good and there should be no admixture of baser motives, such as vainglory, or false indulgence, or encouragement of idleness, or playing off one person against another. The bounties include mental and spiritual gifts as well as wealth and material gifts. |
