Surah 5. Al-Maida, Ayah 11
| يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا اذْكُرُوا نِعْمَتَ اللَّهِ عَلَيْكُمْ إِذْ هَمَّ قَوْمٌ أَنْ يَبْسُطُوا إِلَيْكُمْ أَيْدِيَهُمْ فَكَفَّ أَيْدِيَهُمْ عَنْكُمْ ۖ وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ ۚ وَعَلَى اللَّهِ فَلْيَتَوَكَّلِ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ |
| Asad | : | O you who have attained to faith! Remember the blessings which God bestowed upon you when [hostile] people were about to lay hands on you20 and He stayed their hands from you. Remain, then, conscious of God: and in God let the believers place their trust. |
| Malik | : | O believers! Also remember Allah's favor which He recently bestowed upon you when He restrained the hands of those who sought to harm you (Jewish plan to kill the Prophet and eminent companions through an invitation to a dinner which Allah informed him not to attend). Have fear of Allah; and in Allah let the believers put their trust. |
| Pickthall | : | O ye who believe! Remember Allah's favor unto you, how a people were minded to stretch out their hands against you but He withheld their hands from you; and keep your duty to Allah. In Allah let believers put their trust. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | O ye who believe! call in remembrance the favor of Allah unto you when certain men formed the design to stretch out their hands against you but (Allah) held back their hands from you: so fear Allah. And on Allah let believers put (all) their trust. 708 |
| Transliteration | : | wa- 'alladhena kafaro wa- kadhdhabo bi- 'aayaat -naa 'olaa'ika as.h.aab al- jah.em |
Note - 20Lit., "to stretch their hands towards you": an allusion
to the weakness of the believers at the beginning of the
Qur'anic revelation, and - by implication - to the
initial weakness of every religious movement.
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Note - 708In the life-time of the Prophet it happened again and
again that the enemies of Islam stretched out their hands
against him, his people, and his teaching. The odds were,
from a worldy point of view, in their favour, but their
hands were rendered inert and powerless because they were
fighting against the truth of Allah. So does it happen
always, now as it did then. True faith must take heart,
and at the same time humbly recognise Allah's favour and
mercy, and be grateful.
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In the life-time of the Prophet it happened again and again that the enemies of Islam stretched out their hands against him, his people, and his teaching. The odds were, from a worldy point of view, in their favour, but their hands were rendered inert and powerless because they were fighting against the truth of Allah. So does it happen always, now as it did then. True faith must take heart, and at the same time humbly recognise Allah's favour and mercy, and be grateful. |
