Surah 5. Al-Maida, Ayah 26
| قَالَ فَإِنَّهَا مُحَرَّمَةٌ عَلَيْهِمْ ۛ أَرْبَعِينَ سَنَةً ۛ يَتِيهُونَ فِي الْأَرْضِ ۚ فَلَا تَأْسَ عَلَى الْقَوْمِ الْفَاسِقِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | wa- calaa 'allaah fa- tawakkalo 'in kuntum mu'minen |
| Pickthall | : | (Their Lord) said: For this the land will surely be forbidden them for forty years that they will. wander in the earth, bewildered. So grieve not over the wrongdoing folk. |
| Asad | : | Answered He: "Then, verily, this [land] shall be forbidden to them for forty years, while they wander on earth, bewildered, to and fro; and sorrow thou not over these iniquitous folk." |
| Malik | : | Allah responded, "Very well, they are forbidden this land for forty years, during this time they will wander homeless on the earth, so do not grieve for these disobedient people." |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Allah said: "Therefore will the land be out of their reach for forty years; in distraction will they wander through the land: but sorrow thou not over these rebellious people." 729 |
Note - 729The punishment of the rebellion of these stiff-necked
people, rebellion that was repeated "these ten times"
(Num. xiv. 22) and more, was that they were left to
wander distractedly hither and thither through the
wilderness for forty years. That generation was not to
see the Holy Land. All those that were twenty years old
and upwards were to die in the wilderness: "your
carcasses shall fail in this wilderness." (Num. xiv. 29).
Only those who were then children would reach the
Promised land. And so it happened. From the desert of
Paran they wandered south, north, and east for forty
years. From the head of what is now the Gulf of 'Aqaba,
they travelled north, keeping to the east side of the
depression of which the Dead Sea and the river Jordan are
portions. Forty years afterwards they crossed the Jordan
opposite what is now Jericho, but by that time Moses,
Aaron, and the whole of the elder generation had died.
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The punishment of the rebellion of these stiff-necked people, rebellion that was repeated "these ten times" (Num. xiv. 22) and more, was that they were left to wander distractedly hither and thither through the wilderness for forty years. That generation was not to see the Holy Land. All those that were twenty years old and upwards were to die in the wilderness: "your carcasses shall fail in this wilderness." (Num. xiv. 29). Only those who were then children would reach the Promised land. And so it happened. From the desert of Paran they wandered south, north, and east for forty years. From the head of what is now the Gulf of 'Aqaba, they travelled north, keeping to the east side of the depression of which the Dead Sea and the river Jordan are portions. Forty years afterwards they crossed the Jordan opposite what is now Jericho, but by that time Moses, Aaron, and the whole of the elder generation had died. |
