ٱلْإِسْرَاء : ٧

  • إِنۡ If
  • أَحۡسَنتُمۡ you do good
  • أَحۡسَنتُمۡ you do good
  • لِأَنفُسِكُمۡۖ for yourselves
  • وَإِنۡ and if
  • أَسَأۡتُمۡ you do evil
  • فَلَهَاۚ then it is for it
  • فَإِذَا So when
  • جَآءَ came
  • وَعۡدُ promise
  • ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ the last
  • لِيَسُـُٔواْ to sadden
  • وُجُوهَكُمۡ your faces
  • وَلِيَدۡخُلُواْ and to enter
  • ٱلۡمَسۡجِدَ the Masjid
  • كَمَا just as
  • دَخَلُوهُ they (had) entered it
  • أَوَّلَ first
  • مَرَّةٖ time
  • وَلِيُتَبِّرُواْ and to destroy
  • مَا what
  • عَلَوۡاْ they had conquered
  • تَتۡبِيرًا (with) destruction
[And said], "If you do good, you do good for yourselves; and if you do evil, [you do it] to them [i.e., yourselves]." Then when the final [i.e., second] promise came, [We sent your enemies] to sadden your faces and to enter the masjid [i.e., the temple in Jerusalem], as they entered it the first time, and to destroy what they had taken over with [total] destruction.
And We said: 'If you are virtuous, through [acts of] obedience, you are being virtuous to your own souls, since the reward thereof is for them [your souls]; and if you do evil, by way of [working] corruption, it is for them', your evildoing. So when the time, the occasion, for the other [prophecy] comes, We will raise them forth, that they might ravage you, make you grieve through [their] slaying and taking captive [of you], a grief that will be manifest on your faces, and that they might enter the Temple, the Holy House [of Jerusalem], and destroy it, just as they entered it, and destroyed it, the first time, and that they might destroy, lay waste, all that they conquered, [all that] they gained ascendancy over, utterly, with an utter wasting. They indeed wrought corruption a second time when they slew [the prophet] John. Thus Nebuchadnezzar was roused against them, and so he slew thousands of them and took their children captive and destroyed the Holy House [of Jerusalem].