ٱلْحَجّ : ٧٨

  • وَجَٰهِدُواْ And strive
  • فِي for
  • ٱللَّهِ Allah
  • حَقَّ (with the) striving due (to) Him
  • جِهَادِهِۦۚ (with the) striving due (to) Him
  • هُوَ He
  • ٱجۡتَبَىٰكُمۡ (has) chosen you
  • وَمَا and not
  • جَعَلَ placed
  • عَلَيۡكُمۡ upon you
  • فِي in
  • ٱلدِّينِ the religion
  • مِنۡ any
  • حَرَجٖۚ difficulty
  • مِّلَّةَ (The) religion
  • أَبِيكُمۡ (of) your father
  • إِبۡرَٰهِيمَۚ Ibrahim
  • هُوَ He
  • سَمَّىٰكُمُ named you
  • ٱلۡمُسۡلِمِينَ Muslims
  • مِن before
  • قَبۡلُ before
  • وَفِي and in
  • هَٰذَا this
  • لِيَكُونَ that may be
  • ٱلرَّسُولُ the Messenger
  • شَهِيدًا a witness
  • عَلَيۡكُمۡ over you
  • وَتَكُونُواْ and you may be
  • شُهَدَآءَ witnesses
  • عَلَى on
  • ٱلنَّاسِۚ the mankind
  • فَأَقِيمُواْ So establish
  • ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ the prayer
  • وَءَاتُواْ and give
  • ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ zakah
  • وَٱعۡتَصِمُواْ and hold fast
  • بِٱللَّهِ to Allah
  • هُوَ He
  • مَوۡلَىٰكُمۡۖ (is) your Protector
  • فَنِعۡمَ so an Excellent
  • ٱلۡمَوۡلَىٰ [the] Protector
  • وَنِعۡمَ and an Excellent
  • ٱلنَّصِيرُ [the] Helper
And strive for Allāh with the striving due to Him. He has chosen you and has not placed upon you in the religion any difficulty. [It is] the religion of your father, Abraham. He [i.e., Allāh] named you "Muslims" before [in former scriptures] and in this [revelation] that the Messenger may be a witness over you and you may be witnesses over the people. So establish prayer and give zakāh and hold fast to Allāh. He is your protector; and excellent is the protector, and excellent is the helper.
And struggle in the way of God, in order to establish His religion, a struggle worthy of Him, by expending all effort therein (haqqa is in the accusative because it is a verbal noun). He has elected you, He has chosen you for His religion, and has not laid upon you in your religion any hardship, that is, [any] constraint, for He has facilitated [adherence to] it during times of difficulty, such as [His permitting you] to shorten prayers, to seek ritual purification from earth, to eat of carrion, and to break the fast during illness or travel - the creed of your father (millata is in the accusative because the genitive preposition kaaf [sc. ka-millati, 'like the creed of'] has been omitted) Abraham (Ibraaheema, an explicative supplement). He, that is, God, named you Muslims before, that is, before [the revelation of] this Book, and in this, that is, [in] Al-Qur'an, so that the Messenger might be a witness against you, on the Day of Resurrection, that he delivered the Message to you, and that you might be witnesses against mankind, that their messengers delivered the Message to them. So maintain prayer, observe it regularly, and pay the alms, and hold fast to God, trust in Him. He is your Patron, your Helper and the Guardian of your affairs. An excellent Patron, is He, and an excellent Helper, for you.