آلِ عِمْرَان : ١١٢

  • ضُرِبَتۡ Struck
  • عَلَيۡهِمُ on them
  • ٱلذِّلَّةُ the humiliation
  • أَيۡنَ wherever
  • مَا that
  • ثُقِفُوٓاْ they are found
  • إِلَّا except
  • بِحَبۡلٖ with a rope
  • مِّنَ from
  • ٱللَّهِ Allah
  • وَحَبۡلٖ and a rope
  • مِّنَ from
  • ٱلنَّاسِ the people
  • وَبَآءُو And they incurred
  • بِغَضَبٖ wrath
  • مِّنَ from
  • ٱللَّهِ Allah
  • وَضُرِبَتۡ and struck
  • عَلَيۡهِمُ on them
  • ٱلۡمَسۡكَنَةُۚ the poverty
  • ذَٰلِكَ That
  • بِأَنَّهُمۡ (is) because
  • كَانُواْ they used to
  • يَكۡفُرُونَ disbelieve
  • بِـَٔايَٰتِ in (the) Verses
  • ٱللَّهِ (of) Allah
  • وَيَقۡتُلُونَ and they killed
  • ٱلۡأَنۢبِيَآءَ the Prophets
  • بِغَيۡرِ without
  • حَقّٖۚ right
  • ذَٰلِكَ That
  • بِمَا (is) because
  • عَصَواْ they disobeyed
  • وَّكَانُواْ and they used to
  • يَعۡتَدُونَ transgress
They have been put under humiliation [by Allāh] wherever they are overtaken, except for a rope [i.e., covenant] from Allāh and a rope [i.e., treaty] from the people [i.e., the Muslims].1 And they have drawn upon themselves anger from Allāh and have been put under destitution. That is because they disbelieved in [i.e., rejected] the verses of Allāh and killed the prophets without right. That is because they disobeyed and [habitually] transgressed.
Footnotes
1 Once they have surrendered, the People of the Scripture retain their rights and honor (in spite of their refusal of Islām) through payment of the jizyah tax in place of zakāh and military service due from Muslims. They are then under the protection of the Islāmic state.
Abasement shall be cast upon them, wherever they are found, so that they have no strength and no protection, save, if they be [clinging to], a rope of God, and a rope of the, believing, people, this being the latter's covenant of security for them on the condition that they pay the jizya, in other words, they have no protection other than this; they have incurred, they have ended up, with anger from God, and poverty shall be cast upon them; that, is, because they disbelieved in God's signs, and slew the prophets without right; that (dhaalika is [repeated] for emphasis), is, because they disobeyed, God's command, and used to transgress, passing from what is lawful into what is unlawful.