آلِ عِمْرَان : ٨١

  • وَإِذۡ And when
  • أَخَذَ took
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • مِيثَٰقَ covenant
  • ٱلنَّبِيِّـۧنَ (of) the Prophets
  • لَمَآ Certainly, whatever
  • ءَاتَيۡتُكُم I (have) given you
  • مِّن of
  • كِتَٰبٖ (the) Book
  • وَحِكۡمَةٖ and wisdom
  • ثُمَّ then
  • جَآءَكُمۡ comes to you
  • رَسُولٞ a Messenger
  • مُّصَدِّقٞ confirming
  • لِّمَا that which
  • مَعَكُمۡ (is) with you
  • لَتُؤۡمِنُنَّ you must believe
  • بِهِۦ in him
  • وَلَتَنصُرُنَّهُۥۚ and you must help him
  • قَالَ He said
  • ءَأَقۡرَرۡتُمۡ Do you affirm
  • وَأَخَذۡتُمۡ and take
  • عَلَىٰ on
  • ذَٰلِكُمۡ that (condition)
  • إِصۡرِيۖ My Covenant
  • قَالُوٓاْ They said
  • أَقۡرَرۡنَاۚ We affirm
  • قَالَ He said
  • فَٱشۡهَدُواْ Then bear witness
  • وَأَنَا۠ and I (am)
  • مَعَكُم with you
  • مِّنَ among
  • ٱلشَّـٰهِدِينَ the witnesses
And [recall, O People of the Scripture], when Allāh took the covenant of the prophets, [saying], "Whatever I give you of the Scripture and wisdom and then there comes to you a messenger confirming what is with you, you [must] believe in him and support him." [Allāh] said, "Have you acknowledged and taken upon that My commitment?"1 They said, "We have acknowledged it." He said, "Then bear witness, and I am with you among the witnesses."
Footnotes
1 i.e., Have you accepted this obligation?
And, mention, when God made a covenant with the prophets, 'What (if read lamaa, it would be introducing a subject clause, and emphasising the aspect of the oath in this 'making of the covenant'; if it is read limaa, it would then be connected to the verb akhadha, 'He took'; the maa, 'what', is a relative particle in both cases, meaning la'lladhee [or li'lladhee respectively]) I have given you (aataytukum, or in a variant reading, aataynaakum, 'We have given you') of the Book and wisdom; then there shall come to you a messenger confirming what is with you, of the Book and wisdom, and that is Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him - you shall believe in him and you shall help him' (this constitutes the response to the oath), if you reach his time and perceive him, and their communities [of descendants] follow them [in what is incumbent upon them]. He, God, exalted be He, said to them, 'Do you affirm, this? And do you take, [do you] accept, My load, My covenant, on you on that condition?' They said, 'We affirm'. He said, 'Then bear witness, to this before your own souls and [those of] your followers, and I shall be with you among the witnesses', before you and them.