آلِ عِمْرَان : ٩٩

  • قُلۡ Say
  • يَٰٓأَهۡلَ O People
  • ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ (of) the Book
  • لِمَ Why
  • تَصُدُّونَ (do) you hinder
  • عَن from
  • سَبِيلِ (the) way
  • ٱللَّهِ (of) Allah
  • مَنۡ (those) who
  • ءَامَنَ believe[d]
  • تَبۡغُونَهَا seeking (to make) it
  • عِوَجٗا (seem) crooked
  • وَأَنتُمۡ while you
  • شُهَدَآءُۗ (are) witnesses
  • وَمَا And not
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • بِغَٰفِلٍ (is) unaware
  • عَمَّا of what
  • تَعۡمَلُونَ you do
Say, "O People of the Scripture, why do you avert from the way of Allāh those who believe, seeking to make it [seem] deviant, while you are witnesses [to the truth]? And Allāh is not unaware of what you do."
Say: 'O People of the Scripture, why do you bar believers, causing them to turn away, from God's way, His religion, by denying the truth of the Prophet and concealing His graces, desiring to make it crooked ('iwajan is the verbal noun, meaning mu'awwajatan, 'made crooked'), inclining away from the truth, while you yourselves are witnesses, [while] you know that the religion which is upright and pleasing [to God] is that of Islam, as stated in your Book? God is not heedless of what you do', in the way of unbelief and mendacity; instead He gives you respite until your appointed time and then requites you.