ٱلْحُجُرَات : ٧

  • وَٱعۡلَمُوٓاْ And know
  • أَنَّ that
  • فِيكُمۡ among you
  • رَسُولَ (is the) Messenger of Allah
  • ٱللَّهِۚ (is the) Messenger of Allah
  • لَوۡ If
  • يُطِيعُكُمۡ he were to obey you
  • فِي in
  • كَثِيرٖ much
  • مِّنَ of
  • ٱلۡأَمۡرِ the matter
  • لَعَنِتُّمۡ surely you would be in difficulty
  • وَلَٰكِنَّ but
  • ٱللَّهَ Allah
  • حَبَّبَ has endeared
  • إِلَيۡكُمُ to you
  • ٱلۡإِيمَٰنَ the Faith
  • وَزَيَّنَهُۥ and has made it pleasing
  • فِي in
  • قُلُوبِكُمۡ your hearts
  • وَكَرَّهَ and has made hateful
  • إِلَيۡكُمُ to you
  • ٱلۡكُفۡرَ disbelief
  • وَٱلۡفُسُوقَ and defiance
  • وَٱلۡعِصۡيَانَۚ and disobedience
  • أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ Those
  • هُمُ (are) they
  • ٱلرَّـٰشِدُونَ the guided ones
And know that among you is the Messenger of Allāh. If he were to obey you in much of the matter, you would be in difficulty, but Allāh has endeared to you the faith and has made it pleasing in your hearts and has made hateful to you disbelief, defiance and disobedience. Those are the [rightly] guided.
And know that the Messenger of God is among you, so do not speak falsehood, for God will inform him of the [real] state of affairs. If he were to obey you in many matters, which you communicate contrary to reality, so that the necessary [evil] consequences ensue, you would surely be in trouble, you would earn in addition to that sin, the sin for the consequences that ensue [from your error]. But God has endeared faith to you, adorning your hearts with it, and He has made odious to you disbelief and immorality and disobedience ([an instance of] suppletion with respect to import, as opposed to [lexical] form; for the one to whom 'faith has been endeared .' and so forth, will naturally be dissimilar in character to the mentioned [reprobate]). Those (there is here a shift from the second [to the third] person address) - they are the right-minded, the ones firmly established upon [the way of] their religion;