ٱلْمَائِدَة : ٥٩

  • قُلۡ Say
  • يَٰٓأَهۡلَ O People
  • ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ (of) the Book
  • هَلۡ Do
  • تَنقِمُونَ you resent
  • مِنَّآ [of] us
  • إِلَّآ except
  • أَنۡ that
  • ءَامَنَّا we believe
  • بِٱللَّهِ in Allah
  • وَمَآ and what
  • أُنزِلَ has been revealed
  • إِلَيۡنَا to us
  • وَمَآ and what
  • أُنزِلَ was revealed
  • مِن from
  • قَبۡلُ before
  • وَأَنَّ and that
  • أَكۡثَرَكُمۡ most of you
  • فَٰسِقُونَ (are) defiantly disobedient
Say, "O People of the Scripture, do you resent us except [for the fact] that we have believed in Allāh and what was revealed to us and what was revealed before and because most of you are defiantly disobedient?"
The following was revealed when the Jews said to the Prophet may peace and salutation be upon him, 'Whom among the messengers do you believe in?', and he replied: in God and in that which has been revealed to us [Q. 2:136], and when he mentioned Jesus they said, 'We know of no religion worse than yours!' Say: 'O People of the Scripture, do you spite, [do] you repudiate, us for any other cause than that we believe in God, and what has been revealed to us, and what was revealed, to the prophets, before, and that most of you are wicked?' (wa-anna aktharakum faasiqoon is a supplement to an aamannaa, 'that we believe'), that is to say, 'What you repudiate, in fact, is our faith and your opposition [to it], in refusing to accept it - [a refusal] which is described as 'wickedness', [this wickedness] itself being the necessary consequence of such [a refusal] - but in fact this [faith of ours] is not something to be repudiated'.