ٱلْحَدِيد : ٨

  • وَمَا And what
  • لَكُمۡ (is) for you
  • لَا (that) not
  • تُؤۡمِنُونَ you believe
  • بِٱللَّهِ in Allah
  • وَٱلرَّسُولُ while the Messenger
  • يَدۡعُوكُمۡ calls you
  • لِتُؤۡمِنُواْ that you believe
  • بِرَبِّكُمۡ in your Lord
  • وَقَدۡ and indeed
  • أَخَذَ He has taken
  • مِيثَٰقَكُمۡ your covenant
  • إِن if
  • كُنتُم you are
  • مُّؤۡمِنِينَ believers
And why do you not believe in Allāh while the Messenger invites you to believe in your Lord and He has taken your covenant, if you should [truly] be believers?
And why should you not believe - an address to the disbelievers - in other words, there is nothing to prevent you from believing, in God when the Messenger is calling you to believe in your Lord, and a pledge has been taken from you (reading [it as] ukhidha meethaaqukum; otherwise akhadha meethaaqakum, 'He has taken a pledge from you') concerning it - that is to say, God took this [pledge from you] in the world of atoms when He made them bear witness against themselves: 'Am I not your Lord?' They said, 'Yea, indeed' [Q. 7:172] - if you are believers?, that is to say, if your intention is to believe in Him, then apply yourselves to this [duty of faith].