ٱلْمُجَادَلَة : ٤

  • فَمَن Then whoever
  • لَّمۡ (does) not
  • يَجِدۡ find
  • فَصِيَامُ then fasting
  • شَهۡرَيۡنِ (for) two months
  • مُتَتَابِعَيۡنِ consecutively
  • مِن before
  • قَبۡلِ before
  • أَن [that]
  • يَتَمَآسَّاۖ they both touch each other
  • فَمَن But (he) who
  • لَّمۡ not
  • يَسۡتَطِعۡ is able
  • فَإِطۡعَامُ then (the) feeding
  • سِتِّينَ (of) sixty
  • مِسۡكِينٗاۚ needy one(s)
  • ذَٰلِكَ That
  • لِتُؤۡمِنُواْ so that you may believe
  • بِٱللَّهِ in Allah
  • وَرَسُولِهِۦۚ and His Messenger
  • وَتِلۡكَ and these
  • حُدُودُ (are the) limits
  • ٱللَّهِۗ (of) Allah
  • وَلِلۡكَٰفِرِينَ and for the disbelievers
  • عَذَابٌ (is) a punishment
  • أَلِيمٌ painful
And he who does not find [a slave] - then a fast for two months consecutively1 before they touch one another; and he who is unable - then the feeding of sixty poor persons. That is for you to believe [completely] in Allāh and His Messenger; and those are the limits [set by] Allāh. And for the disbelievers is a painful punishment.
Footnotes
1 - See footnote to 4:92.
And he who cannot find [the wherewithal], [to set free] a slave, then [his redemption shall be] the fasting of two successive months before they touch one another. And if he is unable, to fast, then [the redemption shall be] the feeding of sixty needy persons, as an obligation upon him, that is, before they touch one another: understanding the unrestricted [prescription] as [having the same restriction as] the restricted one. For every needy person [he should give] one mudd measure of the principal food of the town. This, namely, lightening of the atonement is, so that you may believe in God and His Messenger. And these, namely, the rulings mentioned, are God's bounds; and for the rejecters, of them, there is a painful chastisement.