ٱلصَّفّ : ١٤

  • يَٰٓأَيُّهَا O you
  • ٱلَّذِينَ who
  • ءَامَنُواْ believe
  • كُونُوٓاْ Be
  • أَنصَارَ helpers
  • ٱللَّهِ (of) Allah
  • كَمَا as
  • قَالَ said
  • عِيسَى Isa
  • ٱبۡنُ son
  • مَرۡيَمَ (of) Maryam
  • لِلۡحَوَارِيِّـۧنَ to the disciples
  • مَنۡ Who
  • أَنصَارِيٓ (are) my helpers
  • إِلَى for
  • ٱللَّهِۖ Allah
  • قَالَ Said
  • ٱلۡحَوَارِيُّونَ the disciples
  • نَحۡنُ We
  • أَنصَارُ (are) the helpers
  • ٱللَّهِۖ (of) Allah
  • فَـَٔامَنَت Then believed
  • طَّآئِفَةٞ a group
  • مِّنۢ of
  • بَنِيٓ Children
  • إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ (of) Israel
  • وَكَفَرَت and disbelieved
  • طَّآئِفَةٞۖ a group
  • فَأَيَّدۡنَا So We supported
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • ءَامَنُواْ believed
  • عَلَىٰ against
  • عَدُوِّهِمۡ their enemy
  • فَأَصۡبَحُواْ and they became
  • ظَٰهِرِينَ dominant
O you who have believed, be supporters of Allāh, as when Jesus, the son of Mary, said to the disciples, "Who are my supporters for Allāh?" The disciples said, "We are supporters of Allāh." And a faction of the Children of Israel believed and a faction disbelieved. So We supported those who believed against their enemy, and they became dominant.
O you who believe, be helpers of God, of His religion (a variant reading [of ansaaran li'Llaahi] has the genitivev annexation ansaara'Llaahi) just as said (kamaa qaala to the end [of the statement] means 'just as the disciples were so', as is indicated by [what follows]) Jesus son of Mary to the disciples, 'Who will be my helpers unto God?', that is to say, who [of you] will be helpers alongside me turning to help God? The disciples said, 'We will be God's helpers!' [These] al-hawaariyyoon [were] the intimates of Jesus, for they were the first to believe in him. They were twelve men of pure white complexion (hawar); but it is also said that [their epithet derives from the fact that] they were bleachers (qassaaroon) who bleached (yuhawwiroona) clothes. So a group of the Israelites believed, in Jesus, saying: 'He is [indeed] the servant of God, [who has been] raised to sky', while a group disbelieved, because they said that he was the son of God, whom He had raised unto Himself. Thus the two groups waged war against one another. Then We strengthened those who believed, of the two groups, against their enemy, the disbelieving groups, and so they became the triumphant, the victors.