ٱلْجُمُعَة : ٦

  • قُلۡ Say
  • يَٰٓأَيُّهَا O
  • ٱلَّذِينَ you (who)
  • هَادُوٓاْ (are) Jews
  • إِن If
  • زَعَمۡتُمۡ you claim
  • أَنَّكُمۡ that you
  • أَوۡلِيَآءُ (are) allies
  • لِلَّهِ of Allah
  • مِن from
  • دُونِ excluding
  • ٱلنَّاسِ the people
  • فَتَمَنَّوُاْ then wish
  • ٱلۡمَوۡتَ (for) the death
  • إِن if
  • كُنتُمۡ you are
  • صَٰدِقِينَ truthful
Say, "O you who are Jews, if you claim that you are allies of Allāh, excluding the [other] people, then wish for death, if you should be truthful."
Say: 'O you of Jewry, if you claim that you are the [favoured] friends of God, to the exclusion of other people, then long for death, if you are truthful' (in kuntum saadiqeena is semantically connected to tamannoo, 'long for'; as for the two conditions, the first is dependent on the second, that is to say, if you are truthful in your claim that you are the [favoured] friends of God, and given that [such] a friend would prefer the Hereafter [to this world] and that it [the Hereafter] begins at death, then long for it).