ٱلْبَيِّنَة : ١

  • لَمۡ Not
  • يَكُنِ were
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • كَفَرُواْ disbelieved
  • مِنۡ from
  • أَهۡلِ (the) People
  • ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ of the Book
  • وَٱلۡمُشۡرِكِينَ and the polytheists
  • مُنفَكِّينَ to be abandoned
  • حَتَّىٰ until
  • تَأۡتِيَهُمُ (there) comes to them
  • ٱلۡبَيِّنَةُ the clear evidence
Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists were not to be parted [from misbelief]1 until there came to them clear evidence –
Footnotes
1 - i.e., from their erroneous beliefs and superstitions.
Al-Bayyinah (the Evidence) Meccan or Medinese, consisting of 8 verses. The disbelievers from among (min: explicative) the People of the Scripture and the idolaters, that is, the idol-worshippers (wa'l-mushrikeena is a supplement to ahl, 'the People of') were not going to leave off (munfakkeena is the predicate of yakun, 'were'), that is to say, they were not going to abandon their ways, until the clear proof, namely, Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, should come to them, that is, [until] it came to them;