ٱلْبَقَرَة : ١٣٤

  • تِلۡكَ This
  • أُمَّةٞ (was) a community
  • قَدۡ (which)
  • خَلَتۡۖ has passed away
  • لَهَا for it
  • مَا what
  • كَسَبَتۡ it earned
  • وَلَكُم and for you
  • مَّا what
  • كَسَبۡتُمۡۖ you earned
  • وَلَا And not
  • تُسۡـَٔلُونَ you will be asked
  • عَمَّا about what
  • كَانُواْ they used to
  • يَعۡمَلُونَ do
That was a nation which has passed on. It will have [the consequence of] what it earned, and you will have what you have earned. And you will not be asked about what they used to do.
That (tilka, is the subject of this sentence and denotes Abraham, Jacob and his sons, and is feminine because it agrees with the gender of its predicate) is a community that has passed away, has gone before; theirs is what they have earned, the reward for their deeds (lahaa maa kasabat, theirs is what they have earned', constitutes the commencement of a new sentence) and yours (the Jews are being addressed here) is what you have earned; you shall not be asked about what they did, in the same way that they will not be asked about what you did, this latter statement being an affirmation of the former.