ٱلتَّوْبَة : ٨٠

  • ٱسۡتَغۡفِرۡ Ask forgiveness
  • لَهُمۡ for them
  • أَوۡ or
  • لَا (do) not
  • تَسۡتَغۡفِرۡ ask forgiveness
  • لَهُمۡ for them
  • إِن If
  • تَسۡتَغۡفِرۡ you ask forgiveness
  • لَهُمۡ for them
  • سَبۡعِينَ seventy
  • مَرَّةٗ times
  • فَلَن never
  • يَغۡفِرَ will Allah forgive
  • ٱللَّهُ will Allah forgive
  • لَهُمۡۚ [for] them
  • ذَٰلِكَ That
  • بِأَنَّهُمۡ (is) because they
  • كَفَرُواْ disbelieved
  • بِٱللَّهِ in Allah
  • وَرَسُولِهِۦۗ and His Messenger
  • وَٱللَّهُ and Allah
  • لَا (does) not
  • يَهۡدِي guide
  • ٱلۡقَوۡمَ the people
  • ٱلۡفَٰسِقِينَ the defiantly disobedient
Ask forgiveness for them, [O Muḥammad], or do not ask forgiveness for them. If you should ask forgiveness for them seventy times - never will Allāh forgive them. That is because they disbelieved in Allāh and His Messenger, and Allāh does not guide the defiantly disobedient people.
Ask forgiveness for them, O Muhammad may peace and salutation be upon him, or do not ask forgiveness for them: this leaves the choice of asking forgiveness, or refraining, up to him; the Prophet may peace and salutation be upon him said, 'I have been given the choice, and I made it', meaning [the choice] to ask forgiveness, as reported by al-Bukhaaree. If you ask forgiveness for them seventy times, God will not forgive them: it is said that the 'seventy' is intended to express [by hyperbole] a great frequency of asking forgiveness. In [the Saheeh of] al-Bukhaaree there is a hadeeth [which states]: 'If I was sure that were I to ask more than seventy times, God would forgive [them], I would have done so'. It is also said, however, that the very number [seventy] is actually meant, on account of this other hadeeth of his: 'I shall ask more than seventy times', whereupon it was made clear to him [the Prophet] that the matter regarding forgiveness had been concluded by the verse, [Q. 63:6] Alike it will be regarding them: whether you ask forgiveness for them or you do not ask forgiveness for them [God will not forgive them]; that is because they disbelieved in God and His Messenger; and God does not guide the wicked folk.