ٱلْبَقَرَة : ٢١٣

  • كَانَ Was
  • ٱلنَّاسُ mankind
  • أُمَّةٗ a community
  • وَٰحِدَةٗ single
  • فَبَعَثَ then raised up
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • ٱلنَّبِيِّـۧنَ [the] Prophets
  • مُبَشِّرِينَ (as) bearers of glad tidings
  • وَمُنذِرِينَ and (as) warners
  • وَأَنزَلَ and sent down
  • مَعَهُمُ with them
  • ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ the Book
  • بِٱلۡحَقِّ in [the] truth
  • لِيَحۡكُمَ to judge
  • بَيۡنَ between
  • ٱلنَّاسِ [the] people
  • فِيمَا in what
  • ٱخۡتَلَفُواْ they differed
  • فِيهِۚ [in it]
  • وَمَا And (did) not
  • ٱخۡتَلَفَ differ[ed]
  • فِيهِ in it
  • إِلَّا except
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • أُوتُوهُ were given it
  • مِنۢ from
  • بَعۡدِ after
  • مَا [what]
  • جَآءَتۡهُمُ came to them
  • ٱلۡبَيِّنَٰتُ the clear proofs
  • بَغۡيَۢا (out of) jealousy
  • بَيۡنَهُمۡۖ among themselves
  • فَهَدَى And guided
  • ٱللَّهُ Allah
  • ٱلَّذِينَ those who
  • ءَامَنُواْ believe[d]
  • لِمَا regarding what
  • ٱخۡتَلَفُواْ they differed
  • فِيهِ [in it]
  • مِنَ of
  • ٱلۡحَقِّ the Truth
  • بِإِذۡنِهِۦۗ with His permission
  • وَٱللَّهُ And Allah
  • يَهۡدِي guides
  • مَن whom
  • يَشَآءُ He wills
  • إِلَىٰ to
  • صِرَٰطٖ a path
  • مُّسۡتَقِيمٍ straight
Mankind was [of] one religion [before their deviation]; then Allāh sent the prophets as bringers of good tidings and warners and sent down with them the Scripture in truth to judge between the people concerning that in which they differed. And none differed over it [i.e., the Scripture] except those who were given it - after the clear proofs came to them - out of jealous animosity among themselves. And Allāh guided those who believed to the truth concerning that over which they had differed, by His permission. And Allāh guides whom He wills to a straight path.
People were one community, in faith, but they fell into disagreement, and some believed, while others disbelieved; then God sent forth the prophets, to them, as bearers of good tidings, of the Paradise for the believers, and warners, of the Hellfire for the disbelievers; and He revealed with them the Scripture, meaning, the Books, with the truth (bi'l-haqqi, 'with the truth', is semantically connected to anzala, 'He revealed') that He might decide, according to it, between people regarding their differences, in religion; and only those who had been given it, the Scripture, so that some believed while others disbelieved, differed about it, [about] religion, after the clear proofs, the manifest arguments for God's Oneness, had come to them (min [of min ba'di, 'after'] is semantically connected to ikhtalafa, 'they differed', and together with what follows should be understood as coming before the exception [illaa lladheena, 'only those']); out of insolence, on the part of the disbelievers, one to another; then God guided those who believed to the truth, regarding which (min [of min al-haqqi, 'of the truth'] here is explicative) they were at variance, by His leave, by His will; and God guides, with His guidance, whomever He will to a straight path, the path of truth.