ٱلْبَقَرَة : ١٠٣

  • وَلَوۡ And if
  • أَنَّهُمۡ [that] they
  • ءَامَنُواْ (had) believed
  • وَٱتَّقَوۡاْ and feared (Allah)
  • لَمَثُوبَةٞ surely (the) reward
  • مِّنۡ (of)
  • عِندِ from
  • ٱللَّهِ Allah
  • خَيۡرٞۚ (would have been) better
  • لَّوۡ if
  • كَانُواْ they were
  • يَعۡلَمُونَ (to) know
And if they had believed and feared Allāh, then the reward from Allāh would have been [far] better, if they only knew.
Yet if only they, the Jews, had believed, in the Prophet and Al-Qur'an, and been fearful, of God's chastisement, by abandoning acts of disobedience towards Him, such as sorcery (the response to the [conditional clause beginning with] law, 'if', has been omitted, [but it is intimated to be] 'they would have been rewarded', and this is indicated by [His following words]) verily, a reward from God would have been better, than that for which they sold themselves, if they had but known, that this is better they would not have preferred that over this (la-mathoobatun, 'verily the reward', is the subject; the laam is that of oaths; and min 'indi'Llaahi khayrun, 'from God, would have been better', is the predicate).