ٱلْبَقَرَة : ١٧٩

  • وَلَكُمۡ And for you
  • فِي in
  • ٱلۡقِصَاصِ the legal retribution
  • حَيَوٰةٞ (is) life
  • يَٰٓأُوْلِي O men
  • ٱلۡأَلۡبَٰبِ (of) understanding
  • لَعَلَّكُمۡ So that you may
  • تَتَّقُونَ (become) righteous
And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life, O you [people] of understanding, that you may become righteous.1
Footnotes
1 - Or, "that you may avoid [sin]."
In retaliation there is life for you, that is great longevity, O people of pith, possessors of intellect, because if the would-be killer knew that he would be killed [in retaliation], he would refrain [from such action] and would have thereby given life to himself and to the one whom he had intended to kill; and so it [retaliation] was stipulated by the Law, so that you might fear killing, fearing retaliation.