ٱلْبَقَرَة : ٨٥

  • ثُمَّ Then
  • أَنتُمۡ you
  • هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ (are) those
  • تَقۡتُلُونَ (who) kill
  • أَنفُسَكُمۡ yourselves
  • وَتُخۡرِجُونَ and evict
  • فَرِيقٗا a party
  • مِّنكُم of you
  • مِّن from
  • دِيَٰرِهِمۡ their homes
  • تَظَٰهَرُونَ you support one another
  • عَلَيۡهِم against them
  • بِٱلۡإِثۡمِ in sin
  • وَٱلۡعُدۡوَٰنِ and [the] transgression
  • وَإِن And if
  • يَأۡتُوكُمۡ they come to you
  • أُسَٰرَىٰ (as) captives
  • تُفَٰدُوهُمۡ you ransom them
  • وَهُوَ while it
  • مُحَرَّمٌ (was) forbidden
  • عَلَيۡكُمۡ to you
  • إِخۡرَاجُهُمۡۚ their eviction
  • أَفَتُؤۡمِنُونَ So do you believe
  • بِبَعۡضِ in part (of)
  • ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ the Book
  • وَتَكۡفُرُونَ and disbelieve
  • بِبَعۡضٖۚ in part
  • فَمَا Then what
  • جَزَآءُ (should be the) recompense
  • مَن (for the one) who
  • يَفۡعَلُ does
  • ذَٰلِكَ that
  • مِنكُمۡ among you
  • إِلَّا except
  • خِزۡيٞ disgrace
  • فِي in
  • ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ the life
  • ٱلدُّنۡيَاۖ (of) the world
  • وَيَوۡمَ and (on the) Day
  • ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ of [the] Resurrection
  • يُرَدُّونَ they will be sent back
  • إِلَىٰٓ to
  • أَشَدِّ (the) most severe
  • ٱلۡعَذَابِۗ punishment
  • وَمَا And not
  • ٱللَّهُ (is) Allah
  • بِغَٰفِلٍ unaware
  • عَمَّا of what
  • تَعۡمَلُونَ you do
Then, you are those [same ones who are] killing one another and evicting a party of your people from their homes, cooperating against them in sin and aggression. And if they come to you as captives, you ransom them, although their eviction was forbidden to you. So do you believe in part of the Scripture and disbelieve in part? Then what is the recompense for those who do that among you except disgrace in worldly life; and on the Day of Resurrection they will be sent back to the severest of punishment. And Allāh is not unaware of what you do.
Then there you are killing one another, and expelling a party of you from their habitations, conspiring (tazzaaharoona: the original ta' has been assimilated with the zaa'; a variant reading has it without [the assimilation, that is, tazaaharoona]), assisting one another, against them in sin, in disobedience, and enmity, injustice, and if they come to you as captives (a variant reading [for usaaraa] has asraa), you ransom them (a variant reading [for tafdoohum] has tufaadoohum), that is to say, you deliver them from captivity with money etc., and this [ransoming] was one of the things to which they were pledged; yet their expulsion was forbidden you (muharramun 'alaykum ikhraajuhum is semantically connected to wa-tukhrijoona, 'and expelling', and the statement that comes in between is parenthetical, that is, [expulsion was forbidden you] in the same way that non-ransoming was forbidden you). Qurayza had allied themselves with the Aws, and the Nadeer with the Khazraj, but every member of an alliance would fight against a fellow ally, thus destroying each other's homes and expelling one another, taking prisoners and then ransoming them. When they were asked: 'Why do you fight them and then pay their ransom?', they would reply, 'Because we have been commanded to ransom'; and they would be asked, 'So, why do you fight them then?', to which they would say, 'For fear that our allies be humiliated'; God, exalted, says: What, do you believe in part of the Book, that is, the part about ransom, and disbelieve in part?, namely, the part about renouncing fighting, expulsion and assistance [against one another]; What shall be the requital of those of you who do that, but degradation, disgrace and ignominy, in the life of this world: they were disgraced when Qurayza were slewn and the Nadeer were expelled to Syria, and ordered to pay the jizya; and on the Day of Resurrection to be returned to the most terrible of chastisement? And God is not heedless of what you do (ta'maloona, or read ya'maloona, 'they do').