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Ali 'Imran 119

Ayah 119 of 200 · Medinan

هَٰٓأَنتُمۡ أُوْلَآءِ تُحِبُّونَهُمۡ وَلَا يُحِبُّونَكُمۡ وَتُؤۡمِنُونَ بِٱلۡكِتَٰبِ كُلِّهِۦ وَإِذَا لَقُوكُمۡ قَالُوٓاْ ءَامَنَّا وَإِذَا خَلَوۡاْ عَضُّواْ عَلَيۡكُمُ ٱلۡأَنَامِلَ مِنَ ٱلۡغَيۡظِۚ قُلۡ مُوتُواْ بِغَيۡظِكُمۡۗ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَلِيمُۢ بِذَاتِ ٱلصُّدُورِ ١١٩

Here you are loving them but they are not loving you, while you believe in the Scripture - all of it.1 And when they meet you, they say, "We believe." But when they are alone, they bite their fingertips at you in rage. Say, "Die in your rage. Indeed, Allāh is Knowing of that within the breasts."

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

1 That of it revealed by Allāh, not what was subsequently altered by men.

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. هَٰٓأَنتُمۡLo! You arehāantum
  2. أُوْلَآءِthoseulāi
  3. تُحِبُّونَهُمۡyou love themtuḥibbūnahum
  4. وَلَاbut notwalā
  5. يُحِبُّونَكُمۡthey love youyuḥibbūnakum
  6. وَتُؤۡمِنُونَand you believewatu'minūna
  7. بِٱلۡكِتَٰبِin the Book bil-kitābi
  8. كُلِّهِۦall of itkullihi
  9. وَإِذَاAnd whenwa-idhā
  10. لَقُوكُمۡthey meet youlaqūkum
  11. قَالُوٓاْthey sayqālū
  12. ءَامَنَّاWe believeāmannā
  13. وَإِذَاAnd whenwa-idhā
  14. خَلَوۡاْthey are alonekhalaw
  15. عَضُّواْthey biteʿaḍḍū
  16. عَلَيۡكُمُat youʿalaykumu
  17. ٱلۡأَنَامِلَthe finger tipsl-anāmila
  18. مِنَ(out) ofmina
  19. ٱلۡغَيۡظِۚ[the] ragel-ghayẓi
  20. قُلۡSayqul
  21. مُوتُواْDiemūtū
  22. بِغَيۡظِكُمۡۗin your ragebighayẓikum
  23. إِنَّIndeedinna
  24. ٱللَّهَAllahl-laha
  25. عَلِيمُۢ(is) All-Knowingʿalīmun
  26. بِذَاتِof whatbidhāti
  27. ٱلصُّدُورِ(is in) the breastsl-ṣudūri

Tafsir

It is you, O believers, who love these people, and want goodness for them, but they do not love you, and do not wish you well. Rather, they hate you, while you have faith in all of the scriptures, including their scriptures; yet they do not have faith in the Scripture which Allah revealed to your Prophet. If they meet you they say with their tongues, ‘We have faith’, yet when they are alone together they bite the tips of their fingers in distress and rage because of how united you are, the strength of Islam, and because of their own humiliation and shame. Tell these people, O Prophet, to stay as they are until they die in their rage. Allah knows what faith and disbelief and what good and evil there is in people’s hearts.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran