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Al-Mumtahanah 2

Ayah 2 of 13 · Medinan

إِن يَثۡقَفُوكُمۡ يَكُونُواْ لَكُمۡ أَعۡدَآءٗ وَيَبۡسُطُوٓاْ إِلَيۡكُمۡ أَيۡدِيَهُمۡ وَأَلۡسِنَتَهُم بِٱلسُّوٓءِ وَوَدُّواْ لَوۡ تَكۡفُرُونَ ٢

If they gain dominance over you, they would be [i.e., behave] to you as enemies and extend against you their hands and their tongues with evil, and they wish you would disbelieve.

Translation: Saheeh International (English)

Word by word

Each word's meaning and sound

  1. إِنIfin
  2. يَثۡقَفُوكُمۡthey gain dominance over youyathqafūkum
  3. يَكُونُواْthey would beyakūnū
  4. لَكُمۡto youlakum
  5. أَعۡدَآءٗenemiesaʿdāan
  6. وَيَبۡسُطُوٓاْand extendwayabsuṭū
  7. إِلَيۡكُمۡagainst youilaykum
  8. أَيۡدِيَهُمۡtheir handsaydiyahum
  9. وَأَلۡسِنَتَهُمand their tongueswa-alsinatahum
  10. بِٱلسُّوٓءِwith evilbil-sūi
  11. وَوَدُّواْand they desirewawaddū
  12. لَوۡthatlaw
  13. تَكۡفُرُونَyou would disbelievetakfurūna

Tafsir

If they get their chance, they will disclose the enmity they harbour in their hearts towards you and will stretch their hands out to you to harm and beat you, while swearing and abusing you with their tongues. They will also desire that you disbelieve in Allah and His Messenger so that you become just like them.

Al-Mukhtasar in interpreting the Noble Quran