وَلَا
تَتَّخِذُوٓاْ
أَيۡمَٰنَكُمۡ
دَخَلَۢا
بَيۡنَكُمۡ
فَتَزِلَّ
قَدَمُۢ
بَعۡدَ
ثُبُوتِهَا
وَتَذُوقُواْ
ٱلسُّوٓءَ
بِمَا
صَدَدتُّمۡ
عَن
سَبِيلِ
ٱللَّهِ
وَلَكُمۡ
عَذَابٌ
عَظِيمٞ
٩٤
Make not your oaths a deceit between you, lest a foot should slip after being firmly planted and ye should taste evil forasmuch as ye debarred (men) from the way of Allah, and yours should be an awful doom.
— M. Pickthall
And do not take your oaths as [means of] deceit between you, lest a foot slip after it was [once] firm, and you would taste evil [in this world] for what [people] you diverted from the way of Allāh,1 and you would have [in the Hereafter] a great punishment.
— Saheeh International
And take not your oaths, to practise deception between yourselves, with the result that someone's foot may slip after it was firmly planted, and ye may have to taste the evil (consequences) of having hindered (men) from the Path of Allah, and a Mighty Wrath descend on you.
— A. Yusuf Ali
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Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
If Allah had willed, He would have made all of Humanity one Nation
Allah says:
وَلَوْ شَآءَ اللَّهُ لَجَعَلَكُمْ
(And had Allah willed, He would have made you) meaning - O mankind,
أُمَّةً وَحِدَةً
((all) one nation,) This is like the Ayah:
وَلَوْ شَآءَ رَبُّكَ لآمَنَ مَن فِى الاٌّرْضِ كُلُّهُمْ جَمِيع
…If Allah had willed, He would have made all of Humanity one Nation
Allah says:
وَلَوْ شَآءَ اللَّهُ لَجَعَلَكُمْ
(And had Allah willed, He would have ma
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