Surah 9. At-Tauba, Ayah 66
| لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا قَدْ كَفَرْتُمْ بَعْدَ إِيمَانِكُمْ ۚ إِنْ نَعْفُ عَنْ طَائِفَةٍ مِنْكُمْ نُعَذِّبْ طَائِفَةً بِأَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ |
| Transliteration | : | laa tactadhiro qad kafartum bacda 'emaan -kum 'in nacfu can t.aa'ifah min -kum nucadhdhib t.aa'ifah bi- 'anna -hum kaano mujrimen |
| Pickthall | : | Make no excuse. Ye have disbelieved after your (confession of) belief. If We forgive a party of you, a party of you We shall punish because they have been guilty. |
| Asad | : | Do not offer [empty] excuses! You have indeed denied the truth after [having professed] your belief [in it]!"92 Though We may efface the sin of some of you, We shall chastise others - seeing that they were lost in sin.93 |
| Malik | : | Make no excuses now: you have rejected faith after your belief; even if We may pardon some of you who were not serious in participating, We will punish others amongst you, because they are criminals. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Make ye no excuses: ye have rejected faith after ye had accepted it. If We pardon some of you We will punish others amongst you for that they are in sin. 1323 |
Note - 92See note [89] above.
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Note - 93I.e., consciously persevered in hypocrisy (Zamakhshari).
The above Qur'anic sentence expresses the doctrine that
in His final judgment God will take into account all that
is in a sinner's heart, and will not indiscriminately
condemn everyone who has been sinning out of weakness or
out of an inner inability to resolve his doubts, and not
out of a conscious inclination to evil (cf. 4:98 -
"excepted shall be the [truly] helpless - be they men or
women or children - who cannot bring forth any strength
and have not been shown [or "cannot find"] the right
way").
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Note - 1323See last note. Hypocrisy is a half-way house, a state of
indecision in the choice between good and evil. Those who
definitely range themselves with good obtain forgiveness:
those who pass definitely to evil suffer the penalties of
evil.
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I.e., consciously persevered in hypocrisy (Zamakhshari). The above Qur'anic sentence expresses the doctrine that in His final judgment God will take into account all that is in a sinner's heart, and will not indiscriminately condemn everyone who has been sinning out of weakness or out of an inner inability to resolve his doubts, and not out of a conscious inclination to evil (cf. 4:98 - "excepted shall be the [truly] helpless - be they men or women or children - who cannot bring forth any strength and have not been shown [or "cannot find"] the right way"). |
