سورة البقرة، الآية ١٧٩
وَلَكُمْ فِى ٱلْقِصَاصِ حَيَوٰةٌ يَٰٓأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَلْبَٰبِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ ١٧٩
walakum fī l-qiṣāṣi ḥayatun yāulī l-albābi laʿallakum tattaqūna
And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life, O you [people] of understanding, that you may become righteous.64
[64] Or, "that you may avoid [sin]."
Verse 179 of Surah Al-Baqarah (2:179), a Medinan surah, is in juz 2, on page 27 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 69 reciters.
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In the law of equivalent punishment decreed by Allah there is life for you, because it spares your blood, stopping further attacks between you. Those with sense understand this: who are mindful of Allah, keeping to His sacred law and doing as He instructs.
In the legal retribution, there is [saving of] life for you, O people of understanding, so that you may become righteous.
And there is (a saving of) life for you in Al-Qisâs (the Law of Equality in punishment), O men of understanding, that you may become Al-Muttaqûn (the pious - See V.2: 2).
And there is life for you in retaliation, O men of understanding, that ye may ward off (evil).
In the Law of Equality there is (saving of) Life to you, o ye men of understanding; that ye may restrain yourselves.
And there is life for you in (the law of) retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may guard yourselves.
And in retaliation there is life for you, O (men) endowed with intellects, that possibly you would be pious.
They share a sequence of words with this verse: useful for telling them apart when memorising.
قُل لَّا يَسْتَوِى ٱلْخَبِيثُ وَٱلطَّيِّبُ وَلَوْ أَعْجَبَكَ كَثْرَةُ ٱلْخَبِيثِ فَٱتَّقُوا۟ ٱللَّهَ يَٰٓأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَلْبَٰبِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ
Say, "Not equal are the evil and the good, although the abundance of evil might impress you." So fear Allāh, O you of understanding, that you may be successful.
