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Surah Al-Ma’idah, Verse 28

سورة المائدة، الآية ٢٨

5:28 Juz 6 Hizb 12 Page 112 of the mushaf Medinan surah

Text of verse 5:28

لَئِنۢ بَسَطتَ إِلَىَّ يَدَكَ لِتَقْتُلَنِى مَآ أَنَا۠ بِبَاسِطٍ يَدِىَ إِلَيْكَ لِأَقْتُلَكَ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ ٱللَّهَ رَبَّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ ۝٢٨

Transliteration

la-in basaṭta ilayya yadaka litaqtulanī mā anā bibāsiṭin yadiya ilayka li-aqtulaka innī akhāfu l-laha rabba l-ʿālamīna

Translation

If you should raise your hand toward me to kill me - I shall not raise my hand toward you to kill you. Indeed, I fear Allāh, Lord of the worlds.

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Verse 28 of Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:28), a Medinan surah, is in juz 6, on page 112 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 73 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 28

Al-Mukhtasar

If you lift your hand intending to kill me, I will not do the same as you. It is not because I am a coward, but because I fear Allah the Lord of all created things.

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Other translations of verse 28

Even if you stretch your hand forward to kill me, I will not stretch my hand forward to kill you, for I fear Allah, the Lord of the worlds.

"If you do stretch your hand against me to kill me, I shall never stretch my hand against you to kill you : for I fear Allâh, the Lord of the ‘Âlamîn (mankind, jinn, and all that exists)."

Even if thou stretch out thy hand against me to kill me, I shall not stretch out my hand against thee to kill thee, lo! I fear Allah, the Lord of the Worlds.

"If thou dost stretch thy hand against me, to slay me, it is not for me to stretch my hand against thee to slay thee: for I do fear Allah, the cherisher of the worlds.

If you will stretch forth your hand towards me to slay me, I am not one to stretch forth my hand towards you to slay you surely I fear Allah, the Lord of the worlds:

Indeed, in case you stretch out your hand against me to kill me, in no way will I be stretching out my hand against you to kill you. Surely I fear Allah, The Lord of the worlds.

Verse 28 word by word

  1. لَئِنۢ la-in If
  2. بَسَطتَ basaṭta you stretch ب س ط
  3. إِلَىَّ ilayya towards me
  4. يَدَكَ yadaka your hand ي د ي
  5. لِتَقْتُلَنِى litaqtulanī to kill me ق ت ل
  6. مَآ mā not
  7. أَنَا۠ anā will I
  8. بِبَاسِطٍ bibāsiṭin stretch ب س ط
  9. يَدِىَ yadiya my hand ي د ي
  10. إِلَيْكَ ilayka towards you
  11. لِأَقْتُلَكَ li-aqtulaka to kill you ق ت ل
  12. إِنِّىٓ innī indeed I
  13. أَخَافُ akhāfu fear خ و ف
  14. ٱللَّهَ l-laha Allah
  15. رَبَّ rabba (the) Lord ر ب ب
  16. ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ l-ʿālamīna (of) the worlds ع ل م

Hadiths that cite this verse

Differing grades Sunan Abu Dawud 4257

I asked: Messenger of Allah! tell me if someone enters my house and extends his hands to kill me (what should I do?) The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) replied: Be like the two sons of Adam. The narrator Yazid (ibn Khalid) then recited the verse: "If thou dost stretch they hand against me to slay me."…

حَدَّثَنَا يَزِيدُ بْنُ خَالِدٍ الرَّمْلِيُّ، حَدَّثَنَا مُفَضَّلٌ، عَنْ عَيَّاشٍ، عَنْ بُكَيْرٍ، عَنْ بُسْرِ بْنِ سَعِيدٍ، عَنْ حُسَيْنِ بْنِ عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ الأَشْجَعِيِّ، أَنَّهُ سَمِعَ سَعْدَ بْنَ أَبِي وَقَّاصٍ…

Narrated by Sa‘d

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  • Al-Hashr 59:16

    كَمَثَلِ ٱلشَّيْطَٰنِ إِذْ قَالَ لِلْإِنسَٰنِ ٱكْفُرْ فَلَمَّا كَفَرَ قَالَ إِنِّى بَرِىٓءٌ مِّنكَ إِنِّىٓ أَخَافُ ٱللَّهَ رَبَّ ٱلْعَٰلَمِينَ

    [The hypocrites are] like the example of Satan when he says to man, "Disbelieve." But when he disbelieves, he says, "Indeed, I am disassociated from you. Indeed, I fear Allāh, Lord of the worlds."

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