سورة المائدة، الآية ٧٩
كَانُوا۟ لَا يَتَنَاهَوْنَ عَن مُّنكَرٍ فَعَلُوهُ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَفْعَلُونَ ٧٩
kānū lā yatanāhawna ʿan munkarin faʿalūhu labi'sa mā kānū yafʿalūna
They used not to prevent one another from wrongdoing that they did. How wretched was that which they were doing.
Verse 79 of Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:79), a Medinan surah, is in juz 6, on page 121 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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They did not forbid the sinner from amongst them from committing sin. Instead, the sinners used to commit sins and evil openly because no one would disapprove of it. How evil was the action of not forbidding the evil that they used to do!
They did not forbid one another from committing evil deeds. Terrible was indeed what they used to do!
They used not to forbid one another from Al-Munkar (wrong, evil-doing, sins, polytheism, disbelief) which they committed. Vile indeed was what they used to do.
They restrained not one another from the wickedness they did. Verily evil was that they used to do!
Nor did they (usually) forbid one another the iniquities which they committed: evil indeed were the deeds which they did.
They used not to forbid each other the hateful things (which) they did; certainly evil was that which they did.
They used not to forbid one another any malfeasance that they performed. Miserable indeed was whatever they were performing!
يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ لَا يَضُرُّكُم مَّن ضَلَّ إِذَا ٱهْتَدَيْتُمْ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ
O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided. To Allāh is your return all together; then He will inform you of what you used to do.
لَوْلَا يَنْهَىٰهُمُ ٱلرَّبَّٰنِيُّونَ وَٱلْأَحْبَارُ عَن قَوْلِهِمُ ٱلْإِثْمَ وَأَكْلِهِمُ ٱلسُّحْتَ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا۟ يَصْنَعُونَ
Why do the rabbis and religious scholars not forbid them from saying what is sinful and devouring what is unlawful? How wretched is what they have been practicing.
