Category: Chapters / Surah

Those who disbelieve and avert [people] from the way of Allah – He will waste their deeds.
Meaning:-
Avert: to turn away or aside:

As for those who believe and do good deeds and believe in what is revealed to Muhammad – the truth from their Lord – He will remove from them their evils and improve their condition.

That is because those who disbelieve follow falsehood, and those who believe follow the truth from their Lord. Thus does Allah present to the people their comparisons.
Meaning:-
Falsehood: lie, untruth

So when you meet in battle those who disbelieve, then smite the necks until when you have overcome them, then make (them) prisoners, and afterwards either set them free as a favor or let them ransom (themselves) until the war terminates. That (shall be so); and if Allah had pleased He would certainly have exacted what is due from them, but that He may try some of you by means of others; and (as for) those who are killed in the way of Allah, He will by no means allow their deeds to perish.
Meaning:-
Smite: to strike
Perish: disappear, vanish,

Soon He will guide them, improve their condition

and admit them to the paradise which He has announced for them.

O believers! If you help the cause of Allah, He will help you and establish your feet firmly.

But those who disbelieve – for them is destruction, and He will waste their deeds.

That is because they hate that which Allah has sent down (this Quran and Islamic laws, etc.), so He has made their deeds fruitless.

Have they not traveled through the land and seen how was the end of those before them? Allah destroyed [everything] over them, and for the disbelievers is something comparable.

That is because Allah is the protector of those who have believed and because the disbelievers have no protector.

Surely Allah will admit those who believe and do good deeds to gardens beneath which rivers flow. While those who are unbelievers, they are to enjoy only this life and eat as cattle eat; but in the hereafter, the fire shall be their abode.
Meaning:-
Beneath: below; in or to a lower place, position, underneath
Abode: a place in which a person resides, home,

And many a town, stronger than your town (Makkah) (O Muhammad) which has driven you out We have destroyed. And there was none to help them.

So is he who is on clear evidence from his Lord like him to whom the evil of his work has been made attractive and they follow their [own] desires?

Is the description of Paradise, which the righteous are promised, wherein are rivers of water unaltered, rivers of milk the taste of which never changes, rivers of wine delicious to those who drink, and rivers of purified honey, in which they will have from all [kinds of] fruits and forgiveness from their Lord, like [that of] those who abide eternally in the Fire and are given to drink scalding water that will sever their intestines?
Meaning:-
Righteous: virtuous, very good; excellent.
Abide: to remain; continue; stay.
Eternally: without beginning or end; lasting forever
Scalding: very hot; burning.

And among them, [O Muhammad], are those who listen to you, until when they depart from you, they say to those who were given knowledge, “What has he said just now?” Those are the ones of whom Allah has sealed over their hearts and who have followed their [own] desires.

And (as for) those who follow the right direction, He increases them in guidance and gives them their guarding (against evil).

Then do they await except that the Hour should come upon them unexpectedly? But already there have come [some of] its indications. Then what good to them, when it has come, will be their remembrance?

Therefore, you should know that there is no god but Allah; implore Him to forgive your sins and to forgive the believing men and believing women; for Allah knows your activities and your resting places.
Meaning:-
Implore: beg, appeal to, ask, request.

The believers were asking: “Why is not a Surah revealed allowing us to fight?” But when a decisive Surah carrying the order of allowing them to fight is revealed, you saw those in whose hearts was a disease looking at you like the one under the shadow of death. Woe to them!
Meaning:-
Decisive: producing a definite result.
Woe: great sorrow or distress.

Obedience and good words. And when the matter [of fighting] was determined, if they had been true to Allah , it would have been better for them.

Would you then, if you were given the authority, do mischief in the land, and sever your ties of kinship?
Meaning:-
Sever: to break off or dissolve (ties, relations, etc.).
Kinship: blood relationship, family relationship.

Such are they whom Allah has cursed, so that He has made them deaf and blinded their sight.

Do they not then think deeply in the Quran, or are their hearts locked up (from understanding it)?

Those who turn back to unbelief after the guidance has become clear are seduced by Shaitan who gives them false hopes.
Meaning:-
Seduced: Tempt, attract powerfully.

This, because they said to those who hate what Allah has revealed, “We will obey you in part of (this) matter”; but Allah knows their (inner) secrets.

Then how (will it be) when the angels will take their souls at death, smiting their faces and their backs?
Meaning:-
Smiting: to strike or hit hard, with or as with the hand, a stick, or other weapon:

That is because they followed that which angered Allah, and hated that which pleased Him. So He made their deeds fruitless.

Or do those in whose hearts is a disease (of hypocrisy), think that Allah will not bring to light all their hidden ill-wills?
Meaning:-
Hypocrisy: the behavior of people who do things that they tell other people not to do

Had We so pleased, We could have pointed them out to you and you would have recognized them promptly by their faces. But you will surely know them by the tone of their speech. Allah knows all of your actions.

And surely, We shall try you till We test those who strive hard (for the Cause of Allah) and the patient ones, and We shall test your facts (i.e. the one who is a liar, and the one who is truthful).

Surely those who disbelieve and turn away from Allah’s way and oppose the Messenger after that guidance has become clear to them cannot harm Allah in any way, and He will make their deeds fruitless.

O you who believe! Obey Allah, and obey the Messenger (Muhammad) and render not vain your deeds.
Meaning:-
Render: to cause to be or become; make:
Vain: fruitless, producing no result; useless.

Indeed, those who disbelieved and averted [people] from the path of Allah and then died while they were disbelievers – never will Allah forgive them.
Meaning:-
Avert: to turn away or aside:

So be not weak and ask not for peace (from the enemies of Islam), while you are having the upper hand. Allah is with you, and will never decrease the reward of your good deeds.

The life of this world is but play and pastime, but if you believe (in the Oneness of Allah Islamic Monotheism), and fear Allah, and avoid evil, He will grant you your wages, and will not ask you your wealth.
Meaning:-
Monotheism: the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.

If He should ask you for it and urge you, you will be niggardly, and He would bring out all your ill-feeling.
Meaning:-
Niggardly: not generous; stingy.

Behold, you are those who are being asked to give in the cause of Allah. Yet some of you are stingy, whereas whoever is stingy to His cause, is in fact stingy to himself. Allah is self sufficient, it is you who are needy. If you turn away He will replace you by some other people; who will not be like you.
Meaning:-
Stingy: penny-pinching, miserly, niggardly, unwilling to give or spend; ungenerous.