Quran 2:160 — Al-Baqara, verse 160
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
unless they repent, make amends, and declare the truth. I will certainly accept their repentance: I am the Ever Relenting, the Most Merciful.
إِلَّا الَّذِينَ تَابُوا وَأَصْلَحُوا وَبَيَّنُوا فَأُولَـٰئِكَ أَتُوبُ عَلَيْهِمْ ۚ وَأَنَا التَّوَّابُ الرَّحِيمُ
illā alladhīna tābū wa-aṣlaḥū wabayyanū fa-ulāika atūbu ʿalayhim wa-anā l-tawābu l-raḥīmu
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- save such as repent and make amends, and show clearly -- towards them I shall turn; I turn, All-compassionate.
- Muhammad Asad
- Excepted, however, shall be they that repent, and put themselves to rights, and make known the truth: and it is they whose repentance I shall accept-for I alone am the Acceptor of Repentance, the Dispenser of Grace.
- Sahih International
- Except for those who repent and correct themselves and make evident [what they concealed]. Those - I will accept their repentance, and I am the Accepting of Repentance, the Merciful.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | إِلَّاillā | Except | — |
| 2 | ٱلَّذِينَalladhīna | those | — |
| 3 | تَابُوا۟tābū | who repent[ed] | توب |
| 4 | وَأَصْلَحُوا۟wa-aṣlaḥū | and reform[ed] | صلح |
| 5 | وَبَيَّنُوا۟wabayyanū | and openly declar[ed] | بين |
| 6 | فَأُو۟لَـٰٓئِكَfa-ulāika | Then those | — |
| 7 | أَتُوبُatūbu | I will accept repentance | توب |
| 8 | عَلَيْهِمْ ۚʿalayhim | from them | — |
| 9 | وَأَنَاwa-anā | and I (am) | — |
| 10 | ٱلتَّوَّابُl-tawābu | the Acceptor of Repentance | توب |
| 11 | ٱلرَّحِيمُl-raḥīmu | the Most Merciful | رحم |