Quran 2:179 — Al-Baqara, verse 179
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
Fair retribution saves life for you, people of understanding, so that you may guard yourselves against what is wrong. When death approaches one of you who leaves wealth,
وَلَكُمْ فِي الْقِصَاصِ حَيَاةٌ يَا أُولِي الْأَلْبَابِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ
walakum fī l-qiṣāṣi ḥayatun yāulī l-albābi laʿallakum tattaqūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- In retaliation there is life for you, men possessed of minds; haply you will be godfearing.
- Muhammad Asad
- for, in [the law of] just retribution, O you who are endowed with insight, there is life for you, so that you might remain conscious of God!
- Sahih International
- And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life, O you [people] of understanding, that you may become righteous.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | وَلَكُمْwalakum | And for you | — |
| 2 | فِىfī | in | — |
| 3 | ٱلْقِصَاصِl-qiṣāṣi | the legal retribution | قصص |
| 4 | حَيَوٰةٌۭḥayatun | (is) life | حيي |
| 5 | يَـٰٓأُو۟لِىyāulī | O men | أول |
| 6 | ٱلْأَلْبَـٰبِl-albābi | (of) understanding | لبب |
| 7 | لَعَلَّكُمْlaʿallakum | So that you may | — |
| 8 | تَتَّقُونَtattaqūna | (become) righteous | وقي |