Quran 5:90 — Al-Maaida, verse 90
M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation
You who believe, intoxicants and gambling, idolatrous practices, and [divining with] arrows are repugnant acts- Satan’s doing- shun them so that you may prosper.
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا إِنَّمَا الْخَمْرُ وَالْمَيْسِرُ وَالْأَنْصَابُ وَالْأَزْلَامُ رِجْسٌ مِنْ عَمَلِ الشَّيْطَانِ فَاجْتَنِبُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُفْلِحُونَ
yāayyuhā alladhīna āmanū innamā l-khamru wal-maysiru wal-anṣābu wal-azlāmu rij'sun min ʿamali l-shayṭāni fa-ij'tanibūhu laʿallakum tuf'liḥūna
Other translations
- A. J. Arberry
- O believers, wine and arrow-shuffling, idols and divining-arrows are an abomination, some of Satan's work; so avoid it; haply So you will prosper.
- Muhammad Asad
- O YOU who have attained to faith! Intoxicants, and games of chance, and idolatrous practices, and the divining of the future are but a loathsome evil of Satan's doing:' shun it, then, so that you might attain to a happy state!
- Sahih International
- O you who have believed, indeed, intoxicants, gambling, [sacrificing on] stone alters [to other than Allāh], and divining arrows are but defilement from the work of Satan, so avoid it that you may be successful.
Words
| # | Word | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | يَـٰٓأَيُّهَاyāayyuhā | O you | — |
| 2 | ٱلَّذِينَalladhīna | who | — |
| 3 | ءَامَنُوٓا۟āmanū | believe | أمن |
| 4 | إِنَّمَاinnamā | Verily | — |
| 5 | ٱلْخَمْرُl-khamru | the intoxicants | خمر |
| 6 | وَٱلْمَيْسِرُwal-maysiru | and [the] games of chance | يسر |
| 7 | وَٱلْأَنصَابُwal-anṣābu | and (sacrifices at) altars | نصب |
| 8 | وَٱلْأَزْلَـٰمُwal-azlāmu | and divining arrows | زلم |
| 9 | رِجْسٌۭrij'sun | (are an) abomination | رجس |
| 10 | مِّنْmin | from | — |
| 11 | عَمَلِʿamali | (the) work | عمل |
| 12 | ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنِl-shayṭāni | (of) the Shaitaan | شطن |
| 13 | فَٱجْتَنِبُوهُfa-ij'tanibūhu | so avoid it | جنب |
| 14 | لَعَلَّكُمْlaʿallakum | so that you may | — |
| 15 | تُفْلِحُونَtuf'liḥūna | (be) successful | فلح |