Al-Maaida 5:91 — Quran | Pray for the Truth

M. A. S. Abdel Haleem · selected translation

With intoxicants and gambling, Satan seeks only to incite enmity and hatred among you, and to stop you remembering God and prayer. Will you not give them up?

إِنَّمَا يُرِيدُ الشَّيْطَانُ أَنْ يُوقِعَ بَيْنَكُمُ الْعَدَاوَةَ وَالْبَغْضَاءَ فِي الْخَمْرِ وَالْمَيْسِرِ وَيَصُدَّكُمْ عَنْ ذِكْرِ اللَّهِ وَعَنِ الصَّلَاةِ ۖ فَهَلْ أَنْتُمْ مُنْتَهُونَ

innamā yurīdu l-shayṭānu an yūqiʿa baynakumu l-ʿadāwata wal-baghḍāa fī l-khamri wal-maysiri wayaṣuddakum ʿan dhik'ri l-lahi waʿani l-ṣalati fahal antum muntahūna

A. J. Arberry: Satan only desires to precipitate enmity and hatred between you in regard to wine and arrow-shuffling, and to bar you from the remembrance of God, and from prayer. Will you then desist?
Muhammad Asad: By means of intoxicants and games of chance Satan seeks only to sow enmity and hatred among you, and to turn you away from the remembrance of God and from prayer. Will you not, then, desist?'
Sahih International: Satan only wants to cause between you animosity and hatred through intoxicants and gambling and to avert you from the remembrance of Allāh and from prayer. So will you not desist?

Word-by-word analysis of Al-Maaida verse 91
#	Word	Meaning	Root
1	إِنَّمَاinnamā	Only	—
2	يُرِيدُyurīdu	intends	رود
3	ٱلشَّيْطَـٰنُl-shayṭānu	the Shaitaan	شطن
4	أَنan	to	—
5	يُوقِعَyūqiʿa	cause	وقع
6	بَيْنَكُمُbaynakumu	between you	بين
7	ٱلْعَدَٰوَةَl-ʿadāwata	[the] enmity	عدو
8	وَٱلْبَغْضَآءَwal-baghḍāa	and [the] hatred	بغض
9	فِىfī	through	—
10	ٱلْخَمْرِl-khamri	intoxicants	خمر
11	وَٱلْمَيْسِرِwal-maysiri	and gambling	يسر
12	وَيَصُدَّكُمْwayaṣuddakum	and hinders you	صدد
13	عَنʿan	from	—
14	ذِكْرِdhik'ri	(the) remembrance	ذكر
15	ٱللَّهِl-lahi	(of) Allah	أله
16	وَعَنِwaʿani	and from	—
17	ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ ۖl-ṣalati	the prayer	صلو
18	فَهَلْfahal	So will	—
19	أَنتُمantum	you	—
20	مُّنتَهُونَmuntahūna	(be) the ones who abstain	نهي

Quran 5:91 — Al-Maaida, verse 91

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