Translation of Surah Mumtahena in English

1. |O you who believe! do not take My enemy and your enemy for friends: would you offer them love while they deny what has come to you of the truth, driving out the Messenger and yourselves because you believe in Allah, your Lord? If you go forth struggling hard in My path and seeking My pleasure, would you manifest love to them? And I know what you conceal and what you manifest; and whoever of you does this, he indeed has gone astray from the straight path. | |
|2. |If they find you, they will be your enemies, and will stretch forth towards you their hands and their tongues with evil, |
| |and they ardently desire that you may disbelieve. |
|3. |Your relationship would not profit you, nor your children on the day of resurrection; He will decide between you; and |
| |Allah sees what you do. |
|4. |Indeed, there is for you a good example in Ibrahim and those with him when they said to their people: Surely we are clear |
| |of you and of what you serve besides Allah; we declare ourselves to be clear of you, and enmity and hatred have appeared |
| |between us and you forever until you believe in Allah alone-- but not in what Ibrahim said to his father: I would |
| |certainly ask forgiveness for you, and I do not control for you aught from Allah-- Our Lord! on Thee do we rely, and to |
| |Thee do we turn, and to Thee is the eventual coming: |
|5. |Our Lord! do not make us a trial for those who disbelieve, and forgive us, our Lord! surely Thou art the Mighty, the Wise.|
|6. |Certainly there is for you in them a good example, for him who fears Allah and the last day; and whoever turns back, then |
| |surely Allah is the Self-sufficient, the