5:1  O you who believe, honour the contracts. Livestock animals have been made lawful to you, except what is recited to you. You are not permitted hunting while you are hurum. God decrees what He wills.

5:2  O you who believe, do not violate God's rites, nor the Haram Month, nor the offerings, nor the garlands, nor the free safe passage of those who visit the Haram House seeking favour from their Lord and consent. When you have come out of ihram, you may hunt. Do not let your animosity against some people who once repelled you from the Masjid Al-Haram lead you to transgress. Cooperate in matters of piety and reverence, and do not cooperate in sin and aggression, and reverence God. Indeed, God is severe in punishment.

5:3  Prohibited for you are the carrion, blood, the flesh of the pig and what has been dedicated to other than God. Also, that which has been strangled, struck with an object, fallen from a height, gored, eaten by a wild animal, except what you manage to render lawful before it dies, and also what is slaughtered on altars. Also prohibited is what you divide through arrows of chance; this is vileness. Today, the disbelievers have given up on your religion, so do not fear them, but fear Me. Today, I have completed your religion for you, perfected My blessing upon you and approved Submission as the religion for you. If one is compelled through severe hunger and without being deliberately sinful, then indeed, God is Forgiver, Merciful.

5:4  They ask you what has been made lawful for them, say, "Lawful for you are all good things, including what the trained birds of prey and dogs catch for you." You teach them from what God has taught you. So eat what they catch for you, and mention God's name upon it, and reverence God. Indeed, God is swift in reckoning.

5:5  Today, the good things have been made lawful for you, and the food of those who were given the Scripture is lawful for you, and your food is lawful for them. Also, lawful for you are the chaste women among the believers, as well as the chaste women among those who were given the Scripture before you, provided you pay them their due dowries and take them in marriage and not for illicit sex, nor as secret lovers. Whoever rejects the faith, his work will be nullified, and in the Hereafter, he will be among the losers.

5:6  O you who believe, when you get up to observe the Salat, wash your faces and your hands to the elbows, and wipe your heads and your feet to the ankles. If you are unclean, cleanse yourselves. If you are ill or travelling, or if any of you have come from the toilet or had sexual contact with women and you could not find water, then wipe your faces and hands with clean dry earth. God does not wish to place any hardship on you, but He wishes to purify you and to perfect His blessing upon you, so that you may be appreciative.

5:7  Remember God's blessing upon you and His covenant with which He has bound you when you said, "We hear and we obey," and reverence God. Indeed, God is Knowledgeable of what the chests hold.

5:8  O you who believe, stand firm for God and be equitable when you serve as witnesses. Do not let your animosity towards some people prevent you from being equitable. You shall be equitable, for it is nearest to reverence. You shall reverence God. Indeed, God is All-Aware of what you do.

5:9  God promises those who believe and do good deeds that they shall have forgiveness and a great reward,

5:10  and those who disbelieved and denied Our revelations, they are the companions of Hellfire.

5:11  O you who believe, remember God's blessings upon you. When some people intended to extend their hands against you, He withheld their hands from you. Reverence God, and in God the believers should trust.

5:12  God has taken a covenant from the Children of Israel, and We raised from among them twelve chieftains, and God said, "I am with you, so long as you observe the Salat, give the Zakat, believe in My messengers and support them, and lend God a good loan; I will then wipe out your bad deeds and admit you into Gardens beneath which rivers flow. Anyone among you who disbelieves after that has strayed off the right path."

5:13  Due to their breaking of their covenant, We cursed them and turned their hearts hard. They distort the words out of their context and have forgotten a portion of what they were reminded of. You will still observe betrayal from them, except for a few. Pardon them and overlook. God loves the good-doers.

5:14  And from those who said, "We are Christians," We took their covenant, then they forgot a portion of what they were reminded of. So We stirred up animosity and hatred between them until the Day of Resurrection. God will then inform them of what they used to do.

5:15  O People of the Book, Our messenger has come to you to clarify to you many issues that you were concealing in the Scripture, and to pardon many issues. A Light has come to you from God and a clear Book.

5:16  With it, God guides those who seek His consent to the paths of peace, takes them out of the darkness and into the light with His permission, and guides them to a straight path.

5:17  Those who say that God is the Messiah, the son of Mary, have certainly disbelieved. Say, "Then who possesses any power against God if He wanted to annihilate the Messiah, son of Mary, and his mother, and everyone in the earth?" To God belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and what is between them. He creates whatever He wills. God is Capable of all things.

5:18  The Jews and the Christians said, "We are the children of God and His beloved." Say, "Why then does He punish you for your sins? Rather, you are humans among others He has created." He forgives whom He wills and punishes whom He wills. To God belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and what is between them, and to Him is the ultimate destination.

5:19  O People of the Book, Our messenger has come to you, to clarify to you, after a period of time without messengers, lest you say, "We did not receive any bearer of good news nor a warner." Indeed, a bearer of good news and warner has come to you, and God is Capable of all things.

5:20  When Moses said to his people, "O my people, remember God's blessings upon you when He appointed prophets amongst you, made you kings, and granted you what He did not grant anyone among all the people.

5:21  O my people, enter the Holy Land which God has decreed for you and do not turn back or you will become losers,"

5:22  they said, "O Moses, there are tyrannical people in it, and indeed, we will not enter it unless they get out of it. If they get out of it, we will then enter."

5:23  Among those who were afraid, two men whom God had blessed said, "Enter upon them through the gate. Once you have entered, you shall be victorious, and put your trust in God if you are believers."

5:24  They said, "O Moses, we will never enter it so long as they are in it. So go, you and your Lord, and fight. We are staying right here."

5:25  He said, "My Lord, I possess no authority except over myself and my brother, so separate between us and between the wicked people."

5:26  He said, "It is therefore forbidden for them for forty years during which they will wander aimlessly in the land. So do not grieve over the wicked people."

5:27  Recite for them the true account of Adam's two sons when they made a sacrificial offering, and it was accepted from one of them but not from the other. He said, "I will kill you." He said, "God accepts only from the reverent.

5:28  If you extend your hand towards me to kill me, I shall not extend my hand towards you to kill you. I fear God, the Lord of the Worlds.

5:29  I want you to bear my sin and your sin, then you will be among the companions of the Fire. Such is the penalty for the transgressors."

5:30  His own self persuaded him to kill his brother, so he killed him, and thus he became one of the losers.

5:31  So God sent a crow scratching in the ground to show him how to bury his brother's corpse. He said, "Woe unto me, have I failed to be like this crow and bury my brother's corpse?" So he became among the remorseful ones.

5:32  Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that whoever kills a person, unless for the killing of another person, or causes corruption in the earth, it shall be as if he has killed all the people. And anyone who spares a life, it shall be as if he has spared the lives of all the people. Our messengers came to them with clear proofs, but then many of them after that committed excesses in the land.

5:33  The penalty for those who fight God and His messenger and seek corruption in the earth is to be killed, or crucified, or to have their hands and feet cut on opposite sides, or to be banished from the land. That is their disgrace in this world, and in the Hereafter, they shall have a great punishment.

5:34  Except those who repent before you overpower them, then you should know that God is Forgiver, Merciful.

5:35  O you who believe, reverence God and seek the means to Him, and strive in His cause so that you may succeed.

5:36  Those who disbelieved, if they possessed everything in the earth, and as much again to ransom them from the punishment of the Day of Resurrection, it will not be accepted from them, and they shall have a painful punishment.

5:37  They will want to exit the Fire, but they will not exit therefrom, and they shall have a lasting punishment.

5:38  The male thief and the female thief: you shall cut their hands as a penalty for what they have earned as a deterrent punishment from God. God is Dignified, Wise.

5:39  Then whoever repents after his transgression and reforms, God redeems him. Indeed, God is Forgiver, Merciful.

5:40  Did you not know that to God belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth? He punishes whom He wills and forgives whom He wills. God is Capable of all things.

5:41  O you messenger, do not let them grieve you who hasten into disbelief among those who say, "We believe," with their mouths, while their hearts did not believe. And among the Jews are those who are avid listeners to lies and avid listeners to other people who have not come to you. They distort the words out of their context, and they say, "If you are given this, then take it, but if you are not given it, then beware." Whomever God wishes to test, you can do nothing to help him against God. Those are the ones whose hearts God did not wish to purify. They shall have disgrace in this world, and in the Hereafter, they shall have a great punishment.

5:42  They are avid listeners to lies and devourers of illicit earnings. If they come to you, either judge between them or turn away from them. If you turn away from them, they cannot harm you in the least. And if you judge between them, judge between them equitably. Indeed, God loves the equitable.

5:43  How is it that they come to you for judgment when they have the Torah, wherein there is God's law, and they still turn away after that? Those are not believers.

5:44  We have brought down the Torah, containing guidance and light. The prophets who submitted judged by it for the Jews, so did the rabbis and the scholars in accordance with what they were entrusted with in God's Book, and they were witnesses over it. So do not fear the people, but fear Me. And do not trade away My revelations for a cheap price. Those who do not rule by what God has brought down, they are indeed the disbelievers.

5:45  And We decreed for them in it that a life for a life, an eye for an eye, a nose for a nose, an ear for an ear, a tooth for a tooth, and equivalence regarding wounds. If one forfeits what is due to him as a charity, it will be an atonement for him. Those who do not rule by what God has brought down, they are the transgressors.

5:46  And We sent, following in their footsteps, Jesus, the son of Mary, confirming what came before him of the Torah. We gave him the Injeel, containing guidance and light and confirming what came before it of the Torah, and providing guidance and advice for the reverent.

5:47  And the people of the Injeel shall rule in accordance with what God has brought down therein. Those who do not rule by what God has brought down, they are indeed the wicked ones.

5:48  And We brought down to you the Book with truth, confirming what came before it of the Scripture and superseding it. So judge between them in accordance with what God has brought down, and do not follow their personal desires in place of what has come to you of the truth. For each of you, We have decreed a law and a method. Had God willed, He would have made you one nation, but He tests you through what He has given each of you. So hasten to do good deeds. To God is your return, all of you, then He will inform you about that over which you used to differ.

5:49  And judge between them in accordance with what God has brought down, and do not follow their personal desires, and beware lest they tempt you away from some of what God brought down to you. If they turn away, then know that God wants to afflict them for some of their sins. Indeed, many people are wicked.

5:50  Is it the law of the days of ignorance that they seek? Whose law is better than God's for people who are certain?

5:51  O you who believe, do not take the Jews and Christians as allies. Some of them are allies of one another. Whoever amongst you allies himself with them is one of them. God does not guide the transgressing people.

5:52  You will see those with sickness in their hearts hastening towards them and saying, "We fear lest the wheel of fortune may turn against us." Perhaps God may bring about the conquest or a command from Him, and then they would become regretful over what they had concealed within themselves.

5:53  And those who believe will say, "Are these the ones who swore by God with their most solemn oaths that they were with you?" Their work is nullified, so they have become losers.

5:54  O you who believe, if any amongst you reverts from his religion, God will then bring a people whom He loves and who love Him, and who are humble towards the believers and stern towards the disbelievers. They strive in the cause of God and do not fear the blame of those who blame. Such is God's favour; He grants it to whom He wills. God is Immense, Knowledgeable.

5:55  Your ally is none but God and His messenger and those who believe; those who observe the Salat and give the Zakat, and they bow down.

5:56  And whoever allies himself with God and His messenger, and with those who believe, then indeed, it is God's party who are the victorious ones.

5:57  O you who believe, do not take as allies those who make a mockery and a plaything out of your religion from among the ones who were given the Scripture before you or the disbelievers, and reverence God if you are believers.

5:58  And when you call to the Salat, they make a mockery and a plaything of it. This is because they are a people who do not reason.

5:59  Say, "O People of the Book, do you resent us just because we have believed in God and in what was brought down to us, and in what was brought down before, and because most of you are wicked?"

5:60  Say, "Shall I inform you of a worse penalty from God than that? It is that for whom God has cursed and who incurred His wrath. He has made from them apes and pigs and worshippers of false gods. Those are worst in position and farthest from the right path."

5:61  And when they come to you, they say, "We have believed," but in fact, they entered with disbelief, and they certainly exited with it. God knows best what they were concealing.

5:62  And you see many of them hasten towards sin and aggression, as well as their devouring of illicit earnings. Miserable indeed is what they have been doing.

5:63  If only the rabbis and scholars would command them to desist from their sinful utterances and their devouring of illicit earnings! Miserable indeed is the work they have been doing.

5:64  The Jews said, "God's hand is chained." It is their hands that have been chained, and they have been cursed for what they said. Rather, His hands are outstretched, handing out as He pleases. What was brought down to you from your Lord will indeed increase the transgression and disbelief of many of them. We have cast animosity and hatred between them until the Day of Resurrection. Whenever they ignite a fire for war, God puts it out. They seek corruption in the earth, and God does not like the corruptors.

5:65  Had the People of the Book believed and been reverent, We would have wiped out their bad deeds and admitted them into Gardens of Bliss.

5:66  Had they upheld the Torah and the Injeel, and what was brought down to them from their Lord, they would have enjoyed provisions from above them and from beneath their feet. From among them is a 'muqtasida' nation, but with regards to many of them, evil is what they do.

5:67  O you messenger, deliver what was brought down to you from your Lord. If you do not, then you have not delivered His message. God shields you from the people. God does not guide the disbelieving people.

5:68  Say, "O People of the Book, you have nothing to stand on until you uphold the Torah, and the Injeel, and what was brought down to you from your Lord." What was brought down to you from your Lord will indeed increase the transgression and disbelief of many of them, so do not grieve over the disbelieving people.

5:69  Those who believe and those who are Jewish, and the Sabians, and the Christians: the ones who believe in God and the Last Day and do good deeds; no fear will there be concerning them nor will they grieve.

5:70  We have taken a covenant from the Children of Israel, and We sent them messengers. Whenever a messenger came to them with what their selves did not desire, they denied a group of them and a group of them they killed.

5:71  They thought it was not a test, so they turned blind and deaf. Then God redeemed them, but then many of them turned blind and deaf again. God is Seer of what they do.

5:72  They have certainly disbelieved who say, "God is the Messiah, son of Mary." The Messiah said, "O Children of Israel, worship God; my Lord and your Lord." Whoever associates anything with God, God has forbidden Paradise for him, and his refuge will be the Fire. And the transgressors have no supporters.

5:73  They have certainly disbelieved who say, "God is a third of a trinity." There is no god except One God. If they do not refrain from what they are saying, a painful punishment will befall those who disbelieved among them.

5:74  Will they not repent to God and ask Him for forgiveness when God is Forgiver, Merciful?

5:75  The Messiah, son of Mary, is no more than a messenger like the messengers who passed away before him, and his mother was a truthful one. They both used to eat the food! Look how We clarify the revelations for them, then look how deluded they are!

5:76  Say, "Do you worship besides God what does not possess any harm nor benefit for you, when God is the Hearer, the Knowledgeable?"

5:77  Say, "O People of the Book, do not exaggerate in your religion beyond the truth, and do not follow the personal desires of a people who have gone astray before, and who have misled many; they have strayed from the right path."

5:78  Those who disbelieved among the Children of Israel were cursed by the tongue of David and Jesus, the son of Mary. This is because they disobeyed and used to transgress.

5:79  They did not used to enjoin one another to desist from an evil they committed. Miserable indeed is what they used to do.

5:80  You see many of them allying themselves with those who disbelieved. Miserable indeed is what their selves brought forth upon them. God's anger is upon them, and in the punishment, they shall permanently remain.

5:81  Had they believed in God, and the prophet, and in what was brought down to him, they would not have taken them as allies, but many of them are wicked.

5:82  You will find that the people with the greatest animosity towards those who believe are the Jews and those who commit shirk, and you will find that the closest in affection to those who believe are those who say, "We are Christians." This is because some of them are priests and monks, and they do not act arrogantly.

5:83  And if they hear what was brought down to the messenger, you see their eyes flooding with tears for what they have known of the truth. They say, "Our Lord, we have believed, so decree us to be among the witnesses.

5:84  Why should we not believe in God and in the truth that has come to us? We hope that our Lord may admit us with the righteous people."

5:85  So God rewarded them for what they said with Gardens beneath which rivers flow. Therein, they shall permanently remain. That is the reward of the good-doers.

5:86  As for those who disbelieved and denied Our revelations, they are the companions of Hellfire.

5:87  O you who believe, do not prohibit the good things which God has made lawful for you and do not transgress. Indeed, God does not like the transgressors.

5:88  And eat from what God has provided for you which is lawful and good, and reverence God, the One in whom you believe.

5:89  God does not hold you accountable for your casual oaths, but He holds you accountable for the oaths which you make binding. The atonement for it is by feeding ten needy people from the average of what you feed your families, or by clothing them, or by freeing a slave. Whoever does not have the means shall fast three days. That is the atonement for your oaths when you have sworn, and so, fulfil your oaths. Thus does God clarify for you His revelations so that you may be thankful.

5:90  O you who believe, intoxicants, gambling, altars and arrows of chance are impurities that are the work of the devil, so stay away from him so that you may succeed.

5:91  The devil only wants to stir up animosity and hatred between you through intoxicants and gambling and to repel you from the remembrance of God and from the Salat. So will you thus refrain?

5:92  Obey God and obey the messenger, and beware: if you turn away, then know that the sole duty of Our messenger is the clear delivery.

5:93  There is no blame on those who believe and do good deeds for what they may have fed on if they are reverent, believe and do good deeds, then continue to be reverent and believe, and yet again were reverent and do good. God loves the good-doers.

5:94  O you who believe, God will test you with some game, which will be within reach of your hands and your arrows. Indeed, God knows who fears Him though unseen. Whoever transgresses after that will have a painful punishment.

5:95  O you who believe, do not kill any game while you are hurum. Whoever of you kills it deliberately, the penalty for it shall be the equivalent in livestock animals to what he killed. The assessment is to be arbitrated by two equitable people among you and to be set as an offering to reach the Kaaba. Alternatively, the atonement shall be by feeding the needy, or its equivalent in fasting, in order to taste the consequence of his action. God has pardoned what happened in the past, but God will avenge anyone who re-offends. God is Dignified, Possessor of retribution.

5:96  The catch of the sea has been made lawful for you, and its food is a provision for you and for the travellers, but prohibited for you is the catch of the land as long as you are hurum, and reverence God unto whom you shall be gathered.

5:97  God has rendered the Kaaba, the Haram House, an establishment for the people, as well as the Haram Month, the offerings and the garlands. That is so that you may know that God knows what is in the heavens and what is in the earth and that God is Knowledgeable of all things.

5:98  Know that God is severe in punishment and that God is Forgiver, Merciful.

5:99  The sole duty of the messenger is the delivery, and God knows what you reveal and what you conceal.

5:100  Say, "The bad and the good are not the same, even if the abundance of the bad may impress you. So reverence God O you who possess intelligence so that you may succeed."

5:101  O you who believe, do not ask about matters which, if disclosed to you, would hurt you, but if you ask about them when the Quran is being brought down, they will be disclosed to you. God has pardoned those matters. God is Forgiver, Forbearing.

5:102  Other people before you have asked about such matters, then they became disbelievers therein.

5:103  God has not authorised the innovations of Baheerah, Sa'ibah, Waseelah or Ham. Rather, the disbelievers fabricate lies about God. Most of them do not reason.

5:104  And if they are told, "Come to what God has brought down, and to the messenger," they say, "Sufficient for us is what we found our fathers upon." What! Even if their fathers did not know anything, nor were they guided?

5:105  O you who believe, you are accountable only for yourselves. If you are guided, you cannot be harmed by those who are misguided. To God is your return, all of you, then He will inform you of what you used to do.

5:106  O you who believe, witnessing a will when death draws near to one of you shall be done by two equitable people from among you, or two other persons, not from your people if you are travelling the land and the disaster of death should strike you. If you have doubts about them, detain them after the Salat and let them swear by God: "We will not trade it for a price, even if he is related to us, nor will we conceal God's testimony. Otherwise, we would be sinners."

5:107  If it is found that those two were guilty of any wrongdoing, let two others stand in their place from amongst those who have a claim against them, and let them swear by God: "Our testimony is more truthful than their testimony, and we have not transgressed. Otherwise, we would be of the transgressors."

5:108  That makes it more likely that they will give a correct testimony, for otherwise, they would fear that subsequent oaths could be lodged to dispute their oaths. Reverence God and listen. God does not guide the wicked people.

5:109  On the Day when God will gather the messengers, He will say, "What was the response you received?" They will say, "We have no knowledge. You are the Knower of the unseen."

5:110  God said, "O Jesus, son of Mary, remember My blessings upon you and your mother when I supported you with the Holy Ruh. You spoke to the people from the cradle, as well as an adult. I taught you the Scripture, wisdom, the Torah, and the Injeel. You created from clay the shape of a bird with My permission, then you blew into it, and it became a bird with My permission. You healed the blind and the leper with My permission. You brought the dead to life with My permission. I prevented the Children of Israel from getting to you when you brought them the clear proofs, then those who disbelieved among them said, 'This is nothing but clear magic.' "

5:111  And when I inspired the disciples: "Believe in Me and My messenger." They said, "We have believed, so bear witness that we are Submitters."

5:112  And when the disciples said, "O Jesus, son of Mary, is your Lord able to bring down to us a table from the sky?" He said, "Reverence God if you are believers."

5:113  They said, "We wish to eat from it and for our hearts to be reassured, and to know that you have been truthful to us and that we may be among those who witness it."

5:114  Jesus, the son of Mary, said, "O God, our Lord, bring down to us a table from the sky to be a feast for the first and last one of us, and a sign from You, and provide for us. You are the best of providers."

5:115  God said, "I am bringing it down to you, then whoever among you disbelieves afterwards, I will punish him with a punishment with which I have not punished anyone else among all the people."

5:116  And when God said, "O Jesus, son of Mary, did you say to the people, 'Take me and my mother as two gods besides God?' " He said, "Glory to You, it is not for me to say what I had no right to say. Had I said it, You would have known it. You know what is within myself, while I do not know what is within Yourself. You are the Knower of the unseen.

5:117  I have not said to them other than what You commanded me to say, that: 'You shall worship God, my Lord and your Lord.' I was witness over them for as long as I was among them. When You took me back, You were the Watchful One over them. You are Witness over all things.

5:118  If You punish them, they are Your servants. And if You forgive them, You are the Dignified, the Wise."

5:119  God said, "This is a Day when the truthful will benefit from their truthfulness." They shall have Gardens beneath which rivers flow. Therein, they shall forever remain. God is pleased with them, and they are pleased with Him. This is the great triumph.

5:120  To God belongs the sovereignty of the heavens and the earth and what is in them. He is Capable of all things.