The Quran

سورة البَقَرَة

Surah Al-Baqarah 2:94

The Cow · Verse 94 of 286

قُلْ إِنْ كَانَتْ لَكُمُ الدَّارُ الْآخِرَةُ عِنْدَ اللَّهِ خَالِصَةً مِنْ دُونِ النَّاسِ فَتَمَنَّوُا الْمَوْتَ إِنْ كُنْتُمْ صَادِقِينَ

Abdul Mannan Omar

Say, `If the last Abode with Allâh is especially reserved for you excluding all other people, then invoke death (upon yourself standing against the Prophet of Islam) if you are on the right.´

Abdullah Yusuf Ali

Say: "If the last Home, with Allah, be for you specially, and not for anyone else, then seek ye for death, if ye are sincere."

Ali Unal

Say (to them again): "If (as you claim, you are the beloved ones of God and the sole followers of the Straight Path, and therefore) the abode of the Hereafter with God is (reserved) for you alone, excluding other people, then long for death, if you are sincere in your belief and truthful in your claim."

11 more translations

Daryabadi

Say thou: if for you alone is the abode of the Hereafter with Allah to the exclusion of mankind, then wish for death if ye say sooth.

Faridul Haque

Say (O dear Prophet Mohammed - peace and blessings be upon him), "If the abode of the Hereafter in the sight of Allah is for you alone and none else, then long for death if you are truthful!"

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Say: If the abode of the Hereafter with Allah is specially for you to the exclusion of the people, then invoke death if you are truthful.

Maulvi Sher Ali

Say `If the abode of the Hereafter with ALLAH is solely for you to the exclusion of all other people, then wish for death if you are truthful.'

Muhammad Asad

Say: "If an afterlife with God is to be for you alone, to the exclusion of all other people, then you should long for death - if what you say is true!"

Muhammad Musin Khan

Say to (them): "If the home of the Hereafter with Allah is indeed for you specially and not for others, of mankind, then long for death if you are truthful."

Muhammad Pickthall

Say (unto them): If the abode of the Hereafter in the providence of Allah is indeed for you alone and not for others of mankind (as ye pretend), then long for death (for ye must long for death) if ye are truthful.

Muhammad Sarwar

(Muhammad), tell them, "If your claim is true that the home with God in the everlasting life hereafter is for you alone, you should have a longing for death".

Muhammed ali Shakir

Say: If the future abode with Allah is specially for you to the exclusion of the people, then invoke death if you are truthful.

Rashad Khalifa

Say, "If the abode of the Hereafter is reserved for you at GOD, to the exclusion of all other people, then you should long for death, if you are truthful."

Shabbir Ahmed

Say, “If the Eternal Abode with God is especially reserved for you to the exclusion of the rest of mankind, then show your readiness for death, if you are truthful.”

Commentary 2:94 Fa-Tamannu al-Mauta فَتَمَنَّوُا الْمَوْتَ - to invoke death, or to wish for death. The phrase has two possible meanings: either the Jews started by…

قُلْ إِن كَانَتْ لَكُمُ الدَّارُ الْآخِرَةُ عِندَ اللَّهِ خَالِصَةً مِّن دُونِ النَّاسِ فَتَمَنَّوُا الْمَوْتَ إِن كُنتُمْ صَادِقِينَ

2:94 Fa-Tamannu al-Mauta فَتَمَنَّوُا الْمَوْتَ - to invoke death, or to wish for death. The phrase has two possible meanings: either the Jews started by praying for the death of the Holy Prophet (pbuh), after which the challenge was to wait and see if their Prayers had been heard by Allâh, or that they prepared for a fight, as the word Maut موت also means “war” or “fight” (cf. 3:143). Tamannu al-Mautaفَتَمَنَّوُا الْمَوْتَ does not necessarily mean to wish for physical death. According to Râghib, the word is also used in the sense of the deprivation of moral consciousness or moral death.