سورة المَائدة
Surah Al-Mâ’idah 5:24
The Table Spread of Food · Verse 24 of 120
قَالُوا يَا مُوسَىٰ إِنَّا لَنْ نَدْخُلَهَا أَبَدًا مَا دَامُوا فِيهَا ۖ فَاذْهَبْ أَنْتَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقَاتِلَا إِنَّا هَاهُنَا قَاعِدُونَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
They said, `O Moses! we will, certainly, never enter it so long as they are therein, so go forth you and your Lord, then fight (there) you two, surely, we will sit down here (and watch).´
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
They said: "O Moses! while they remain there, never shall we be able to enter, to the end of time. Go thou, and thy Lord, and fight ye two, while we sit here (and watch)."
Ahmed Ali
They said: "O Moses, we shall never, never enter so long as they are there. Go you and your Lord to fight them; we stay here."
12 more translations
Ali Unal
They said: "O Moses! By no means will we enter it as long as they are there. Go forth, then, you and your Lord, and fight, both of you. (As for ourselves) we will be sitting just here!"
Daryabadi
They said: O Musa! verily we shall never enter it so long as they remain therein; go thou and thy Lord, and fight ye twain, we shall remain here sitting.
Faridul Haque
They said, “O Moosa! We will never enter it whilst they are there, so you and your Lord go and fight - we shall remain seated here.”
Maulana Muhammad Ali
They said: O Moses, we will never enter it so long as they are in it; go therefore thou and thy Lord and fight; surely here we sit.
Maulvi Sher Ali
They said, `O Moses, we will never enter it, so long as they are in it. So go thou and thy Lord and fight, and here we sit.'
Muhammad Asad
[But] they said: "O Moses! Behold, never shall we enter that [land] so long as those others are in it. Go forth, then, thou and thy Sustainer, and fight, both of you! We, behold, shall remain here!"
Muhammad Musin Khan
They said: "O Musa (Moses)! We shall never enter it as long as they are there. So go you and your Lord and fight you two, we are sitting right here."
Muhammad Pickthall
They said: O Moses! We will never enter (the land) while they are in it. So go thou and thy Lord and fight! We will sit here.
Muhammad Sarwar
They said, "(Moses), as long as they are in the land, we shall never go there. Go with your Lord to fight them but we shall stay where we are".
Muhammed ali Shakir
They said: O Musa! we shall never enter it so long as they are in it; go therefore you and your Lord, then fight you both surely we will here sit down.
Rashad Khalifa
They said, "O Moses, we will never enter it, so long as they are in it. Therefore, go - you and your Lord - and fight. We are sitting right here."
Shabbir Ahmed
They said, "O Moses! We shall never enter the land while they are in it. You and your Lord should go and fight, while we sit here.”
Commentary 5:24 What is said here concerns the spiritual immaturity of the people of Moses (Num. 13.32; 14.1-4, 6-9) which can be seen as contrasted against the attitudes…
قَالُوا يَا مُوسَىٰ إِنَّا لَن نَّدْخُلَهَا أَبَدًا مَّا دَامُوا فِيهَا ۖ فَاذْهَبْ أَنتَ وَرَبُّكَ فَقَاتِلَا إِنَّا هَاهُنَا قَاعِدُونَ
5:24 What is said here concerns the spiritual immaturity of the people of Moses (Num. 13.32; 14.1-4, 6-9) which can be seen as contrasted against the attitudes of Companions of the Holy Prophet. Before the Battle of Badr one of the Companions, Miqdâd Ibn Amar, said to the Holy Prophet (pbuh), “We are with you. We will never say, as the people of Moses said to him, go forth you and your Lord, then fight there you two, we will sit down here and watch. We will fight your enemies in front of you, and behind you, and on your right and on your left” (Bukhârî). Moses prayed about his own people: “bring about separation between us (Moses and Aaron and his sincere followers) and these disobedient people.” Joshua and Jephunnah supported the position of Moses with respect to these “disobedient people” and said to them, “rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land, their defense is deported from them and the Lord is with us, fear them not” (Num. 14.6-9). It was under the leadership of Joshua and Jephunnah that finally, after forty years, the Israelites were to enter the Promised Land.