سورة التّوبَة
Surah Al-Taubah 9:53
The Repentance · Verse 53 of 129
قُلْ أَنْفِقُوا طَوْعًا أَوْ كَرْهًا لَنْ يُتَقَبَّلَ مِنْكُمْ ۖ إِنَّكُمْ كُنْتُمْ قَوْمًا فَاسِقِينَ
Abdul Mannan Omar
Say, `Whether you spend willingly or unwillingly, this (- your charity) shall never be accepted from you, for you are indeed a people ever disobedient.´
Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Say: "Spend (for the cause) willingly or unwillingly: not from you will it be accepted: for ye are indeed a people rebellious and wicked.
Ahmed Ali
Tell them: "You may spend (in the way of God), whether willingly or with reluctance, it will not be accepted from you, for you are reprobates."
12 more translations
Ali Unal
(Respond to their unwilling donation and) say: "Whether you give willingly or unwillingly, (pretending that you give in God’s cause), it will never be acceptable (to God) from you. Surely, you are a transgressing people."
Daryabadi
Say thou: expend willingly or unwillingly, it will not be accepted of you; verily ye are ever a people ungodly.
Faridul Haque
Say, "Spend willingly or with a heavy heart, it will never be accepted from you; indeed you are a disobedient people."
Maulana Muhammad Ali
Say: spend willingly or unwillingly, it will not be accepted from you. Surely you are a transgressing people.
Maulvi Sher Ali
Say, `Spend willingly or unwillingly, it shall not be accepted from you. You are indeed a disobedient people.
Muhammad Asad
Say: "You may spend [anything], willingly - or unwillingly, [pretending that you do it for the sake of God:] it shall never be accepted from you - for, verily, you are people bent on iniquity!"
Muhammad Musin Khan
Say: "Spend (in Allah's Cause) willingly or unwillingly, it will not be accepted from you. Verily, you are ever a people who are Fasiqun (rebellious, disobedient to Allah)."
Muhammad Pickthall
Say: Pay (your contribution), willingly or unwillingly, it will not be accepted from you. Lo! ye were ever froward folk.
Muhammad Sarwar
Say, "Whether you spend your wealth for the cause of God, willingly or reluctantly, it will never be accepted from you; you are an evil doing people."
Muhammed ali Shakir
Say: Spend willingly or unwillingly, it shall not be accepted from you; surely you are a transgressing people.
Rashad Khalifa
Say, "Spend, willingly or unwillingly. Nothing will be accepted from you, for you are evil people."
Shabbir Ahmed
(Some hypocrites want to make financial contributions.) Tell them, "Your contribution is not accepted whether you pay willingly or unwillingly. You are a people who drift away from the System at the first opportune time."
Commentary 9:53 Charity is for the sake of taqwâ (– piety) and imân (– faith; cf. 2:2). There should not be any sense of compulsion behind it. The verse that follows…
قُلْ أَنفِقُوا طَوْعًا أَوْ كَرْهًا لَّن يُتَقَبَّلَ مِنكُمْ ۖ إِنَّكُمْ كُنتُمْ قَوْمًا فَاسِقِينَ
9:53 Charity is for the sake of taqwâ (– piety) and imân (– faith; cf. 2:2). There should not be any sense of compulsion behind it. The verse that follows explains further reasons for non-acceptance of charity in the cause of Allâh.