يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوا۟ شَهَٰدَةُ بَيْنِكُمْ إِذَا حَضَرَ أَحَدَكُمُ ٱلْمَوْتُ حِينَ ٱلْوَصِيَّةِ ٱثْنَانِ ذَوَا عَدْلٍۢ مِّنكُمْ أَوْ ءَاخَرَانِ مِنْ غَيْرِكُمْ إِنْ أَنتُمْ ضَرَبْتُمْ فِى ٱلْأَرْضِ فَأَصَٰبَتْكُم مُّصِيبَةُ ٱلْمَوْتِ ۚ تَحْبِسُونَهُمَا مِنۢ بَعْدِ ٱلصَّلَوٰةِ فَيُقْسِمَانِ بِٱللَّهِ إِنِ ٱرْتَبْتُمْ لَا نَشْتَرِى بِهِۦ ثَمَنًۭا وَلَوْ كَانَ ذَا قُرْبَىٰ ۙ وَلَا نَكْتُمُ شَهَٰدَةَ ٱللَّهِ إِنَّآ إِذًۭا لَّمِنَ ٱلْءَاثِمِينَ
How to read it
Yā'ayyuhā -lladhīna 'āmanū shahādatu bay'nikum' 'idhā ḥaḍara 'aḥadakumu l-maw'tu ḥīna l-waṣiyyati (i)th'nāni dhawā ʻad'lin mminkum' 'aw' 'ākharāni min' ghay'rikum' 'in' 'antum' ḍarab'tum' fī l-'ar'ḍi fa'aṣābat'kum mmuṣībatu l-maw'ti . taḥ'bissūnahumā min[m] baʻ'di ṣṣalāti fayuq'simāni bi-llahi 'ini (i)r'tab'tum' lā nash'tarī bihī thamanan walaw' kāna dhā qur'bā walā nak'tumu shahādata -llahi 'innā 'idhan llamina l-'āthimīna
O ye who believe! When death approaches any of you, (take) witnesses among yourselves when making bequests,- two just men of your own (brotherhood) or others from outside if ye are journeying through the earth, and the chance of death befalls you (thus). If ye doubt (their truth), detain them both after prayer, and let them both swear by Allah: "We wish not in this for any worldly gain, even though the (beneficiary) be our near relation: we shall hide not the evidence before Allah: if we do, then behold! the sin be upon us!"
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
