۞ وَلَقَدْ أَخَذَ ٱللَّهُ مِيثَٰقَ بَنِىٓ إِسْرَٰٓءِيلَ وَبَعَثْنَا مِنْهُمُ ٱثْنَىْ عَشَرَ نَقِيبًۭا ۖ وَقَالَ ٱللَّهُ إِنِّى مَعَكُمْ ۖ لَئِنْ أَقَمْتُمُ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَءَاتَيْتُمُ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَءَامَنتُم بِرُسُلِى وَعَزَّرْتُمُوهُمْ وَأَقْرَضْتُمُ ٱللَّهَ قَرْضًا حَسَنًۭا لَّأُكَفِّرَنَّ عَنكُمْ سَيِّـَٔاتِكُمْ وَلَأُدْخِلَنَّكُمْ جَنَّٰتٍۢ تَجْرِى مِن تَحْتِهَا ٱلْأَنْهَٰرُ ۚ فَمَن كَفَرَ بَعْدَ ذَٰلِكَ مِنكُمْ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ سَوَآءَ ٱلسَّبِيلِ
How to read it
walaqad' 'akhadha -llahu mīthāqa banī 'is'rā'īla wabaʻath'nā min'humu (i)th'nay' ʻashara naqīban . waqāla -llahu 'innī maʻakum' . la'in' 'aqam'tumu ṣṣalāta wa'ātay'tumu zzakāta wa'āmantum birussulī waʻazzar'tumūhum' wa'aq'raḍ'tumu -llaha qar'ḍan ḥassanan lla'ukaffiranna ʻankum' sayyi'ātikum' wala'ud'khilannakum' jannātin taj'rī min taḥ'tihā l-'an'hāru . faman kafara baʻ'da dhālika minkum' faqad' ḍalla sawā'a ssabīli
Allah did aforetime take a covenant from the Children of Israel, and we appointed twelve captains among them. And Allah said: "I am with you: if ye (but) establish regular prayers, practise regular charity, believe in my messengers, honour and assist them, and loan to Allah a beautiful loan, verily I will wipe out from you your evils, and admit you to gardens with rivers flowing beneath; but if any of you, after this, resisteth faith, he hath truly wandered from the path or rectitude."
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
