لَا يُؤَاخِذُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ بِٱللَّغْوِ فِىٓ أَيْمَٰنِكُمْ وَلَٰكِن يُؤَاخِذُكُم بِمَا عَقَّدتُّمُ ٱلْأَيْمَٰنَ ۖ فَكَفَّٰرَتُهُۥٓ إِطْعَامُ عَشَرَةِ مَسَٰكِينَ مِنْ أَوْسَطِ مَا تُطْعِمُونَ أَهْلِيكُمْ أَوْ كِسْوَتُهُمْ أَوْ تَحْرِيرُ رَقَبَةٍۢ ۖ فَمَن لَّمْ يَجِدْ فَصِيَامُ ثَلَٰثَةِ أَيَّامٍۢ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ كَفَّٰرَةُ أَيْمَٰنِكُمْ إِذَا حَلَفْتُمْ ۚ وَٱحْفَظُوٓا۟ أَيْمَٰنَكُمْ ۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يُبَيِّنُ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمْ ءَايَٰتِهِۦ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَشْكُرُونَ
How to read it
Lā yu'ākhidhukumu -llahu bi-llagh'wi fī 'ay'mānikum' walākin yu'ākhidhukum bimā ʻaqqadttumu l-'ay'māna . fakaffāratuhu 'iṭ'ʻāmu ʻasharati massākīna min' 'aw'saṭi mā tuṭ'ʻimūna 'ah'līkum' 'aw' kis'watuhum' 'aw' taḥ'rīru raqabatin . faman llam' yajid' faṣiyāmu thalāthati 'ayyāmin . dhālika kaffāratu 'ay'mānikum' 'idhā ḥalaf'tum' . wa-ḥ'faẓū 'ay'mānakum' . kadhālika yubayyinu -llahu lakum' 'āyātihī laʻallakum' tash'kurūna
Allah will not call you to account for what is futile in your oaths, but He will call you to account for your deliberate oaths: for expiation, feed ten indigent persons, on a scale of the average for the food of your families; or clothe them; or give a slave his freedom. If that is beyond your means, fast for three days. That is the expiation for the oaths ye have sworn. But keep to your oaths. Thus doth Allah make clear to you His signs, that ye may be grateful.
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
