مَا كَانَ لِأَهْلِ ٱلْمَدِينَةِ وَمَنْ حَوْلَهُم مِّنَ ٱلْأَعْرَابِ أَن يَتَخَلَّفُوا۟ عَن رَّسُولِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا يَرْغَبُوا۟ بِأَنفُسِهِمْ عَن نَّفْسِهِۦ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمْ لَا يُصِيبُهُمْ ظَمَأٌۭ وَلَا نَصَبٌۭ وَلَا مَخْمَصَةٌۭ فِى سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ وَلَا يَطَـُٔونَ مَوْطِئًۭا يَغِيظُ ٱلْكُفَّارَ وَلَا يَنَالُونَ مِنْ عَدُوٍّۢ نَّيْلًا إِلَّا كُتِبَ لَهُم بِهِۦ عَمَلٌۭ صَٰلِحٌ ۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ ٱلْمُحْسِنِينَ
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Mā kāna li'ah'li l-madīnati waman' ḥaw'lahum mmina l-'aʻ'rābi 'an yatakhallafū ʻan rrassūli -llahi walā yar'ghabū bi'anfussihim' ʻan nnaf'sihī . dhālika bi'annahum' lā yuṣībuhum' ẓama'un walā naṣabun walā makh'maṣatun fī sabīli -llahi walā yaṭa'ūna maw'ṭi'an yaghīẓu l-kuffāra walā yanālūna min' ʻaduwin nnay'lan 'illā kutiba lahum bihī ʻamalun ṣāliḥun . 'inna -llaha lā yuḍīʻu 'aj'ra l-muḥ'sinīna
It was not fitting for the people of Medina and the Bedouin Arabs of the neighbourhood, to refuse to follow Allah's Messenger, nor to prefer their own lives to his: because nothing could they suffer or do, but was reckoned to their credit as a deed of righteousness,- whether they suffered thirst, or fatigue, or hunger, in the cause of Allah, or trod paths to raise the ire of the Unbelievers, or received any injury whatever from an enemy: for Allah suffereth not the reward to be lost of those who do good;-
Translation: Abdullah Yusuf Ali
