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!"

If We delay the penalty for them for a definite term, they are sure to say, "What keeps it back?" Ah! On the day it (actually) reaches them, nothing will turn it away from them, and they will be completely encircled by that which they used to mock at!

信道的人们啊!当你们中有人临终作遗嘱的时候，你们之间的作证，是你们（教胞）中两个公正人的作证，或别的两个外（教）人的作证，倘若你们旅行异乡，而病势垂危。礼拜之后，你们留著这两个证人，如果你们怀疑他们俩的忠实，他们俩就奉真主之名而发誓，说：“我们俩不以这个盟誓换取任何代价，即使我们俩所代证的，是我们俩的亲戚，我们俩也不隐讳真主所重视的证据；否则，我们俩必是犯罪的人。”

如果我把他们应受的惩罚展缓一个可数的日期，他们必定说：“惩罚怎么不降临呢？”真的，在惩罚降临他们的日子，他们将无处逃避，他们所嘲笑的惩罚将要降临他们。