`You certainly make it clear
and I will surely admit you
And remember We took a covenant from the Children of Israel (to this effect): Worship none but Allah; treat with kindness your parents and kindred, and orphans and those in need; speak fair to the people; be steadfast in prayer; and practise regular charity. Then did ye turn back, except a few among you, and ye backslide (even now).
Behold! Allah took the covenant of the prophets, saying: "I give you a Book and Wisdom; then comes to you a messenger, confirming what is with you; do ye believe in him and render him help." Allah said: "Do ye agree, and take this my Covenant as binding on you?" They said: "We agree." He said: "Then bear witness, and I am with you among the witnesses."
And remember Allah took a covenant from the People of the Book, to make it known and clear to mankind, and not to hide it; but they threw it away behind their backs, and purchased with it some miserable gain! And vile was the bargain they made!
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."
We took the covenant of the Children of Israel and sent them messengers, every time, there came to them a messenger with what they themselves desired not - some (of these) they called impostors, and some they (go so far as to) slay.
当时,我与以色列的後裔缔约,说:“你们应当只崇拜真主,并当孝敬父母,和睦亲戚,怜恤孤儿,赈济贫民,对人说善言,谨守拜功,完纳天课。”然後,你们除少数人外,都违背约言,你们是常常爽约的。
当时,真主与众先知缔约说:“我已赏赐你们经典和智慧,以后有一个使者来证实你们所有的经典,你们必须确信他,必须辅助他。”他说:“你们承认吗?你们愿意为此事而与我缔约吗?”他们说:“我们承认了。”他说:“那末,你们作证吧;我也和你们一同作证。
当时,真主与曾受天经的人缔约,说:“你们必为世人阐明天经,你们不可隐讳它。”但他们把它抛在背后,并以它换取些微的代价。他们所换取的真恶劣!
真主与以色列的后裔确已缔约,并从他们中派出十二个首领。真主说:“我确与你们同在。如果你们谨守拜功,完纳天课,确信我的众使者,并协助他们,并以善债借给真主,我必勾销你们的罪恶,我必让你们进入下临诸河的乐园。此后,谁不信道,谁已迷失了正路。”
我与以色列的后裔确已订约,并派遣许多使者去教化他们,每逢使者带来他们不喜爱的东西的时候,他们就否认一部分,杀害一部分。