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Al-Baqarah (The Cow)

Verse 179of 286

وَلَكُمْ فِى ٱلْقِصَاصِ حَيَوٰةٌۭ يَٰٓأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَلْبَٰبِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ﴿١٧٩

Translation (Sahih International)

And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life, O you [people] of understanding, that you may become righteous.

Word-by-word meaning

وَلَكُمْwalakumAnd for you
فِىin
ٱلْقِصَاصِl-qiṣāṣithe legal retribution
حَيَوٰةٌۭḥayatun(is) life
يَـٰٓأُو۟لِىyāulīO men
ٱلْأَلْبَـٰبِl-albābi(of) understanding
لَعَلَّكُمْlaʿallakumSo that you may
تَتَّقُونَtattaqūna(become) righteous

Commentary (Tafsir Ibn Kathir)

The Command and the Wisdom behind the Law of EqualityAllah states: O believers! The Law of equality has been ordained on you (for cases of murder), the free for the free, the slave for the slave and the female for the female. Therefore, do not transgress the set limits, as others before you transgressed them, and thus changed what Allah has ordained for them.

Source: Tafsir Ibn Kathir — abridged excerpt

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