Sura 2 Al-Baqarah (The Cow), ayah 214
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أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَنْ تَدْخُلُوا الْجَنَّةَ وَلَمَّا يَأْتِكُمْ مَثَلُ الَّذِينَ خَلَوْا مِنْ قَبْلِكُمْ ۖ مَسَّتْهُمُ الْبَأْسَاءُ وَالضَّرَّاءُ وَزُلْزِلُوا حَتَّىٰ يَقُولَ الرَّسُولُ وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ مَتَىٰ نَصْرُ اللَّهِ ۗ أَلَا إِنَّ نَصْرَ اللَّهِ قَرِيبٌ
Translation by words
- أَمْ
- Or
- حَسِبْتُمْ
- (do) you think
- أَن
- that
- تَدْخُلُوا۟
- you will enter
- ٱلْجَنَّةَ
- Paradise
- وَلَمَّا
- while not
- يَأْتِكُم
- (has) come to you
- مَّثَلُ
- like (came to)
- ٱلَّذِينَ
- those who
- خَلَوْا۟
- passed away
- مِن
- from
- قَبْلِكُم
- before you?
- مَّسَّتْهُمُ
- Touched them
- ٱلْبَأْسَآءُ
- [the] adversity
- وَٱلضَّرَّآءُ
- and [the] hardship,
- وَزُلْزِلُوا۟
- and they were shaken
- حَتَّىٰ
- until
- يَقُولَ
- said
- ٱلرَّسُولُ
- the Messenger
- وَٱلَّذِينَ
- and those who
- ءَامَنُوا۟
- believed
- مَعَهُۥ
- with him,
- مَتَىٰ
- "When
- نَصْرُ
- [will] (the) help
- ٱللَّهِ
- (of) Allah (come)
- أَلَآ
- Unquestionably,
- إِنَّ
- [Indeed]
- نَصْرَ
- help
- ٱللَّهِ
- (of) Allah
- قَرِيبٌ
- (is) near.
Or do you think that you will enter Paradise while such (trial) has not yet come to you as came to those who passed on before you? They were touched by poverty and hardship and were shaken until (even their) messenger and those who believed with him said, "When is the help of Allah?" Unquestionably, the help of Allah is near.
2:214
Translation: Saheeh International