Sura 3 Ali 'Imran (Family of Imran), ayah 110
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كُنْتُمْ خَيْرَ أُمَّةٍ أُخْرِجَتْ لِلنَّاسِ تَأْمُرُونَ بِالْمَعْرُوفِ وَتَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْمُنْكَرِ وَتُؤْمِنُونَ بِاللَّهِ ۗ وَلَوْ آمَنَ أَهْلُ الْكِتَابِ لَكَانَ خَيْرًا لَهُمْ ۚ مِنْهُمُ الْمُؤْمِنُونَ وَأَكْثَرُهُمُ الْفَاسِقُونَ
Translation by words
- كُنتُمْ
- You are
- خَيْرَ
- (the) best
- أُمَّةٍ
- (of) people
- أُخْرِجَتْ
- raised
- لِلنَّاسِ
- for the mankind -
- تَأْمُرُونَ
- enjoining
- بِٱلْمَعْرُوفِ
- the right
- وَتَنْهَوْنَ
- and forbidding
- عَنِ
- [from]
- ٱلْمُنكَرِ
- the wrong
- وَتُؤْمِنُونَ
- and believing
- بِٱللَّهِ
- in Allah.
- وَلَوْ
- And if
- ءَامَنَ
- believed
- أَهْلُ
- (the) People
- ٱلْكِتَٰبِ
- (of) the Book
- لَكَانَ
- surely would have been
- خَيْرًا
- good
- لَّهُم
- for them.
- مِّنْهُمُ
- Among them
- ٱلْمُؤْمِنُونَ
- (are) [the] believers,
- وَأَكْثَرُهُمُ
- but most of them
- ٱلْفَٰسِقُونَ
- (are) defiantly disobedient.
You are the best nation produced (as an example) for mankind. You enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong and believe in Allah. If only the People of the Scripture had believed, it would have been better for them. Among them are believers, but most of them are defiantly disobedient.
3:110
Translation: Saheeh International