Sura 5 Al-Ma'idah (The Table Spread), ayah 79
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كَانُوا لَا يَتَنَاهَوْنَ عَنْ مُنْكَرٍ فَعَلُوهُ ۚ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا يَفْعَلُونَ
Translation by words
- كَانُوا۟
- They had been
- لَا
- not
- يَتَنَاهَوْنَ
- forbidding each other
- عَن
- from
- مُّنكَرٍ
- wrongdoing
- فَعَلُوهُ
- they did [it].
- لَبِئْسَ
- Surely, evil
- مَا
- (was) what
- كَانُوا۟
- they were
- يَفْعَلُونَ
- doing.
They used not to prevent one another from wrongdoing that they did. How wretched was that which they were doing.
5:79
Translation: Saheeh International