9. Surah At-Tawbah, Verse 66
لَا تَعْتَذِرُوا قَدْ كَفَرْتُمْ بَعْدَ ا۪يمَانِكُمْۜ اِنْ نَعْفُ عَنْ طَٓائِفَةٍ مِنْكُمْ نُعَذِّبْ طَٓائِفَةً بِاَنَّهُمْ كَانُوا مُجْرِم۪ينَ۟
La taAAtathiroo qad kafartumbaAAda eemanikum in naAAfu AAan ta-ifatin minkumnuAAaththib ta-ifatan bi-annahum kanoomujrimeen
Do not try to excuse yourselves. You have become kafir after having iman. If one group of you is pardoned, another group will be punished for being evildoers.’
- Progressive Muslims
Do not apologize, for you have rejected after your belief. If We pardon one group from you, We will punish another group. That is because they were criminals.
- Shabbir Ahmed
"Make no excuse. You have disbelieved after your confession of belief." If We forgive a group of you, there is another group whom We shall punish since they have violated human rights by stealing the fruit of others' labor." (Unless they restore their rights (4:17), (9:102), (25:70), (27:11)).
- Sam Gerrans
Make no excuses; you have denied after your faith; if We pardon a number of you, a number of you will We punish because they were lawbreakers.
- The Monotheist Group
Do not apologize, for you have rejected after your belief. If We pardon one group from you, We will punish another group. That is because they were criminals.
- Edip-Layth
Do not apologize, for you have rejected after your acknowledgement. Even if We pardon one group from you, We will punish another group, because they were criminals.
- Aisha Bewley
Do not try to excuse yourselves. You have become kafir after having iman. If one group of you is pardoned, another group will be punished for being evildoers.’
- Rashad Khalifa
Do not apologize. You have disbelieved after having believed. If we pardon some of you, we will punish others among you, as a consequence of their wickedness.
- Mohamed Ahmed - Samira
Do not make excuses: You turned unbelievers after having come to faith. If We pardon a section of you (for being frivolous), We shall punish the other for being guilty (of deliberate sin).
- Sahih International
Make no excuse; you have disbelieved after your belief. If We pardon one faction of you - We will punish another faction because they were criminals.
- Muhammad Asad
Do not offer [empty] excuses! You have indeed denied the truth after [having professed] your belief [in it] - Though We may efface the sin of some of you, We shall chastise others - seeing that they were lost in sin.
- Marmaduke Pickthall
Make no excuse. Ye have disbelieved after your (confession of) belief. If We forgive a party of you, a party of you We shall punish because they have been guilty.
- Abdel Khalek Himmat
Do not vindicate your grievous wrong now by a prologue and an apology You have turned renegades. If We forgive some of you because of coming back to their senses, We will punish others who are indeed wicked.
- Bijan Moeinian
Let them know that by engagement in such activities they have proven their lack of belief (after having accepted Islam. ) If I decide to forgive some of them [in account of their stupidity], I will surely punish [the rest of] them as they are guilty ones.
- Al-Hilali & Khan
Make no excuse; you disbelieved after you had believed. If We pardon some of you, We will punish others amongst you because they were Mujrimûn (disbelievers, polytheists, sinners, criminals.).
- Abdullah Yusuf Ali
Make ye no excuses: ye have rejected Faith after ye had accepted it. If We pardon some of you, We will punish others amongst you, for that they are in sin.
- Mustafa Khattab
Make no excuses! You have lost faith after your belief. If We pardon a group of you,[1] We will punish others for their wickedness.
- Taqi Usmani
Make no excuses. You became disbelievers (by mocking at Allah and His Messenger) after you had professed Faith. If We forgive some of you (who repent and believe), We shall punish others (who carry on their hypocrisy), because they were guilty.
- Abdul Haleem
Do not try to justify yourselves; you have gone from belief to disbelief.’ We may forgive some of you, but We will punish others: they are evildoers.
- Arthur John Arberry
Make no excuses. You have disbelieved after your believing. If We forgive one party of you, We will chastise another party for that they were sinners.'
- E. Henry Palmer
Make no excuse! Ye have misbelieved after your faith; if we forgive one sect of you, we will torment another sect, for that they sinned!
- Hamid S. Aziz
Make no excuse! You have disbelieved after your (confession of) faith; if We forgive one party of you, We will punish another party because they were guilty.
- Mahmoud Ghali
Do not excuse yourselves. You have readily disbelieved after your belief; in case We are clement towards a section of you, We will torment (another) section, for that they have been criminals.".
- George Sale
Offer not an excuse: Now are ye become infidels, after your faith. If we forgive a part of you, we will punish a part, for that they have been wicked doers.
- Syed Vickar Ahamed
"You do not make excuses: You have rejected Faith after you had accepted it. If We pardon some of you, We will punish others among you:" (This is) because they were in sin.
- Amatul Rahman Omar
`Make no (false) excuses (now), you have certainly disbelieved after your confession of belief. Even if We forgive one party of you, We will punish the (people of the) other party for they are steeped in sin.'
- Ali Quli Qarai
Do not make excuses. You have disbelieved after your faith.’ If We forgive a group among you, We will punish another group, for they have been guilty.