Meaning: And take witness · Also translated as: and he calls to witness, then take witnesses, and made them testify, [I] call Allah to witness
Forms in the Quran
وَأَشْهِدُوٓا۟×2
وَيُشْهِدُ×1
فَأَشْهِدُوا۟×1
وَأَشْهَدَهُمْ×1
أُشْهِدُ×1
أَشْهَدتُّهُمْ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الشهود والشهادة: الحضور مع المشاهدة، إما بالبصر، أو بالبصيرة، وقد يقال للحضور مفردا قال الله تعالى: عالم الغيب والشهادة [السجدة/ 6] ، لكن الشهود بالحضور المجرد أولى، والشهادة مع المشاهدة أولى، ويقال للمحضر: مشهد، وللمرأة التي يحضرها زوجها: مشهد، وجمع مشهد: مشاهد، ومنه:
قوله تعالى: ﴿عالم الغيب والشهادة﴾ [الأنعام: 73]. الشهادة والشهود: حضور مع مشاهدة. وذلك إما بالبصر، وإما بالبصيرة. والأول تتعلق به الأحكام الظاهرة، وأما الثاني فالشرع بالنسبة إلى الأحكام الظاهرة لم يعتبره. وقد يقال للحضور مفردا، إلا أن الشهود بالحضور المجرد أولى والشهادة مع الشهادة. وقد يقال للمحضر: مشهد، وللمرأة بحضرة…
There is the type of man
Whose speech
About this world's life
May dazzle thee,
And he calls God to witness
About what is in his heart;
Yet is he the most contentious
Of enemies.
O ye who believe!
When ye deal with each other,
In transactions involving
Future obligations
In a fixed period of time,
Reduce them to writing
Let a scribe write down
Faithfully as between
The parties: let not the scribe
Refuse to write: as God
Has taught him,
So let him write.
Let him who incurs
The liability dictate,
But let him fear
His Lord God,
And not diminish
Aught of what he owes.
If the party liable
Is mentally deficient,
Or weak, or unable
Himself to dictate,
Let his guardian
Dictate faithfully.
And get two witnesses,
Out of your own men,
And if there are not two men,
Then a man and two women,
Such as ye choose,
For witnesses,
So that if one of them errs,
The other can remind her.
The witnesses
Should not refuse
When they are called on
(For evidence).
Disdain not to reduce
To writing (your contract)
For a future period,
Whether it be small
Or big: it is juster
In the sight of God,
More suitable as evidence,
And more convenient
To prevent doubts
Among yourselves
But if it be a transaction
Which ye carry out
On the spot among yourselves,
There is no blame on you
If ye reduce it not
To writing.
But take witnesses
Whenever ye make
A commercial contract;
And let neither scribe
Nor witness suffer harm.
If ye do (such harm),
It would be wickedness
In you. So fear God;
For it is God
That teaches you.
And God is well acquainted
With all things.
Make trial of orphans
Until they reach the age
Of marriage; if then ye find
Sound judgment in them,
Release their property to them;
But consume it not wastefully,
Nor in haste against their growing up.
If the guardian is well-off,
Let him claim no remuneration,
But if he is poor, let him
Have for himself what is
Just and reasonable.
When ye release their property
To them, take witnesses
In their presence:
But all-sufficient
Is God in taking account.
When thy Lord drew forth
From the Children of Adam—
From their loins—
Their descendants, and made them
Testify concerning themselves, (saying):
"Am I not your Lord
(Who cherishes and sustains you)?"—
They said: "Yea!
We do testify!" (This), lest
Ye should say on the Day
Of Judgment: "Of this we
Were never mindful":
"We say nothing but that
(Perhaps) some of our gods
May have seized thee
With imbecility." He said:
"I call God to witness,
And do ye bear witness,
That I am free from the sin
Of ascribing, to Him,
I called them not
To witness the creation
Of the heavens and the earth,
Nor (even) their own creation:
Nor is it for Me
To take as helpers
Such as lead (men) astray!
Thus when they fulfil
Their term appointed,
Either take them back
On equitable terms
Or part with them
On equitable terms;
And take for witness
Two persons from among you,
Endued with justice,
And establish the evidence
(As) before God. Such
Is the admonition given
To him who believes
In God and the Last Day.
And for those who fear
God, He (ever) prepares
A way out,