Meaning: They swear · Also translated as: swearing, you have sworn, And they will swear, They will swear
Forms in the Quran
يَحْلِفُونَ×5
وَيَحْلِفُونَ×2
حَلَفْتُمْ×1
وَسَيَحْلِفُونَ×1
سَيَحْلِفُونَ×1
وَلَيَحْلِفُنَّ×1
فَيَحْلِفُونَ×1
Its root in the classical dictionaries
الحلف: العهد بين القوم، والمحالفة:
الحلف: القسم، يقال: حلف على كذا يحلف حلفا. أي أقسم عليه. قال تعالى: ﴿ويحلفون على الكذب﴾ [المجادلة:14] وقال تعالى: ﴿يحلفون بالله إنهم لمنكم﴾ [التوبة:56] وقيل: الحلف في الأصل: العهد بين القوم، والمحالفة: المعاهدة. وقيل: الملازمة التي تكون بمعاهدة؛ ومن ذلك: فلان خلف كرم، وحليف كرم لما تصور فيه من الملازمة. والأحلاف: جمع…
How then, when they are
Seized by misfortune,
Because of the deeds
Which their hands have sent forth?
Then they come to thee,
Swearing by God:
"We meant no more
Than good-will and conciliation!"
God will not call you
To account for what is
Futile in your oaths,
But He will call you
To account for your deliberate
Oaths: for expiation, feed
Ten indigent persons,
On a scale of the average
For the food of your families;
Or clothe them; or give
A slave his freedom.
If that is beyond your means,
Fast for three days.
That is the expiation
For the oaths ye have sworn.
But keep to your oaths.
Thus doth God make clear
To you His Signs, that ye
May be grateful.
If there had been
Immediate gain (in sight),
And the journey easy,
They would (all) without doubt
Have followed thee, but
The distance was long,
(And weighed) on them.
They would indeed swear
By God, "If we only could,
We should certainly
Have come out with you:"
They would destroy their own souls;
For God doth know
That they are certainly lying.
They swear by God that they
Said nothing (evil), but indeed
They uttered blasphemy,
And they did it after accepting
Islam; and they meditated
A plot which they were unable
To carry out: this revenge
Of theirs was (their) only return
For the bounty with which
God and His Apostle had enriched
Them! If they repent,
It will be best for them;
But if they turn back
(To their evil ways),
God will punish them
With a grievous penalty
In this life and in the Hereafter:
They shall have none on earth
To protect or help them.
They will swear to you by God,
When ye return to them,
That ye may leave them alone.
So leave them alone:
For they are an abomination,
And Hell is their dwelling-place,—
A fitting recompense
For the (evil) that they did.
And there are those
Who put up a mosque
By way of mischief and infidelity—
To disunite the Believers
And in preparation for one
Who warred against God
And His Apostle aforetime.
They will indeed swear
That their intention is nothing
But good; but God doth declare
That they are certainly liars.
Turnest thou not
Thy attention to those
Who turn (in friendship)
To such as have the Wrath
Of God upon them?
They are neither of you
Nor of them, and they
Swear to falsehood knowingly.
One Day will God
Raise them all up
(For Judgment): then
Will they swear to Him
As they swear to you:
And they think that they
Have something (to stand upon).
No, indeed! they are
But liars!