The Holy Quran 16:94 — Surah An-Nahl

Arabic text

وَلَا تَتَّخِذُوٓا۟ أَيْمَـٰنَكُمْ دَخَلًۢا بَيْنَكُمْ فَتَزِلَّ قَدَمٌۢ بَعْدَ ثُبُوتِهَا وَتَذُوقُوا۟ ٱلسُّوٓءَ بِمَا صَدَدتُّمْ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِ ۖ وَلَكُمْ عَذَابٌ عَظِيمٌ

Translation

(Warning Muslims that they should not take oaths with the intention of breaking them because this will cause others to do the same even though they had not intended to do so, Allaah says,) Do not make your oaths a means of causing corruption between you (causing others to break their oaths like you), so as to make a foot slip (make someone do wrong) after it had gained stability (when they had not intended to do so), and so as to make you taste the punishment of preventing (others) from Allaah's path (preventing them from obeying Allaah's commands). Yours shall be an intense punishment (if you do this).

Tafsir (excerpt) — Tafsir Usmani

Beware of breaking covenants: that is, do not make a way for treachery by violating covenants and breaking oaths, and do not bring disgrace upon the Muslim community, lest those who are [ready] to believe fall into doubt on seeing your corrupt and base character, lest non-Muslim nations begin to hold back from entering Islam, and lest the sin of turning…

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