Quran 5 : 63

Why (do) not forbid them, the Rabbis and the religious scholars from their saying the sinful and their eating (of) the forbidden? Surely, evil (is) what they used to do.
لَوْلَا
Lawlā
يَنْهَىٰهُمُ
Yanhaāāhumu
ٱلرَّبَّٰنِيُّونَ
Arrabbaāniyyūna
وَٱلْأَحْبَارُ
Waalaaḥbāru
عَن
ʿAn
قَوْلِهِمُ
Qawlihimu
ٱلْإِثْمَ
Aliithma
وَأَكْلِهِمُ
Waaklihimu
ٱلسُّحْتَ
Assuḥta
لَبِئْسَ
Labiisa
مَا
كَانُوا۟
Kānūa
يَصْنَعُونَ
Yaṣnaʿūna

Abdel Haleem

Why do their rabbis and scholars not forbid them to speak sinfully and consume what is unlawful? How evil their deeds are

N J Dawood 2014

Why do their rabbis and divines not forbid them to blaspheme or to practise what is unlawful? Evil indeed are their doings

Edward Henry Palmer

The masters and their doctors prohibit them from speaking sin and eating unlawful things, - evil is what they have performed

Safi Kaskas

If only their rabbis and scholars would stop them from speaking sinfully and making illegal profits. Their deeds are so evil!

Mustaqim

Why do not their scholars and rabbis stop them from sinful talk and consuming bribes, bad is indeed what they used to fabricate.

Arthur John Arberry

Why do the masters and the rabbis not forbid them to utter sin, and consume the unlawful? Evil is the thing they have been working

Aisha Bewley

Why do their scholars and rabbis not prohibit them from evil speech and acquiring ill-gotten gains? What an evil thing they invent!

Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall

Why do not the rabbis and the priests forbid their evil-speaking and their devouring of illicit gain? Verily evil is their handiwork

Wahiduddin Khan

Why do their rabbis and scholars not forbid them to utter sinful words or to consume what is unlawful? Their actions are indeed vile

Musharraf Hussain

If only the rabbis and scholars would have stopped them from their sinful speech and consuming unlawful gains. How foul is what they do

Rashad Khalifa

If only the rabbis and the priests enjoin them from their sinful utterances and illicit earnings! Miserable indeed is what they commit.

Faridul Haque

Why do not their priests and monks forbid them from speaking evil and devouring the forbidden? Undoubtedly what they do is extremely evil

Hasan Al-Fatih Qaribullah

Do those of the Lord and the rabbis not forbid them to speak sinfully and to devour what is unlawful? Evil indeed is what they were doing

Mir Aneesuddin

Why do the rabbis and the priests not forbid them from their sinful speech and their eating the forbidden. Evil is the work which they do.

Mustafa Khattab 2018

Why do their rabbis and scholars not forbid them from saying what is sinful and consuming what is unlawful? Evil indeed is their inaction!

[The Monotheist Group] (2013 Edition)

If only the Devotees and Priests had prohibited them for speaking evil and consuming money illicitly. Miserable indeed is what they have done

Ali Quli Qara'i

Why do not the rabbis and the scribes forbid them from sinful speech and consuming illicit gains? Surely, evil is what they have been working

Hamid S. Aziz

Why do not their rabbis and their doctors forbid them from speaking sin and eating unlawful things - verily, evil is what they have performed

Ahmed Ali

Why do not their rabbis and priests prohibit them from talking of sinful things and from devouring unlawful gain? Evil are the acts they commit

George Sale

Unless their doctors and priests forbid them uttering wickedness, and eating things forbidden; woe unto them for what they shall have committed

John Medows Rodwell

Had not their doctors and teachers forbidden their uttering wickedness, and their eating unlawful food, bad indeed would have been their doings

Sher Ali

Why do not the divines and those learned in Law prohibit them from uttering sin and eating things forbidden? Evil indeed is that which they do

Irving/Hegab

If their rabbis and scholars had only forbidden them from speaking sinfully and living off graft! How wretched is what they have been producing.

T.B.Irving

If their rabbis and scholars had only forbidden them from speaking sinfully and living off graft! How wretched is what they have been producing.

Talal Itani (2012)

Why do the rabbis and the priests not prevent them from speaking sinfully and from consuming forbidden wealth? Evil is what they have been doing

The Wise Quran

Why do the rabbis and the scholars not forbid them from saying what is sinful and eating what is unlawful? Surely evil is what they have performed.

Muhammad Asad

Why do not their men of God and their rabbis forbid them to make sinful assertions and to swallow all that is evil? Vile indeed is what they contrive

Dr. Laleh Bakhtiar

Why prohibit not the rabbis and learned Jewish scholars their sayings of sin and their consuming the wrongful? Miserable was what they had been crafting.

Maududi

Why is it that their scholars and jurists do not forbid them from sinful utterances and devouring unlawful earnings? Indeed they have been contriving evil

The Study Quran

Why do the sages and the rabbis not forbid them from their sinful speech and their consuming what is forbidden? Evil indeed is that which they were working

Ahmed Raza Khan (Barelvi)

Why their clergymen and priests do not forbid then from uttering sinful words and eating of things forbidden'' Undoubtedly. They are performing evil things.

Bijan Moeinian

Why do their rabbis and leaders do not forbid them to say sinful words and devour unlawful things? What a miserable record they are preparing for themselves

Linda "iLham" Barto

Why do their rabbis and religious scholars not prevent them from their sinful speech and their consuming what is forbidden? Their deeds are certainly evil.

Talal Itani & AI (2024)

If only the rabbis and scholars restrained them from their sinful speech and their consumption of the unlawful. How wretched is what they’ve been producing.

Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)

Why do not the rabbis and the doctors of Law forbid them from their (habit of) uttering sinful words and eating things forbidden? Evil indeed are their works

Maulana Muhammad Ali

Why do not the rabbis and the doctors of law prohibit them from their sinful utterances and their devouring unlawful gain? Certainly evil are the works they do

Mohammad Shafi

Why did the Rabbis and the Priests not prohibit them from their sinful utterances and from eating unlawful things? What they are bringing about is certainly bad

Umm Muhammad (Sahih International)

Why do the rabbis and religious scholars not forbid them from saying what is sinful and devouring what is unlawful? How wretched is what they have been practicing

Bilal Muhammad 2018

Why do the rabbis and the doctors of law not discourage them from their saying sinful words, and from involvement in things forbidden? Wrong indeed are their deeds

Samy Mahdy

Why do not the Lord worshippers and the priests prohibit them, about their speaking the sin and eating of the illicit-gain? How wretched is what they were making.

Muhammad Taqi Usmani

Why do the Men of Allah and the Men of Knowledge not forbid them from saying what is sinful and devouring what is unlawful? Evil indeed is what they have been working

Munir Mezyed

Why do not the Pious Preachers and Rabbis forbid them from uttering evil words and from eating things forbidden? Evil indeed is that which they have been practicing.

MunirMezyed2023

Why do not the Pious Preachers and Rabbis forbid them from uttering evil words and from eating things forbidden? Evil indeed is that which they have been practicing.

Corpus.Quran

Why (do) not forbid them the Rabbis and the religious scholars from their saying the sinful and their eating (of) the forbidden Surely, evil (is) what they used to do

Abdul Hye

Why don’t the Rabbis and the scholars forbid them from their uttering sinful words and from their eating forbidden things? Evil indeed is what they have been performing.

Muhammad Sarwar

Why did the men of God and rabbis not forbid them from following their sinful words and their consuming of unlawful gains. Evil was their (rabbis and priests) profession

Hilali - Khan

Why do not the rabbis and the religious learned men forbid them from uttering sinful words and from eating illegal things. Evil indeed is that which they have been performing

Abdul Majid Daryabadi

Wherefore is it that the divines and priests forbid them not of their speaking of sin and their devouring of the forbidden? Vile indeed is that which they have been performing

Muhammad Mahmoud Ghali

If (only) the rabbis and the doctors (of the Law) had been forbidding them speaking vice and the eating (up) of illicit gains! Miserable indeed is whatever they used to work out

Bakhtiari Nejad

Why do the devoted ones and the religious scholars not prohibit them from their sinful talks and their eating up illegal possessions? What they were doing was certainly miserable.

Syed Vickar Ahamed

Why do not the Rabbis and the Doctors of (Judaic) Law prevent them (such people) from their (habit of) saying sinful words and eating things forbidden? Evil indeed are their works

Shakir

Why do not the learned men and the doctors of law prohibit them from their speaking of what is sinful and their eating of what is unlawfully acquired? Certainly evil is that which they work

Fode Drame

If only the rabbis and the sages would forbid them from their saying words of the impiety and from their devouring of the illicit gains but surely how woeful is that which they used to fabricate.

Dr. Munir Munshey

Why do their rabbis and their religious scholars not forbid them from uttering sinful (blasphemous) words, and from consuming prohibited (food and illegitimate) gains? Despicable, indeed, is what they devise

Ahmed Hulusi

Why do the rabbis and the scholars (those with knowledge and wisdom) not prevent them from saying offensive things about Allah and from consuming what has been forbidden... How wretched is what they do and produce!

Amatul Rahman Omar

Why do not the teachers of divine knowledge and those learned in the Law prohibit them from their blasphemic talk and deeds and their being too much given to eating things forbidden? Evil indeed is their machination

Ali Ünal

Why is it that the masters self-dedicated to God and educating people, and the rabbis (teachers of law) do not forbid them from sinful utterances and consuming unlawful earnings? How evil indeed is what they have been contriving

Dr. Kamal Omar

Why do not forbid them, the people who are (apparently) attached to the Nourisher-Sustainer, and (are regarded as) scholars from their sinful utterance and their eating As-Suht? Indeed, evil (it is) what they had been planning

Dr. Mohammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

Why do the divines (i.e., spiritual masters) and rabbis abstain from forbidding them from their sinful speech and consumption of unlawful things? Certainly, it is most heinous what they are contriving (by abstaining from raising voices against evil)

Muhammad Ahmed - Samira

If only the knowledgeable lord worshippers and the religious scholars forbid/prevent them from their saying the sin/crime and their eating the forbidden/possessions acquired through cheatery ; how bad (E) (is) what they were producing/manufacturing

Shabbir Ahmed

Why don't the rabbis and the priests forbid them from their down-grading assertions and illicit earnings? Indeed condemnable is what they manufacture. (A great many religious leaders, rabbis, priests, monks, mullahs, yogis, and mystics devour the wealth of people deceptively, and hinder them from the Way of Allah (9:34))