The Separation of Believers and Hypocrites and the Consequences of Deception

Al-Hadid — Verses 13–15 | Explore this Quran theme on Muallim

يَوْمَ يَقُولُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتُ لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا انظُرُونَا نَقْتَبِسْ مِن نُّورِكُمْ قِيلَ ارْجِعُوا وَرَاءَكُمْ فَالْتَمِسُوا نُورًا فَضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُم بِسُورٍ لَّهُ بَابٌ بَاطِنُهُ فِيهِ الرَّحْمَةُ وَظَاهِرُهُ مِن قِبَلِهِ الْعَذَابُ ١٣

On the Day when the hypocrites men and women will say to the believers: "Wait for us! Let us get something from your light!" It will be said: "Go back to your rear! Then seek a light!" So a wall will be put up between them, with a gate therein. Inside it will be mercy, and outside it will be torment."

يَوْمَ يَقُولُ الْمُنَافِقُونَ وَالْمُنَافِقَاتُ
On the Day when the hypocrites men and women will say
لِلَّذِينَ آمَنُوا
to the believers:
انظُرُونَا نَقْتَبِسْ مِن نُّورِكُمْ
"Wait for us! Let us get something from your light!"
قِيلَ ارْجِعُوا وَرَاءَكُمْ
It will be said: "Go back to your rear!
فَالْتَمِسُوا نُورًا
Then seek a light!"
فَضُرِبَ بَيْنَهُم بِسُورٍ
So a wall will be put up between them,
لَّهُ بَابٌ
with a gate therein.
بَاطِنُهُ فِيهِ الرَّحْمَةُ
Inside it will be mercy,
وَظَاهِرُهُ مِن قِبَلِهِ الْعَذَابُ
and outside it will be torment.

يُنَادُونَهُمْ أَلَمْ نَكُن مَّعَكُمْ ۖ قَالُوا بَلَىٰ وَلَٰكِنَّكُمْ فَتَنتُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ وَتَرَبَّصْتُمْ وَارْتَبْتُمْ وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِيُّ حَتَّىٰ جَاءَ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ وَغَرَّكُم بِاللَّهِ الْغَرُورُ ١٤

(The hypocrites) will call the believers: "Were we not with you?" The believers will reply: "Yes! But you led yourselves into temptations, you looked forward for our destruction; you doubted (in Faith); and you were deceived by false desires, till the Command of Allah came to pass. And the chief deceiver (Satan) deceived you in respect of Allah."

يُنَادُونَهُمْ
will call the believers
أَلَمْ نَكُن مَّعَكُمْ ۖ
Were we not with you?
قَالُوا بَلَىٰ
The believers will reply: Yes!
وَلَٰكِنَّكُمْ فَتَنتُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ
But you led yourselves into temptations
وَتَرَبَّصْتُمْ
you looked forward for our destruction
وَارْتَبْتُمْ
you doubted (in Faith)
وَغَرَّتْكُمُ الْأَمَانِيُّ
and you were deceived by false desires
حَتَّىٰ جَاءَ أَمْرُ اللَّهِ
till the Command of Allah came to pass
وَغَرَّكُم بِاللَّهِ الْغَرُورُ
And the chief deceiver (Satan) deceived you in respect of Allah

فَالْيَوْمَ لَا يُؤْخَذُ مِنكُمْ فِدْيَةٌ وَلَا مِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا ۚ مَأْوَاكُمُ النَّارُ ۖ هِيَ مَوْلَاكُمْ ۖ وَبِئْسَ الْمَصِيرُ ١٥

So this Day no ransom shall be taken from you (hypocrites), nor of those who disbelieved, (in the Oneness of Allah Islamic Monotheism). Your abode is the Fire, that is the proper place for you, and worst indeed is that destination.

فَالْيَوْمَ لَا يُؤْخَذُ مِنكُمْ فِدْيَةٌ
So this Day no ransom shall be taken from you
وَلَا مِنَ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا ۚ
nor of those who disbelieved
مَأْوَاكُمُ النَّارُ ۖ
Your abode is the Fire
هِيَ مَوْلَاكُمْ ۖ
that is the proper place for you
وَبِئْسَ الْمَصِيرُ
and worst indeed is that destination