وَلَكُمْ فِى ٱلْقِصَاصِ حَيَوٰةٌ يَـٰٓأُو۟لِى ٱلْأَلْبَـٰبِ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَتَّقُونَ
- EnglishSaheeh International
- And there is for you in legal retribution [saving of] life, O you [people] of understanding, that you may become righteous.
- TamilJan Trust Foundation
- நல்லறிவாளர்களே! கொலைக்குப் பழி தீர்க்கும் இவ்விதியின் மூலமாக உங்களுக்கு வாழ்வுண்டு (இத்தகைய குற்றங்கள் பெருகாமல்) நீங்கள் உங்களை(த் தீமைகளில் நின்று) காத்துக் கொள்ளலாம்.
- SinhalaRuwwad Center
- (ඝාතනය සඳහා) සමප්රතිචාර දැක්වීමෙහි නුඹලාට (ආරක්ෂා සහිත) ජීවිතයක් ඇත. අහෝ බුද්ධිමතුනි! (එමඟින්) නුඹලා බියබැතිමතුන් විය හැකි ය.
- UrduMaulana Muhammad Junagarhi
- عقلمندو! قصاص میں تمہارے لئے زندگی ہے اس باعﺚ تم (قتل ناحق سے) رکو گے۔
- JapaneseRyoichi Mita
- この報復（の掟）には，あなたがたへの生命（の救助）がある。思慮ある者たちよ，恐らくあなたがたは主を畏れるであろう。
- ChineseMa Jian
- 有理智的人们啊！你们在抵罪律中获得生命，（以此为制），以便你们敬畏。
Tafsir of 2:179
The Command and the Wisdom behind the Law of Equality Allah states: O believers! The Law of equality has been ordained on you (for cases of murder), the free for the free, the slave for the slave and the female for the female. Therefore, do not transgress the set limits, as others before you transgressed them, and thus changed what Allah has ordained for them. The reason behind this statement is that (the Jewish tribe of) Banu An-Nadir invaded Qurayzah (another Jewish tribe) during the time of Jahiliyyah (before Islam) and defeated them. Hence, (they made it a law that) when a person from Nadir kills a person from Quraizah, he is not killed in retaliation, but only pays a hundred Wasq of dates. However, when a person from Quraizah kills a Nadir man, he would be killed for him. If Nadir wanted (to forfeit the execution of the murderer and instead require him) to pay a ransom, the Quraizah man pays two hundred Wasq of dates double the amount Nadir pays in Diyah (blood money).…
Source: Ibn Kathir (Abridged)
