| الَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْتُونَ الزَّكَاةَ وَهُمْ بِالْآخِرَةِ هُمْ كَافِرُونَ |
| Asad | : | [and] those who do not spend in charity: for it is they, they who [thus] deny the truth of the life to come!6 |
| Malik | : | those who do not pay Zakah and they deny the hereafter. |
| Mustafa Khattab | : | those who do not pay alms-tax and are in denial of the Hereafter. |
| Pickthall | : | Who give not the poor due, and who are disbelievers in the Hereafter. |
| Yusuf Ali | : | Those who practice not Regular Charity and who even deny the Hereafter. |
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Belief in God's oneness and charitableness towards one's fellow-men are two cardinal demands of Islam. Conversely, a deliberate offence against either of these two demands amounts to a denial of man's responsibility before God and hence, by implication, of a continuation of life in the hereafter. (For my rendering of zakah, in this context, as "charity", see surah {2}, note [34]. It is to be borne in mind that the application of this term to the obligatory tax incumbent on Muslims dates from the Medina period, whereas the present surah is a Meccan revelation.) |
