{"collection":"Islam","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/isl/quran/00239.htm","path":"isl/quran/00239.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/isl/quran/00239.htm","text":"The Holy Quran, tr. by Yusuf Ali, [1934]\n282. Ya ayyuha allatheena amanoo itha tadayantum bidaynin ila ajalin musamman faoktuboohu walyaktub baynakum katibun bialAAadli wala ya/ba katibun an yaktuba kama AAallamahu Allahu falyaktub walyumlili allathee AAalayhi alhaqqu walyattaqi Allaha rabbahu wala yabkhas minhu shay-an fa-in kana allathee AAalayhi alhaqqu safeehan aw daAAeefan aw la yastateeAAu an yumilla huwa falyumlil waliyyuhu bialAAadli waistashhidoo shaheedayni min rijalikum fa-in lam yakoona rajulayni farajulun waimraatani mimman tardawna mina alshshuhada-i an tadilla ihdahuma fatuthakkira ihdahuma al-okhra wala ya/ba alshshuhadao itha ma duAAoo wala tas-amoo an taktuboohu sagheeran aw kabeeran ila ajalihi thalikum aqsatu AAinda Allahi waaqwamu lilshshahadati waadna alla tartaboo illa an takoona tijaratan hadiratan tudeeroonaha baynakum falaysa AAalaykum junahun alla taktubooha waashhidoo itha tabayaAAtum wala yudarra katibun wala shaheedun wa-in tafAAaloo fa-innahu fusooqun bikum waittaqoo Allaha wayuAAallimukumu Allahu waAllahu bikulli shay-in AAaleemun\n282. O ye who believe!\n When ye deal with each other,\n In transactions involving\n Future obligations\n In a fixed period of time,\n Reduce them to writing\n Let a scribe write down\n Faithfully as between\n The parties: let not the scribe\n Refuse to write: as God\n Has taught him,\n So let him write.\n Let him who incurs\n The liability dictate,\n But let him fear\n His Lord God,\n And not diminish\n Aught of what he owes.\n If the party liable\n Is mentally deficient,\nOr weak, or unable\n Himself to dictate,\n Let his guardian\n Dictate faithfully.\n And get two witnesses,\n Out of your own men,\n And if there are not two men,\n Then a man and two women,\n Such as ye choose,\n For witnesses,\n So that if one of them errs,\n The other can remind her.\n The witnesses\n Should not refuse\n When they are called on\n (For evidence).\n Disdain not to reduce\n To writing (your contract)\n For a future period,\n Whether it be small\n Or big: it is juster\n In the sight of God,\n More suitable as evidence,\n And more convenient\n To prevent doubts\n Among yourselves\n But if it be a transaction\n Which ye carry out\n On the spot among yourselves,\n There is no blame on you\n If ye reduce it not\n To writing.\n But take witnesses\n Whenever ye make\n A commercial contract;\n And let neither scribe\n Nor witness suffer harm.\n If ye do (such harm),\n It would be wickedness\n In you. So fear God;\n For it is God\n That teaches you.\n And God is well acquainted\n With all things.\n283. Wa-in kuntum AAala safarin walam tajidoo katiban farihanun maqboodatun fa-in amina baAAdukum baAAdan falyu-addi allathee i/tumina amanatahu walyattaqi Allaha rabbahu wala taktumoo alshshahadata waman yaktumha fa-innahu athimun qalbuhu waAllahu bima taAAmaloona AAaleemun\n283. If ye are on a journey,\n And cannot find\n A scribe, a pledge\n With possession (may serve\n The purpose).\n And if one of you\n Deposits a thing\n On trust with another,\n Let the trustee\n (Faithfully) discharge\n His trust, and let him\n Fear his Lord.\n Conceal not evidence;\n For whoever conceals it,\u2014\n His heart is tainted\n With sin. And God\n Knoweth all that ye do.","title":"The Quran: S\u016bra II.: Baqara, or the Heifer.: Section 39 (282-283)","type":"page"}