الْبَقَرَةِ

Surah Al-Baqarah, ayah 71

The Cow · Medinan · 286 ayahs

2:71

قَالَ اِنَّهُ یَقُولُ اِنَّهَا بَقَرَةٌ لَا ذَلُولٌ تُثٖیرُ الْاَرْضَ وَلَا تَسْقِی الْحَرْثَۚ مُسَلَّمَةٌ لَا شِیَةَ فٖیهَاؕ قَالُوا الْــٰٔنَ جِئْتَ بِالْحَقِّؕ فَذَبَحُوهَا وَمَا كَادُوا یَفْعَلُونَࣖ

Qala innahu yaqoolu innaha baqaratun la thaloolun tutheeru alarda wala tasqee alhartha musallamatun la shiyata feeha qaloo alana jita bialhaqqi fathabahooha wama kadoo yafAAaloona

Translations

He said, "He says, 'It is a cow neither trained to plow the earth nor to irrigate the field, one free from fault with no spot upon her.' " They said, "Now you have come with the truth." So they slaughtered her, but they could hardly do it

Saheeh International

(Moses) answered: Lo! He saith: Verily she is a cow unyoked; she plougheth not the soil nor watereth the tilth; whole and without mark. They said: Now thou bringest the truth. So they sacrificed her, though almost they did not

Marmaduke Pickthall