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Aya 94
94
وَلا تَتَّخِذوا أَيمانَكُم دَخَلًا بَينَكُم فَتَزِلَّ قَدَمٌ بَعدَ ثُبوتِها وَتَذوقُوا السّوءَ بِما صَدَدتُم عَن سَبيلِ اللَّهِ ۖ وَلَكُم عَذابٌ عَظيمٌ

Muhammad Asad

And do not use your oaths as a means of deceiving one another - or else [your] foot will slip after having been firm,1 and then you will have to taste the evil [consequences]2 of your having turned away from the path of God, with tremendous suffering awaiting you [in the life to come].
  • I.e., "you will offend against God after having attained to faith", seeing that - as has been pointed out in note 110 above - every pledge given by man to man is synonymous with a pledge to God.
  • I.e., in this world (Tabari, Zamakhshari, Baydawi), inasmuch as the breaking of pledges unavoidably leads to a gradual disappearance of all mutual trust and, thus, to the decomposition of the social fabric.