Surat Al-Ma’idah Verse No. 21: Reading and listening
Translation of the verse 21 from Surah Al-Ma’idah : Number of verses 120 - - page 111 - Part 6.
![surah المائدة ayah 21 - O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back [from fighting in Allah 's cause] and [thus] become losers.](https://surahquran.com/img/ayah/5-21.png)
﴾يَٰقَوۡمِ ٱدۡخُلُواْ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ ٱلۡمُقَدَّسَةَ ٱلَّتِي كَتَبَ ٱللَّهُ لَكُمۡ وَلَا تَرۡتَدُّواْ عَلَىٰٓ أَدۡبَارِكُمۡ فَتَنقَلِبُواْ خَٰسِرِينَ ﴿
[ المائدة: 21]
"O my people! Enter the holy land (Palestine) which Allah has assigned to you, and turn not back (in flight) for then you will be returned as losers."
English - Sahih International
O my people, enter the Holy Land which Allah has assigned to you and do not turn back [from fighting in Allah 's cause] and [thus] become losers."
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
(5:21) My people! Enter the holy land which Allah has ordained for you; *43 and do not turn back for then you will turn about losers. *44 They answered: 'Moses, therein live a ferocious people: we will not enter unless they depart from it; but if they do depart from it then we will surely enter it.'
Tafheem-ul-Quran by Syed Abu-al-A'la Maududi
*43). This signifies Palestine which had been the homeland of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. After their exodus from Egypt, God ordered the Israelites to go forth to Egypt and conquer it.
*44). This statement of Moses refers to the second year after they had come out of Egypt when he and his people lived in tents in the wilderness of Paran. This desert lies in the Sinai peninsula adjacent to the northern borders of Arabia and the southern borders of Palestine.