Al-Ma'idah Verse 105 | 5:105

يٰٓاَيُّهَا الَّذِيْنَ اٰمَنُوْا عَلَيْكُمْ اَنْفُسَكُمْ ۚ لَا يَضُرُّكُمْ مَّنْ ضَلَّ اِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ ۗ اِلَى اللّٰهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيْعًا فَيُنَبِّئُكُمْ بِمَا كُنْتُمْ تَعْمَلُوْنَ ( المائدة: ١٠٥ )

yāayyuhā

يَٰٓأَيُّهَا

O you

alladhīna

ٱلَّذِينَ

who

āmanū

ءَامَنُوا۟

believe!

ʿalaykum

عَلَيْكُمْ

Upon you

anfusakum

أَنفُسَكُمْۖ

(is to guard) yourselves

lā

لَا

Not

yaḍurrukum

يَضُرُّكُم

will harm you

man

مَّن

(those) who

ḍalla

ضَلَّ

(have gone) astray

idhā

إِذَا

when

ih'tadaytum

ٱهْتَدَيْتُمْۚ

you have been guided

ilā

إِلَى

l-lahi

ٱللَّهِ

Allah

marjiʿukum

مَرْجِعُكُمْ

(is) your return

jamīʿan

جَمِيعًا

all

fayunabbi-ukum

فَيُنَبِّئُكُم

then He will inform you

bimā

بِمَا

of what

kuntum

كُنتُمْ

you used to

taʿmalūna

تَعْمَلُونَ

Yaaa aiyuhal lazeena aamanoo 'alaikum anfusakum laa yadurrukum man dalla izah tadaitum; ilal laahi marji'ukum jamee'an fayunabbi'ukum bimaa kuntum ta'maloon (al-Māʾidah 5:105)

Sahih International:

O you who have believed, upon you is [responsibility for] yourselves. Those who have gone astray will not harm you when you have been guided. To Allah is your return all together; then He will inform you of what you used to do. (Al-Ma'idah [5] : 105)

1 Mufti Taqi Usmani

O you who believe, take care of your own selves. The one who has gone astray cannot harm you, if you are on the right path. To Allah all of you have to return. Then He will tell you what you have been doing.

2 Dr. Mustafa Khattab, the Clear Quran

3 Ruwwad Translation Center

4 A. J. Arberry

5 Abdul Haleem

6 Abdul Majid Daryabadi

7 Abdullah Yusuf Ali

8 Abul Ala Maududi

9 Ahmed Ali

10 Ahmed Raza Khan

11 Ali Quli Qarai

12 Ali Ünal

O you who believe! (Do not busy yourselves with those who follow different ways!) Your responsibility is your selves (so consider how you are faring along your own way). Those who go astray can do you no harm if you yourselves are guided (and so know the right way and then follow it without deviation). To God is the return of all of you, and He will make you understand all that you were doing (and call you to account for it).

13 Amatul Rahman Omar

14 English Literal

15 Faridul Haque

16 Hamid S. Aziz

O you who believe! Let there be a witnesses among you when any of you is on the point of death at the time he makes his will - two equitable persons from amongst your family or two others from some other folk, in case you are journeying away in the land, and the calamity of death befall you. If you doubt them, then shut them both up after prayer, and they shall both swear by Allah, "We will not sell our testimony for a price (or take a bribe), even for a relative, nor will we hide Allah´s testimony. If we do then verily, we shall be among the sinners."

17 Hilali & Khan

O you who believe! Take care of your ownselves, [do righteous deeds, fear Allah much (abstain from all kinds of sins and evil deeds which He has forbidden) and love Allah much (perform all kinds of good deeds which He has ordained)]. If you follow the right guidance and enjoin what is right (Islamic Monotheism and all that Islam orders one to do) and forbid what is wrong (polytheism, disbelief and all that Islam has forbidden) no hurt can come to you from those who are in error. The return of you all is to Allah, then He will inform you about (all) that which you used to do.

18 Maulana Mohammad Ali

19 Mohammad Habib Shakir

20 Mohammed Marmaduke William Pickthall

21 Muhammad Sarwar

22 Qaribullah & Darwish

23 Safi-ur-Rahman al-Mubarakpuri

24 Wahiduddin Khan

25 Talal Itani

26 Tafsir jalalayn

O you who believe, you are responsible for your own souls, in other words, preserve them and do what is in their best interest; he who is astray cannot hurt you, if you are rightly guided; it is said that this means, `None of those misguided ones from among the People of the Scripture can hurt you'; it is also said to mean others, on the basis of the [following] hadth of Ab Tha`laba al-Khushan; `I asked the Messenger of God (s) about it [this verse] and he said, "Enjoin one other to decency and forbid one another indecency, and then if you see niggardliness being obeyed, whims being followed, this present world being preferred, and every intelligent person proud of his own opinions, then you are [still] responsible for [looking after] your own soul",' as reported by al-Hkim and others. Unto God you shall return, all together, and He will inform you of what you used to do, and requite you for it.

27 Tafseer Ibn Kathir

One is Required to Reform Himself First

Allah says;

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ امَنُواْ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ لَا يَضُرُّكُم مَّن ضَلَّ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ إِلَى اللّهِ مَرْجِعُكُمْ جَمِيعًا فَيُنَبِّيُكُم بِمَا كُنتُمْ تَعْمَلُونَ

O you who believe! Take care of yourselves. If you follow the right guidance, no hurt can come to you from those who are in error. The return of you all is to Allah, then He will inform you about (all) that you used to do.

Allah commands His believing servants to reform themselves and to do as many righteous deeds as possible. He also informs them that whoever reforms himself, he would not be affected by the wickedness of the wicked, whether they were his relatives or otherwise.

Imam Ahmad recorded that Qays said,

"Abu Bakr As-Siddiq stood up, thanked Allah and praised Him and then said, `O people! You read this Ayah,
يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ امَنُواْ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنفُسَكُمْ لَا يَضُرُّكُم مَّن ضَلَّ إِذَا اهْتَدَيْتُمْ
(O you who believe! Take care of yourselves. If you follow the right guidance, no hurt can come to you from those who are in error).

You explain it the wrong way. I heard the Messenger of Allah say,

إِنَّ النَّاسَ إِذَا رَأَوُا الْمُنْكَرَ وَلَا يُغَيِّرُونَهُ يُوشِكُ اللهُ عَزَّ وَجَلَّ أَنْ يَعُمَّهُمْ بِعِقَابِه

If the people witness evil and do not change it, then Allah is about to send His punishment to encompass them.

I (Qays) also heard Abu Bakr say,

`O people! Beware of lying, for lying contradicts faith."