Surah Maidah ayat 63 Tafsir Quran 5:63

﴿لَوْلَا يَنْهَاهُمُ الرَّبَّانِيُّونَ وَالْأَحْبَارُ عَن قَوْلِهِمُ الْإِثْمَ وَأَكْلِهِمُ السُّحْتَ ۚ لَبِئْسَ مَا كَانُوا يَصْنَعُونَ﴾
[ المائدة: 63]

5:63 Why do the rabbis and religious scholars not forbid them from saying what is sinful and devouring what is unlawful? How wretched is what they have been practicing.

Why do the rabbis and the priests among them not forbid them from uttering sin calumny and consuming unlawful gain? Evil is what they have been doing in refraining from forbidding them.

Is it not utterly incredible that their rabbins, and canonists do not forbid their tongues from uttering ill nor do they admonish them to fear their ill-gotten gain!: Evil indeed is their habitual course of action applying to their deeds consequent on volition

( Why do not the rabbis ) the recluse in their cloisters ( and the priests ) the men of knowledge ( forbid their evil speaking ) their idolatry ( and their devouring of illicit gain ) bribery and that which unlawful? ( Verily evil is their handiwork ) their abstention from forbidding them to do so.

Why do not the rabbis and the religious learned men forbid them from uttering sinful words and from eating illegal things. Evil indeed is that which they have been performing.

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