Surah Al-Bayyina 98:1 — translation and meaning

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لَمْ يَكُنِ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِنْ أَهْلِ الْكِتَابِ وَالْمُشْرِكِينَ مُنفَكِّينَ حَتَّى تَأْتِيَهُمُ الْبَيِّنَةُ

Word by Word

لَمْ
lam
Not
يَكُنِ
yakuni
were
الَّذِينَ
alladhina
those who
كَفَرُوا
kafaru
disbelieved
مِنْ
min
from
أَهْلِ
ahli
(the) People
الْكِتَابِ
al-kitabi
of the Book
وَالْمُشْرِكِينَ
wal-mush'rikina
and the polytheists
مُنفَكِّينَ
munfakkina
to be abandoned
حَتَّى
hatta
until
تَأْتِيَهُمُ
tatiyahumu
(there) comes to them
الْبَيِّنَةُ
al-bayinatu
the clear evidence

Transliteration

Lam ya kunil lazeena kafaru min ahlil kitaabi wal mushri keena mun fak keena hattaa ta-tiya humul bayyinah

Translation

Those who disbelieved among the People of the Scripture and the polytheists were not to be parted [from misbelief] until there came to them clear evidence -

Verse interpretation (Tafsir)

Those who disbelieved, from the Jews, the Christians and the idolaters, are not going to break their consensus and agreement on disbelief, until a clear proof and manifest evidence comes to them.

Source: Al-Mukhtasar Tafsir — Tafsir Center for Quranic Studies.

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