ثُمَّ
قَفَّيْنَا
عَلَىٰٓ
ءَاثَـٰرِهِم
بِرُسُلِنَا
وَقَفَّيْنَا
بِعِيسَى
ٱبْنِ
مَرْيَمَ
وَءَاتَيْنَـٰهُ
ٱلْإِنجِيلَ
وَجَعَلْنَا
فِى
قُلُوبِ
ٱلَّذِينَ
ٱتَّبَعُوهُ
رَأْفَةًۭ
وَرَحْمَةًۭ
وَرَهْبَانِيَّةً
ٱبْتَدَعُوهَا
مَا
كَتَبْنَـٰهَا
عَلَيْهِمْ
إِلَّا
ٱبْتِغَآءَ
رِضْوَٰنِ
ٱللَّهِ
فَمَا
رَعَوْهَا
حَقَّ
رِعَايَتِهَا ۖ
فَـَٔاتَيْنَا
ٱلَّذِينَ
ءَامَنُوا۟
مِنْهُمْ
أَجْرَهُمْ ۖ
وَكَثِيرٌۭ
مِّنْهُمْ
فَـٰسِقُونَ
٢٧
We sent other messengers to follow in their footsteps. After those We sent Jesus, son of Mary: We gave him the Gospel and put compassion and mercy into the hearts of his followers. But monasticism was something they invented- We did not ordain it for them- only to seek God’s pleasure, and even so, they did not observe it properly. So We gave a reward to those of them who believed, but many of them were lawbreakers.
M.A.S. Abdel Haleem