| Order | Occurrence | Arabic | Without diacritics | Pronunciation | Meaning | Root |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Al-Baqarah Verse 83 (2:83:15) | وَالْمَسَاك۪ينِ | والمساكين | vel-mesâkîni | and the needy | س ك ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | And remember We took(87) a covenant from the Children of Israel (to this effect): Worship none but Allah. treat with kindness your parents and kindred, and orphans and those in need; speak fair to the people; be steadfast in prayer; and practise regular charity. Then did ye turn back, except a few among you, and ye backslide (even now).* | |||||
| 2 | Al-Baqarah Verse 177 (2:177:26) | وَالْمَسَاك۪ينَ | والمساكين | vel-mesâkîne | and the needy | س ك ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | It is not righteousness that ye turn your faces Towards east or West; but it is righteousness(177)- to believe in Allah(178) and the Last Day, and the Angels, and the Book, and the Messengers; to spend of your substance(179), out of love for Him, for your kin, for orphans, for the needy, for the wayfarer, for those who ask, and for the ransom of slaves; to be steadfast in prayer(180), and practice regular charity; to fulfil the contracts which ye have made; and to be firm and patient(181), in pain (or suffering) and adversity, and throughout all periods of panic. Such are the people of truth, the Allah.fearing.* | |||||
| 3 | An-Nisa Verse 36 (4:36:12) | وَالْمَسَاك۪ينِ | والمساكين | vel-mesâkîni | and the needy | س ك ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Serve Allah, and join not(550) any partners with Him; and do good- to parents, kinsfolk, orphans, those in need, neighbours who are near,(551) neighbours who are strangers, the companion by your side,(552) the wayfarer (ye meet), and what your right hands possess:(553) For Allah loveth not the arrogant, the vainglorious;-(554)* | |||||
| 4 | Al-Ma'idah Verse 95 (5:95:31) | مَسَاك۪ينَ | مساكين | mesâkîne | needy people | س ك ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | O ye who believe! Kill not game while in the sacred precincts or in pilgrim garb.(800) If any of you doth so intentionally, the compensation is an offering, brought to the Ka´ba, of a domestic animal equivalent to the one he killed,(801) as adjudged by two just men among you; or by way of atonement, the feeding of the indigent; or its equivalent in fasts: that he may taste of the penalty of his deed. Allah forgives what is past: for repetition Allah will exact from him the penalty. For Allah is Exalted, and Lord of Retribution.* | |||||
| 5 | Al-Anfal Verse 41 (8:41:0) | وَالْمَسَاك۪ينِ | والمساكين | vel-mesâkîni | and the needy | س ك ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | And know that out of all the booty that ye may acquire (in war), a fifth share is assigned(1209) to Allah,- and to the Messenger, and to near relatives, orphans, the needy, and the wayfarer,- if ye do believe in Allah and in the revelation We sent down to Our servant on the Day of Testing,-(1210) the Day of the meeting of the two forces. For Allah hath power over all things.(1211)* | |||||
| 6 | An-Nur Verse 22 (24:22:11) | وَالْمَسَاك۪ينَ | والمساكين | vel-mesâkîne | and the needy | س ك ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | Let not those among you who are endued with grace and amplitude of means(2974) resolve by oath against helping their kinsmen, those in want, and those who have left their homes in Allah's cause: let them forgive and overlook, do you not wish that Allah should forgive you? For Allah is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful.* | |||||
| 7 | Al-Hashr Verse 7 (59:7:14) | وَالْمَسَاك۪ينِ | والمساكين | vel-mesâkîni | and the needy | س ك ن |
| Yusuf Ali (English) | What Allah has bestowed(5379) on His Messenger (and taken away) from the people(5380) of the townships,- belongs to Allah,- to His Messenger(5381) and to kindred and orphans, the needy and the wayfarer; In order that it may not (merely) make a circuit between the wealthy among you. So take what the Messenger assigns to you, and deny yourselves that which he withholds from you.(5381-A) And fear Allah. for Allah is strict in Punishment.* | |||||