Popular Translations
Muhammad Asad
IT IS ordained for you, when death approaches any of you and he is leaving behind much wealth, to make bequests in favour of his parents and [other] near of kin in accordance with what is fair: this is binding on all who are conscious of God
Arthur John Arberry
Prescribed for you, when any of you is visited by death, and he leaves behind some goods, is to make testament in favour of his parents and kinsmen honourably -- an obligation on the godfearing
Yusuf Ali (Saudi Rev. 1985)
It is prescribed, when death approaches any of you, if he leave any goods that he make a bequest to parents and next of kin, according to reasonable usage; this is due from the Allah-fearing
Arabic
كُتِبَ عَلَیۡكُمۡ إِذَا حَضَرَ أَحَدَكُمُ ٱلۡمَوۡتُ إِن تَرَكَ خَیۡرًا ٱلۡوَصِیَّةُ لِلۡوَ ٰلِدَیۡنِ وَٱلۡأَقۡرَبِینَ بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِۖ حَقًّا عَلَى ٱلۡمُتَّقِینَ ١٨٠
Transliteration (2021)
kutiba ʿalaykum idhā ḥaḍara aḥadakumu l-mawtu in taraka khayran l-waṣiyatu lil'wālidayni wal-aqrabīna bil-maʿrūfi ḥaqqan ʿalā l-mutaqīn