QMI-INS-047 · 98 AH
Second Inscription of Umayyah ibn ʿAbd al-Malik
نقش أمية بن عبد الملك (الثاني)
Wādī al-ʿUsaylah
- من لم يحكم بما أنزل
- الله فاولئك هم ا
- لفسقون وكتب أمية بن عبد الملك
“And whoever does not judge by what God has revealed — those are the defiantly disobedient” [Q 5:47]. And Umayyah ibn ʿAbd al-Malik wrote [this].
The second of Umayyah ibn ʿAbd al-Malik's two Qurʾanic inscriptions at this site, quoting Sūrat al-Māʾidah (5:47) — a verse on just judgment, echoing the same political theme (rightful rule and judgment) seen in ʿUthmān ibn Wahrān's quotation of Sūrat Ṣād (no. 26) at the same location.
Source: al-Ḥārithī, Nāṣir ibn ʿAlī, and ʿĀdil Muḥammad Nūr Ghubāshī. "Nuqūsh Islāmīyah Mubakkirah bi-Wādī al-ʿUsaylah bi-Makkah al-Mukarramah." ʿĀlam al-Makhṭūṭāt wa-al-Nawādir 2, no. 1 (Muḥarram–Jumādā al-Ākhirah 1418 AH / May–October 1997): 12–56, pl. 5.