Juz 16

1. ۞ قَالَ أَلَمۡ أَقُل لَّكَ إِنَّكَ لَن تَسۡتَطِيعَ مَعِيَ صَبۡرٗا ٧٥

   Qāla alam aqul laka innaka lan tastaṭīʿa maʿiya ṣabrā.

   [Al-Khiḍr] said, "Did I not tell you that with me you would never be able to have patience?"

2. قَالَ إِن سَأَلۡتُكَ عَن شَيۡءِۭ بَعۡدَهَا فَلَا تُصَٰحِبۡنِيۖ قَدۡ بَلَغۡتَ مِن لَّدُنِّي عُذۡرٗا ٧٦

   Qāla in saʾaltuka ʿan shayʾim baʿdahā falā tuṣāḥibnī, qad balaghta mil ladunnī ʿudhrā.

   [Moses] said, "If I should ask you about anything after this, then do not keep me as a companion. You have obtained from me an excuse."

3. فَٱنطَلَقَا حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَيَآ أَهۡلَ قَرۡيَةٍ ٱسۡتَطۡعَمَآ أَهۡلَهَا فَأَبَوۡاْ أَن يُضَيِّفُوهُمَا فَوَجَدَا فِيهَا جِدَارٗا يُرِيدُ أَن يَنقَضَّ فَأَقَامَهُۥۖ قَالَ لَوۡ شِئۡتَ لَتَّخَذۡتَ عَلَيۡهِ أَجۡرٗا ٧٧

   Fanṭalaqā ḥattā idhā atayā ahla qaryatinistaṭʿamā ahlahā fa abaw ay yuḍayyifūhumā fawajadā fīhā jidāray yurīdu ay yanqaḍḍa fa aqāmah, qāla law shiʾta lattakhadhta ʿalayhi ajrā.

   So they set out, until when they came to the people of a town, they asked its people for food, but they refused to offer them hospitality. And they found therein a wall about to collapse, so he [i.e., al-Khiḍr] restored it. [Moses] said, "If you wished, you could have taken for it a payment."

4. قَالَ هَٰذَا فِرَاقُ بَيۡنِي وَبَيۡنِكَۚ سَأُنَبِّئُكَ بِتَأۡوِيلِ مَا لَمۡ تَسۡتَطِع عَّلَيۡهِ صَبۡرًا ٧٨

   Qāla hādhā firāqu baynī wa baynik, saʾunabbiʾuka bitaʾwīli mā lam tastaṭiʿ ʿalayhi ṣabrā.

   [Al-Khiḍr] said, "This is parting between me and you. I will inform you of the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience.

5. أَمَّا ٱلسَّفِينَةُ فَكَانَتۡ لِمَسَٰكِينَ يَعۡمَلُونَ فِي ٱلۡبَحۡرِ فَأَرَدتُّ أَنۡ أَعِيبَهَا وَكَانَ وَرَآءَهُم مَّلِكٞ يَأۡخُذُ كُلَّ سَفِينَةٍ غَصۡبٗا ٧٩

   Ammas-safīnatu fakānat limasākīna yaʿmalūna fil-baḥri fa aradttu an aʿībahā wa kāna warāʾahum malikuy yaʾkhudhu kulla safīnatin ghaṣbā.

   As for the ship, it belonged to poor people working at sea. So I intended to cause defect in it as there was after them a king who seized every [good] ship by force.

6. وَأَمَّا ٱلۡغُلَٰمُ فَكَانَ أَبَوَاهُ مُؤۡمِنَيۡنِ فَخَشِينَآ أَن يُرۡهِقَهُمَا طُغۡيَٰنٗا وَكُفۡرٗا ٨٠

   Wa ammal-ghulāmu fakāna abawāhu muʾminayni fakhashīnā ay yurhiqahumā ṭughyānaw wa kufrā.

   And as for the boy, his parents were believers, and we feared that he would overburden them by transgression and disbelief.

7. فَأَرَدۡنَآ أَن يُبۡدِلَهُمَا رَبُّهُمَا خَيۡرٗا مِّنۡهُ زَكَوٰةٗ وَأَقۡرَبَ رُحۡمٗا ٨١

   Fa aradnā ay yubdilahumā rabbuhumā khayram minhu zakātaw wa aqraba ruḥmā.

   So we intended that their Lord should substitute for them one better than him in purity and nearer to mercy.

8. وَأَمَّا ٱلۡجِدَارُ فَكَانَ لِغُلَٰمَيۡنِ يَتِيمَيۡنِ فِي ٱلۡمَدِينَةِ وَكَانَ تَحۡتَهُۥ كَنزٞ لَّهُمَا وَكَانَ أَبُوهُمَا صَٰلِحٗا فَأَرَادَ رَبُّكَ أَن يَبۡلُغَآ أَشُدَّهُمَا وَيَسۡتَخۡرِجَا كَنزَهُمَا رَحۡمَةٗ مِّن رَّبِّكَۚ وَمَا فَعَلۡتُهُۥ عَنۡ أَمۡرِيۚ ذَٰلِكَ تَأۡوِيلُ مَا لَمۡ تَسۡطِع عَّلَيۡهِ صَبۡرٗا ٨٢

   Wa ammal-jidāru fakāna lighulāmayni yatīmayni fil-madīnati wa kāna taḥtahū kanzul lahumā wa kāna abūhumā ṣāliḥan fa arāda rabbuka ay yablughā ashuddahumā wa yastakhrijā kanzahumā raḥmatam mir rabbik, wa mā faʿaltuhū ʿan amrī, dhālika taʾwīlu mā lam tasṭiʿ ʿalayhi ṣabrā.

   And as for the wall, it belonged to two orphan boys in the city, and there was beneath it a treasure for them, and their father had been righteous. So your Lord intended that they reach maturity and extract their treasure, as a mercy from your Lord. And I did it not of my own accord. That is the interpretation of that about which you could not have patience."

9. وَيَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَن ذِي ٱلۡقَرۡنَيۡنِۖ قُلۡ سَأَتۡلُواْ عَلَيۡكُم مِّنۡهُ ذِكۡرًا ٨٣

   Wa yasʾalūnaka ʿan dhil-qarnayn, qul saʾatlū ʿalaykum minhu dhikrā.

   And they ask you, [O Muḥammad], about Dhul-Qarnayn. Say, "I will recite to you about him a report."

10. إِنَّا مَكَّنَّا لَهُۥ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَءَاتَيۡنَٰهُ مِن كُلِّ شَيۡءٖ سَبَبٗا ٨٤

    Innā makkannā lahū fil-arḍi wa ātaynāhu min kulli shayʾin sababā.

    Indeed, We established him upon the earth, and We gave him from everything a way [i.e., means].

11. فَأَتۡبَعَ سَبَبًا ٨٥

    Fa atbaʿa sababā.

    So he followed a way

12. حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ مَغۡرِبَ ٱلشَّمۡسِ وَجَدَهَا تَغۡرُبُ فِي عَيۡنٍ حَمِئَةٖ وَوَجَدَ عِندَهَا قَوۡمٗاۖ قُلۡنَا يَٰذَا ٱلۡقَرۡنَيۡنِ إِمَّآ أَن تُعَذِّبَ وَإِمَّآ أَن تَتَّخِذَ فِيهِمۡ حُسۡنٗا ٨٦

    Ḥattā idhā balagha maghribash-shamsi wajadahā taghrubu fī ʿaynin ḥamiʾatiw wa wajada ʿindahā qawmā, qulnā yādhal-qarnayni immā an tuʿadhdhiba wa immā an tattakhidha fīhim ḥusnā.

    Until, when he reached the setting of the sun [i.e., the west], he found it [as if] setting in a body of dark water,¹ and he found near it a people. We [i.e., Allāh] said, "O Dhul-Qarnayn, either you punish [them] or else adopt among them [a way of] goodness."

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    1. Another meaning is "a body of hot water."

13. قَالَ أَمَّا مَن ظَلَمَ فَسَوۡفَ نُعَذِّبُهُۥ ثُمَّ يُرَدُّ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ فَيُعَذِّبُهُۥ عَذَابٗا نُّكۡرٗا ٨٧

    Qāla ammā man ẓalama fasawfa nuʿadhdhibuhū thumma yuraddu ilā rabbihī fayuʿadhdhibuhū ʿadhāban nukrā.

    He said, "As for one who wrongs,¹ we will punish him. Then he will be returned to his Lord, and He will punish him with a terrible punishment [i.e., Hellfire].

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    1. Persists in disbelief and rebellion.

14. وَأَمَّا مَنۡ ءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحٗا فَلَهُۥ جَزَآءً ٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰۖ وَسَنَقُولُ لَهُۥ مِنۡ أَمۡرِنَا يُسۡرٗا ٨٨

    Wa ammā man āmana wa ʿamila ṣāliḥan falahū jazāʾanil-ḥusnā, wa sanaqūlu lahū min amrinā yusrā.

    But as for one who believes and does righteousness, he will have a reward of the best [i.e., Paradise], and we [i.e., Dhul-Qarnayn] will speak to him from our command with ease."

15. ثُمَّ أَتۡبَعَ سَبَبًا ٨٩

    Thumma atbaʿa sababā.

    Then he followed a way

16. حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ مَطۡلِعَ ٱلشَّمۡسِ وَجَدَهَا تَطۡلُعُ عَلَىٰ قَوۡمٖ لَّمۡ نَجۡعَل لَّهُم مِّن دُونِهَا سِتۡرٗا ٩٠

    Ḥattā idhā balagha maṭliʿash-shamsi wajadahā taṭluʿu ʿalā qawmil lam najʿal lahum min dūnihā sitrā.

    Until, when he came to the rising of the sun [i.e., the east], he found it rising on a people for whom We had not made against it any shield.

17. كَذَٰلِكَۖ وَقَدۡ أَحَطۡنَا بِمَا لَدَيۡهِ خُبۡرٗا ٩١

    Kadhālik, wa qad aḥaṭnā bimā ladayhi khubrā.

    Thus.¹ And We had encompassed [all] that he had in knowledge.

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    1. Such was the affair of Dhul-Qarnayn.

18. ثُمَّ أَتۡبَعَ سَبَبًا ٩٢

    Thumma atbaʿa sababā.

    Then he followed a way

19. حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا بَلَغَ بَيۡنَ ٱلسَّدَّيۡنِ وَجَدَ مِن دُونِهِمَا قَوۡمٗا لَّا يَكَادُونَ يَفۡقَهُونَ قَوۡلٗا ٩٣

    Ḥattā idhā balagha baynas-saddayni wajada min dūnihimā qawmal lā yakādūna yafqahūna qawlā.

    Until, when he reached [a pass] between two mountains, he found beside them a people who could hardly understand [his] speech.

20. قَالُواْ يَٰذَا ٱلۡقَرۡنَيۡنِ إِنَّ يَأۡجُوجَ وَمَأۡجُوجَ مُفۡسِدُونَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ فَهَلۡ نَجۡعَلُ لَكَ خَرۡجًا عَلَىٰٓ أَن تَجۡعَلَ بَيۡنَنَا وَبَيۡنَهُمۡ سَدّٗا ٩٤

    Qālū yādhal-qarnayni inna yaʾjūja wa maʾjūja mufsidūna fil-arḍi fahal najʿalu laka kharjan ʿalā an tajʿala baynanā wa baynahum saddā.

    They said, "O Dhul-Qarnayn, indeed Gog and Magog¹ are [great] corrupters in the land. So may we assign for you an expenditure that you might make between us and them a barrier?"

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    1. Savage tribes who had ravaged large parts of central Asia, committing every kind of atrocity.

21. قَالَ مَا مَكَّنِّي فِيهِ رَبِّي خَيۡرٞ فَأَعِينُونِي بِقُوَّةٍ أَجۡعَلۡ بَيۡنَكُمۡ وَبَيۡنَهُمۡ رَدۡمًا ٩٥

    Qāla mā makkannī fīhi rabbī khayrun fa aʿīnūnī biquwwatin ajʿal baynakum wa baynahum radmā.

    He said, "That in which my Lord has established me is better [than what you offer], but assist me with strength [i.e., manpower]; I will make between you and them a dam.

22. ءَاتُونِي زُبَرَ ٱلۡحَدِيدِۖ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا سَاوَىٰ بَيۡنَ ٱلصَّدَفَيۡنِ قَالَ ٱنفُخُواْۖ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا جَعَلَهُۥ نَارٗا قَالَ ءَاتُونِيٓ أُفۡرِغۡ عَلَيۡهِ قِطۡرٗا ٩٦

    Ātūnī zubaral-ḥadīd, ḥattā idhā sāwā baynaṣ-ṣadafayni qālanfukhū, ḥattā idhā jaʿalahū nāran qāla ātūnī ufrigh ʿalayhi qiṭrā.

    Bring me bars of iron" - until, when he had leveled [them] between the two mountain walls, he said, "Blow [with bellows]," until when he had made it [like] fire, he said, "Bring me, that I may pour over it molten copper."

23. فَمَا ٱسۡطَٰعُوٓاْ أَن يَظۡهَرُوهُ وَمَا ٱسۡتَطَٰعُواْ لَهُۥ نَقۡبٗا ٩٧

    Famasṭāʿū ay yaẓharūhu wa mastaṭāʿū lahū naqbā.

    So they [i.e., Gog and Magog] were unable to pass over it, nor were they able [to effect] in it any penetration.

24. قَالَ هَٰذَا رَحۡمَةٞ مِّن رَّبِّيۖ فَإِذَا جَآءَ وَعۡدُ رَبِّي جَعَلَهُۥ دَكَّآءَۖ وَكَانَ وَعۡدُ رَبِّي حَقّٗا ٩٨

    Qāla hādhā raḥmatum mir rabbī, fa idhā jāʾa waʿdu rabbī jaʿalahū dakkāʾ, wa kāna waʿdu rabbī ḥaqqā.

    [Dhul-Qarnayn] said, "This is a mercy from my Lord; but when the promise of my Lord¹ comes [i.e., approaches], He will make it level, and ever is the promise of my Lord true."

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., the Hour of Resurrection.

25. ۞ وَتَرَكۡنَا بَعۡضَهُمۡ يَوۡمَئِذٖ يَمُوجُ فِي بَعۡضٖۖ وَنُفِخَ فِي ٱلصُّورِ فَجَمَعۡنَٰهُمۡ جَمۡعٗا ٩٩

    Wa taraknā baʿḍahum yawmaʾidhiy yamūju fī baʿḍ, wa nufikha fiṣ-ṣūri fajamaʿnāhum jamʿā.

    And We will leave them that day¹ surging over each other, and [then] the Horn will be blown, and We will assemble them in [one] assembly.

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    1. The day the dam is destroyed.

26. وَعَرَضۡنَا جَهَنَّمَ يَوۡمَئِذٖ لِّلۡكَٰفِرِينَ عَرۡضًا ١٠٠

    Wa ʿaraḍnā jahannama yawmaʾidhil lil-kāfirīna ʿarḍā.

    And We will present Hell that Day to the disbelievers, on display -

27. ٱلَّذِينَ كَانَتۡ أَعۡيُنُهُمۡ فِي غِطَآءٍ عَن ذِكۡرِي وَكَانُواْ لَا يَسۡتَطِيعُونَ سَمۡعًا ١٠١

    Al-ladhīna kānat aʿyunuhum fī ghiṭāʾin ʿan dhikrī wa kānū lā yastaṭīʿūna samʿā.

    Those whose eyes had been within a cover [removed] from My remembrance,¹ and they were not able to hear.²

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    1. i.e., Allāh's signs or the Qur’ān.
    2. They refused to listen to the Qur’ān or to understand it.

28. أَفَحَسِبَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓاْ أَن يَتَّخِذُواْ عِبَادِي مِن دُونِيٓ أَوۡلِيَآءَۚ إِنَّآ أَعۡتَدۡنَا جَهَنَّمَ لِلۡكَٰفِرِينَ نُزُلٗا ١٠٢

    Afaḥasibal-ladhīna kafarū ay yattakhidhū ʿibādī min dūnī awliyāʾ, innā aʿtadnā jahannama lil-kāfirīna nuzulā.

    Then do those who disbelieve think that they can take My servants instead of Me as allies? Indeed, We have prepared Hell for the disbelievers as a lodging.

29. قُلۡ هَلۡ نُنَبِّئُكُم بِٱلۡأَخۡسَرِينَ أَعۡمَٰلًا ١٠٣

    Qul hal nunabbiʾukum bil-akhsarīna aʿmālā.

    Say, [O Muḥammad], "Shall we [believers] inform you of the greatest losers as to [their] deeds?

30. ٱلَّذِينَ ضَلَّ سَعۡيُهُمۡ فِي ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡيَا وَهُمۡ يَحۡسَبُونَ أَنَّهُمۡ يُحۡسِنُونَ صُنۡعًا ١٠٤

    Al-ladhīna ḍalla saʿyuhum fil-ḥayātid-dunyā wa hum yaḥsabūna annahum yuḥsinūna ṣunʿā.

    [They are] those whose effort is lost in worldly life, while they think that they are doing well in work."

31. أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمۡ وَلِقَآئِهِۦ فَحَبِطَتۡ أَعۡمَٰلُهُمۡ فَلَا نُقِيمُ لَهُمۡ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ وَزۡنٗا ١٠٥

    Ulāʾikal-ladhīna kafarū biʾāyāti rabbihim wa liqāʾihī faḥabiṭat aʿmāluhum falā nuqīmu lahum yawmal-qiyāmati waznā.

    Those are the ones who disbelieve in the verses of their Lord and in [their] meeting Him, so their deeds have become worthless; and We will not assign to them on the Day of Resurrection any weight [i.e., importance].

32. ذَٰلِكَ جَزَآؤُهُمۡ جَهَنَّمُ بِمَا كَفَرُواْ وَٱتَّخَذُوٓاْ ءَايَٰتِي وَرُسُلِي هُزُوًا ١٠٦

    Dhālika jazāʾuhum jahannamu bimā kafarū wattakhadhū āyātī wa rusulī huzuwā.

    That is their recompense - Hell - for what they denied and [because] they took My signs and My messengers in ridicule.

33. إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ كَانَتۡ لَهُمۡ جَنَّٰتُ ٱلۡفِرۡدَوۡسِ نُزُلًا ١٠٧

    Innal-ladhīna āmanū wa ʿamiluṣ-ṣāliḥāti kānat lahum jannātul-firdawsi nuzulā.

    Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - they will have the Gardens of Paradise¹ as a lodging,

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., the highest part of Paradise, al-Firdaus.

34. خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَا لَا يَبۡغُونَ عَنۡهَا حِوَلٗا ١٠٨

    Khālidīna fīhā lā yabghūna ʿanhā ḥiwalā.

    Wherein they abide eternally. They will not desire from it any transfer.

35. قُل لَّوۡ كَانَ ٱلۡبَحۡرُ مِدَادٗا لِّكَلِمَٰتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ ٱلۡبَحۡرُ قَبۡلَ أَن تَنفَدَ كَلِمَٰتُ رَبِّي وَلَوۡ جِئۡنَا بِمِثۡلِهِۦ مَدَدٗا ١٠٩

    Qul law kānal-baḥru midādal likalimāti rabbī lanafidal-baḥru qabla an tanfada kalimātu rabbī wa law jiʾnā bimithlihī madadā.

    Say, "If the sea were ink for [writing] the words¹ of my Lord, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Lord were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it in [continual] supplement."

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    1. The words of Allāh's unlimited knowledge or words describing His attributes and His grandeur or praise of Him (subḥānahu wa taʿālā).

36. قُلۡ إِنَّمَآ أَنَا۠ بَشَرٞ مِّثۡلُكُمۡ يُوحَىٰٓ إِلَيَّ أَنَّمَآ إِلَٰهُكُمۡ إِلَٰهٞ وَٰحِدٞۖ فَمَن كَانَ يَرۡجُواْ لِقَآءَ رَبِّهِۦ فَلۡيَعۡمَلۡ عَمَلٗا صَٰلِحٗا وَلَا يُشۡرِكۡ بِعِبَادَةِ رَبِّهِۦٓ أَحَدَۢا ١١٠

    Qul innamā ana basharum mithlukum yūḥā ilayya annamā ilāhukum ilāhuw wāḥid, faman kāna yarjū liqāʾa rabbihī falyaʿmal ʿamalan ṣāliḥaw wa lā yushrik biʿibādati rabbihī aḥadā.

    Say, "I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the meeting with his Lord - let him do righteous work and not associate in the worship of his Lord anyone."

﷽بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. كٓهيعٓصٓ ١

   Kāf Hā Yā ʿAyn Ṣād.

   Kāf, Hā, Yā, ʿAyn, Ṣād.¹

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   1. See footnote to 2:1.

2. ذِكۡرُ رَحۡمَتِ رَبِّكَ عَبۡدَهُۥ زَكَرِيَّآ ٢

   Dhikru raḥmati rabbika ʿabdahū zakariyyā.

   [This is] a mention of the mercy of your Lord to His servant Zechariah

3. إِذۡ نَادَىٰ رَبَّهُۥ نِدَآءً خَفِيّٗا ٣

   Idh nādā rabbahū nidāʾan khafiyyā.

   When he called to his Lord a private call [i.e., supplication].

4. قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّي وَهَنَ ٱلۡعَظۡمُ مِنِّي وَٱشۡتَعَلَ ٱلرَّأۡسُ شَيۡبٗا وَلَمۡ أَكُنۢ بِدُعَآئِكَ رَبِّ شَقِيّٗا ٤

   Qāla rabbi innī wahanal-ʿaẓmu minnī washtaʿalar-raʾsu shaybaw wa lam akum biduʿāʾika rabbi shaqiyyā.

   He said, "My Lord, indeed my bones have weakened, and my head has filled¹ with white, and never have I been in my supplication to You, my Lord, unhappy [i.e., disappointed].

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   1. Literally, "ignited." The spread of white hair throughout the head is likened to that of fire in the bush.

5. وَإِنِّي خِفۡتُ ٱلۡمَوَٰلِيَ مِن وَرَآءِي وَكَانَتِ ٱمۡرَأَتِي عَاقِرٗا فَهَبۡ لِي مِن لَّدُنكَ وَلِيّٗا ٥

   Wa innī khiftul-mawāliya miw warāʾī wa kānatimraʾatī ʿāqiran fahab lī mil ladunka waliyyā.

   And indeed, I fear the successors¹ after me, and my wife has been barren, so give me from Yourself an heir

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   1. Those relatives from the father's side who would inherit religious authority.

6. يَرِثُنِي وَيَرِثُ مِنۡ ءَالِ يَعۡقُوبَۖ وَٱجۡعَلۡهُ رَبِّ رَضِيّٗا ٦

   Yarithunī wa yarithu min āli yaʿqūb, wajʿalhu rabbi raḍiyyā.

   Who will inherit me¹ and inherit from the family of Jacob. And make him, my Lord, pleasing [to You]."

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   1. Inherit from me religious knowledge and prophethood.

7. يَٰزَكَرِيَّآ إِنَّا نُبَشِّرُكَ بِغُلَٰمٍ ٱسۡمُهُۥ يَحۡيَىٰ لَمۡ نَجۡعَل لَّهُۥ مِن قَبۡلُ سَمِيّٗا ٧

   Yāzakariyyā innā nubashshiruka bighulāminismuhū yaḥyā lam najʿal lahū min qablu samiyyā.

   [He was told],¹ "O Zechariah, indeed We give you good tidings of a boy whose name will be John. We have not assigned to any before [this] name."

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   1. By Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) through the angels.

8. قَالَ رَبِّ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِي غُلَٰمٞ وَكَانَتِ ٱمۡرَأَتِي عَاقِرٗا وَقَدۡ بَلَغۡتُ مِنَ ٱلۡكِبَرِ عِتِيّٗا ٨

   Qāla rabbi annā yakūnu lī ghulāmuw wa kānatimraʾatī ʿāqiraw wa qad balaghtu minal-kibari ʿitiyyā.

   He said, "My Lord, how will I have a boy when my wife has been barren and I have reached extreme old age?"

9. قَالَ كَذَٰلِكَ قَالَ رَبُّكَ هُوَ عَلَيَّ هَيِّنٞ وَقَدۡ خَلَقۡتُكَ مِن قَبۡلُ وَلَمۡ تَكُ شَيۡـٔٗا ٩

   Qāla kadhālika qāla rabbuka huwa ʿalayya hayyinuw wa qad khalaqtuka min qablu wa lam taku shayʾā.

   [An angel] said, "Thus [it will be]; your Lord says, 'It is easy for Me, for I created you before, while you were nothing.'"

10. قَالَ رَبِّ ٱجۡعَل لِّيٓ ءَايَةٗۖ قَالَ ءَايَتُكَ أَلَّا تُكَلِّمَ ٱلنَّاسَ ثَلَٰثَ لَيَالٖ سَوِيّٗا ١٠

    Qāla rabbijʿal lī āyah, qāla āyatuka allā tukalliman-nāsa thalātha layālin sawiyyā.

    [Zechariah] said, "My Lord, make for me a sign." He said, "Your sign is that you will not speak to the people for three nights, [being] sound."¹

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    1. i.e., without illness or defect.

11. فَخَرَجَ عَلَىٰ قَوۡمِهِۦ مِنَ ٱلۡمِحۡرَابِ فَأَوۡحَىٰٓ إِلَيۡهِمۡ أَن سَبِّحُواْ بُكۡرَةٗ وَعَشِيّٗا ١١

    Fakharaja ʿalā qawmihī minal-miḥrābi fa awḥā ilayhim an sabbiḥū bukrataw wa ʿashiyyā.

    So he came out to his people from the prayer chamber and signaled to them to exalt [Allāh] in the morning and afternoon.

12. يَٰيَحۡيَىٰ خُذِ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ بِقُوَّةٖۖ وَءَاتَيۡنَٰهُ ٱلۡحُكۡمَ صَبِيّٗا ١٢

    Yāyaḥyā khudhil-kitāba biquwwah, wa ātaynāhul-ḥukma ṣabiyyā.

    [Allāh said], "O John, take the Scripture [i.e., adhere to it] with determination." And We gave him judgement [while yet] a boy

13. وَحَنَانٗا مِّن لَّدُنَّا وَزَكَوٰةٗۖ وَكَانَ تَقِيّٗا ١٣

    Wa ḥanānam mil ladunnā wa zakāh, wa kāna taqiyyā.

    And affection from Us and purity, and he was fearing of Allāh

14. وَبَرَّۢا بِوَٰلِدَيۡهِ وَلَمۡ يَكُن جَبَّارًا عَصِيّٗا ١٤

    Wa barram biwālidayhi wa lam yakun jabbāran ʿaṣiyyā.

    And dutiful to his parents, and he was not a disobedient tyrant.

15. وَسَلَٰمٌ عَلَيۡهِ يَوۡمَ وُلِدَ وَيَوۡمَ يَمُوتُ وَيَوۡمَ يُبۡعَثُ حَيّٗا ١٥

    Wa salāmun ʿalayhi yawma wulida wa yawma yamūtu wa yawma yubʿathu ḥayyā.

    And peace be upon him the day he was born and the day he dies and the day he is raised alive.

16. وَٱذۡكُرۡ فِي ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ مَرۡيَمَ إِذِ ٱنتَبَذَتۡ مِنۡ أَهۡلِهَا مَكَانٗا شَرۡقِيّٗا ١٦

    Wadhkur fil-kitābi maryama idhintabadhat min ahlihā makānan sharqiyyā.

    And mention, [O Muḥammad], in the Book [the story of] Mary, when she withdrew from her family to a place toward the east.

17. فَٱتَّخَذَتۡ مِن دُونِهِمۡ حِجَابٗا فَأَرۡسَلۡنَآ إِلَيۡهَا رُوحَنَا فَتَمَثَّلَ لَهَا بَشَرٗا سَوِيّٗا ١٧

    Fattakhadhat min dūnihim ḥijāban fa arsalnā ilayhā rūḥanā fatamaththala lahā basharan sawiyyā.

    And she took, in seclusion from them, a screen. Then We sent to her Our Angel [i.e., Gabriel], and he represented himself to her as a well-proportioned man.

18. قَالَتۡ إِنِّيٓ أَعُوذُ بِٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ مِنكَ إِن كُنتَ تَقِيّٗا ١٨

    Qālat innī aʿūdhu bir-raḥmāni minka in kunta taqiyyā.

    She said, "Indeed, I seek refuge in the Most Merciful from you, [so leave me], if you should be fearing of Allāh."

19. قَالَ إِنَّمَآ أَنَا۠ رَسُولُ رَبِّكِ لِأَهَبَ لَكِ غُلَٰمٗا زَكِيّٗا ١٩

    Qāla innamā ana rasūlu rabbiki liʾahaba laki ghulāman zakiyyā.

    He said, "I am only the messenger of your Lord to give you [news of] a pure boy [i.e., son]."

20. قَالَتۡ أَنَّىٰ يَكُونُ لِي غُلَٰمٞ وَلَمۡ يَمۡسَسۡنِي بَشَرٞ وَلَمۡ أَكُ بَغِيّٗا ٢٠

    Qālat annā yakūnu lī ghulāmuw wa lam yamsasnī basharuw wa lam aku baghiyyā.

    She said, "How can I have a boy while no man has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"

21. قَالَ كَذَٰلِكِ قَالَ رَبُّكِ هُوَ عَلَيَّ هَيِّنٞۖ وَلِنَجۡعَلَهُۥٓ ءَايَةٗ لِّلنَّاسِ وَرَحۡمَةٗ مِّنَّاۚ وَكَانَ أَمۡرٗا مَّقۡضِيّٗا ٢١

    Qāla kadhāliki qāla rabbuki huwa ʿalayya hayyin, walinajʿalahū āyatal lin-nāsi wa raḥmatam minnā, wa kāna amram maqḍiyyā.

    He said, "Thus [it will be]; your Lord says, 'It is easy for Me, and We will make him a sign to the people and a mercy from Us. And it is a matter [already] decreed.'"

22. ۞ فَحَمَلَتۡهُ فَٱنتَبَذَتۡ بِهِۦ مَكَانٗا قَصِيّٗا ٢٢

    Faḥamalathu fantabadhat bihī makānan qaṣiyyā.

    So she conceived him, and she withdrew with him to a remote place.

23. فَأَجَآءَهَا ٱلۡمَخَاضُ إِلَىٰ جِذۡعِ ٱلنَّخۡلَةِ قَالَتۡ يَٰلَيۡتَنِي مِتُّ قَبۡلَ هَٰذَا وَكُنتُ نَسۡيٗا مَّنسِيّٗا ٢٣

    Fa ajāʾahal-makhāḍu ilā jidhʿin-nakhlati qālat yālaytanī mittu qabla hādhā wa kuntu nasyam mansiyyā.

    And the pains of childbirth drove her to the trunk of a palm tree. She said, "Oh, I wish I had died before this and was in oblivion, forgotten."

24. فَنَادَىٰهَا مِن تَحۡتِهَآ أَلَّا تَحۡزَنِي قَدۡ جَعَلَ رَبُّكِ تَحۡتَكِ سَرِيّٗا ٢٤

    Fanādāhā min taḥtihā allā taḥzanī qad jaʿala rabbuki taḥtaki sariyyā.

    But he¹ called her from below her, "Do not grieve; your Lord has provided beneath you a stream.

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    1. There is a difference of opinion among scholars as to whether "he" refers to the baby or to the angel.

25. وَهُزِّيٓ إِلَيۡكِ بِجِذۡعِ ٱلنَّخۡلَةِ تُسَٰقِطۡ عَلَيۡكِ رُطَبٗا جَنِيّٗا ٢٥

    Wa huzzī ilayki bijidhʿin-nakhlati tusāqiṭ ʿalayki ruṭaban janiyyā.

    And shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree; it will drop upon you ripe, fresh dates.

26. فَكُلِي وَٱشۡرَبِي وَقَرِّي عَيۡنٗاۖ فَإِمَّا تَرَيِنَّ مِنَ ٱلۡبَشَرِ أَحَدٗا فَقُولِيٓ إِنِّي نَذَرۡتُ لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِ صَوۡمٗا فَلَنۡ أُكَلِّمَ ٱلۡيَوۡمَ إِنسِيّٗا ٢٦

    Fakulī washrabī wa qarrī ʿaynā, fa immā tarayinna minal-bashari aḥadan faqūlī innī nadhartu lir-raḥmāni ṣawman falan ukallimal-yawma insiyyā.

    So eat and drink and be contented. And if you see from among humanity anyone, say, 'Indeed, I have vowed to the Most Merciful abstention, so I will not speak today to [any] man.'"

27. فَأَتَتۡ بِهِۦ قَوۡمَهَا تَحۡمِلُهُۥۖ قَالُواْ يَٰمَرۡيَمُ لَقَدۡ جِئۡتِ شَيۡـٔٗا فَرِيّٗا ٢٧

    Fa atat bihī qawmahā taḥmiluh, qālū yāmaryamu laqad jiʾti shayʾan fariyyā.

    Then she brought him to her people, carrying him. They said, "O Mary, you have certainly done a thing unprecedented.

28. يَٰٓأُخۡتَ هَٰرُونَ مَا كَانَ أَبُوكِ ٱمۡرَأَ سَوۡءٖ وَمَا كَانَتۡ أُمُّكِ بَغِيّٗا ٢٨

    Yāʾukhta hārūna mā kāna abūkimraʾa sawʾiw wa mā kānat ummuki baghiyyā.

    O sister [i.e., descendant] of Aaron, your father was not a man of evil, nor was your mother unchaste."

29. فَأَشَارَتۡ إِلَيۡهِۖ قَالُواْ كَيۡفَ نُكَلِّمُ مَن كَانَ فِي ٱلۡمَهۡدِ صَبِيّٗا ٢٩

    Fa ashārat ilayh, qālū kayfa nukallimu man kāna fil-mahdi ṣabiyyā.

    So she pointed to him. They said, "How can we speak to one who is in the cradle a child?"

30. قَالَ إِنِّي عَبۡدُ ٱللَّهِ ءَاتَىٰنِيَ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ وَجَعَلَنِي نَبِيّٗا ٣٠

    Qāla innī ʿabdullāhi ātāniyal-kitāba wa jaʿalanī nabiyyā.

    [Jesus] said, "Indeed, I am the servant of Allāh. He has given me the Scripture and made me a prophet.

31. وَجَعَلَنِي مُبَارَكًا أَيۡنَ مَا كُنتُ وَأَوۡصَٰنِي بِٱلصَّلَوٰةِ وَٱلزَّكَوٰةِ مَا دُمۡتُ حَيّٗا ٣١

    Wa jaʿalanī mubārakan ayna mā kuntu wa awṣānī biṣ-ṣalāti waz-zakāti mā dumtu ḥayyā.

    And He has made me blessed wherever I am and has enjoined upon me prayer and zakāh as long as I remain alive

32. وَبَرَّۢا بِوَٰلِدَتِي وَلَمۡ يَجۡعَلۡنِي جَبَّارٗا شَقِيّٗا ٣٢

    Wa barram biwālidatī wa lam yajʿalnī jabbāran shaqiyyā.

    And [made me] dutiful to my mother, and He has not made me a wretched tyrant.

33. وَٱلسَّلَٰمُ عَلَيَّ يَوۡمَ وُلِدتُّ وَيَوۡمَ أَمُوتُ وَيَوۡمَ أُبۡعَثُ حَيّٗا ٣٣

    Was-salāmu ʿalayya yawma wulidttu wa yawma amūtu wa yawma ubʿathu ḥayyā.

    And peace is on me the day I was born and the day I will die and the day I am raised alive."

34. ذَٰلِكَ عِيسَى ٱبۡنُ مَرۡيَمَۖ قَوۡلَ ٱلۡحَقِّ ٱلَّذِي فِيهِ يَمۡتَرُونَ ٣٤

    Dhālika ʿīsabnu maryam, qawlal-ḥaqqil-ladhī fīhi yamtarūn.

    That is Jesus, the son of Mary - the word of truth about which they are in dispute.

35. مَا كَانَ لِلَّهِ أَن يَتَّخِذَ مِن وَلَدٖۖ سُبۡحَٰنَهُۥٓۚ إِذَا قَضَىٰٓ أَمۡرٗا فَإِنَّمَا يَقُولُ لَهُۥ كُن فَيَكُونُ ٣٥

    Mā kāna lillāhi ay yattakhidha miw walad, subḥānah, idhā qaḍā amran fa innamā yaqūlu lahū kun fayakūn.

    It is not [befitting] for Allāh to take a son; exalted is He!¹ When He decrees an affair, He only says to it, "Be," and it is.

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    1. i.e., far removed is He from any such need.

36. وَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ رَبِّي وَرَبُّكُمۡ فَٱعۡبُدُوهُۚ هَٰذَا صِرَٰطٞ مُّسۡتَقِيمٞ ٣٦

    Wa innallāha rabbī wa rabbukum faʿbudūh, hādhā ṣirāṭum mustaqīm.

    [Jesus said], "And indeed, Allāh is my Lord and your Lord, so worship Him. That is a straight path."

37. فَٱخۡتَلَفَ ٱلۡأَحۡزَابُ مِنۢ بَيۡنِهِمۡۖ فَوَيۡلٞ لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِن مَّشۡهَدِ يَوۡمٍ عَظِيمٍ ٣٧

    Fakhtalafal-aḥzābu mim baynihim, fawaylul lil-ladhīna kafarū mim mashhadi yawmin ʿaẓīm.

    Then the factions differed [concerning Jesus] from among them, so woe to those who disbelieved - from the scene of a tremendous Day.

38. أَسۡمِعۡ بِهِمۡ وَأَبۡصِرۡ يَوۡمَ يَأۡتُونَنَا لَٰكِنِ ٱلظَّٰلِمُونَ ٱلۡيَوۡمَ فِي ضَلَٰلٖ مُّبِينٖ ٣٨

    Asmiʿ bihim wa abṣir yawma yaʾtūnanā lākiniẓ-ẓālimūnal-yawma fī ḍalālim mubīn.

    How [clearly] they will hear and see the Day they come to Us, but the wrongdoers today are in clear error.

39. وَأَنذِرۡهُمۡ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡحَسۡرَةِ إِذۡ قُضِيَ ٱلۡأَمۡرُ وَهُمۡ فِي غَفۡلَةٖ وَهُمۡ لَا يُؤۡمِنُونَ ٣٩

    Wa andhirhum yawmal-ḥasrati idh quḍiyal-amru wa hum fī ghaflatiw wa hum lā yuʾminūn.

    And warn them, [O Muḥammad], of the Day of Regret, when the matter will be concluded;¹ and [yet], they are in [a state of] heedlessness, and they do not believe.

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    1. i.e., "judged" or "accomplished."

40. إِنَّا نَحۡنُ نَرِثُ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَمَنۡ عَلَيۡهَا وَإِلَيۡنَا يُرۡجَعُونَ ٤٠

    Innā naḥnu narithul-arḍa wa man ʿalayhā wa ilaynā yurjaʿūn.

    Indeed, it is We who will inherit the earth and whoever is on it, and to Us they will be returned.

41. وَٱذۡكُرۡ فِي ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ إِبۡرَٰهِيمَۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ صِدِّيقٗا نَّبِيًّا ٤١

    Wadhkur fil-kitābi ibrāhīm, innahū kāna ṣiddīqan nabiyyā.

    And mention in the Book [the story of] Abraham. Indeed, he was a man of truth and a prophet.

42. إِذۡ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ يَٰٓأَبَتِ لِمَ تَعۡبُدُ مَا لَا يَسۡمَعُ وَلَا يُبۡصِرُ وَلَا يُغۡنِي عَنكَ شَيۡـٔٗا ٤٢

    Idh qāla liʾabīhi yāʾabati lima taʿbudu mā lā yasmaʿu wa lā yubṣiru wa lā yughnī ʿanka shayʾā.

    [Mention] when he said to his father, "O my father, why do you worship that which does not hear and does not see and will not benefit you at all?

43. يَٰٓأَبَتِ إِنِّي قَدۡ جَآءَنِي مِنَ ٱلۡعِلۡمِ مَا لَمۡ يَأۡتِكَ فَٱتَّبِعۡنِيٓ أَهۡدِكَ صِرَٰطٗا سَوِيّٗا ٤٣

    Yāʾabati innī qad jāʾanī minal-ʿilmi mā lam yaʾtika fattabiʿnī ahdika ṣirāṭan sawiyyā.

    O my father, indeed there has come to me of knowledge that which has not come to you, so follow me; I will guide you to an even path.

44. يَٰٓأَبَتِ لَا تَعۡبُدِ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنَۖ إِنَّ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنَ كَانَ لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِ عَصِيّٗا ٤٤

    Yāʾabati lā taʿbudish-shayṭān, innash-shayṭāna kāna lir-raḥmāni ʿaṣiyyā.

    O my father, do not worship [i.e., obey] Satan. Indeed Satan has ever been, to the Most Merciful, disobedient.

45. يَٰٓأَبَتِ إِنِّيٓ أَخَافُ أَن يَمَسَّكَ عَذَابٞ مِّنَ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ فَتَكُونَ لِلشَّيۡطَٰنِ وَلِيّٗا ٤٥

    Yāʾabati innī akhāfu ay yamassaka ʿadhābum minar-raḥmāni fatakūna lish-shayṭāni waliyyā.

    O my father, indeed I fear that there will touch you a punishment from the Most Merciful so you would be to Satan a companion [in Hellfire]."

46. قَالَ أَرَاغِبٌ أَنتَ عَنۡ ءَالِهَتِي يَٰٓإِبۡرَٰهِيمُۖ لَئِن لَّمۡ تَنتَهِ لَأَرۡجُمَنَّكَۖ وَٱهۡجُرۡنِي مَلِيّٗا ٤٦

    Qāla arāghibun anta ʿan ālihatī yāʾibrāhīm, laʾil lam tantahi laʾarjumannak, wahjurnī maliyyā.

    [His father] said, "Have you no desire for my gods, O Abraham? If you do not desist, I will surely stone you, so avoid me a prolonged time."

47. قَالَ سَلَٰمٌ عَلَيۡكَۖ سَأَسۡتَغۡفِرُ لَكَ رَبِّيٓۖ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ بِي حَفِيّٗا ٤٧

    Qāla salāmun ʿalayk, saʾastaghfiru laka rabbī, innahū kāna bī ḥafiyyā.

    [Abraham] said, "Peace [i.e., safety] will be upon you.¹ I will ask forgiveness for you of my Lord. Indeed, He is ever gracious to me.

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    1. Meaning "You are secure" or "I will not harm you."

48. وَأَعۡتَزِلُكُمۡ وَمَا تَدۡعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَأَدۡعُواْ رَبِّي عَسَىٰٓ أَلَّآ أَكُونَ بِدُعَآءِ رَبِّي شَقِيّٗا ٤٨

    Wa aʿtazilukum wa mā tadʿūna min dūnillāhi wa adʿū rabbī ʿasā allā akūna biduʿāʾi rabbī shaqiyyā.

    And I will leave you and those you invoke other than Allāh and will invoke¹ my Lord. I expect that I will not be in invocation to my Lord unhappy [i.e., disappointed]."

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    1. i.e., worship.

49. فَلَمَّا ٱعۡتَزَلَهُمۡ وَمَا يَعۡبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَهَبۡنَا لَهُۥٓ إِسۡحَٰقَ وَيَعۡقُوبَۖ وَكُلّٗا جَعَلۡنَا نَبِيّٗا ٤٩

    Falammaʿtazalahum wa mā yaʿbudūna min dūnillāhi wahabnā lahū isḥāqa wa yaʿqūb, wa kullan jaʿalnā nabiyyā.

    So when he had left them and those they worshipped other than Allāh, We gave him Isaac and Jacob, and each [of them] We made a prophet.

50. وَوَهَبۡنَا لَهُم مِّن رَّحۡمَتِنَا وَجَعَلۡنَا لَهُمۡ لِسَانَ صِدۡقٍ عَلِيّٗا ٥٠

    Wa wahabnā lahum mir raḥmatinā wa jaʿalnā lahum lisāna ṣidqin ʿaliyyā.

    And We gave them of Our mercy, and We made for them a mention [i.e., reputation] of high honor.

51. وَٱذۡكُرۡ فِي ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ مُوسَىٰٓۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ مُخۡلَصٗا وَكَانَ رَسُولٗا نَّبِيّٗا ٥١

    Wadhkur fil-kitābi mūsā, innahū kāna mukhlaṣaw wa kāna rasūlan nabiyyā.

    And mention in the Book, Moses. Indeed, he was chosen, and he was a messenger and a prophet.¹

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    1. A messenger (rasūl) is one who was charged by Allāh to reform society. A prophet (nabī) is one who received revelation from Allāh, the latter being more numerous than the former.

52. وَنَٰدَيۡنَٰهُ مِن جَانِبِ ٱلطُّورِ ٱلۡأَيۡمَنِ وَقَرَّبۡنَٰهُ نَجِيّٗا ٥٢

    Wa nādaynāhu min jānibiṭ-ṭūril-aymani wa qarrabnāhu najiyyā.

    And We called him from the side of the mount¹ at [his] right and brought him near, confiding [to him].

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    1. Mount Sinai.

53. وَوَهَبۡنَا لَهُۥ مِن رَّحۡمَتِنَآ أَخَاهُ هَٰرُونَ نَبِيّٗا ٥٣

    Wa wahabnā lahū mir raḥmatinā akhāhu hārūna nabiyyā.

    And We gave him out of Our mercy his brother Aaron as a prophet.

54. وَٱذۡكُرۡ فِي ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ إِسۡمَٰعِيلَۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ صَادِقَ ٱلۡوَعۡدِ وَكَانَ رَسُولٗا نَّبِيّٗا ٥٤

    Wadhkur fil-kitābi ismāʿīl, innahū kāna ṣādiqal-waʿdi wa kāna rasūlan nabiyyā.

    And mention in the Book, Ishmael. Indeed, he was true to his promise, and he was a messenger and a prophet.

55. وَكَانَ يَأۡمُرُ أَهۡلَهُۥ بِٱلصَّلَوٰةِ وَٱلزَّكَوٰةِ وَكَانَ عِندَ رَبِّهِۦ مَرۡضِيّٗا ٥٥

    Wa kāna yaʾmuru ahlahū biṣ-ṣalāti waz-zakāti wa kāna ʿinda rabbihī marḍiyyā.

    And he used to enjoin on his people prayer and zakāh and was to his Lord pleasing [i.e., accepted by Him].

56. وَٱذۡكُرۡ فِي ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ إِدۡرِيسَۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ صِدِّيقٗا نَّبِيّٗا ٥٦

    Wadhkur fil-kitābi idrīs, innahū kāna ṣiddīqan nabiyyā.

    And mention in the Book, Idrees. Indeed, he was a man of truth and a prophet.

57. وَرَفَعۡنَٰهُ مَكَانًا عَلِيًّا ٥٧

    Wa rafaʿnāhu makānan ʿaliyyā.

    And We raised him to a high station.

58. أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ أَنۡعَمَ ٱللَّهُ عَلَيۡهِم مِّنَ ٱلنَّبِيِّـۧنَ مِن ذُرِّيَّةِ ءَادَمَ وَمِمَّنۡ حَمَلۡنَا مَعَ نُوحٖ وَمِن ذُرِّيَّةِ إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ وَإِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ وَمِمَّنۡ هَدَيۡنَا وَٱجۡتَبَيۡنَآۚ إِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَٰتُ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ خَرُّواْۤ سُجَّدٗاۤ وَبُكِيّٗا۩ ٥٨

    Ulāʾikal-ladhīna anʿamallāhu ʿalayhim minan-nabiyyīna min dhurriyyati ādama wa mimman ḥamalnā maʿa nūḥiw wa min dhurriyyati ibrāhīma wa isrāʾīla wa mimman hadaynā wajtabaynā, idhā tutlā ʿalayhim āyātur-raḥmāni kharrū sujjadaw wa bukiyyā.

    Those were the ones upon whom Allāh bestowed favor from among the prophets of the descendants of Adam and of those We carried [in the ship] with Noah, and of the descendants of Abraham and Israel [i.e., Jacob], and of those whom We guided and chose. When the verses of the Most Merciful were recited to them, they fell in prostration and weeping.

59. ۞ فَخَلَفَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِهِمۡ خَلۡفٌ أَضَاعُواْ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَٱتَّبَعُواْ ٱلشَّهَوَٰتِۖ فَسَوۡفَ يَلۡقَوۡنَ غَيًّا ٥٩

    Fakhalafa mim baʿdihim khalfun aḍāʿuṣ-ṣalāta wattabaʿush-shahawāt, fasawfa yalqawna ghayyā.

    But there came after them successors [i.e., later generations] who neglected prayer and pursued desires; so they are going to meet evil¹ -

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    1. Described as a valley in Hell or may be rendered "the consequence of error."

60. إِلَّا مَن تَابَ وَءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحٗا فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ يَدۡخُلُونَ ٱلۡجَنَّةَ وَلَا يُظۡلَمُونَ شَيۡـٔٗا ٦٠

    Illā man tāba wa āmana wa ʿamila ṣāliḥan fa ulāʾika yadkhulūnal-jannata wa lā yuẓlamūna shayʾā.

    Except those who repent, believe and do righteousness; for those will enter Paradise and will not be wronged at all.

61. جَنَّٰتِ عَدۡنٍ ٱلَّتِي وَعَدَ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ عِبَادَهُۥ بِٱلۡغَيۡبِۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ وَعۡدُهُۥ مَأۡتِيّٗا ٦١

    Jannāti ʿadninil-latī waʿadar-raḥmānu ʿibādahū bil-ghayb, innahū kāna waʿduhū maʾtiyyā.

    [Therein are] gardens of perpetual residence which the Most Merciful has promised His servants in the unseen. Indeed, His promise has ever been eminent.¹

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    1. Literally, "that to which all will come."

62. لَّا يَسۡمَعُونَ فِيهَا لَغۡوًا إِلَّا سَلَٰمٗاۖ وَلَهُمۡ رِزۡقُهُمۡ فِيهَا بُكۡرَةٗ وَعَشِيّٗا ٦٢

    Lā yasmaʿūna fīhā laghwan illā salāmā, wa lahum rizquhum fīhā bukrataw wa ʿashiyyā.

    They will not hear therein any ill speech - only [greetings of] peace - and they will have their provision therein, morning and afternoon.

63. تِلۡكَ ٱلۡجَنَّةُ ٱلَّتِي نُورِثُ مِنۡ عِبَادِنَا مَن كَانَ تَقِيّٗا ٦٣

    Tilkal-jannatul-latī nūrithu min ʿibādinā man kāna taqiyyā.

    That is Paradise, which We give as inheritance to those of Our servants who were fearing of Allāh.

64. وَمَا نَتَنَزَّلُ إِلَّا بِأَمۡرِ رَبِّكَۖ لَهُۥ مَا بَيۡنَ أَيۡدِينَا وَمَا خَلۡفَنَا وَمَا بَيۡنَ ذَٰلِكَۚ وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ نَسِيّٗا ٦٤

    Wa mā natanazzalu illā biʾamri rabbik, lahū mā bayna aydīnā wa mā khalfanā wa mā bayna dhālik, wa mā kāna rabbuka nasiyyā.

    [Gabriel said],¹ "And we [angels] descend not except by the order of your Lord. To Him belongs that before us and that behind us and what is in between. And never is your Lord forgetful -

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    1. In answer to the Prophet's wish that Gabriel would visit him more often.

65. رَّبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا بَيۡنَهُمَا فَٱعۡبُدۡهُ وَٱصۡطَبِرۡ لِعِبَٰدَتِهِۦۚ هَلۡ تَعۡلَمُ لَهُۥ سَمِيّٗا ٦٥

    Rabbus-samāwāti wal-arḍi wa mā baynahumā faʿbudhu waṣṭabir liʿibādatih, hal taʿlamu lahū samiyyā.

    Lord of the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them - so worship Him and have patience for His worship. Do you know of any similarity to Him?"

66. وَيَقُولُ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ أَءِذَا مَا مِتُّ لَسَوۡفَ أُخۡرَجُ حَيًّا ٦٦

    Wa yaqūlul-insānu aʾidhā mā mittu lasawfa ukhraju ḥayyā.

    And man [i.e., the disbeliever] says, "When I have died, am I going to be brought forth alive?"

67. أَوَلَا يَذۡكُرُ ٱلۡإِنسَٰنُ أَنَّا خَلَقۡنَٰهُ مِن قَبۡلُ وَلَمۡ يَكُ شَيۡـٔٗا ٦٧

    Awalā yadhkurul-insānu annā khalaqnāhu min qablu wa lam yaku shayʾā.

    Does man not remember that We created him before, while he was nothing?

68. فَوَرَبِّكَ لَنَحۡشُرَنَّهُمۡ وَٱلشَّيَٰطِينَ ثُمَّ لَنُحۡضِرَنَّهُمۡ حَوۡلَ جَهَنَّمَ جِثِيّٗا ٦٨

    Fawarabbika lanaḥshurannahum wash-shayāṭīna thumma lanuḥḍirannahum ḥawla jahannama jithiyyā.

    So by your Lord, We will surely gather them and the devils; then We will bring them to be present around Hell upon their knees.¹

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    1. i.e., fallen on their knees from terror or dragged there unwillingly on their knees.

69. ثُمَّ لَنَنزِعَنَّ مِن كُلِّ شِيعَةٍ أَيُّهُمۡ أَشَدُّ عَلَى ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ عِتِيّٗا ٦٩

    Thumma lananziʿanna min kulli shīʿatin ayyuhum ashaddu ʿalar-raḥmāni ʿitiyyā.

    Then We will surely extract from every sect those of them who were worst against the Most Merciful in insolence.

70. ثُمَّ لَنَحۡنُ أَعۡلَمُ بِٱلَّذِينَ هُمۡ أَوۡلَىٰ بِهَا صِلِيّٗا ٧٠

    Thumma lanaḥnu aʿlamu bil-ladhīna hum awlā bihā ṣiliyyā.

    Then, surely it is We who are most knowing of those most worthy of burning therein.

71. وَإِن مِّنكُمۡ إِلَّا وَارِدُهَاۚ كَانَ عَلَىٰ رَبِّكَ حَتۡمٗا مَّقۡضِيّٗا ٧١

    Wa im minkum illā wāriduhā, kāna ʿalā rabbika ḥatmam maqḍiyyā.

    And there is none of you except he will come to it.¹ This is upon your Lord an inevitability decreed.

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    1. i.e., be exposed to it. However, the people of Paradise will not be harmed thereby.

72. ثُمَّ نُنَجِّي ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَواْ وَّنَذَرُ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ فِيهَا جِثِيّٗا ٧٢

    Thumma nunajjil-ladhīnattaqaw wa nadharuẓ-ẓālimīna fīhā jithiyyā.

    Then We will save those who feared Allāh and leave the wrongdoers within it, on their knees.

73. وَإِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَٰتُنَا بَيِّنَٰتٖ قَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لِلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ أَيُّ ٱلۡفَرِيقَيۡنِ خَيۡرٞ مَّقَامٗا وَأَحۡسَنُ نَدِيّٗا ٧٣

    Wa idhā tutlā ʿalayhim āyātunā bayyinātin qālal-ladhīna kafarū lil-ladhīna āmanū ayyul-farīqayni khayrum maqāmaw wa aḥsanu nadiyyā.

    And when Our verses are recited to them as clear evidences, those who disbelieve say to those who believe, "Which of [our] two parties is best in position and best in association?"¹

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    1. In regard to worldly interests.

74. وَكَمۡ أَهۡلَكۡنَا قَبۡلَهُم مِّن قَرۡنٍ هُمۡ أَحۡسَنُ أَثَٰثٗا وَرِءۡيٗا ٧٤

    Wa kam ahlaknā qablahum min qarnin hum aḥsanu athāthaw wa riʾyā.

    And how many a generation have We destroyed before them who were better in possessions and [outward] appearance?

75. قُلۡ مَن كَانَ فِي ٱلضَّلَٰلَةِ فَلۡيَمۡدُدۡ لَهُ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ مَدًّاۚ حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَا رَأَوۡاْ مَا يُوعَدُونَ إِمَّا ٱلۡعَذَابَ وَإِمَّا ٱلسَّاعَةَ فَسَيَعۡلَمُونَ مَنۡ هُوَ شَرّٞ مَّكَانٗا وَأَضۡعَفُ جُندٗا ٧٥

    Qul man kāna fiḍ-ḍalālati falyamdud lahur-raḥmānu maddā, ḥattā idhā raʾaw mā yūʿadūna immal-ʿadhāba wa immas-sāʿata fasayaʿlamūna man huwa sharrum makānaw wa aḍʿafu jundā.

    Say, "Whoever is in error - let the Most Merciful extend for him an extension [in wealth and time] until, when they see that which they were promised - either punishment [in this world] or the Hour [of resurrection] - they will come to know who is worst in position and weaker in soldiers."

76. وَيَزِيدُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱهۡتَدَوۡاْ هُدٗىۗ وَٱلۡبَٰقِيَٰتُ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتُ خَيۡرٌ عِندَ رَبِّكَ ثَوَابٗا وَخَيۡرٞ مَّرَدًّا ٧٦

    Wa yazīdullāhul-ladhīnahtadaw hudā, wal-bāqiyātuṣ-ṣāliḥātu khayrun ʿinda rabbika thawābaw wa khayrum maraddā.

    And Allāh increases those who were guided, in guidance, and the enduring good deeds are better to your Lord¹ for reward and better for recourse.

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    1. i.e., in the sight or evaluation of Allāh.

77. أَفَرَءَيۡتَ ٱلَّذِي كَفَرَ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَقَالَ لَأُوتَيَنَّ مَالٗا وَوَلَدًا ٧٧

    Afaraʾaytal-ladhī kafara biʾāyātinā wa qāla laʾūtayanna mālaw wa waladā.

    Then, have you seen he who disbelieved in Our verses and said, "I will surely be given wealth and children [in the next life]"?

78. أَطَّلَعَ ٱلۡغَيۡبَ أَمِ ٱتَّخَذَ عِندَ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ عَهۡدٗا ٧٨

    Aṭṭalaʿal-ghayba amittakhadha ʿindar-raḥmāni ʿahdā.

    Has he looked into the unseen, or has he taken from the Most Merciful a promise?

79. كـَلَّاۚ سَنَكۡتُبُ مَا يَقُولُ وَنَمُدُّ لَهُۥ مِنَ ٱلۡعَذَابِ مَدّٗا ٧٩

    Kallā, sanaktubu mā yaqūlu wa namuddu lahū minal-ʿadhābi maddā.

    No! We will record what he says and extend [i.e., increase] for him from the punishment extensively.

80. وَنَرِثُهُۥ مَا يَقُولُ وَيَأۡتِينَا فَرۡدٗا ٨٠

    Wa narithuhū mā yaqūlu wa yaʾtīnā fardā.

    And We will inherit him [in] what he mentions,¹ and he will come to Us alone.

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Instead of giving him wealth and children in the Hereafter, Allāh will take from him those he had in worldly life at the time of his death.

81. وَٱتَّخَذُواْ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ ءَالِهَةٗ لِّيَكُونُواْ لَهُمۡ عِزّٗا ٨١

    Wattakhadhū min dūnillāhi ālihatal liyakūnū lahum ʿizzā.

    And they have taken besides Allāh [false] deities that they would be for them [a source of] honor.

82. كـَلَّاۚ سَيَكۡفُرُونَ بِعِبَادَتِهِمۡ وَيَكُونُونَ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ضِدًّا ٨٢

    Kallā, sayakfurūna biʿibādatihim wa yakūnūna ʿalayhim ḍiddā.

    No! They [i.e., those "gods"] will deny their worship of them and will be against them opponents [on the Day of Judgement].

83. أَلَمۡ تَرَ أَنَّآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا ٱلشَّيَٰطِينَ عَلَى ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ تَؤُزُّهُمۡ أَزّٗا ٨٣

    Alam tara annā arsalnash-shayāṭīna ʿalal-kāfirīna taʾuzzuhum azzā.

    Do you not see that We have sent the devils upon the disbelievers, inciting them [to evil] with [constant] incitement?

84. فَلَا تَعۡجَلۡ عَلَيۡهِمۡۖ إِنَّمَا نَعُدُّ لَهُمۡ عَدّٗا ٨٤

    Falā taʿjal ʿalayhim, innamā naʿuddu lahum ʿaddā.

    So be not impatient over them. We only count out [i.e., allow] to them a [limited] number.¹

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    1. Of breaths, of days, or of evil deeds.

85. يَوۡمَ نَحۡشُرُ ٱلۡمُتَّقِينَ إِلَى ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ وَفۡدٗا ٨٥

    Yawma naḥshurul-muttaqīna ilar-raḥmāni wafdā.

    On the Day We will gather the righteous to the Most Merciful as a delegation

86. وَنَسُوقُ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ وِرۡدٗا ٨٦

    Wa nasūqul-mujrimīna ilā jahannama wirdā.

    And will drive the criminals to Hell in thirst

87. لَّا يَمۡلِكُونَ ٱلشَّفَٰعَةَ إِلَّا مَنِ ٱتَّخَذَ عِندَ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ عَهۡدٗا ٨٧

    Lā yamlikūnash-shafāʿata illā manittakhadha ʿindar-raḥmāni ʿahdā.

    None will have [power of] intercession except he who had taken from the Most Merciful a covenant.¹

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    1. Not to worship other than Him.

88. وَقَالُواْ ٱتَّخَذَ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ وَلَدٗا ٨٨

    Wa qāluttakhadhar-raḥmānu waladā.

    And they say, "The Most Merciful has taken [for Himself] a son."

89. لَّقَدۡ جِئۡتُمۡ شَيۡـًٔا إِدّٗا ٨٩

    Laqad jiʾtum shayʾan iddā.

    You have done an atrocious thing.

90. تَكَادُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُ يَتَفَطَّرۡنَ مِنۡهُ وَتَنشَقُّ ٱلۡأَرۡضُ وَتَخِرُّ ٱلۡجِبَالُ هَدًّا ٩٠

    Takādus-samāwātu yatafaṭṭarna minhu wa tanshaqqul-arḍu wa takhirrul-jibālu haddā.

    The heavens almost rupture therefrom and the earth splits open and the mountains collapse in devastation

91. أَن دَعَوۡاْ لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِ وَلَدٗا ٩١

    An daʿaw lir-raḥmāni waladā.

    That they attribute to the Most Merciful a son.

92. وَمَا يَنۢبَغِي لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِ أَن يَتَّخِذَ وَلَدًا ٩٢

    Wa mā yanbaghī lir-raḥmāni ay yattakhidha waladā.

    And it is not appropriate for the Most Merciful that He should take a son.

93. إِن كُلُّ مَن فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ إِلَّآ ءَاتِي ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ عَبۡدٗا ٩٣

    In kullu man fis-samāwāti wal-arḍi illā ātir-raḥmāni ʿabdā.

    There is no one in the heavens and earth but that he comes to the Most Merciful as a servant.

94. لَّقَدۡ أَحۡصَىٰهُمۡ وَعَدَّهُمۡ عَدّٗا ٩٤

    Laqad aḥṣāhum wa ʿaddahum ʿaddā.

    He has enumerated them and counted them a [full] counting.

95. وَكُلُّهُمۡ ءَاتِيهِ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ فَرۡدًا ٩٥

    Wa kulluhum ātīhi yawmal-qiyāmati fardā.

    And all of them are coming to Him on the Day of Resurrection alone.

96. إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ سَيَجۡعَلُ لَهُمُ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ وُدّٗا ٩٦

    Innal-ladhīna āmanū wa ʿamiluṣ-ṣāliḥāti sayajʿalu lahumur-raḥmānu wuddā.

    Indeed, those who have believed and done righteous deeds - the Most Merciful will appoint for them affection.¹

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    1. From Himself and from among each other.

97. فَإِنَّمَا يَسَّرۡنَٰهُ بِلِسَانِكَ لِتُبَشِّرَ بِهِ ٱلۡمُتَّقِينَ وَتُنذِرَ بِهِۦ قَوۡمٗا لُّدّٗا ٩٧

    Fa innamā yassarnāhu bilisānika litubashshira bihil-muttaqīna wa tundhira bihī qawmal luddā.

    So, [O Muḥammad], We have only made it [i.e., the Qur’ān] easy in your tongue [i.e., the Arabic language] that you may give good tidings thereby to the righteous and warn thereby a hostile people.

98. وَكَمۡ أَهۡلَكۡنَا قَبۡلَهُم مِّن قَرۡنٍ هَلۡ تُحِسُّ مِنۡهُم مِّنۡ أَحَدٍ أَوۡ تَسۡمَعُ لَهُمۡ رِكۡزَۢا ٩٨

    Wa kam ahlaknā qablahum min qarnin hal tuḥissu minhum min aḥadin aw tasmaʿu lahum rikzā.

    And how many have We destroyed before them of generations? Do you perceive of them anyone or hear from them a sound?

﷽بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. طه ١

   Ṭā Hā.

   Ṭā, Hā.¹

   Footnotes (1)

   1. See footnote to 2:1.

2. مَآ أَنزَلۡنَا عَلَيۡكَ ٱلۡقُرۡءَانَ لِتَشۡقَىٰٓ ٢

   Mā anzalnā ʿalaykal-qurʾāna litashqā.

   We have not sent down to you the Qur’ān that you be distressed

3. إِلَّا تَذۡكِرَةٗ لِّمَن يَخۡشَىٰ ٣

   Illā tadhkiratal limay yakhshā.

   But only as a reminder for those who fear [Allāh] -

4. تَنزِيلٗا مِّمَّنۡ خَلَقَ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ ٱلۡعُلَى ٤

   Tanzīlam mimman khalaqal-arḍa was-samāwātil-ʿulā.

   A revelation from He who created the earth and highest heavens,

5. ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ عَلَى ٱلۡعَرۡشِ ٱسۡتَوَىٰ ٥

   Ar-raḥmānu ʿalal-ʿarshistawā.

   The Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne established.¹

   Footnotes (1)

   1. i.e., having ascendancy over all creation. See footnotes to 2:19 and 7:54.

6. لَهُۥ مَا فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَمَا فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا بَيۡنَهُمَا وَمَا تَحۡتَ ٱلثَّرَىٰ ٦

   Lahū mā fis-samāwāti wa mā fil-arḍi wa mā baynahumā wa mā taḥtath-tharā.

   To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth and what is between them and what is under the soil.

7. وَإِن تَجۡهَرۡ بِٱلۡقَوۡلِ فَإِنَّهُۥ يَعۡلَمُ ٱلسِّرَّ وَأَخۡفَى ٧

   Wa in tajhar bil-qawli fa innahū yaʿlamus-sirra wa akhfā.

   And if you speak aloud - then indeed, He knows the secret and what is [even] more hidden.

8. ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَۖ لَهُ ٱلۡأَسۡمَآءُ ٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰ ٨

   Allāhu lā ilāha illā huw, lahul-asmāʾul-ḥusnā.

   Allāh - there is no deity except Him. To Him belong the best names.

9. وَهَلۡ أَتَىٰكَ حَدِيثُ مُوسَىٰٓ ٩

   Wa hal atāka ḥadīthu mūsā.

   And has the story of Moses reached you? -

10. إِذۡ رَءَا نَارٗا فَقَالَ لِأَهۡلِهِ ٱمۡكُثُوٓاْ إِنِّيٓ ءَانَسۡتُ نَارٗا لَّعَلِّيٓ ءَاتِيكُم مِّنۡهَا بِقَبَسٍ أَوۡ أَجِدُ عَلَى ٱلنَّارِ هُدٗى ١٠

    Idh raʾā nāran faqāla liʾahlihimkuthū innī ānastu nāral laʿallī ātīkum minhā biqabasin aw ajidu ʿalan-nāri hudā.

    When he saw a fire and said to his family, "Stay here; indeed, I have perceived a fire; perhaps I can bring you a torch or find at the fire some guidance."

11. فَلَمَّآ أَتَىٰهَا نُودِيَ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ ١١

    Falammā atāhā nūdiya yāmūsā.

    And when he came to it, he was called, "O Moses,

12. إِنِّيٓ أَنَا۠ رَبُّكَ فَٱخۡلَعۡ نَعۡلَيۡكَ إِنَّكَ بِٱلۡوَادِ ٱلۡمُقَدَّسِ طُوٗى ١٢

    Innī ana rabbuka fakhlaʿ naʿlayka innaka bil-wādil-muqaddasi ṭuwā.

    Indeed, I am your Lord, so remove your sandals. Indeed, you are in the blessed valley of Ṭuwā.

13. وَأَنَا ٱخۡتَرۡتُكَ فَٱسۡتَمِعۡ لِمَا يُوحَىٰٓ ١٣

    Wa anakhtartuka fastamiʿ limā yūḥā.

    And I have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed [to you].

14. إِنَّنِيٓ أَنَا ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّآ أَنَا۠ فَٱعۡبُدۡنِي وَأَقِمِ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ لِذِكۡرِيٓ ١٤

    Innanī anallāhu lā ilāha illā ana faʿbudnī wa aqimiṣ-ṣalāta lidhikrī.

    Indeed, I am Allāh. There is no deity except Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance.

15. إِنَّ ٱلسَّاعَةَ ءَاتِيَةٌ أَكَادُ أُخۡفِيهَا لِتُجۡزَىٰ كُلُّ نَفۡسِۭ بِمَا تَسۡعَىٰ ١٥

    Innas-sāʿata ātiyatun akādu ukhfīhā litujzā kullu nafsim bimā tasʿā.

    Indeed, the Hour is coming - I almost conceal it¹ - so that every soul may be recompensed according to that for which it strives.

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    1. Meaning that Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) keeps knowledge of the Hour hidden from everyone except Himself.

16. فَلَا يَصُدَّنَّكَ عَنۡهَا مَن لَّا يُؤۡمِنُ بِهَا وَٱتَّبَعَ هَوَىٰهُ فَتَرۡدَىٰ ١٦

    Falā yaṣuddannaka ʿanhā mal lā yuʾminu bihā wattabaʿa hawāhu fatardā.

    So do not let one avert you from it¹ who does not believe in it and follows his desire, for you [then] would perish.

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    1. From preparation for the Hour or for the Hereafter.

17. وَمَا تِلۡكَ بِيَمِينِكَ يَٰمُوسَىٰ ١٧

    Wa mā tilka biyamīnika yāmūsā.

    And what is that in your right hand, O Moses?"

18. قَالَ هِيَ عَصَايَ أَتَوَكَّؤُاْ عَلَيۡهَا وَأَهُشُّ بِهَا عَلَىٰ غَنَمِي وَلِيَ فِيهَا مَـَٔارِبُ أُخۡرَىٰ ١٨

    Qāla hiya ʿaṣāya atawakkaʾu ʿalayhā wa ahushshu bihā ʿalā ghanamī waliya fīhā maʾāribu ukhrā.

    He said, "It is my staff; I lean upon it, and I bring down leaves for my sheep and I have therein other uses."

19. قَالَ أَلۡقِهَا يَٰمُوسَىٰ ١٩

    Qāla alqihā yāmūsā.

    [Allāh] said, "Throw it down, O Moses."

20. فَأَلۡقَىٰهَا فَإِذَا هِيَ حَيَّةٞ تَسۡعَىٰ ٢٠

    Fa alqāhā fa idhā hiya ḥayyatun tasʿā.

    So he threw it down, and thereupon it was a snake, moving swiftly.

21. قَالَ خُذۡهَا وَلَا تَخَفۡۖ سَنُعِيدُهَا سِيرَتَهَا ٱلۡأُولَىٰ ٢١

    Qāla khudhhā wa lā takhaf, sanuʿīduhā sīratahal-ūlā.

    [Allāh] said, "Seize it and fear not; We will return it to its former condition.

22. وَٱضۡمُمۡ يَدَكَ إِلَىٰ جَنَاحِكَ تَخۡرُجۡ بَيۡضَآءَ مِنۡ غَيۡرِ سُوٓءٍ ءَايَةً أُخۡرَىٰ ٢٢

    Waḍmum yadaka ilā janāḥika takhruj bayḍāʾa min ghayri sūʾin āyatan ukhrā.

    And draw in your hand to your side; it will come out white without disease - another sign,

23. لِنُرِيَكَ مِنۡ ءَايَٰتِنَا ٱلۡكُبۡرَى ٢٣

    Linuriyaka min āyātinal-kubrā.

    That We may show you [some] of Our greater signs.

24. ٱذۡهَبۡ إِلَىٰ فِرۡعَوۡنَ إِنَّهُۥ طَغَىٰ ٢٤

    Idhhab ilā firʿawna innahū ṭaghā.

    Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed [i.e., tyrannized]."

25. قَالَ رَبِّ ٱشۡرَحۡ لِي صَدۡرِي ٢٥

    Qāla rabbishraḥ lī ṣadrī.

    [Moses] said, "My Lord, expand [i.e., relax] for me my breast [with assurance]

26. وَيَسِّرۡ لِيٓ أَمۡرِي ٢٦

    Wa yassir lī amrī.

    And ease for me my task

27. وَٱحۡلُلۡ عُقۡدَةٗ مِّن لِّسَانِي ٢٧

    Waḥlul ʿuqdatam mil lisānī.

    And untie the knot from my tongue

28. يَفۡقَهُواْ قَوۡلِي ٢٨

    Yafqahū qawlī.

    That they may understand my speech.

29. وَٱجۡعَل لِّي وَزِيرٗا مِّنۡ أَهۡلِي ٢٩

    Wajʿal lī wazīram min ahlī.

    And appoint for me a minister [i.e., assistant] from my family -

30. هَٰرُونَ أَخِي ٣٠

    Hārūna akhī.

    Aaron, my brother.

31. ٱشۡدُدۡ بِهِۦٓ أَزۡرِي ٣١

    Ushdud bihī azrī.

    Increase through him my strength

32. وَأَشۡرِكۡهُ فِيٓ أَمۡرِي ٣٢

    Wa ashrikhu fī amrī.

    And let him share my task

33. كَيۡ نُسَبِّحَكَ كَثِيرٗا ٣٣

    Kay nusabbiḥaka kathīrā.

    That we may exalt You much

34. وَنَذۡكُرَكَ كَثِيرًا ٣٤

    Wa nadhkuraka kathīrā.

    And remember You much.

35. إِنَّكَ كُنتَ بِنَا بَصِيرٗا ٣٥

    Innaka kunta binā baṣīrā.

    Indeed, You are of us ever Seeing."

36. قَالَ قَدۡ أُوتِيتَ سُؤۡلَكَ يَٰمُوسَىٰ ٣٦

    Qāla qad ūtīta suʾlaka yāmūsā.

    [Allāh] said, "You have been granted your request, O Moses.

37. وَلَقَدۡ مَنَنَّا عَلَيۡكَ مَرَّةً أُخۡرَىٰٓ ٣٧

    Wa laqad manannā ʿalayka marratan ukhrā.

    And We had already conferred favor upon you another time,

38. إِذۡ أَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰٓ أُمِّكَ مَا يُوحَىٰٓ ٣٨

    Idh awḥaynā ilā ummika mā yūḥā.

    When We inspired to your mother what We inspired,

39. أَنِ ٱقۡذِفِيهِ فِي ٱلتَّابُوتِ فَٱقۡذِفِيهِ فِي ٱلۡيَمِّ فَلۡيُلۡقِهِ ٱلۡيَمُّ بِٱلسَّاحِلِ يَأۡخُذۡهُ عَدُوّٞ لِّي وَعَدُوّٞ لَّهُۥۚ وَأَلۡقَيۡتُ عَلَيۡكَ مَحَبَّةٗ مِّنِّي وَلِتُصۡنَعَ عَلَىٰ عَيۡنِيٓ ٣٩

    Aniqdhifīhi fit-tābūti faqdhifīhi fil-yammi falyulqihil-yammu bis-sāḥili yaʾkhudhhu ʿaduwwul lī wa ʿaduwwul lah, wa alqaytu ʿalayka maḥabbatam minnī walituṣnaʿa ʿalā ʿaynī.

    [Saying], 'Cast him into the chest and cast it into the river, and the river will throw it onto the bank; there will take him an enemy to Me and an enemy to him.' And I bestowed upon you love from Me¹ that you would be brought up under My eye [i.e., observation and care].

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    1. Allāh put love of Moses into the hearts of the people.

40. إِذۡ تَمۡشِيٓ أُخۡتُكَ فَتَقُولُ هَلۡ أَدُلُّكُمۡ عَلَىٰ مَن يَكۡفُلُهُۥۖ فَرَجَعۡنَٰكَ إِلَىٰٓ أُمِّكَ كَيۡ تَقَرَّ عَيۡنُهَا وَلَا تَحۡزَنَۚ وَقَتَلۡتَ نَفۡسٗا فَنَجَّيۡنَٰكَ مِنَ ٱلۡغَمِّ وَفَتَنَّٰكَ فُتُونٗاۚ فَلَبِثۡتَ سِنِينَ فِيٓ أَهۡلِ مَدۡيَنَ ثُمَّ جِئۡتَ عَلَىٰ قَدَرٖ يَٰمُوسَىٰ ٤٠

    Idh tamshī ukhtuka fataqūlu hal adullukum ʿalā may yakfuluh, farajaʿnāka ilā ummika kay taqarra ʿaynuhā wa lā taḥzan, wa qatalta nafsan fanajjaynāka minal-ghammi wa fatannāka futūnā, falabithta sinīna fī ahli madyana thumma jiʾta ʿalā qadariy yāmūsā.

    [And We favored you] when your sister went and said, 'Shall I direct you to someone who will be responsible for him?' So We restored you to your mother that she might be content and not grieve. And you killed someone,¹ but We saved you from retaliation and tried you with a [severe] trial. And you remained [some] years among the people of Madyan. Then you came [here] at the decreed time, O Moses.

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    1. The Copt who died after being struck by Moses.

41. وَٱصۡطَنَعۡتُكَ لِنَفۡسِي ٤١

    Waṣṭanaʿtuka linafsī.

    And I produced you for Myself.¹

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    1. Allāh had already selected Moses and made him strong in body and character according to the requirements of his mission.

42. ٱذۡهَبۡ أَنتَ وَأَخُوكَ بِـَٔايَٰتِي وَلَا تَنِيَا فِي ذِكۡرِي ٤٢

    Idhhab anta wa akhūka biʾāyātī wa lā taniyā fī dhikrī.

    Go, you and your brother, with My signs and do not slacken in My remembrance.

43. ٱذۡهَبَآ إِلَىٰ فِرۡعَوۡنَ إِنَّهُۥ طَغَىٰ ٤٣

    Idhhabā ilā firʿawna innahū ṭaghā.

    Go, both of you, to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

44. فَقُولَا لَهُۥ قَوۡلٗا لَّيِّنٗا لَّعَلَّهُۥ يَتَذَكَّرُ أَوۡ يَخۡشَىٰ ٤٤

    Faqūlā lahū qawlal layyinal laʿallahū yatadhakkaru aw yakhshā.

    And speak to him with gentle speech that perhaps he may be reminded or fear [Allāh]."

45. قَالَا رَبَّنَآ إِنَّنَا نَخَافُ أَن يَفۡرُطَ عَلَيۡنَآ أَوۡ أَن يَطۡغَىٰ ٤٥

    Qālā rabbanā innanā nakhāfu ay yafruṭa ʿalaynā aw ay yaṭghā.

    They said, "Our Lord, indeed we are afraid that he will hasten [punishment] against us or that he will transgress."

46. قَالَ لَا تَخَافَآۖ إِنَّنِي مَعَكُمَآ أَسۡمَعُ وَأَرَىٰ ٤٦

    Qāla lā takhāfā, innanī maʿakumā asmaʿu wa arā.

    [Allāh] said, "Fear not. Indeed, I am with you both; I hear and I see.

47. فَأۡتِيَاهُ فَقُولَآ إِنَّا رَسُولَا رَبِّكَ فَأَرۡسِلۡ مَعَنَا بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ وَلَا تُعَذِّبۡهُمۡۖ قَدۡ جِئۡنَٰكَ بِـَٔايَةٖ مِّن رَّبِّكَۖ وَٱلسَّلَٰمُ عَلَىٰ مَنِ ٱتَّبَعَ ٱلۡهُدَىٰٓ ٤٧

    Faʾtiyāhu faqūlā innā rasūlā rabbika fa arsil maʿanā banī isrāʾīla wa lā tuʿadhdhibhum, qad jiʾnāka biʾāyatim mir rabbik, was-salāmu ʿalā manittabaʿal-hudā.

    So go to him and say, 'Indeed, we are messengers of your Lord, so send with us the Children of Israel and do not torment them. We have come to you with a sign from your Lord. And peace¹ will be upon he who follows the guidance.

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    1. i.e., safety and security from Allāh's punishment.

48. إِنَّا قَدۡ أُوحِيَ إِلَيۡنَآ أَنَّ ٱلۡعَذَابَ عَلَىٰ مَن كَذَّبَ وَتَوَلَّىٰ ٤٨

    Innā qad ūḥiya ilaynā annal-ʿadhāba ʿalā man kadhdhaba wa tawallā.

    Indeed, it has been revealed to us that the punishment will be upon whoever denies and turns away.'"

49. قَالَ فَمَن رَّبُّكُمَا يَٰمُوسَىٰ ٤٩

    Qāla famar rabbukumā yāmūsā.

    [Pharaoh] said, "So who is the Lord of you two, O Moses?"

50. قَالَ رَبُّنَا ٱلَّذِيٓ أَعۡطَىٰ كُلَّ شَيۡءٍ خَلۡقَهُۥ ثُمَّ هَدَىٰ ٥٠

    Qāla rabbunal-ladhī aʿṭā kulla shayʾin khalqahū thumma hadā.

    He said, "Our Lord is He who gave each thing its form and then guided [it]."

51. قَالَ فَمَا بَالُ ٱلۡقُرُونِ ٱلۡأُولَىٰ ٥١

    Qāla famā bālul-qurūnil-ūlā.

    [Pharaoh] said, "Then what is the case of the former generations?"

52. قَالَ عِلۡمُهَا عِندَ رَبِّي فِي كِتَٰبٖۖ لَّا يَضِلُّ رَبِّي وَلَا يَنسَى ٥٢

    Qāla ʿilmuhā ʿinda rabbī fī kitāb, lā yaḍillu rabbī wa lā yansā.

    [Moses] said, "The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a record. My Lord neither errs nor forgets."

53. ٱلَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ مَهۡدٗا وَسَلَكَ لَكُمۡ فِيهَا سُبُلٗا وَأَنزَلَ مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءٗ فَأَخۡرَجۡنَا بِهِۦٓ أَزۡوَٰجٗا مِّن نَّبَاتٖ شَتَّىٰ ٥٣

    Al-ladhī jaʿala lakumul-arḍa mahdaw wa salaka lakum fīhā subulaw wa anzala minas-samāʾi māʾan fa akhrajnā bihī azwājam min nabātin shattā.

    [It is He] who has made for you the earth as a bed [spread out] and inserted therein for you roadways and sent down from the sky, rain and produced thereby categories of various plants.

54. كُلُواْ وَٱرۡعَوۡاْ أَنۡعَٰمَكُمۡۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَٰتٖ لِّأُوْلِي ٱلنُّهَىٰ ٥٤

    Kulū warʿaw anʿāmakum, inna fī dhālika laʾāyātil liʾulin-nuhā.

    Eat [therefrom] and pasture your livestock. Indeed in that are signs for those of intelligence.

55. ۞ مِنۡهَا خَلَقۡنَٰكُمۡ وَفِيهَا نُعِيدُكُمۡ وَمِنۡهَا نُخۡرِجُكُمۡ تَارَةً أُخۡرَىٰ ٥٥

    Minhā khalaqnākum wa fīhā nuʿīdukum wa minhā nukhrijukum tāratan ukhrā.

    From it [i.e., the earth] We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time.

56. وَلَقَدۡ أَرَيۡنَٰهُ ءَايَٰتِنَا كُلَّهَا فَكَذَّبَ وَأَبَىٰ ٥٦

    Wa laqad araynāhu āyātinā kullahā fakadhdhaba wa abā.

    And We certainly showed him [i.e., Pharaoh] Our signs - all of them - but he denied and refused.

57. قَالَ أَجِئۡتَنَا لِتُخۡرِجَنَا مِنۡ أَرۡضِنَا بِسِحۡرِكَ يَٰمُوسَىٰ ٥٧

    Qāla ajiʾtanā litukhrijanā min arḍinā bisiḥrika yāmūsā.

    He said, "Have you come to us to drive us out of our land with your magic, O Moses?

58. فَلَنَأۡتِيَنَّكَ بِسِحۡرٖ مِّثۡلِهِۦ فَٱجۡعَلۡ بَيۡنَنَا وَبَيۡنَكَ مَوۡعِدٗا لَّا نُخۡلِفُهُۥ نَحۡنُ وَلَآ أَنتَ مَكَانٗا سُوٗى ٥٨

    Falanaʾtiyannaka bisiḥrim mithlihī fajʿal baynanā wa baynaka mawʿidal lā nukhlifuhū naḥnu wa lā anta makānan suwā.

    Then we will surely bring you magic like it, so make between us and you an appointment, which we will not fail to keep and neither will you, in a place assigned."¹

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    1. Literally, "marked," as to be known. Another meaning is "a place midway [between us]" or "a level place."

59. قَالَ مَوۡعِدُكُمۡ يَوۡمُ ٱلزِّينَةِ وَأَن يُحۡشَرَ ٱلنَّاسُ ضُحٗى ٥٩

    Qāla mawʿidukum yawmuz-zīnati wa ay yuḥsharan-nāsu ḍuḥā.

    [Moses] said, "Your appointment is on the day of the festival when the people assemble at mid-morning."¹

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    1. So that the signs of Allāh would be seen clearly.

60. فَتَوَلَّىٰ فِرۡعَوۡنُ فَجَمَعَ كَيۡدَهُۥ ثُمَّ أَتَىٰ ٦٠

    Fatawallā firʿawnu fajamaʿa kaydahū thumma atā.

    So Pharaoh went away, put together his plan, and then came [to Moses].

61. قَالَ لَهُم مُّوسَىٰ وَيۡلَكُمۡ لَا تَفۡتَرُواْ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبٗا فَيُسۡحِتَكُم بِعَذَابٖۖ وَقَدۡ خَابَ مَنِ ٱفۡتَرَىٰ ٦١

    Qāla lahum mūsā waylakum lā taftarū ʿalallāhi kadhiban fayusḥitakum biʿadhāb, wa qad khāba maniftarā.

    Moses said to them [i.e., the magicians summoned by Pharaoh], "Woe to you! Do not invent a lie against Allāh or He will exterminate you with a punishment; and he has failed who invents [such falsehood]."

62. فَتَنَٰزَعُوٓاْ أَمۡرَهُم بَيۡنَهُمۡ وَأَسَرُّواْ ٱلنَّجۡوَىٰ ٦٢

    Fatanāzaʿū amrahum baynahum wa asarrun-najwā.

    So they disputed over their affair among themselves and concealed their private conversation.

63. قَالُوٓاْ إِنۡ هَٰذَٰنِ لَسَٰحِرَٰنِ يُرِيدَانِ أَن يُخۡرِجَاكُم مِّنۡ أَرۡضِكُم بِسِحۡرِهِمَا وَيَذۡهَبَا بِطَرِيقَتِكُمُ ٱلۡمُثۡلَىٰ ٦٣

    Qālū in hādhāni lasāḥirāni yurīdāni ay yukhrijākum min arḍikum bisiḥrihimā wa yadhhabā biṭarīqatikumul-muthlā.

    They said, "Indeed, these are two magicians who want to drive you out of your land with their magic and do away with your most exemplary way [i.e., religion or tradition].

64. فَأَجۡمِعُواْ كَيۡدَكُمۡ ثُمَّ ٱئۡتُواْ صَفّٗاۚ وَقَدۡ أَفۡلَحَ ٱلۡيَوۡمَ مَنِ ٱسۡتَعۡلَىٰ ٦٤

    Fa ajmiʿū kaydakum thummaʾtū ṣaffā, wa qad aflaḥal-yawma manistaʿlā.

    So resolve upon your plan and then come [forward] in line. And he has succeeded today who overcomes."

65. قَالُواْ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِمَّآ أَن تُلۡقِيَ وَإِمَّآ أَن نَّكُونَ أَوَّلَ مَنۡ أَلۡقَىٰ ٦٥

    Qālū yāmūsā immā an tulqiya wa immā an nakūna awwala man alqā.

    They said, "O Moses, either you throw or we will be the first to throw."

66. قَالَ بَلۡ أَلۡقُواْۖ فَإِذَا حِبَالُهُمۡ وَعِصِيُّهُمۡ يُخَيَّلُ إِلَيۡهِ مِن سِحۡرِهِمۡ أَنَّهَا تَسۡعَىٰ ٦٦

    Qāla bal alqū, fa idhā ḥibāluhum wa ʿiṣiyyuhum yukhayyalu ilayhi min siḥrihim annahā tasʿā.

    He said, "Rather, you throw." And suddenly their ropes and staffs seemed to him from their magic that they were moving [like snakes].

67. فَأَوۡجَسَ فِي نَفۡسِهِۦ خِيفَةٗ مُّوسَىٰ ٦٧

    Fa awjasa fī nafsihī khīfatam mūsā.

    And he sensed within himself apprehension, did Moses.

68. قُلۡنَا لَا تَخَفۡ إِنَّكَ أَنتَ ٱلۡأَعۡلَىٰ ٦٨

    Qulnā lā takhaf innaka antal-aʿlā.

    We [i.e., Allāh] said, "Fear not. Indeed, it is you who are superior.

69. وَأَلۡقِ مَا فِي يَمِينِكَ تَلۡقَفۡ مَا صَنَعُوٓاْۖ إِنَّمَا صَنَعُواْ كَيۡدُ سَٰحِرٖۖ وَلَا يُفۡلِحُ ٱلسَّاحِرُ حَيۡثُ أَتَىٰ ٦٩

    Wa alqi mā fī yamīnika talqaf mā ṣanaʿū, innamā ṣanaʿū kaydu sāḥir, wa lā yufliḥus-sāḥiru ḥaythu atā.

    And throw what is in your right hand; it will swallow up what they have crafted. What they have crafted is but the trick of a magician, and the magician will not succeed wherever he is."

70. فَأُلۡقِيَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ سُجَّدٗا قَالُوٓاْ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ هَٰرُونَ وَمُوسَىٰ ٧٠

    Fa ulqiyas-saḥaratu sujjadan qālū āmannā birabbi hārūna wa mūsā.

    So the magicians fell down in prostration.¹ They said, "We have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses."

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    1. After they had seen the miracles which Allāh had given Moses and that they were realities and not merely impressions of magic.

71. قَالَ ءَامَنتُمۡ لَهُۥ قَبۡلَ أَنۡ ءَاذَنَ لَكُمۡۖ إِنَّهُۥ لَكَبِيرُكُمُ ٱلَّذِي عَلَّمَكُمُ ٱلسِّحۡرَۖ فَلَأُقَطِّعَنَّ أَيۡدِيَكُمۡ وَأَرۡجُلَكُم مِّنۡ خِلَٰفٖ وَلَأُصَلِّبَنَّكُمۡ فِي جُذُوعِ ٱلنَّخۡلِ وَلَتَعۡلَمُنَّ أَيُّنَآ أَشَدُّ عَذَابٗا وَأَبۡقَىٰ ٧١

    Qāla āmantum lahū qabla an ādhana lakum, innahū lakabīrukumul-ladhī ʿallamakumus-siḥr, falaʾuqaṭṭiʿanna aydiyakum wa arjulakum min khilāfiw wa laʾuṣallibannakum fī judhūʿin-nakhli wa lataʿlamunna ayyunā ashaddu ʿadhābaw wa abqā.

    [Pharaoh] said, "You believed him [i.e., Moses] before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic. So I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of palm trees, and you will surely know which of us is more severe in [giving] punishment and more enduring."

72. قَالُواْ لَن نُّؤۡثِرَكَ عَلَىٰ مَا جَآءَنَا مِنَ ٱلۡبَيِّنَٰتِ وَٱلَّذِي فَطَرَنَاۖ فَٱقۡضِ مَآ أَنتَ قَاضٍۖ إِنَّمَا تَقۡضِي هَٰذِهِ ٱلۡحَيَوٰةَ ٱلدُّنۡيَآ ٧٢

    Qālū lan nuʾthiraka ʿalā mā jāʾanā minal-bayyināti wal-ladhī faṭaranā, faqḍi mā anta qāḍ, innamā taqḍī hādhihil-ḥayātad-dunyā.

    They said, "Never will we prefer you over what has come to us of clear proofs and [over] He who created us.¹ So decree whatever you are to decree. You can only decree for this worldly life.

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    1. This phrase has also been interpreted as an oath, i.e., "...by Him who created us."

73. إِنَّآ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّنَا لِيَغۡفِرَ لَنَا خَطَٰيَٰنَا وَمَآ أَكۡرَهۡتَنَا عَلَيۡهِ مِنَ ٱلسِّحۡرِۗ وَٱللَّهُ خَيۡرٞ وَأَبۡقَىٰٓ ٧٣

    Innā āmannā birabbinā liyaghfira lanā khaṭāyānā wa mā akrahtanā ʿalayhi minas-siḥr, wallāhu khayruw wa abqā.

    Indeed, we have believed in our Lord that He may forgive us our sins and what you compelled us [to do] of magic. And Allāh is better and more enduring."¹

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    1. In reward and in punishment.

74. إِنَّهُۥ مَن يَأۡتِ رَبَّهُۥ مُجۡرِمٗا فَإِنَّ لَهُۥ جَهَنَّمَ لَا يَمُوتُ فِيهَا وَلَا يَحۡيَىٰ ٧٤

    Innahū may yaʾti rabbahū mujriman fa inna lahū jahannama lā yamūtu fīhā wa lā yaḥyā.

    Indeed, whoever comes to his Lord as a criminal - indeed, for him is Hell; he will neither die therein nor live.

75. وَمَن يَأۡتِهِۦ مُؤۡمِنٗا قَدۡ عَمِلَ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ لَهُمُ ٱلدَّرَجَٰتُ ٱلۡعُلَىٰ ٧٥

    Wa may yaʾtihī muʾminan qad ʿamilaṣ-ṣāliḥāti fa ulāʾika lahumud-darajātul-ʿulā.

    But whoever comes to Him as a believer having done righteous deeds - for those will be the highest degrees [in position]:

76. جَنَّٰتُ عَدۡنٖ تَجۡرِي مِن تَحۡتِهَا ٱلۡأَنۡهَٰرُ خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَاۚ وَذَٰلِكَ جَزَآءُ مَن تَزَكَّىٰ ٧٦

    Jannātu ʿadnin tajrī min taḥtihal-anhāru khālidīna fīhā, wa dhālika jazāʾu man tazakkā.

    Gardens of perpetual residence beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally. And that is the reward of one who purifies himself.¹

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    1. From all uncleanliness, the greatest of which is worship and obedience to other than Allāh.

77. وَلَقَدۡ أَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنۡ أَسۡرِ بِعِبَادِي فَٱضۡرِبۡ لَهُمۡ طَرِيقٗا فِي ٱلۡبَحۡرِ يَبَسٗا لَّا تَخَٰفُ دَرَكٗا وَلَا تَخۡشَىٰ ٧٧

    Wa laqad awḥaynā ilā mūsā an asri biʿibādī faḍrib lahum ṭarīqan fil-baḥri yabasal lā takhāfu darakaw wa lā takhshā.

    And We had inspired to Moses, "Travel by night with My servants and strike for them a dry path through the sea; you will not fear being overtaken [by Pharaoh] nor be afraid [of drowning]."

78. فَأَتۡبَعَهُمۡ فِرۡعَوۡنُ بِجُنُودِهِۦ فَغَشِيَهُم مِّنَ ٱلۡيَمِّ مَا غَشِيَهُمۡ ٧٨

    Fa atbaʿahum firʿawnu bijunūdihī faghashiyahum minal-yammi mā ghashiyahum.

    So Pharaoh pursued them with his soldiers, and there covered them from the sea that which covered them,¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., not only the water but that which only Allāh knows - terror, pain, regret, etc.

79. وَأَضَلَّ فِرۡعَوۡنُ قَوۡمَهُۥ وَمَا هَدَىٰ ٧٩

    Wa aḍalla firʿawnu qawmahū wa mā hadā.

    And Pharaoh led his people astray and did not guide [them].

80. يَٰبَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ قَدۡ أَنجَيۡنَٰكُم مِّنۡ عَدُوِّكُمۡ وَوَٰعَدۡنَٰكُمۡ جَانِبَ ٱلطُّورِ ٱلۡأَيۡمَنَ وَنَزَّلۡنَا عَلَيۡكُمُ ٱلۡمَنَّ وَٱلسَّلۡوَىٰ ٨٠

    Yābanī isrāʾīla qad anjaynākum min ʿaduwwikum wa wāʿadnākum jānibaṭ-ṭūril-aymana wa nazzalnā ʿalaykumul-manna was-salwā.

    O Children of Israel, We delivered you from your enemy, and We made an appointment with you¹ at the right side of the mount, and We sent down to you manna and quails,

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., with your prophet, to receive the scripture for you.

81. كُلُواْ مِن طَيِّبَٰتِ مَا رَزَقۡنَٰكُمۡ وَلَا تَطۡغَوۡاْ فِيهِ فَيَحِلَّ عَلَيۡكُمۡ غَضَبِيۖ وَمَن يَحۡلِلۡ عَلَيۡهِ غَضَبِي فَقَدۡ هَوَىٰ ٨١

    Kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum wa lā taṭghaw fīhi fayaḥilla ʿalaykum ghaḍabī, wa may yaḥlil ʿalayhi ghaḍabī faqad hawā.

    [Saying], "Eat from the good things with which We have provided you and do not transgress [or oppress others] therein, lest My anger should descend upon you. And he upon whom My anger descends has certainly fallen [i.e., perished]."

82. وَإِنِّي لَغَفَّارٞ لِّمَن تَابَ وَءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحٗا ثُمَّ ٱهۡتَدَىٰ ٨٢

    Wa innī laghaffārul liman tāba wa āmana wa ʿamila ṣāliḥan thummahtadā.

    But indeed, I am the Perpetual Forgiver of whoever repents and believes and does righteousness and then continues in guidance.

83. ۞ وَمَآ أَعۡجَلَكَ عَن قَوۡمِكَ يَٰمُوسَىٰ ٨٣

    Wa mā aʿjalaka ʿan qawmika yāmūsā.

    [Allāh said], "And what made you hasten from your people, O Moses?"

84. قَالَ هُمۡ أُوْلَآءِ عَلَىٰٓ أَثَرِي وَعَجِلۡتُ إِلَيۡكَ رَبِّ لِتَرۡضَىٰ ٨٤

    Qāla hum ulāʾi ʿalā atharī wa ʿajiltu ilayka rabbi litarḍā.

    He said, "They are close upon my tracks, and I hastened to You, my Lord, that You be pleased."

85. قَالَ فَإِنَّا قَدۡ فَتَنَّا قَوۡمَكَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِكَ وَأَضَلَّهُمُ ٱلسَّامِرِيُّ ٨٥

    Qāla fa innā qad fatannā qawmaka mim baʿdika wa aḍallahumus-sāmiriyy.

    [Allāh] said, "But indeed, We have tried your people after you [departed], and the Sāmirī¹ has led them astray."

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Translated as "the Samaritan" (from Samaria), a hypocrite among them who led the Children of Israel into idol-worship.

86. فَرَجَعَ مُوسَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ قَوۡمِهِۦ غَضۡبَٰنَ أَسِفٗاۚ قَالَ يَٰقَوۡمِ أَلَمۡ يَعِدۡكُمۡ رَبُّكُمۡ وَعۡدًا حَسَنًاۚ أَفَطَالَ عَلَيۡكُمُ ٱلۡعَهۡدُ أَمۡ أَرَدتُّمۡ أَن يَحِلَّ عَلَيۡكُمۡ غَضَبٞ مِّن رَّبِّكُمۡ فَأَخۡلَفۡتُم مَّوۡعِدِي ٨٦

    Farajaʿa mūsā ilā qawmihī ghaḍbāna asifā, qāla yāqawmi alam yaʿidkum rabbukum waʿdan ḥasanā, afaṭāla ʿalaykumul-ʿahdu am aradttum ay yaḥilla ʿalaykum ghaḍabum mir rabbikum fa akhlaftum mawʿidī.

    So Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved.¹ He said, "O my people, did your Lord not make you a good promise?² Then, was the time [of its fulfillment] too long for you, or did you wish that wrath from your Lord descend upon you, so you broke your promise [of obedience] to me?"

    Footnotes (2)

    1. The meaning may also be "angry and enraged."
    2. That He would send down the Torah, containing guidance for you.

87. قَالُواْ مَآ أَخۡلَفۡنَا مَوۡعِدَكَ بِمَلۡكِنَا وَلَٰكِنَّا حُمِّلۡنَآ أَوۡزَارٗا مِّن زِينَةِ ٱلۡقَوۡمِ فَقَذَفۡنَٰهَا فَكَذَٰلِكَ أَلۡقَى ٱلسَّامِرِيُّ ٨٧

    Qālū mā akhlafnā mawʿidaka bimalkinā wa lākinnā ḥummilnā awzāram min zīnatil-qawmi faqadhafnāhā fakadhālika alqas-sāmiriyy.

    They said, "We did not break our promise to you by our will, but we were made to carry burdens from the ornaments of the people [of Pharaoh], so we threw them [into the fire], and thus did the Sāmirī throw."

88. فَأَخۡرَجَ لَهُمۡ عِجۡلٗا جَسَدٗا لَّهُۥ خُوَارٞ فَقَالُواْ هَٰذَآ إِلَٰهُكُمۡ وَإِلَٰهُ مُوسَىٰ فَنَسِيَ ٨٨

    Fa akhraja lahum ʿijlan jasadal lahū khuwārun faqālū hādhā ilāhukum wa ilāhu mūsā fanasiy.

    And he extracted for them [the statue of] a calf which had a lowing sound, and they said, "This is your god and the god of Moses, but he forgot."

89. أَفَلَا يَرَوۡنَ أَلَّا يَرۡجِعُ إِلَيۡهِمۡ قَوۡلٗا وَلَا يَمۡلِكُ لَهُمۡ ضَرّٗا وَلَا نَفۡعٗا ٨٩

    Afalā yarawna allā yarjiʿu ilayhim qawlaw wa lā yamliku lahum ḍarraw wa lā nafʿā.

    Did they not see that it could not return to them any speech [i.e., response] and that it did not possess for them any harm or benefit?

90. وَلَقَدۡ قَالَ لَهُمۡ هَٰرُونُ مِن قَبۡلُ يَٰقَوۡمِ إِنَّمَا فُتِنتُم بِهِۦۖ وَإِنَّ رَبَّكُمُ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ فَٱتَّبِعُونِي وَأَطِيعُوٓاْ أَمۡرِي ٩٠

    Wa laqad qāla lahum hārūnu min qablu yāqawmi innamā futintum bih, wa inna rabbakumur-raḥmānu fattabiʿūnī wa aṭīʿū amrī.

    And Aaron had already told them before [the return of Moses], "O my people, you are only being tested by it, and indeed, your Lord is the Most Merciful, so follow me and obey my order."

91. قَالُواْ لَن نَّبۡرَحَ عَلَيۡهِ عَٰكِفِينَ حَتَّىٰ يَرۡجِعَ إِلَيۡنَا مُوسَىٰ ٩١

    Qālū lan nabraḥa ʿalayhi ʿākifīna ḥattā yarjiʿa ilaynā mūsā.

    They said, "We will never cease being devoted to it [i.e., the calf] until Moses returns to us."

92. قَالَ يَٰهَٰرُونُ مَا مَنَعَكَ إِذۡ رَأَيۡتَهُمۡ ضَلُّوٓاْ ٩٢

    Qāla yāhārūnu mā manaʿaka idh raʾaytahum ḍallū.

    [Moses] said, "O Aaron, what prevented you, when you saw them going astray,

93. أَلَّا تَتَّبِعَنِۖ أَفَعَصَيۡتَ أَمۡرِي ٩٣

    Allā tattabiʿan, afaʿaṣayta amrī.

    From following me? Then have you disobeyed my order?"

94. قَالَ يَبۡنَؤُمَّ لَا تَأۡخُذۡ بِلِحۡيَتِي وَلَا بِرَأۡسِيٓۖ إِنِّي خَشِيتُ أَن تَقُولَ فَرَّقۡتَ بَيۡنَ بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ وَلَمۡ تَرۡقُبۡ قَوۡلِي ٩٤

    Qāla yabnaʾumma lā taʾkhudh biliḥyatī wa lā biraʾsī, innī khashītu an taqūla farraqta bayna banī isrāʾīla wa lam tarqub qawlī.

    [Aaron] said, "O son of my mother, do not seize [me] by my beard or by my head. Indeed, I feared that you would say, 'You caused division among the Children of Israel, and you did not observe [or await] my word.'"

95. قَالَ فَمَا خَطۡبُكَ يَٰسَٰمِرِيُّ ٩٥

    Qāla famā khaṭbuka yāsāmiriyy.

    [Moses] said, "And what is your case, O Sāmirī?"

96. قَالَ بَصُرۡتُ بِمَا لَمۡ يَبۡصُرُواْ بِهِۦ فَقَبَضۡتُ قَبۡضَةٗ مِّنۡ أَثَرِ ٱلرَّسُولِ فَنَبَذۡتُهَا وَكَذَٰلِكَ سَوَّلَتۡ لِي نَفۡسِي ٩٦

    Qāla baṣurtu bimā lam yabṣurū bihī faqabaḍtu qabḍatam min atharir-rasūli fanabadhtuhā wa kadhālika sawwalat lī nafsī.

    He said, "I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful [of dust] from the track of the messenger¹ and threw it,² and thus did my soul entice me."

    Footnotes (2)

    1. i.e., a hoof-print in the sand left by the angel Gabriel's horse.
    2. Into the fire upon the melted ornaments in order to form the calf.

97. قَالَ فَٱذۡهَبۡ فَإِنَّ لَكَ فِي ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ أَن تَقُولَ لَا مِسَاسَۖ وَإِنَّ لَكَ مَوۡعِدٗا لَّن تُخۡلَفَهُۥۖ وَٱنظُرۡ إِلَىٰٓ إِلَٰهِكَ ٱلَّذِي ظَلۡتَ عَلَيۡهِ عَاكِفٗاۖ لَّنُحَرِّقَنَّهُۥ ثُمَّ لَنَنسِفَنَّهُۥ فِي ٱلۡيَمِّ نَسۡفًا ٩٧

    Qāla fadhhab fa inna laka fil-ḥayāti an taqūla lā misās, wa inna laka mawʿidal lan tukhlafah, wanẓur ilā ilāhikal-ladhī ẓalta ʿalayhi ʿākifā, lanuḥarriqannahū thumma lanansifannahū fil-yammi nasfā.

    [Moses] said, "Then go. And indeed, it is [decreed] for you in [this] life to say, 'No contact.'¹ And indeed, you have an appointment [in the Hereafter] you will not fail to keep. And look at your 'god' to which you remained devoted. We will surely burn it and blow it [i.e., its ashes] into the sea with a blast.

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., Do not touch me. As chastisement, he was to be completely shunned by all people.

98. إِنَّمَآ إِلَٰهُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِي لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَۚ وَسِعَ كُلَّ شَيۡءٍ عِلۡمٗا ٩٨

    Innamā ilāhukumullāhul-ladhī lā ilāha illā huw, wasiʿa kulla shayʾin ʿilmā.

    Your god is only Allāh, except for whom there is no deity. He has encompassed all things in knowledge."

99. كَذَٰلِكَ نَقُصُّ عَلَيۡكَ مِنۡ أَنۢبَآءِ مَا قَدۡ سَبَقَۚ وَقَدۡ ءَاتَيۡنَٰكَ مِن لَّدُنَّا ذِكۡرٗا ٩٩

    Kadhālika naquṣṣu ʿalayka min anbāʾi mā qad sabaq, wa qad ātaynāka mil ladunnā dhikrā.

    Thus, [O Muḥammad], We relate to you from the news of what has preceded. And We have certainly given you from Us a message [i.e., the Qur’ān].

100. مَّنۡ أَعۡرَضَ عَنۡهُ فَإِنَّهُۥ يَحۡمِلُ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ وِزۡرًا ١٠٠

     Man aʿraḍa ʿanhu fa innahū yaḥmilu yawmal-qiyāmati wizrā.

     Whoever turns away from it - then indeed, he will bear on the Day of Resurrection a burden [i.e., great sin],

101. خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهِۖ وَسَآءَ لَهُمۡ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ حِمۡلٗا ١٠١

     Khālidīna fīh, wa sāʾa lahum yawmal-qiyāmati ḥimlā.

     [Abiding] eternally therein,¹ and evil it is for them on the Day of Resurrection as a load -

     Footnotes (1)

     1. i.e., in the state of sin.

102. يَوۡمَ يُنفَخُ فِي ٱلصُّورِۚ وَنَحۡشُرُ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ يَوۡمَئِذٖ زُرۡقٗا ١٠٢

     Yawma yunfakhu fiṣ-ṣūr, wa naḥshurul-mujrimīna yawmaʾidhin zurqā.

     The Day the Horn will be blown. And We will gather the criminals, that Day, blue-eyed.¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. From terror, or blinded completely.

103. يَتَخَٰفَتُونَ بَيۡنَهُمۡ إِن لَّبِثۡتُمۡ إِلَّا عَشۡرٗا ١٠٣

     Yatakhāfatūna baynahum il labithtum illā ʿashrā.

     They will murmur among themselves, "You remained not but ten [days in the world]."

104. نَّحۡنُ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا يَقُولُونَ إِذۡ يَقُولُ أَمۡثَلُهُمۡ طَرِيقَةً إِن لَّبِثۡتُمۡ إِلَّا يَوۡمٗا ١٠٤

     Naḥnu aʿlamu bimā yaqūlūna idh yaqūlu amthaluhum ṭarīqatan il labithtum illā yawmā.

     We are most knowing of what they say when the best of them in manner [i.e., wisdom or speech] will say, "You remained not but one day."

105. وَيَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلۡجِبَالِ فَقُلۡ يَنسِفُهَا رَبِّي نَسۡفٗا ١٠٥

     Wa yasʾalūnaka ʿanil-jibāli faqul yansifuhā rabbī nasfā.

     And they ask you about the mountains, so say, "My Lord will blow them away with a blast.¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. Once they have been reduced to dust.

106. فَيَذَرُهَا قَاعٗا صَفۡصَفٗا ١٠٦

     Fayadharuhā qāʿan ṣafṣafā.

     And He will leave it [i.e., the earth] a level plain;

107. لَّا تَرَىٰ فِيهَا عِوَجٗا وَلَآ أَمۡتٗا ١٠٧

     Lā tarā fīhā ʿiwajaw wa lā amtā.

     You will not see therein a depression or an elevation."

108. يَوۡمَئِذٖ يَتَّبِعُونَ ٱلدَّاعِيَ لَا عِوَجَ لَهُۥۖ وَخَشَعَتِ ٱلۡأَصۡوَاتُ لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِ فَلَا تَسۡمَعُ إِلَّا هَمۡسٗا ١٠٨

     Yawmaʾidhiy yattabiʿūnad-dāʿiya lā ʿiwaja lah, wa khashaʿatil-aṣwātu lir-raḥmāni falā tasmaʿu illā hamsā.

     That Day, they [i.e., everyone] will follow [the call of] the Caller¹ [with] no deviation therefrom, and [all] voices will be stilled before the Most Merciful, so you will not hear except a whisper [of footsteps].

     Footnotes (1)

     1. To the gathering for judgement.

109. يَوۡمَئِذٖ لَّا تَنفَعُ ٱلشَّفَٰعَةُ إِلَّا مَنۡ أَذِنَ لَهُ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ وَرَضِيَ لَهُۥ قَوۡلٗا ١٠٩

     Yawmaʾidhil lā tanfaʿush-shafāʿatu illā man adhina lahur-raḥmānu wa raḍiya lahū qawlā.

     That Day, no intercession will benefit except [that of] one to whom the Most Merciful has given permission and has accepted his word.

110. يَعۡلَمُ مَا بَيۡنَ أَيۡدِيهِمۡ وَمَا خَلۡفَهُمۡ وَلَا يُحِيطُونَ بِهِۦ عِلۡمٗا ١١٠

     Yaʿlamu mā bayna aydīhim wa mā khalfahum wa lā yuḥīṭūna bihī ʿilmā.

     He [i.e., Allāh] knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them,¹ but they do not encompass it [i.e., what He knows] in knowledge.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. Allāh’s knowledge encompasses every aspect of His creations in the past, present and future.

111. ۞ وَعَنَتِ ٱلۡوُجُوهُ لِلۡحَيِّ ٱلۡقَيُّومِۖ وَقَدۡ خَابَ مَنۡ حَمَلَ ظُلۡمٗا ١١١

     Wa ʿanatil-wujūhu lil-ḥayyil-qayyūm, wa qad khāba man ḥamala ẓulmā.

     And [all] faces will be humbled before the Ever-Living, the Self-Sustaining.¹ And he will have failed who carries injustice.²

     Footnotes (2)

     1. See footnotes describing these attributes in 2:255.
     2. i.e., sin or wrongdoing towards Allāh or any of His creation.

112. وَمَن يَعۡمَلۡ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَهُوَ مُؤۡمِنٞ فَلَا يَخَافُ ظُلۡمٗا وَلَا هَضۡمٗا ١١٢

     Wa may yaʿmal minaṣ-ṣāliḥāti wa huwa muʾminun falā yakhāfu ẓulmaw wa lā haḍmā.

     But he who does of righteous deeds while he is a believer - he will neither fear injustice nor deprivation.

113. وَكَذَٰلِكَ أَنزَلۡنَٰهُ قُرۡءَانًا عَرَبِيّٗا وَصَرَّفۡنَا فِيهِ مِنَ ٱلۡوَعِيدِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَتَّقُونَ أَوۡ يُحۡدِثُ لَهُمۡ ذِكۡرٗا ١١٣

     Wa kadhālika anzalnāhu qurʾānan ʿarabiyyaw wa ṣarrafnā fīhi minal-waʿīdi laʿallahum yattaqūna aw yuḥdithu lahum dhikrā.

     And thus We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur’ān¹ and have diversified therein the warnings that perhaps they will avoid [sin] or it would cause them remembrance.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. i.e., revealed in the Arabic language.

114. فَتَعَٰلَى ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡمَلِكُ ٱلۡحَقُّۗ وَلَا تَعۡجَلۡ بِٱلۡقُرۡءَانِ مِن قَبۡلِ أَن يُقۡضَىٰٓ إِلَيۡكَ وَحۡيُهُۥۖ وَقُل رَّبِّ زِدۡنِي عِلۡمٗا ١١٤

     Fataʿālallāhul-malikul-ḥaqq, wa lā taʿjal bil-qurʾāni min qabli ay yuqḍā ilayka waḥyuh, wa qul rabbi zidnī ʿilmā.

     So high [above all] is Allāh, the Sovereign,¹ the Truth.² And, [O Muḥammad], do not hasten with [recitation of] the Qur’ān before its revelation is completed to you, and say, "My Lord, increase me in knowledge."

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     1. And owner of everything in existence.
     2. Or "the True Reality," i.e., the real and permanent existence upon which all other existence depends.

115. وَلَقَدۡ عَهِدۡنَآ إِلَىٰٓ ءَادَمَ مِن قَبۡلُ فَنَسِيَ وَلَمۡ نَجِدۡ لَهُۥ عَزۡمٗا ١١٥

     Wa laqad ʿahidnā ilā ādama min qablu fanasiya wa lam najid lahū ʿazmā.

     And We had already taken a promise from Adam before, but he forgot; and We found not in him determination.¹

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     1. To resist temptation.

116. وَإِذۡ قُلۡنَا لِلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ ٱسۡجُدُواْ لِأٓدَمَ فَسَجَدُوٓاْ إِلَّآ إِبۡلِيسَ أَبَىٰ ١١٦

     Wa idh qulnā lil-malāʾikatisjudū liʾādama fasajadū illā iblīsa abā.

     And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," and they prostrated, except Iblees;¹ he refused.

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     1. See footnote to 2:34.

117. فَقُلۡنَا يَٰٓـَٔادَمُ إِنَّ هَٰذَا عَدُوّٞ لَّكَ وَلِزَوۡجِكَ فَلَا يُخۡرِجَنَّكُمَا مِنَ ٱلۡجَنَّةِ فَتَشۡقَىٰٓ ١١٧

     Faqulnā yāʾādamu inna hādhā ʿaduwwul laka walizawjika falā yukhrijannakumā minal-jannati fatashqā.

     So We said, "O Adam, indeed this is an enemy to you and to your wife. Then let him not remove you from Paradise so you would suffer.

118. إِنَّ لَكَ أَلَّا تَجُوعَ فِيهَا وَلَا تَعۡرَىٰ ١١٨

     Inna laka allā tajūʿa fīhā wa lā taʿrā.

     Indeed, it is [promised] for you not to be hungry therein or be unclothed.

119. وَأَنَّكَ لَا تَظۡمَؤُاْ فِيهَا وَلَا تَضۡحَىٰ ١١٩

     Wa annaka lā taẓmaʾu fīhā wa lā taḍḥā.

     And indeed, you will not be thirsty therein or be hot from the sun."

120. فَوَسۡوَسَ إِلَيۡهِ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنُ قَالَ يَٰٓـَٔادَمُ هَلۡ أَدُلُّكَ عَلَىٰ شَجَرَةِ ٱلۡخُلۡدِ وَمُلۡكٖ لَّا يَبۡلَىٰ ١٢٠

     Fawaswasa ilayhish-shayṭānu qāla yāʾādamu hal adulluka ʿalā shajaratil-khuldi wa mulkil lā yablā.

     Then Satan whispered to him; he said, "O Adam, shall I direct you to the tree of eternity and possession that will not deteriorate?"

121. فَأَكَلَا مِنۡهَا فَبَدَتۡ لَهُمَا سَوۡءَٰتُهُمَا وَطَفِقَا يَخۡصِفَانِ عَلَيۡهِمَا مِن وَرَقِ ٱلۡجَنَّةِۚ وَعَصَىٰٓ ءَادَمُ رَبَّهُۥ فَغَوَىٰ ١٢١

     Fa akalā minhā fabadat lahumā sawʾātuhumā wa ṭafiqā yakhṣifāni ʿalayhimā miw waraqil-jannah, wa ʿaṣā ādamu rabbahū faghawā.

     And they [i.e., Adam and his wife] ate of it, and their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred.

122. ثُمَّ ٱجۡتَبَٰهُ رَبُّهُۥ فَتَابَ عَلَيۡهِ وَهَدَىٰ ١٢٢

     Thummajtabāhu rabbuhū fatāba ʿalayhi wa hadā.

     Then his Lord chose him and turned to him in forgiveness and guided [him].

123. قَالَ ٱهۡبِطَا مِنۡهَا جَمِيعَۢاۖ بَعۡضُكُمۡ لِبَعۡضٍ عَدُوّٞۖ فَإِمَّا يَأۡتِيَنَّكُم مِّنِّي هُدٗى فَمَنِ ٱتَّبَعَ هُدَايَ فَلَا يَضِلُّ وَلَا يَشۡقَىٰ ١٢٣

     Qālahbiṭā minhā jamīʿā, baʿḍukum libaʿḍin ʿaduww, fa immā yaʾtiyannakum minnī hudan famanittabaʿa hudāya falā yaḍillu wa lā yashqā.

     [Allāh] said, "Descend from it [i.e., Paradise] - all, [your descendants] being enemies to one another. And if there should come to you guidance from Me - then whoever follows My guidance will neither go astray [in the world] nor suffer [in the Hereafter].

124. وَمَنۡ أَعۡرَضَ عَن ذِكۡرِي فَإِنَّ لَهُۥ مَعِيشَةٗ ضَنكٗا وَنَحۡشُرُهُۥ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ أَعۡمَىٰ ١٢٤

     Wa man aʿraḍa ʿan dhikrī fa inna lahū maʿīshatan ḍankaw wa naḥshuruhū yawmal-qiyāmati aʿmā.

     And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed [i.e., difficult] life, and We will gather [i.e., raise] him on the Day of Resurrection blind."

125. قَالَ رَبِّ لِمَ حَشَرۡتَنِيٓ أَعۡمَىٰ وَقَدۡ كُنتُ بَصِيرٗا ١٢٥

     Qāla rabbi lima ḥashartanī aʿmā wa qad kuntu baṣīrā.

     He will say, "My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing?"

126. قَالَ كَذَٰلِكَ أَتَتۡكَ ءَايَٰتُنَا فَنَسِيتَهَاۖ وَكَذَٰلِكَ ٱلۡيَوۡمَ تُنسَىٰ ١٢٦

     Qāla kadhālika atatka āyātunā fanasītahā, wa kadhālikal-yawma tunsā.

     [Allāh] will say, "Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot [i.e., disregarded] them; and thus will you this Day be forgotten."

127. وَكَذَٰلِكَ نَجۡزِي مَنۡ أَسۡرَفَ وَلَمۡ يُؤۡمِنۢ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِۦۚ وَلَعَذَابُ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ أَشَدُّ وَأَبۡقَىٰٓ ١٢٧

     Wa kadhālika najzī man asrafa wa lam yuʾmim biʾāyāti rabbih, wa laʿadhābul-ākhirati ashaddu wa abqā.

     And thus do We recompense he who transgressed and did not believe in the signs of his Lord. And the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe and more enduring.¹

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     1. Than that of this world.

128. أَفَلَمۡ يَهۡدِ لَهُمۡ كَمۡ أَهۡلَكۡنَا قَبۡلَهُم مِّنَ ٱلۡقُرُونِ يَمۡشُونَ فِي مَسَٰكِنِهِمۡۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَٰتٖ لِّأُوْلِي ٱلنُّهَىٰ ١٢٨

     Afalam yahdi lahum kam ahlaknā qablahum minal-qurūni yamshūna fī masākinihim, inna fī dhālika laʾāyātil liʾulin-nuhā.

     Then, has it not become clear to them how many generations We destroyed before them as they walk among their dwellings? Indeed in that are signs for those of intelligence.

129. وَلَوۡلَا كَلِمَةٞ سَبَقَتۡ مِن رَّبِّكَ لَكَانَ لِزَامٗا وَأَجَلٞ مُّسَمّٗى ١٢٩

     Wa lawlā kalimatun sabaqat mir rabbika lakāna lizāmaw wa ajalum musammā.

     And if not for a word¹ that preceded from your Lord, it [i.e., punishment] would have been an obligation [due immediately],² and [if not for] a specified term [decreed].

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     1. See footnote to 10:19.
     2. Allāh would have punished the disbelievers in this world as He did with previous peoples.

130. فَٱصۡبِرۡ عَلَىٰ مَا يَقُولُونَ وَسَبِّحۡ بِحَمۡدِ رَبِّكَ قَبۡلَ طُلُوعِ ٱلشَّمۡسِ وَقَبۡلَ غُرُوبِهَاۖ وَمِنۡ ءَانَآيِٕ ٱلَّيۡلِ فَسَبِّحۡ وَأَطۡرَافَ ٱلنَّهَارِ لَعَلَّكَ تَرۡضَىٰ ١٣٠

     Faṣbir ʿalā mā yaqūlūna wa sabbiḥ biḥamdi rabbika qabla ṭulūʿish-shamsi wa qabla ghurūbihā, wa min ānāʾil-layli fasabbiḥ wa aṭrāfan-nahāri laʿallaka tarḍā.

     So be patient over what they say and exalt [Allāh] with praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting; and during periods of the night [exalt Him] and at the ends of the day, that you may be satisfied.

131. وَلَا تَمُدَّنَّ عَيۡنَيۡكَ إِلَىٰ مَا مَتَّعۡنَا بِهِۦٓ أَزۡوَٰجٗا مِّنۡهُمۡ زَهۡرَةَ ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡيَا لِنَفۡتِنَهُمۡ فِيهِۚ وَرِزۡقُ رَبِّكَ خَيۡرٞ وَأَبۡقَىٰ ١٣١

     Wa lā tamuddanna ʿaynayka ilā mā mattaʿnā bihī azwājam minhum zahratal-ḥayātid-dunyā linaftinahum fīh, wa rizqu rabbika khayruw wa abqā.

     And do not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to [some] categories of them, [its being but] the splendor of worldly life by which We test them. And the provision of your Lord is better and more enduring.

132. وَأۡمُرۡ أَهۡلَكَ بِٱلصَّلَوٰةِ وَٱصۡطَبِرۡ عَلَيۡهَاۖ لَا نَسۡـَٔلُكَ رِزۡقٗاۖ نَّحۡنُ نَرۡزُقُكَۗ وَٱلۡعَٰقِبَةُ لِلتَّقۡوَىٰ ١٣٢

     Waʾmur ahlaka biṣ-ṣalāti waṣṭabir ʿalayhā, lā nasʾaluka rizqā, naḥnu narzuquk, wal-ʿāqibatu lit-taqwā.

     And enjoin prayer upon your family [and people] and be steadfast therein. We ask you not for provision; We provide for you, and the [best] outcome is for [those of] righteousness.

133. وَقَالُواْ لَوۡلَا يَأۡتِينَا بِـَٔايَةٖ مِّن رَّبِّهِۦٓۚ أَوَلَمۡ تَأۡتِهِم بَيِّنَةُ مَا فِي ٱلصُّحُفِ ٱلۡأُولَىٰ ١٣٣

     Wa qālū lawlā yaʾtīnā biʾāyatim mir rabbih, awalam taʾtihim bayyinatu mā fiṣ-ṣuḥufil-ūlā.

     And they say, "Why does he not bring us a sign from his Lord?" Has there not come to them evidence of what was in the former scriptures?¹

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     1. Is not the Qur’ān an adequate proof of Muḥammad's prophethood and sufficient as a lasting miracle?

134. وَلَوۡ أَنَّآ أَهۡلَكۡنَٰهُم بِعَذَابٖ مِّن قَبۡلِهِۦ لَقَالُواْ رَبَّنَا لَوۡلَآ أَرۡسَلۡتَ إِلَيۡنَا رَسُولٗا فَنَتَّبِعَ ءَايَٰتِكَ مِن قَبۡلِ أَن نَّذِلَّ وَنَخۡزَىٰ ١٣٤

     Wa law annā ahlaknāhum biʿadhābim min qablihī laqālū rabbanā lawlā arsalta ilaynā rasūlan fanattabiʿa āyātika min qabli an nadhilla wa nakhzā.

     And if We had destroyed them with a punishment before him,¹ they would have said, "Our Lord, why did You not send to us a messenger so we could have followed Your verses [i.e., teachings] before we were humiliated and disgraced?"

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     1. Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ). Also interpreted as "before it," i.e., the Qur’ān.

135. قُلۡ كُلّٞ مُّتَرَبِّصٞ فَتَرَبَّصُواْۖ فَسَتَعۡلَمُونَ مَنۡ أَصۡحَٰبُ ٱلصِّرَٰطِ ٱلسَّوِيِّ وَمَنِ ٱهۡتَدَىٰ ١٣٥

     Qul kullum mutarabbiṣun fatarabbaṣū, fasataʿlamūna man aṣḥābuṣ-ṣirāṭis-sawiyyi wa manihtadā.

     Say, "Each [of us] is waiting;¹ so wait. For you will know who are the companions of the sound path and who is guided."

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     1. For the outcome of this matter.