Juz 19

1. ۞ وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَرۡجُونَ لِقَآءَنَا لَوۡلَآ أُنزِلَ عَلَيۡنَا ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ أَوۡ نَرَىٰ رَبَّنَاۗ لَقَدِ ٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ فِيٓ أَنفُسِهِمۡ وَعَتَوۡ عُتُوّٗا كَبِيرٗا ٢١

   Wa qālal-ladhīna lā yarjūna liqāʾanā lawlā unzila ʿalaynal-malāʾikatu aw narā rabbanā, laqadistakbarū fī anfusihim wa ʿataw ʿutuwwan kabīrā.

   And those who do not expect the meeting with Us say, "Why were not angels sent down to us, or [why] do we [not] see our Lord?" They have certainly become arrogant within themselves¹ and [become] insolent with great insolence.

   Footnotes (1)

   1. Additional meanings are "among themselves" and "over [the matter of] themselves."

2. يَوۡمَ يَرَوۡنَ ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةَ لَا بُشۡرَىٰ يَوۡمَئِذٖ لِّلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ وَيَقُولُونَ حِجۡرٗا مَّحۡجُورٗا ٢٢

   Yawma yarawnal-malāʾikata lā bushrā yawmaʾidhil lil-mujrimīna wa yaqūlūna ḥijram maḥjūrā.

   The day they see the angels¹ - no good tidings will there be that day for the criminals, and [the angels] will say, "Prevented and inaccessible."²

   Footnotes (2)

   1. i.e., at the time of death.
   2. Referring to any good tidings.

3. وَقَدِمۡنَآ إِلَىٰ مَا عَمِلُواْ مِنۡ عَمَلٖ فَجَعَلۡنَٰهُ هَبَآءٗ مَّنثُورًا ٢٣

   Wa qadimnā ilā mā ʿamilū min ʿamalin fajaʿalnāhu habāʾam manthūrā.

   And We will approach [i.e., regard]¹ what they have done of deeds and make them as dust dispersed.

   Footnotes (1)

   1. On the Day of Judgement.

4. أَصۡحَٰبُ ٱلۡجَنَّةِ يَوۡمَئِذٍ خَيۡرٞ مُّسۡتَقَرّٗا وَأَحۡسَنُ مَقِيلٗا ٢٤

   Aṣḥābul-jannati yawmaʾidhin khayrum mustaqarraw wa aḥsanu maqīlā.

   The companions of Paradise, that Day, are [in] a better settlement and better resting place.

5. وَيَوۡمَ تَشَقَّقُ ٱلسَّمَآءُ بِٱلۡغَمَٰمِ وَنُزِّلَ ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةُ تَنزِيلًا ٢٥

   Wa yawma tashaqqaqus-samāʾu bil-ghamāmi wa nuzzilal-malāʾikatu tanzīlā.

   And [mention] the Day when the heaven will split open with [emerging] clouds,¹ and the angels will be sent down in successive descent.

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   1. Within which are the angels.

6. ٱلۡمُلۡكُ يَوۡمَئِذٍ ٱلۡحَقُّ لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِۚ وَكَانَ يَوۡمًا عَلَى ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ عَسِيرٗا ٢٦

   Al-mulku yawmaʾidhinil-ḥaqqu lir-raḥmān, wa kāna yawman ʿalal-kāfirīna ʿasīrā.

   True sovereignty, that Day, is for the Most Merciful. And it will be upon the disbelievers a difficult Day.

7. وَيَوۡمَ يَعَضُّ ٱلظَّالِمُ عَلَىٰ يَدَيۡهِ يَقُولُ يَٰلَيۡتَنِي ٱتَّخَذۡتُ مَعَ ٱلرَّسُولِ سَبِيلٗا ٢٧

   Wa yawma yaʿaḍḍuẓ-ẓālimu ʿalā yadayhi yaqūlu yālaytanittakhadhtu maʿar-rasūli sabīlā.

   And the Day the wrongdoer will bite on his hands [in regret] he will say, "Oh, I wish I had taken with the Messenger a way.¹

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   1. i.e., followed the Prophet (ﷺ) on a path of guidance.

8. يَٰوَيۡلَتَىٰ لَيۡتَنِي لَمۡ أَتَّخِذۡ فُلَانًا خَلِيلٗا ٢٨

   Yāwaylatā laytanī lam attakhidh fulānan khalīlā.

   Oh, woe to me! I wish I had not taken that one¹ as a friend.

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   1. The person who misguided him.

9. لَّقَدۡ أَضَلَّنِي عَنِ ٱلذِّكۡرِ بَعۡدَ إِذۡ جَآءَنِيۗ وَكَانَ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنُ لِلۡإِنسَٰنِ خَذُولٗا ٢٩

   Laqad aḍallanī ʿanidh-dhikri baʿda idh jāʾanī, wa kānash-shayṭānu lil-insāni khadhūlā.

   He led me away from the remembrance¹ after it had come to me. And ever is Satan, to man, a deserter."²

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   1. i.e., the Qur’ān or the remembrance of Allāh.
   2. Forsaking him once he has led him into evil.

10. وَقَالَ ٱلرَّسُولُ يَٰرَبِّ إِنَّ قَوۡمِي ٱتَّخَذُواْ هَٰذَا ٱلۡقُرۡءَانَ مَهۡجُورٗا ٣٠

    Wa qālar-rasūlu yārabbi inna qawmittakhadhū hādhal-qurʾāna mahjūrā.

    And the Messenger has said, "O my Lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur’ān as [a thing] abandoned."¹

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    1. i.e., avoiding it, not listening to or understanding it, not living by it, or preferring something else to it.

11. وَكَذَٰلِكَ جَعَلۡنَا لِكُلِّ نَبِيٍّ عَدُوّٗا مِّنَ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِينَۗ وَكَفَىٰ بِرَبِّكَ هَادِيٗا وَنَصِيرٗا ٣١

    Wa kadhālika jaʿalnā likulli nabiyyin ʿaduwwam minal-mujrimīn, wa kafā birabbika hādiyaw wa naṣīrā.

    And thus have We made for every prophet an enemy from among the criminals. But sufficient is your Lord as a guide and a helper.

12. وَقَالَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لَوۡلَا نُزِّلَ عَلَيۡهِ ٱلۡقُرۡءَانُ جُمۡلَةٗ وَٰحِدَةٗۚ كَذَٰلِكَ لِنُثَبِّتَ بِهِۦ فُؤَادَكَۖ وَرَتَّلۡنَٰهُ تَرۡتِيلٗا ٣٢

    Wa qālal-ladhīna kafarū lawlā nuzzila ʿalayhil-qurʾānu jumlataw wāḥidah, kadhālika linuthabbita bihī fuʾādak, wa rattalnāhu tartīlā.

    And those who disbelieve say, "Why was the Qur’ān not revealed to him all at once?" Thus [it is] that We may strengthen thereby your heart. And We have spaced it distinctly.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Also, "recited it with distinct recitation."

13. وَلَا يَأۡتُونَكَ بِمَثَلٍ إِلَّا جِئۡنَٰكَ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَأَحۡسَنَ تَفۡسِيرًا ٣٣

    Wa lā yaʾtūnaka bimathalin illā jiʾnāka bil-ḥaqqi wa aḥsana tafsīrā.

    And they do not come to you with an example [i.e., argument] except that We bring you the truth and the best explanation.

14. ٱلَّذِينَ يُحۡشَرُونَ عَلَىٰ وُجُوهِهِمۡ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ شَرّٞ مَّكَانٗا وَأَضَلُّ سَبِيلٗا ٣٤

    Al-ladhīna yuḥsharūna ʿalā wujūhihim ilā jahannama ulāʾika sharrum makānaw wa aḍallu sabīlā.

    The ones who are gathered on their faces to Hell - those are the worst in position and farthest astray in [their] way.

15. وَلَقَدۡ ءَاتَيۡنَا مُوسَى ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ وَجَعَلۡنَا مَعَهُۥٓ أَخَاهُ هَٰرُونَ وَزِيرٗا ٣٥

    Wa laqad ātaynā mūsal-kitāba wa jaʿalnā maʿahū akhāhu hārūna wazīrā.

    And We had certainly given Moses the Scripture and appointed with him his brother Aaron as an assistant.

16. فَقُلۡنَا ٱذۡهَبَآ إِلَى ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا فَدَمَّرۡنَٰهُمۡ تَدۡمِيرٗا ٣٦

    Faqulnadhhabā ilal-qawmil-ladhīna kadhdhabū biʾāyātinā fadammarnāhum tadmīrā.

    And We said, "Go both of you to the people who have denied Our signs." Then We destroyed them with [complete] destruction.

17. وَقَوۡمَ نُوحٖ لَّمَّا كَذَّبُواْ ٱلرُّسُلَ أَغۡرَقۡنَٰهُمۡ وَجَعَلۡنَٰهُمۡ لِلنَّاسِ ءَايَةٗۖ وَأَعۡتَدۡنَا لِلظَّٰلِمِينَ عَذَابًا أَلِيمٗا ٣٧

    Wa qawma nūḥil lammā kadhdhabur-rusula aghraqnāhum wa jaʿalnāhum lin-nāsi āyah, wa aʿtadnā liẓ-ẓālimīna ʿadhāban alīmā.

    And the people of Noah - when they denied the messengers,¹ We drowned them, and We made them for mankind a sign. And We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Their denial of Noah was as if they had denied all those who brought the same message from Allāh.

18. وَعَادٗا وَثَمُودَاْ وَأَصۡحَٰبَ ٱلرَّسِّ وَقُرُونَۢا بَيۡنَ ذَٰلِكَ كَثِيرٗا ٣٨

    Wa ʿādaw wa thamūda wa aṣḥābar-rassi wa qurūnā bayna dhālika kathīrā.

    And [We destroyed] ʿAad and Thamūd and the companions of the well¹ and many generations between them.

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Said to be a people who denied Prophet Shuʿayb or possibly those mentioned in Sūrah Yā Seen, 36:13-29.

19. وَكُلّٗا ضَرَبۡنَا لَهُ ٱلۡأَمۡثَٰلَۖ وَكُلّٗا تَبَّرۡنَا تَتۡبِيرٗا ٣٩

    Wa kullan ḍarabnā lahul-amthāl, wa kullan tabbarnā tatbīrā.

    And for each We presented examples [as warnings], and each We destroyed with [total] destruction.

20. وَلَقَدۡ أَتَوۡاْ عَلَى ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِ ٱلَّتِيٓ أُمۡطِرَتۡ مَطَرَ ٱلسَّوۡءِۚ أَفَلَمۡ يَكُونُواْ يَرَوۡنَهَاۚ بَلۡ كَانُواْ لَا يَرۡجُونَ نُشُورٗا ٤٠

    Wa laqad ataw ʿalal-qaryatil-latī umṭirat maṭaras-sawʾ, afalam yakūnū yarawnahā, bal kānū lā yarjūna nushūrā.

    And they have already come upon the town which was showered with a rain of evil [i.e., stones]. So have they not seen it? But they are not expecting resurrection.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. So they do not benefit from lessons of the past.

21. وَإِذَا رَأَوۡكَ إِن يَتَّخِذُونَكَ إِلَّا هُزُوًا أَهَٰذَا ٱلَّذِي بَعَثَ ٱللَّهُ رَسُولًا ٤١

    Wa idhā raʾawka iy yattakhidhūnaka illā huzuwan ahādhal-ladhī baʿathallāhu rasūlā.

    And when they see you, [O Muḥammad], they take you not except in ridicule, [saying], "Is this the one whom Allāh has sent as a messenger?

22. إِن كَادَ لَيُضِلُّنَا عَنۡ ءَالِهَتِنَا لَوۡلَآ أَن صَبَرۡنَا عَلَيۡهَاۚ وَسَوۡفَ يَعۡلَمُونَ حِينَ يَرَوۡنَ ٱلۡعَذَابَ مَنۡ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا ٤٢

    In kāda layuḍillunā ʿan ālihatinā lawlā an ṣabarnā ʿalayhā, wa sawfa yaʿlamūna ḥīna yarawnal-ʿadhāba man aḍallu sabīlā.

    He almost would have misled us from our gods had we not been steadfast in [worship of] them." But they are going to know, when they see the punishment, who is farthest astray in [his] way.

23. أَرَءَيۡتَ مَنِ ٱتَّخَذَ إِلَٰهَهُۥ هَوَىٰهُ أَفَأَنتَ تَكُونُ عَلَيۡهِ وَكِيلًا ٤٣

    Araʾayta manittakhadha ilāhahū hawāhu afaʾanta takūnu ʿalayhi wakīlā.

    Have you seen the one who takes as his god his own desire? Then would you be responsible for him?

24. أَمۡ تَحۡسَبُ أَنَّ أَكۡثَرَهُمۡ يَسۡمَعُونَ أَوۡ يَعۡقِلُونَۚ إِنۡ هُمۡ إِلَّا كَٱلۡأَنۡعَٰمِ بَلۡ هُمۡ أَضَلُّ سَبِيلًا ٤٤

    Am taḥsabu anna aktharahum yasmaʿūna aw yaʿqilūn, in hum illā kal-anʿāmi bal hum aḍallu sabīlā.

    Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? They are not except like livestock.¹ Rather, they are [even] more astray in [their] way.

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., cattle or sheep, that follow without question wherever they are led.

25. أَلَمۡ تَرَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّكَ كَيۡفَ مَدَّ ٱلظِّلَّ وَلَوۡ شَآءَ لَجَعَلَهُۥ سَاكِنٗا ثُمَّ جَعَلۡنَا ٱلشَّمۡسَ عَلَيۡهِ دَلِيلٗا ٤٥

    Alam tara ilā rabbika kayfa maddaẓ-ẓilla wa law shāʾa lajaʿalahū sākinan thumma jaʿalnash-shamsa ʿalayhi dalīlā.

    Have you not considered your Lord - how He extends the shadow, and if He willed, He could have made it stationary? Then We made the sun for it an indication.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., showing the existence of a shadow or making it apparent by contrast.

26. ثُمَّ قَبَضۡنَٰهُ إِلَيۡنَا قَبۡضٗا يَسِيرٗا ٤٦

    Thumma qabaḍnāhu ilaynā qabḍay yasīrā.

    Then We [retract and] hold it with Us for a brief grasp.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., when the sun is overhead at noon.

27. وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِي جَعَلَ لَكُمُ ٱلَّيۡلَ لِبَاسٗا وَٱلنَّوۡمَ سُبَاتٗا وَجَعَلَ ٱلنَّهَارَ نُشُورٗا ٤٧

    Wa huwal-ladhī jaʿala lakumul-layla libāsaw wan-nawma subātaw wa jaʿalan-nahāra nushūrā.

    And it is He who has made the night for you as clothing¹ and sleep [a means for] rest and has made the day a resurrection.²

    Footnotes (2)

    1. Covering you in darkness and providing rest.
    2. For renewal of life and activity.

28. وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِيٓ أَرۡسَلَ ٱلرِّيَٰحَ بُشۡرَۢا بَيۡنَ يَدَيۡ رَحۡمَتِهِۦۚ وَأَنزَلۡنَا مِنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءٗ طَهُورٗا ٤٨

    Wa huwal-ladhī arsalar-riyāḥa bushram bayna yaday raḥmatih, wa anzalnā minas-samāʾi māʾan ṭahūrā.

    And it is He who sends the winds as good tidings before His mercy [i.e., rainfall], and We send down from the sky pure water

29. لِّنُحۡـِۧيَ بِهِۦ بَلۡدَةٗ مَّيۡتٗا وَنُسۡقِيَهُۥ مِمَّا خَلَقۡنَآ أَنۡعَٰمٗا وَأَنَاسِيَّ كَثِيرٗا ٤٩

    Linuḥyiya bihī baldatam maytaw wa nusqiyahū mimmā khalaqnā anʿāmaw wa anāsiyya kathīrā.

    That We may bring to life thereby a dead land and give it as drink to those We created of numerous livestock and men.

30. وَلَقَدۡ صَرَّفۡنَٰهُ بَيۡنَهُمۡ لِيَذَّكَّرُواْ فَأَبَىٰٓ أَكۡثَرُ ٱلنَّاسِ إِلَّا كُفُورٗا ٥٠

    Wa laqad ṣarrafnāhu baynahum liyadhdhakkarū fa abā aktharun-nāsi illā kufūrā.

    And We have certainly distributed it among them that they might be reminded,¹ but most of the people refuse except disbelief.

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Of Allāh's ability to bring the dead to life.

31. وَلَوۡ شِئۡنَا لَبَعَثۡنَا فِي كُلِّ قَرۡيَةٖ نَّذِيرٗا ٥١

    Wa law shiʾnā labaʿathnā fī kulli qaryatin nadhīrā.

    And if We had willed, We could have sent into every city a warner.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. However, Allāh willed that Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ) be sent as the final messenger for all peoples of the earth until the Day of Resurrection.

32. فَلَا تُطِعِ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ وَجَٰهِدۡهُم بِهِۦ جِهَادٗا كَبِيرٗا ٥٢

    Falā tuṭiʿil-kāfirīna wa jāhidhum bihī jihādan kabīrā.

    So do not obey the disbelievers, and strive against them with it [i.e., the Qur’ān] a great striving.

33. ۞ وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِي مَرَجَ ٱلۡبَحۡرَيۡنِ هَٰذَا عَذۡبٞ فُرَاتٞ وَهَٰذَا مِلۡحٌ أُجَاجٞ وَجَعَلَ بَيۡنَهُمَا بَرۡزَخٗا وَحِجۡرٗا مَّحۡجُورٗا ٥٣

    Wa huwal-ladhī marajal-baḥrayni hādhā ʿadhbun furātuw wa hādhā milḥun ujājuw wa jaʿala baynahumā barzakhaw wa ḥijram maḥjūrā.

    And it is He who has released [simultaneously] the two seas [i.e., bodies of water], one fresh and sweet and one salty and bitter, and He placed between them a barrier and prohibiting partition.

34. وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَ مِنَ ٱلۡمَآءِ بَشَرٗا فَجَعَلَهُۥ نَسَبٗا وَصِهۡرٗاۗ وَكَانَ رَبُّكَ قَدِيرٗا ٥٤

    Wa huwal-ladhī khalaqa minal-māʾi basharan fajaʿalahū nasabaw wa ṣihrā, wa kāna rabbuka qadīrā.

    And it is He who has created from water [i.e., semen] a human being and made him [a relative by] lineage and marriage. And ever is your Lord competent [concerning creation].

35. وَيَعۡبُدُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ مَا لَا يَنفَعُهُمۡ وَلَا يَضُرُّهُمۡۗ وَكَانَ ٱلۡكَافِرُ عَلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ ظَهِيرٗا ٥٥

    Wa yaʿbudūna min dūnillāhi mā lā yanfaʿuhum wa lā yaḍurruhum, wa kānal-kāfiru ʿalā rabbihī ẓahīrā.

    But they worship rather than Allāh that which does not benefit them or harm them, and the disbeliever is ever, against his Lord, an assistant [to Satan].

36. وَمَآ أَرۡسَلۡنَٰكَ إِلَّا مُبَشِّرٗا وَنَذِيرٗا ٥٦

    Wa mā arsalnāka illā mubashshiraw wa nadhīrā.

    And We have not sent you, [O Muḥammad], except as a bringer of good tidings and a warner.

37. قُلۡ مَآ أَسۡـَٔلُكُمۡ عَلَيۡهِ مِنۡ أَجۡرٍ إِلَّا مَن شَآءَ أَن يَتَّخِذَ إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِۦ سَبِيلٗا ٥٧

    Qul mā asʾalukum ʿalayhi min ajrin illā man shāʾa ay yattakhidha ilā rabbihī sabīlā.

    Say, "I do not ask of you for it any payment - only that whoever wills might take to his Lord a way."

38. وَتَوَكَّلۡ عَلَى ٱلۡحَيِّ ٱلَّذِي لَا يَمُوتُ وَسَبِّحۡ بِحَمۡدِهِۦۚ وَكَفَىٰ بِهِۦ بِذُنُوبِ عِبَادِهِۦ خَبِيرًا ٥٨

    Wa tawakkal ʿalal-ḥayyil-ladhī lā yamūtu wa sabbiḥ biḥamdih, wa kafā bihī bidhunūbi ʿibādihī khabīrā.

    And rely upon the Ever-Living who does not die, and exalt [Allāh] with His praise. And sufficient is He to be, with the sins of His servants, [fully] Aware -

39. ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضَ وَمَا بَيۡنَهُمَا فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٖ ثُمَّ ٱسۡتَوَىٰ عَلَى ٱلۡعَرۡشِۖ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ فَسۡـَٔلۡ بِهِۦ خَبِيرٗا ٥٩

    Al-ladhī khalaqas-samāwāti wal-arḍa wa mā baynahumā fī sittati ayyāmin thummastawā ʿalal-ʿarsh, ar-raḥmānu fasʾal bihī khabīrā.

    He who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days and then established Himself above the Throne¹ - the Most Merciful, so ask about Him one well informed [i.e., the Prophet (ﷺ)].

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    1. See footnotes to 2:19 and 7:54.

40. وَإِذَا قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱسۡجُدُواْۤ لِلرَّحۡمَٰنِ قَالُواْ وَمَا ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنُ أَنَسۡجُدُ لِمَا تَأۡمُرُنَا وَزَادَهُمۡ نُفُورٗا۩ ٦٠

    Wa idhā qīla lahumusjudū lir-raḥmāni qālū wa mar-raḥmānu anasjudu limā taʾmurunā wa zādahum nufūrā.

    And when it is said to them, "Prostrate to the Most Merciful," they say, "And what is the Most Merciful? Should we prostrate to that which you order us?" And it increases them in aversion.

41. تَبَارَكَ ٱلَّذِي جَعَلَ فِي ٱلسَّمَآءِ بُرُوجٗا وَجَعَلَ فِيهَا سِرَٰجٗا وَقَمَرٗا مُّنِيرٗا ٦١

    Tabārakal-ladhī jaʿala fis-samāʾi burūjaw wa jaʿala fīhā sirājaw wa qamaram munīrā.

    Blessed is He who has placed in the sky great stars and placed therein a [burning] lamp and luminous moon.

42. وَهُوَ ٱلَّذِي جَعَلَ ٱلَّيۡلَ وَٱلنَّهَارَ خِلۡفَةٗ لِّمَنۡ أَرَادَ أَن يَذَّكَّرَ أَوۡ أَرَادَ شُكُورٗا ٦٢

    Wa huwal-ladhī jaʿalal-layla wan-nahāra khilfatal liman arāda ay yadhdhakkara aw arāda shukūrā.

    And it is He who has made the night and the day in succession for whoever desires to remember or desires gratitude.

43. وَعِبَادُ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلَّذِينَ يَمۡشُونَ عَلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ هَوۡنٗا وَإِذَا خَاطَبَهُمُ ٱلۡجَٰهِلُونَ قَالُواْ سَلَٰمٗا ٦٣

    Wa ʿibādur-raḥmānil-ladhīna yamshūna ʿalal-arḍi hawnaw wa idhā khāṭabahumul-jāhilūna qālū salāmā.

    And the servants of the Most Merciful are those who walk upon the earth easily,¹ and when the ignorant address them [harshly], they say [words of] peace,²

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    1. i.e., gently, with dignity but without arrogance.
    2. Or "safety," i.e., words free from fault or evil.

44. وَٱلَّذِينَ يَبِيتُونَ لِرَبِّهِمۡ سُجَّدٗا وَقِيَٰمٗا ٦٤

    Wal-ladhīna yabītūna lirabbihim sujjadaw wa qiyāmā.

    And those who spend [part of] the night to their Lord prostrating and standing [in prayer]

45. وَٱلَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا ٱصۡرِفۡ عَنَّا عَذَابَ جَهَنَّمَۖ إِنَّ عَذَابَهَا كَانَ غَرَامًا ٦٥

    Wal-ladhīna yaqūlūna rabbanaṣrif ʿannā ʿadhāba jahannam, inna ʿadhābahā kāna gharāmā.

    And those who say, "Our Lord, avert from us the punishment of Hell. Indeed, its punishment is ever adhering;

46. إِنَّهَا سَآءَتۡ مُسۡتَقَرّٗا وَمُقَامٗا ٦٦

    Innahā sāʾat mustaqarraw wa muqāmā.

    Indeed, it is evil as a settlement and residence."

47. وَٱلَّذِينَ إِذَآ أَنفَقُواْ لَمۡ يُسۡرِفُواْ وَلَمۡ يَقۡتُرُواْ وَكَانَ بَيۡنَ ذَٰلِكَ قَوَامٗا ٦٧

    Wal-ladhīna idhā anfaqū lam yusrifū wa lam yaqturū wa kāna bayna dhālika qawāmā.

    And [they are] those who, when they spend, do so not excessively or sparingly but are ever, between that, [justly] moderate

48. وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَدۡعُونَ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ وَلَا يَقۡتُلُونَ ٱلنَّفۡسَ ٱلَّتِي حَرَّمَ ٱللَّهُ إِلَّا بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَلَا يَزۡنُونَۚ وَمَن يَفۡعَلۡ ذَٰلِكَ يَلۡقَ أَثَامٗا ٦٨

    Wal-ladhīna lā yadʿūna maʿallāhi ilāhan ākhara wa lā yaqtulūnan-nafsal-latī ḥarramallāhu illā bil-ḥaqqi wa lā yaznūn, wa may yafʿal dhālika yalqa athāmā.

    And those who do not invoke¹ with Allāh another deity or kill the soul which Allāh has forbidden [to be killed], except by right, and do not commit unlawful sexual intercourse. And whoever should do that will meet a penalty.

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    1. Or "worship."

49. يُضَٰعَفۡ لَهُ ٱلۡعَذَابُ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ وَيَخۡلُدۡ فِيهِۦ مُهَانًا ٦٩

    Yuḍāʿaf lahul-ʿadhābu yawmal-qiyāmati wa yakhlud fīhī muhānā.

    Multiplied for him is the punishment on the Day of Resurrection, and he will abide therein humiliated -

50. إِلَّا مَن تَابَ وَءَامَنَ وَعَمِلَ عَمَلٗا صَٰلِحٗا فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ يُبَدِّلُ ٱللَّهُ سَيِّـَٔاتِهِمۡ حَسَنَٰتٖۗ وَكَانَ ٱللَّهُ غَفُورٗا رَّحِيمٗا ٧٠

    Illā man tāba wa āmana wa ʿamila ʿamalan ṣāliḥan fa ulāʾika yubaddilullāhu sayyiʾātihim ḥasanāt, wa kānallāhu ghafūrar raḥīmā.

    Except for those who repent, believe and do righteous work. For them Allāh will replace their evil deeds with good. And ever is Allāh Forgiving and Merciful.

51. وَمَن تَابَ وَعَمِلَ صَٰلِحٗا فَإِنَّهُۥ يَتُوبُ إِلَى ٱللَّهِ مَتَابٗا ٧١

    Wa man tāba wa ʿamila ṣāliḥan fa innahū yatūbu ilallāhi matābā.

    And he who repents and does righteousness does indeed turn to Allāh with [accepted] repentance.

52. وَٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَشۡهَدُونَ ٱلزُّورَ وَإِذَا مَرُّواْ بِٱللَّغۡوِ مَرُّواْ كِرَامٗا ٧٢

    Wal-ladhīna lā yashhadūnaz-zūra wa idhā marrū bil-laghwi marrū kirāmā.

    And [they are] those who do not testify to falsehood, and when they pass near ill speech, they pass by with dignity.

53. وَٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِّرُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّهِمۡ لَمۡ يَخِرُّواْ عَلَيۡهَا صُمّٗا وَعُمۡيَانٗا ٧٣

    Wal-ladhīna idhā dhukkirū biʾāyāti rabbihim lam yakhirrū ʿalayhā ṣummaw wa ʿumyānā.

    And those who, when reminded of the verses of their Lord, do not fall upon them deaf and blind.

54. وَٱلَّذِينَ يَقُولُونَ رَبَّنَا هَبۡ لَنَا مِنۡ أَزۡوَٰجِنَا وَذُرِّيَّٰتِنَا قُرَّةَ أَعۡيُنٖ وَٱجۡعَلۡنَا لِلۡمُتَّقِينَ إِمَامًا ٧٤

    Wal-ladhīna yaqūlūna rabbanā hab lanā min azwājinā wa dhurriyyātinā qurrata aʿyuniw wajʿalnā lil-muttaqīna imāmā.

    And those who say, "Our Lord, grant us from among our wives and offspring comfort to our eyes¹ and make us a leader [i.e., example] for the righteous."

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    1. i.e., a source of happiness due to their righteousness.

55. أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ يُجۡزَوۡنَ ٱلۡغُرۡفَةَ بِمَا صَبَرُواْ وَيُلَقَّوۡنَ فِيهَا تَحِيَّةٗ وَسَلَٰمًا ٧٥

    Ulāʾika yujzawnal-ghurfata bimā ṣabarū wa yulaqqawna fīhā taḥiyyataw wa salāmā.

    Those will be awarded the Chamber¹ for what they patiently endured, and they will be received therein with greetings and [words of] peace,

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    1. The most elevated portion of Paradise.

56. خَٰلِدِينَ فِيهَاۚ حَسُنَتۡ مُسۡتَقَرّٗا وَمُقَامٗا ٧٦

    Khālidīna fīhā, ḥasunat mustaqarraw wa muqāmā.

    Abiding eternally therein. Good is the settlement and residence.

57. قُلۡ مَا يَعۡبَؤُاْ بِكُمۡ رَبِّي لَوۡلَا دُعَآؤُكُمۡۖ فَقَدۡ كَذَّبۡتُمۡ فَسَوۡفَ يَكُونُ لِزَامَۢا ٧٧

    Qul mā yaʿbaʾu bikum rabbī lawlā duʿāʾukum, faqad kadhdhabtum fasawfa yakūnu lizāmā.

    Say, "What would my Lord care for you if not for your supplication?"¹ For you [disbelievers] have denied, so it [i.e., your denial] is going to be adherent.²

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    1. i.e., faith and worship. An alternative meaning is "What would my Lord do with you..."
    2. It will remain with them, causing punishment to be required and imperative upon them.

﷽بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. طسٓمٓ ١

   Ṭā Sīn Mīm.

   Ṭā, Seen, Meem.¹

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   1. See footnote to 2:1.

2. تِلۡكَ ءَايَٰتُ ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ ٱلۡمُبِينِ ٢

   Tilka āyātul-kitābil-mubīn.

   These are the verses of the clear Book.

3. لَعَلَّكَ بَٰخِعٞ نَّفۡسَكَ أَلَّا يَكُونُواْ مُؤۡمِنِينَ ٣

   Laʿallaka bākhiʿun nafsaka allā yakūnū muʾminīn.

   Perhaps, [O Muḥammad], you would kill yourself with grief that they will not be believers.

4. إِن نَّشَأۡ نُنَزِّلۡ عَلَيۡهِم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ ءَايَةٗ فَظَلَّتۡ أَعۡنَٰقُهُمۡ لَهَا خَٰضِعِينَ ٤

   In nashaʾ nunazzil ʿalayhim minas-samāʾi āyatan faẓallat aʿnāquhum lahā khāḍiʿīn.

   If We willed, We could send down to them from the sky a sign for which their necks would remain humbled.¹

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   1. i.e., they would be compelled to believe.

5. وَمَا يَأۡتِيهِم مِّن ذِكۡرٖ مِّنَ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ مُحۡدَثٍ إِلَّا كَانُواْ عَنۡهُ مُعۡرِضِينَ ٥

   Wa mā yaʾtīhim min dhikrim minar-raḥmāni muḥdathin illā kānū ʿanhu muʿriḍīn.

   And no mention [i.e., revelation] comes to them anew from the Most Merciful except that they turn away from it.

6. فَقَدۡ كَذَّبُواْ فَسَيَأۡتِيهِمۡ أَنۢبَٰٓؤُاْ مَا كَانُواْ بِهِۦ يَسۡتَهۡزِءُونَ ٦

   Faqad kadhdhabū fasayaʾtīhim anbāʾu mā kānū bihī yastahziʾūn.

   For they have already denied, but there will come to them the news of that which they used to ridicule.

7. أَوَلَمۡ يَرَوۡاْ إِلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ كَمۡ أَنۢبَتۡنَا فِيهَا مِن كُلِّ زَوۡجٖ كَرِيمٍ ٧

   Awalam yaraw ilal-arḍi kam anbatnā fīhā min kulli zawjin karīm.

   Did they not look at the earth - how much We have produced therein from every noble kind?

8. إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكۡثَرُهُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ ٨

   Inna fī dhālika laʾāyah, wa mā kāna aktharuhum muʾminīn.

   Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

9. وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ٩

   Wa inna rabbaka lahuwal-ʿazīzur-raḥīm.

   And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

10. وَإِذۡ نَادَىٰ رَبُّكَ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنِ ٱئۡتِ ٱلۡقَوۡمَ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ ١٠

    Wa idh nādā rabbuka mūsā aniʾtil-qawmaẓ-ẓālimīn.

    And [mention] when your Lord called Moses, [saying], "Go to the wrongdoing people -

11. قَوۡمَ فِرۡعَوۡنَۚ أَلَا يَتَّقُونَ ١١

    Qawma firʿawn, alā yattaqūn.

    The people of Pharaoh. Will they not fear Allāh?"

12. قَالَ رَبِّ إِنِّيٓ أَخَافُ أَن يُكَذِّبُونِ ١٢

    Qāla rabbi innī akhāfu ay yukadhdhibūn.

    He said, "My Lord, indeed I fear that they will deny me

13. وَيَضِيقُ صَدۡرِي وَلَا يَنطَلِقُ لِسَانِي فَأَرۡسِلۡ إِلَىٰ هَٰرُونَ ١٣

    Wa yaḍīqu ṣadrī wa lā yanṭaliqu lisānī fa arsil ilā hārūn.

    And that my breast will tighten and my tongue will not be fluent, so send for Aaron.

14. وَلَهُمۡ عَلَيَّ ذَنۢبٞ فَأَخَافُ أَن يَقۡتُلُونِ ١٤

    Wa lahum ʿalayya dhanbun fa akhāfu ay yaqtulūn.

    And they have upon me a [claim due to] sin, so I fear that they will kill me."

15. قَالَ كـَلَّاۖ فَٱذۡهَبَا بِـَٔايَٰتِنَآۖ إِنَّا مَعَكُم مُّسۡتَمِعُونَ ١٥

    Qāla kallā, fadhhabā biʾāyātinā, innā maʿakum mustamiʿūn.

    [Allāh] said, "No. Go both of you with Our signs; indeed, We are with you, listening.

16. فَأۡتِيَا فِرۡعَوۡنَ فَقُولَآ إِنَّا رَسُولُ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٦

    Faʾtiyā firʿawna faqūlā innā rasūlu rabbil-ʿālamīn.

    Go to Pharaoh and say, 'We are the messengers¹ of the Lord of the worlds,

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    1. The singular form in Arabic indicates that both were sent with a single message.

17. أَنۡ أَرۡسِلۡ مَعَنَا بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ ١٧

    An arsil maʿanā banī isrāʾīl.

    [Commanded to say], "Send with us the Children of Israel."'"

18. قَالَ أَلَمۡ نُرَبِّكَ فِينَا وَلِيدٗا وَلَبِثۡتَ فِينَا مِنۡ عُمُرِكَ سِنِينَ ١٨

    Qāla alam nurabbika fīnā walīdaw wa labithta fīnā min ʿumurika sinīn.

    [Pharaoh] said, "Did we not raise you among us as a child, and you remained among us for years of your life?

19. وَفَعَلۡتَ فَعۡلَتَكَ ٱلَّتِي فَعَلۡتَ وَأَنتَ مِنَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ ١٩

    Wa faʿalta faʿlatakal-latī faʿalta wa anta minal-kāfirīn.

    And [then] you did your deed which you did,¹ and you were of the ungrateful."

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., striking the Copt, who died as a result.

20. قَالَ فَعَلۡتُهَآ إِذٗا وَأَنَا۠ مِنَ ٱلضَّآلِّينَ ٢٠

    Qāla faʿaltuhā idhaw wa ana minaḍ-ḍāllīn.

    [Moses] said, "I did it, then, while I was of those astray [i.e., ignorant].

21. فَفَرَرۡتُ مِنكُمۡ لَمَّا خِفۡتُكُمۡ فَوَهَبَ لِي رَبِّي حُكۡمٗا وَجَعَلَنِي مِنَ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلِينَ ٢١

    Fafarartu minkum lammā khiftukum fawahaba lī rabbī ḥukmaw wa jaʿalanī minal-mursalīn.

    So I fled from you when I feared you. Then my Lord granted me judgement [i.e., wisdom and prophethood] and appointed me [as one] of the messengers.

22. وَتِلۡكَ نِعۡمَةٞ تَمُنُّهَا عَلَيَّ أَنۡ عَبَّدتَّ بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ ٢٢

    Wa tilka niʿmatun tamunnuhā ʿalayya an ʿabbadtta banī isrāʾīl.

    And is this a favor of which you remind me - that you have enslaved the Children of Israel?"

23. قَالَ فِرۡعَوۡنُ وَمَا رَبُّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ٢٣

    Qāla firʿawnu wa mā rabbul-ʿālamīn.

    Said Pharaoh, "And what is the Lord of the worlds?"

24. قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا بَيۡنَهُمَآۖ إِن كُنتُم مُّوقِنِينَ ٢٤

    Qāla rabbus-samāwāti wal-arḍi wa mā baynahumā, in kuntum mūqinīn.

    [Moses] said, "The Lord of the heavens and earth and that between them, if you should be convinced."

25. قَالَ لِمَنۡ حَوۡلَهُۥٓ أَلَا تَسۡتَمِعُونَ ٢٥

    Qāla liman ḥawlahū alā tastamiʿūn.

    [Pharaoh] said to those around him, "Do you not hear?"

26. قَالَ رَبُّكُمۡ وَرَبُّ ءَابَآئِكُمُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ ٢٦

    Qāla rabbukum wa rabbu ābāʾikumul-awwalīn.

    [Moses] said, "Your Lord and the Lord of your first forefathers."

27. قَالَ إِنَّ رَسُولَكُمُ ٱلَّذِيٓ أُرۡسِلَ إِلَيۡكُمۡ لَمَجۡنُونٞ ٢٧

    Qāla inna rasūlakumul-ladhī ursila ilaykum lamajnūn.

    [Pharaoh] said,¹ "Indeed, your 'messenger' who has been sent to you is mad."

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Angrily addressing those present.

28. قَالَ رَبُّ ٱلۡمَشۡرِقِ وَٱلۡمَغۡرِبِ وَمَا بَيۡنَهُمَآۖ إِن كُنتُمۡ تَعۡقِلُونَ ٢٨

    Qāla rabbul-mashriqi wal-maghribi wa mā baynahumā, in kuntum taʿqilūn.

    [Moses] said, "Lord of the east and the west and that between them, if you were to reason."

29. قَالَ لَئِنِ ٱتَّخَذۡتَ إِلَٰهًا غَيۡرِي لَأَجۡعَلَنَّكَ مِنَ ٱلۡمَسۡجُونِينَ ٢٩

    Qāla laʾinittakhadhta ilāhan ghayrī laʾajʿalannaka minal-masjūnīn.

    [Pharaoh] said, "If you take a god other than me, I will surely place you among those imprisoned."

30. قَالَ أَوَلَوۡ جِئۡتُكَ بِشَيۡءٖ مُّبِينٖ ٣٠

    Qāla awalaw jiʾtuka bishayʾim mubīn.

    [Moses] said, "Even if I brought you something [i.e., proof] manifest?"

31. قَالَ فَأۡتِ بِهِۦٓ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ ٣١

    Qāla faʾti bihī in kunta minaṣ-ṣādiqīn.

    [Pharaoh] said, "Then bring it, if you should be of the truthful."

32. فَأَلۡقَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ ثُعۡبَانٞ مُّبِينٞ ٣٢

    Fa alqā ʿaṣāhu fa idhā hiya thuʿbānum mubīn.

    So [Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent manifest.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., clearly genuine.

33. وَنَزَعَ يَدَهُۥ فَإِذَا هِيَ بَيۡضَآءُ لِلنَّٰظِرِينَ ٣٣

    Wa nazaʿa yadahū fa idhā hiya bayḍāʾu lin-nāẓirīn.

    And he drew out his hand; thereupon it was white for the observers.

34. قَالَ لِلۡمَلَإِ حَوۡلَهُۥٓ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَسَٰحِرٌ عَلِيمٞ ٣٤

    Qāla lil-malaʾi ḥawlahū inna hādhā lasāḥirun ʿalīm.

    [Pharaoh] said to the eminent ones around him, "Indeed, this is a learned magician.

35. يُرِيدُ أَن يُخۡرِجَكُم مِّنۡ أَرۡضِكُم بِسِحۡرِهِۦ فَمَاذَا تَأۡمُرُونَ ٣٥

    Yurīdu ay yukhrijakum min arḍikum bisiḥrihī famādhā taʾmurūn.

    He wants to drive you out of your land by his magic, so what do you advise?"

36. قَالُوٓاْ أَرۡجِهۡ وَأَخَاهُ وَٱبۡعَثۡ فِي ٱلۡمَدَآئِنِ حَٰشِرِينَ ٣٦

    Qālū arjih wa akhāhu wabʿath fil-madāʾini ḥāshirīn.

    They said, "Postpone [the matter of] him and his brother and send among the cities gatherers

37. يَأۡتُوكَ بِكُلِّ سَحَّارٍ عَلِيمٖ ٣٧

    Yaʾtūka bikulli saḥḥārin ʿalīm.

    Who will bring you every learned, skilled magician."

38. فَجُمِعَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ لِمِيقَٰتِ يَوۡمٖ مَّعۡلُومٖ ٣٨

    Fajumiʿas-saḥaratu limīqāti yawmim maʿlūm.

    So the magicians were assembled for the appointment of a well-known day.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., the morning of the day of festival. See 20:58-59.

39. وَقِيلَ لِلنَّاسِ هَلۡ أَنتُم مُّجۡتَمِعُونَ ٣٩

    Wa qīla lin-nāsi hal antum mujtamiʿūn.

    And it was said to the people, "Will you congregate

40. لَعَلَّنَا نَتَّبِعُ ٱلسَّحَرَةَ إِن كَانُواْ هُمُ ٱلۡغَٰلِبِينَ ٤٠

    Laʿallanā nattabiʿus-saḥarata in kānū humul-ghālibīn.

    That we might follow the magicians if they are the predominant?"

41. فَلَمَّا جَآءَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ قَالُواْ لِفِرۡعَوۡنَ أَئِنَّ لَنَا لَأَجۡرًا إِن كُنَّا نَحۡنُ ٱلۡغَٰلِبِينَ ٤١

    Falammā jāʾas-saḥaratu qālū lifirʿawna aʾinna lanā laʾajran in kunnā naḥnul-ghālibīn.

    And when the magicians arrived, they said to Pharaoh, "Is there indeed for us a reward if we are the predominant?"

42. قَالَ نَعَمۡ وَإِنَّكُمۡ إِذٗا لَّمِنَ ٱلۡمُقَرَّبِينَ ٤٢

    Qāla naʿam wa innakum idhal laminal-muqarrabīn.

    He said, "Yes, and indeed, you will then be of those near [to me]."

43. قَالَ لَهُم مُّوسَىٰٓ أَلۡقُواْ مَآ أَنتُم مُّلۡقُونَ ٤٣

    Qāla lahum mūsā alqū mā antum mulqūn.

    Moses said to them, "Throw whatever you will throw."

44. فَأَلۡقَوۡاْ حِبَالَهُمۡ وَعِصِيَّهُمۡ وَقَالُواْ بِعِزَّةِ فِرۡعَوۡنَ إِنَّا لَنَحۡنُ ٱلۡغَٰلِبُونَ ٤٤

    Fa alqaw ḥibālahum wa ʿiṣiyyahum wa qālū biʿizzati firʿawna innā lanaḥnul-ghālibūn.

    So they threw their ropes and their staffs and said, "By the might of Pharaoh, indeed it is we who are predominant."

45. فَأَلۡقَىٰ مُوسَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ تَلۡقَفُ مَا يَأۡفِكُونَ ٤٥

    Fa alqā mūsā ʿaṣāhu fa idhā hiya talqafu mā yaʾfikūn.

    Then Moses threw his staff, and at once it devoured what they falsified.

46. فَأُلۡقِيَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ سَٰجِدِينَ ٤٦

    Fa ulqiyas-saḥaratu sājidīn.

    So the magicians fell down in prostration [to Allāh].

47. قَالُوٓاْ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ٤٧

    Qālū āmannā birabbil-ʿālamīn.

    They said, "We have believed in the Lord of the worlds,

48. رَبِّ مُوسَىٰ وَهَٰرُونَ ٤٨

    Rabbi mūsā wa hārūn.

    The Lord of Moses and Aaron."

49. قَالَ ءَامَنتُمۡ لَهُۥ قَبۡلَ أَنۡ ءَاذَنَ لَكُمۡۖ إِنَّهُۥ لَكَبِيرُكُمُ ٱلَّذِي عَلَّمَكُمُ ٱلسِّحۡرَ فَلَسَوۡفَ تَعۡلَمُونَۚ لَأُقَطِّعَنَّ أَيۡدِيَكُمۡ وَأَرۡجُلَكُم مِّنۡ خِلَٰفٖ وَلَأُصَلِّبَنَّكُمۡ أَجۡمَعِينَ ٤٩

    Qāla āmantum lahū qabla an ādhana lakum, innahū lakabīrukumul-ladhī ʿallamakumus-siḥra falasawfa taʿlamūn, laʾuqaṭṭiʿanna aydiyakum wa arjulakum min khilāfiw wa laʾuṣallibannakum ajmaʿīn.

    [Pharaoh] said, "You believed him [i.e., Moses] before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic, but you are going to know. I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will surely crucify you all."

50. قَالُواْ لَا ضَيۡرَۖ إِنَّآ إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا مُنقَلِبُونَ ٥٠

    Qālū lā ḍayr, innā ilā rabbinā munqalibūn.

    They said, "No harm. Indeed, to our Lord we will return.

51. إِنَّا نَطۡمَعُ أَن يَغۡفِرَ لَنَا رَبُّنَا خَطَٰيَٰنَآ أَن كُنَّآ أَوَّلَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ٥١

    Innā naṭmaʿu ay yaghfira lanā rabbunā khaṭāyānā an kunnā awwalal-muʾminīn.

    Indeed, we aspire that our Lord will forgive us our sins because we were the first of the believers."

52. ۞ وَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنۡ أَسۡرِ بِعِبَادِيٓ إِنَّكُم مُّتَّبَعُونَ ٥٢

    Wa awḥaynā ilā mūsā an asri biʿibādī innakum muttabaʿūn.

    And We inspired to Moses, "Travel by night with My servants; indeed, you will be pursued."

53. فَأَرۡسَلَ فِرۡعَوۡنُ فِي ٱلۡمَدَآئِنِ حَٰشِرِينَ ٥٣

    Fa arsala firʿawnu fil-madāʾini ḥāshirīn.

    Then Pharaoh sent among the cities gatherers¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Recruiters of an army to prevent the emigration of the Children of Israel.

54. إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ لَشِرۡذِمَةٞ قَلِيلُونَ ٥٤

    Inna hāʾulāʾi lashirdhimatun qalīlūn.

    [And said], "Indeed, those are but a small band,

55. وَإِنَّهُمۡ لَنَا لَغَآئِظُونَ ٥٥

    Wa innahum lanā laghāʾiẓūn.

    And indeed, they are enraging us,

56. وَإِنَّا لَجَمِيعٌ حَٰذِرُونَ ٥٦

    Wa innā lajamīʿun ḥādhirūn.

    And indeed, we are a cautious society..."

57. فَأَخۡرَجۡنَٰهُم مِّن جَنَّٰتٖ وَعُيُونٖ ٥٧

    Fa akhrajnāhum min jannātiw wa ʿuyūn.

    So We removed them from gardens and springs

58. وَكُنُوزٖ وَمَقَامٖ كَرِيمٖ ٥٨

    Wa kunūziw wa maqāmin karīm.

    And treasures and honorable station¹ -

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā) caused them to abandon their wealth and property in pursuit of the Israelites.

59. كَذَٰلِكَۖ وَأَوۡرَثۡنَٰهَا بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ ٥٩

    Kadhālik, wa awrathnāhā banī isrāʾīl.

    Thus. And We caused to inherit it the Children of Israel.

60. فَأَتۡبَعُوهُم مُّشۡرِقِينَ ٦٠

    Fa atbaʿūhum mushriqīn.

    So they pursued them at sunrise.

61. فَلَمَّا تَرَٰٓءَا ٱلۡجَمۡعَانِ قَالَ أَصۡحَٰبُ مُوسَىٰٓ إِنَّا لَمُدۡرَكُونَ ٦١

    Falammā tarāʾal-jamʿāni qāla aṣḥābu mūsā innā lamudrakūn.

    And when the two companies saw one another, the companions of Moses said, "Indeed, we are to be overtaken!"

62. قَالَ كـَلَّآۖ إِنَّ مَعِيَ رَبِّي سَيَهۡدِينِ ٦٢

    Qāla kallā, inna maʿiya rabbī sayahdīn.

    [Moses] said, "No! Indeed, with me is my Lord; He will guide me."

63. فَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنِ ٱضۡرِب بِّعَصَاكَ ٱلۡبَحۡرَۖ فَٱنفَلَقَ فَكَانَ كُلُّ فِرۡقٖ كَٱلطَّوۡدِ ٱلۡعَظِيمِ ٦٣

    Fa awḥaynā ilā mūsā aniḍrib biʿaṣākal-baḥr, fanfalaqa fakāna kullu firqin kaṭ-ṭawdil-ʿaẓīm.

    Then We inspired to Moses, "Strike with your staff the sea," and it parted, and each portion was like a great towering mountain.

64. وَأَزۡلَفۡنَا ثَمَّ ٱلۡأٓخَرِينَ ٦٤

    Wa azlafnā thammal-ākharīn.

    And We advanced thereto the others [i.e., the pursuers].

65. وَأَنجَيۡنَا مُوسَىٰ وَمَن مَّعَهُۥٓ أَجۡمَعِينَ ٦٥

    Wa anjaynā mūsā wa mam maʿahū ajmaʿīn.

    And We saved Moses and those with him, all together.

66. ثُمَّ أَغۡرَقۡنَا ٱلۡأٓخَرِينَ ٦٦

    Thumma aghraqnal-ākharīn.

    Then We drowned the others.

67. إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكۡثَرُهُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ ٦٧

    Inna fī dhālika laʾāyah, wa mā kāna aktharuhum muʾminīn.

    Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

68. وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ٦٨

    Wa inna rabbaka lahuwal-ʿazīzur-raḥīm.

    And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

69. وَٱتۡلُ عَلَيۡهِمۡ نَبَأَ إِبۡرَٰهِيمَ ٦٩

    Watlu ʿalayhim nabaʾa ibrāhīm.

    And recite to them the news of Abraham,

70. إِذۡ قَالَ لِأَبِيهِ وَقَوۡمِهِۦ مَا تَعۡبُدُونَ ٧٠

    Idh qāla liʾabīhi wa qawmihī mā taʿbudūn.

    When he said to his father and his people, "What do you worship?"

71. قَالُواْ نَعۡبُدُ أَصۡنَامٗا فَنَظَلُّ لَهَا عَٰكِفِينَ ٧١

    Qālū naʿbudu aṣnāman fanaẓallu lahā ʿākifīn.

    They said, "We worship idols and remain to them devoted."

72. قَالَ هَلۡ يَسۡمَعُونَكُمۡ إِذۡ تَدۡعُونَ ٧٢

    Qāla hal yasmaʿūnakum idh tadʿūn.

    He said, "Do they hear you when you supplicate?

73. أَوۡ يَنفَعُونَكُمۡ أَوۡ يَضُرُّونَ ٧٣

    Aw yanfaʿūnakum aw yaḍurrūn.

    Or do they benefit you, or do they harm?"

74. قَالُواْ بَلۡ وَجَدۡنَآ ءَابَآءَنَا كَذَٰلِكَ يَفۡعَلُونَ ٧٤

    Qālū bal wajadnā ābāʾanā kadhālika yafʿalūn.

    They said, "But we found our fathers doing thus."

75. قَالَ أَفَرَءَيۡتُم مَّا كُنتُمۡ تَعۡبُدُونَ ٧٥

    Qāla afaraʾaytum mā kuntum taʿbudūn.

    He said, "Then do you see what you have been worshipping,

76. أَنتُمۡ وَءَابَآؤُكُمُ ٱلۡأَقۡدَمُونَ ٧٦

    Antum wa ābāʾukumul-aqdamūn.

    You and your ancient forefathers?

77. فَإِنَّهُمۡ عَدُوّٞ لِّيٓ إِلَّا رَبَّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ٧٧

    Fa innahum ʿaduwwul lī illā rabbal-ʿālamīn.

    Indeed, they are enemies to me, except the Lord of the worlds,¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. The people worshipped idols in addition to Allāh.

78. ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَنِي فَهُوَ يَهۡدِينِ ٧٨

    Al-ladhī khalaqanī fahuwa yahdīn.

    Who created me, and He [it is who] guides me.

79. وَٱلَّذِي هُوَ يُطۡعِمُنِي وَيَسۡقِينِ ٧٩

    Wal-ladhī huwa yuṭʿimunī wa yasqīn.

    And it is He who feeds me and gives me drink.

80. وَإِذَا مَرِضۡتُ فَهُوَ يَشۡفِينِ ٨٠

    Wa idhā mariḍtu fahuwa yashfīn.

    And when I am ill, it is He who cures me

81. وَٱلَّذِي يُمِيتُنِي ثُمَّ يُحۡيِينِ ٨١

    Wal-ladhī yumītunī thumma yuḥyīn.

    And who will cause me to die and then bring me to life

82. وَٱلَّذِيٓ أَطۡمَعُ أَن يَغۡفِرَ لِي خَطِيٓـَٔتِي يَوۡمَ ٱلدِّينِ ٨٢

    Wal-ladhī aṭmaʿu ay yaghfira lī khaṭīʾatī yawmad-dīn.

    And who I aspire that He will forgive me my sin on the Day of Recompense."

83. رَبِّ هَبۡ لِي حُكۡمٗا وَأَلۡحِقۡنِي بِٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ ٨٣

    Rabbi hab lī ḥukmaw wa alḥiqnī biṣ-ṣāliḥīn.

    [And he said], "My Lord, grant me authority and join me with the righteous.

84. وَٱجۡعَل لِّي لِسَانَ صِدۡقٖ فِي ٱلۡأٓخِرِينَ ٨٤

    Wajʿal lī lisāna ṣidqin fil-ākhirīn.

    And grant me a mention [i.e., reputation] of honor among later generations.

85. وَٱجۡعَلۡنِي مِن وَرَثَةِ جَنَّةِ ٱلنَّعِيمِ ٨٥

    Wajʿalnī miw warathati jannatin-naʿīm.

    And place me among the inheritors of the Garden of Pleasure.

86. وَٱغۡفِرۡ لِأَبِيٓ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلضَّآلِّينَ ٨٦

    Waghfir liʾabī innahū kāna minaḍ-ḍāllīn.

    And forgive my father. Indeed, he has been of those astray.

87. وَلَا تُخۡزِنِي يَوۡمَ يُبۡعَثُونَ ٨٧

    Wa lā tukhzinī yawma yubʿathūn.

    And do not disgrace me on the Day they are [all] resurrected -

88. يَوۡمَ لَا يَنفَعُ مَالٞ وَلَا بَنُونَ ٨٨

    Yawma lā yanfaʿu māluw wa lā banūn.

    The Day when there will not benefit [anyone] wealth or children

89. إِلَّا مَنۡ أَتَى ٱللَّهَ بِقَلۡبٖ سَلِيمٖ ٨٩

    Illā man atallāha biqalbin salīm.

    But only one who comes to Allāh with a sound heart."

90. وَأُزۡلِفَتِ ٱلۡجَنَّةُ لِلۡمُتَّقِينَ ٩٠

    Wa uzlifatil-jannatu lil-muttaqīn.

    And Paradise will be brought near [that Day] to the righteous.

91. وَبُرِّزَتِ ٱلۡجَحِيمُ لِلۡغَاوِينَ ٩١

    Wa burrizatil-jaḥīmu lil-ghāwīn.

    And Hellfire will be brought forth for the deviators,

92. وَقِيلَ لَهُمۡ أَيۡنَ مَا كُنتُمۡ تَعۡبُدُونَ ٩٢

    Wa qīla lahum ayna mā kuntum taʿbudūn.

    And it will be said to them, "Where are those you used to worship

93. مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ هَلۡ يَنصُرُونَكُمۡ أَوۡ يَنتَصِرُونَ ٩٣

    Min dūnillāhi hal yanṣurūnakum aw yantaṣirūn.

    Other than Allāh? Can they help you or help themselves?"

94. فَكُبۡكِبُواْ فِيهَا هُمۡ وَٱلۡغَاوُۥنَ ٩٤

    Fakubkibū fīhā hum wal-ghāwūn.

    So they will be overturned into it [i.e., Hellfire], they and the deviators

95. وَجُنُودُ إِبۡلِيسَ أَجۡمَعُونَ ٩٥

    Wa junūdu iblīsa ajmaʿūn.

    And the soldiers of Iblees, all together.

96. قَالُواْ وَهُمۡ فِيهَا يَخۡتَصِمُونَ ٩٦

    Qālū wa hum fīhā yakhtaṣimūn.

    They will say while they dispute therein,

97. تَٱللَّهِ إِن كُنَّا لَفِي ضَلَٰلٖ مُّبِينٍ ٩٧

    Tallāhi in kunnā lafī ḍalālim mubīn.

    "By Allāh, we were indeed in manifest error

98. إِذۡ نُسَوِّيكُم بِرَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ٩٨

    Idh nusawwīkum birabbil-ʿālamīn.

    When we equated you with the Lord of the worlds.

99. وَمَآ أَضَلَّنَآ إِلَّا ٱلۡمُجۡرِمُونَ ٩٩

    Wa mā aḍallanā illal-mujrimūn.

    And no one misguided us except the criminals.

100. فَمَا لَنَا مِن شَٰفِعِينَ ١٠٠

     Famā lanā min shāfiʿīn.

     So now we have no intercessors

101. وَلَا صَدِيقٍ حَمِيمٖ ١٠١

     Wa lā ṣadīqin ḥamīm.

     And not a devoted friend.

102. فَلَوۡ أَنَّ لَنَا كَرَّةٗ فَنَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ١٠٢

     Falaw anna lanā karratan fanakūna minal-muʾminīn.

     Then if we only had a return [to the world] and could be of the believers..."¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. The conclusion of this verse is estimated as "...we would do this or that."

103. إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكۡثَرُهُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ ١٠٣

     Inna fī dhālika laʾāyah, wa mā kāna aktharuhum muʾminīn.

     Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

104. وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ١٠٤

     Wa inna rabbaka lahuwal-ʿazīzur-raḥīm.

     And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

105. كَذَّبَتۡ قَوۡمُ نُوحٍ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلِينَ ١٠٥

     Kadhdhabat qawmu nūḥinil-mursalīn.

     The people of Noah denied the messengers¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. See footnote to 25:37.

106. إِذۡ قَالَ لَهُمۡ أَخُوهُمۡ نُوحٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ ١٠٦

     Idh qāla lahum akhūhum nūḥun alā tattaqūn.

     When their brother Noah said to them, "Will you not fear Allāh?

107. إِنِّي لَكُمۡ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٞ ١٠٧

     Innī lakum rasūlun amīn.

     Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.

108. فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ ١٠٨

     Fattaqullāha wa aṭīʿūn.

     So fear Allāh and obey me.

109. وَمَآ أَسۡـَٔلُكُمۡ عَلَيۡهِ مِنۡ أَجۡرٍۖ إِنۡ أَجۡرِيَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٠٩

     Wa mā asʾalukum ʿalayhi min ajr, in ajriya illā ʿalā rabbil-ʿālamīn.

     And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.

110. فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ ١١٠

     Fattaqullāha wa aṭīʿūn.

     So fear Allāh and obey me."

111. ۞ قَالُوٓاْ أَنُؤۡمِنُ لَكَ وَٱتَّبَعَكَ ٱلۡأَرۡذَلُونَ ١١١

     Qālū anuʾminu laka wattabaʿakal-ardhalūn.

     They said, "Should we believe you while you are followed by the lowest [class of people]?"

112. قَالَ وَمَا عِلۡمِي بِمَا كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ ١١٢

     Qāla wa mā ʿilmī bimā kānū yaʿmalūn.

     He said, "And what is my knowledge of what they used to do?

113. إِنۡ حِسَابُهُمۡ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ رَبِّيۖ لَوۡ تَشۡعُرُونَ ١١٣

     In ḥisābuhum illā ʿalā rabbī, law tashʿurūn.

     Their account is only upon my Lord, if you [could] perceive.

114. وَمَآ أَنَا۠ بِطَارِدِ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ١١٤

     Wa mā ana biṭāridil-muʾminīn.

     And I am not one to drive away the believers.

115. إِنۡ أَنَا۠ إِلَّا نَذِيرٞ مُّبِينٞ ١١٥

     In ana illā nadhīrum mubīn.

     I am only a clear warner."

116. قَالُواْ لَئِن لَّمۡ تَنتَهِ يَٰنُوحُ لَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلۡمَرۡجُومِينَ ١١٦

     Qālū laʾil lam tantahi yānūḥu latakūnanna minal-marjūmīn.

     They said, "If you do not desist, O Noah, you will surely be of those who are stoned."

117. قَالَ رَبِّ إِنَّ قَوۡمِي كَذَّبُونِ ١١٧

     Qāla rabbi inna qawmī kadhdhabūn.

     He said, "My Lord, indeed my people have denied me.

118. فَٱفۡتَحۡ بَيۡنِي وَبَيۡنَهُمۡ فَتۡحٗا وَنَجِّنِي وَمَن مَّعِيَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ١١٨

     Faftaḥ baynī wa baynahum fatḥaw wa najjinī wa mam maʿiya minal-muʾminīn.

     Then judge between me and them with decisive judgement and save me and those with me of the believers."

119. فَأَنجَيۡنَٰهُ وَمَن مَّعَهُۥ فِي ٱلۡفُلۡكِ ٱلۡمَشۡحُونِ ١١٩

     Fa anjaynāhu wa mam maʿahū fil-fulkil-mashḥūn.

     So We saved him and those with him in the laden ship.

120. ثُمَّ أَغۡرَقۡنَا بَعۡدُ ٱلۡبَاقِينَ ١٢٠

     Thumma aghraqnā baʿdul-bāqīn.

     Then We drowned thereafter the remaining ones.

121. إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكۡثَرُهُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ ١٢١

     Inna fī dhālika laʾāyah, wa mā kāna aktharuhum muʾminīn.

     Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

122. وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ١٢٢

     Wa inna rabbaka lahuwal-ʿazīzur-raḥīm.

     And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

123. كَذَّبَتۡ عَادٌ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلِينَ ١٢٣

     Kadhdhabat ʿādunil-mursalīn.

     ʿAad denied the messengers

124. إِذۡ قَالَ لَهُمۡ أَخُوهُمۡ هُودٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ ١٢٤

     Idh qāla lahum akhūhum hūdun alā tattaqūn.

     When their brother Hūd said to them, "Will you not fear Allāh?

125. إِنِّي لَكُمۡ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٞ ١٢٥

     Innī lakum rasūlun amīn.

     Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.

126. فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ ١٢٦

     Fattaqullāha wa aṭīʿūn.

     So fear Allāh and obey me.

127. وَمَآ أَسۡـَٔلُكُمۡ عَلَيۡهِ مِنۡ أَجۡرٍۖ إِنۡ أَجۡرِيَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٢٧

     Wa mā asʾalukum ʿalayhi min ajr, in ajriya illā ʿalā rabbil-ʿālamīn.

     And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.

128. أَتَبۡنُونَ بِكُلِّ رِيعٍ ءَايَةٗ تَعۡبَثُونَ ١٢٨

     Atabnūna bikulli rīʿin āyatan taʿbathūn.

     Do you construct on every elevation a sign,¹ amusing yourselves,

     Footnotes (1)

     1. i.e., a symbol or indication of their wealth and power. They used to build lofty structures along the road to be seen by all who passed by.

129. وَتَتَّخِذُونَ مَصَانِعَ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَخۡلُدُونَ ١٢٩

     Wa tattakhidhūna maṣāniʿa laʿallakum takhludūn.

     And take for yourselves constructions [i.e., palaces and fortresses] that you might abide eternally?

130. وَإِذَا بَطَشۡتُم بَطَشۡتُمۡ جَبَّارِينَ ١٣٠

     Wa idhā baṭashtum baṭashtum jabbārīn.

     And when you strike, you strike as tyrants.

131. فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ ١٣١

     Fattaqullāha wa aṭīʿūn.

     So fear Allāh and obey me.

132. وَٱتَّقُواْ ٱلَّذِيٓ أَمَدَّكُم بِمَا تَعۡلَمُونَ ١٣٢

     Wattaqul-ladhī amaddakum bimā taʿlamūn.

     And fear He who provided you with that which you know,

133. أَمَدَّكُم بِأَنۡعَٰمٖ وَبَنِينَ ١٣٣

     Amaddakum biʾanʿāmiw wa banīn.

     Provided you with grazing livestock and children

134. وَجَنَّٰتٖ وَعُيُونٍ ١٣٤

     Wa jannātiw wa ʿuyūn.

     And gardens and springs.

135. إِنِّيٓ أَخَافُ عَلَيۡكُمۡ عَذَابَ يَوۡمٍ عَظِيمٖ ١٣٥

     Innī akhāfu ʿalaykum ʿadhāba yawmin ʿaẓīm.

     Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a terrible day."

136. قَالُواْ سَوَآءٌ عَلَيۡنَآ أَوَعَظۡتَ أَمۡ لَمۡ تَكُن مِّنَ ٱلۡوَٰعِظِينَ ١٣٦

     Qālū sawāʾun ʿalaynā awaʿaẓta am lam takum minal-wāʿiẓīn.

     They said, "It is all the same to us whether you advise or are not of the advisors.

137. إِنۡ هَٰذَآ إِلَّا خُلُقُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ ١٣٧

     In hādhā illā khuluqul-awwalīn.

     This is not but the custom of the former peoples,

138. وَمَا نَحۡنُ بِمُعَذَّبِينَ ١٣٨

     Wa mā naḥnu bimuʿadhdhabīn.

     And we are not to be punished."

139. فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَهۡلَكۡنَٰهُمۡۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكۡثَرُهُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ ١٣٩

     Fakadhdhabūhu fa ahlaknāhum, inna fī dhālika laʾāyah, wa mā kāna aktharuhum muʾminīn.

     And they denied him, so We destroyed them. Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

140. وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ١٤٠

     Wa inna rabbaka lahuwal-ʿazīzur-raḥīm.

     And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

141. كَذَّبَتۡ ثَمُودُ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلِينَ ١٤١

     Kadhdhabat thamūdul-mursalīn.

     Thamūd denied the messengers

142. إِذۡ قَالَ لَهُمۡ أَخُوهُمۡ صَٰلِحٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ ١٤٢

     Idh qāla lahum akhūhum ṣāliḥun alā tattaqūn.

     When their brother Ṣāliḥ said to them, "Will you not fear Allāh?

143. إِنِّي لَكُمۡ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٞ ١٤٣

     Innī lakum rasūlun amīn.

     Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.

144. فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ ١٤٤

     Fattaqullāha wa aṭīʿūn.

     So fear Allāh and obey me.

145. وَمَآ أَسۡـَٔلُكُمۡ عَلَيۡهِ مِنۡ أَجۡرٍۖ إِنۡ أَجۡرِيَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٤٥

     Wa mā asʾalukum ʿalayhi min ajr, in ajriya illā ʿalā rabbil-ʿālamīn.

     And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.

146. أَتُتۡرَكُونَ فِي مَا هَٰهُنَآ ءَامِنِينَ ١٤٦

     Atutrakūna fī mā hāhunā āminīn.

     Will you be left in what is here, secure [from death],

147. فِي جَنَّٰتٖ وَعُيُونٖ ١٤٧

     Fī jannātiw wa ʿuyūn.

     Within gardens and springs

148. وَزُرُوعٖ وَنَخۡلٖ طَلۡعُهَا هَضِيمٞ ١٤٨

     Wa zurūʿiw wa nakhlin ṭalʿuhā haḍīm.

     And fields of crops and palm trees with softened fruit?

149. وَتَنۡحِتُونَ مِنَ ٱلۡجِبَالِ بُيُوتٗا فَٰرِهِينَ ١٤٩

     Wa tanḥitūna minal-jibāli buyūtan fārihīn.

     And you carve out of the mountains, homes, with skill.

150. فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ ١٥٠

     Fattaqullāha wa aṭīʿūn.

     So fear Allāh and obey me.

151. وَلَا تُطِيعُوٓاْ أَمۡرَ ٱلۡمُسۡرِفِينَ ١٥١

     Wa lā tuṭīʿū amral-musrifīn.

     And do not obey the order of the transgressors,

152. ٱلَّذِينَ يُفۡسِدُونَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَلَا يُصۡلِحُونَ ١٥٢

     Al-ladhīna yufsidūna fil-arḍi wa lā yuṣliḥūn.

     Who cause corruption in the land and do not amend."

153. قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُسَحَّرِينَ ١٥٣

     Qālū innamā anta minal-musaḥḥarīn.

     They said, "You are only of those affected by magic.

154. مَآ أَنتَ إِلَّا بَشَرٞ مِّثۡلُنَا فَأۡتِ بِـَٔايَةٍ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ ١٥٤

     Mā anta illā basharum mithlunā faʾti biʾāyatin in kunta minaṣ-ṣādiqīn.

     You are but a man like ourselves, so bring a sign, if you should be of the truthful."

155. قَالَ هَٰذِهِۦ نَاقَةٞ لَّهَا شِرۡبٞ وَلَكُمۡ شِرۡبُ يَوۡمٖ مَّعۡلُومٖ ١٥٥

     Qāla hādhihī nāqatul lahā shirbuw wa lakum shirbu yawmim maʿlūm.

     He said, "This is a she-camel.¹ For her is a [time of] drink, and for you is a [time of] drink, [each] on a known day.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. Miraculously sent to them as a sign by Allāh.

156. وَلَا تَمَسُّوهَا بِسُوٓءٖ فَيَأۡخُذَكُمۡ عَذَابُ يَوۡمٍ عَظِيمٖ ١٥٦

     Wa lā tamassūhā bisūʾin fayaʾkhudhakum ʿadhābu yawmin ʿaẓīm.

     And do not touch her with harm, lest you be seized by the punishment of a terrible day."

157. فَعَقَرُوهَا فَأَصۡبَحُواْ نَٰدِمِينَ ١٥٧

     Faʿaqarūhā fa aṣbaḥū nādimīn.

     But they hamstrung her and so became regretful.

158. فَأَخَذَهُمُ ٱلۡعَذَابُۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكۡثَرُهُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ ١٥٨

     Fa akhadhahumul-ʿadhāb, inna fī dhālika laʾāyah, wa mā kāna aktharuhum muʾminīn.

     And the punishment seized them. Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

159. وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ١٥٩

     Wa inna rabbaka lahuwal-ʿazīzur-raḥīm.

     And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

160. كَذَّبَتۡ قَوۡمُ لُوطٍ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلِينَ ١٦٠

     Kadhdhabat qawmu lūṭinil-mursalīn.

     The people of Lot denied the messengers

161. إِذۡ قَالَ لَهُمۡ أَخُوهُمۡ لُوطٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ ١٦١

     Idh qāla lahum akhūhum lūṭun alā tattaqūn.

     When their brother Lot said to them, "Will you not fear Allāh?

162. إِنِّي لَكُمۡ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٞ ١٦٢

     Innī lakum rasūlun amīn.

     Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.

163. فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ ١٦٣

     Fattaqullāha wa aṭīʿūn.

     So fear Allāh and obey me.

164. وَمَآ أَسۡـَٔلُكُمۡ عَلَيۡهِ مِنۡ أَجۡرٍۖ إِنۡ أَجۡرِيَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٦٤

     Wa mā asʾalukum ʿalayhi min ajr, in ajriya illā ʿalā rabbil-ʿālamīn.

     And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.

165. أَتَأۡتُونَ ٱلذُّكۡرَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٦٥

     Ataʾtūnadh-dhukrāna minal-ʿālamīn.

     Do you approach males among the worlds¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. i.e., Are there, out of all Allāh's creatures, any besides you who commit this unnatural act?

166. وَتَذَرُونَ مَا خَلَقَ لَكُمۡ رَبُّكُم مِّنۡ أَزۡوَٰجِكُمۚ بَلۡ أَنتُمۡ قَوۡمٌ عَادُونَ ١٦٦

     Wa tadharūna mā khalaqa lakum rabbukum min azwājikum, bal antum qawmun ʿādūn.

     And leave what your Lord has created for you as mates? But you are a people transgressing."

167. قَالُواْ لَئِن لَّمۡ تَنتَهِ يَٰلُوطُ لَتَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلۡمُخۡرَجِينَ ١٦٧

     Qālū laʾil lam tantahi yālūṭu latakūnanna minal-mukhrajīn.

     They said, "If you do not desist, O Lot, you will surely be of those evicted."

168. قَالَ إِنِّي لِعَمَلِكُم مِّنَ ٱلۡقَالِينَ ١٦٨

     Qāla innī liʿamalikum minal-qālīn.

     He said, "Indeed, I am, toward your deed, of those who detest [it].

169. رَبِّ نَجِّنِي وَأَهۡلِي مِمَّا يَعۡمَلُونَ ١٦٩

     Rabbi najjinī wa ahlī mimmā yaʿmalūn.

     My Lord, save me and my family from [the consequence of] what they do."

170. فَنَجَّيۡنَٰهُ وَأَهۡلَهُۥٓ أَجۡمَعِينَ ١٧٠

     Fanajjaynāhu wa ahlahū ajmaʿīn.

     So We saved him and his family, all,

171. إِلَّا عَجُوزٗا فِي ٱلۡغَٰبِرِينَ ١٧١

     Illā ʿajūzan fil-ghābirīn.

     Except an old woman¹ among those who remained behind.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. Lot's wife, who had collaborated with the evildoers.

172. ثُمَّ دَمَّرۡنَا ٱلۡأٓخَرِينَ ١٧٢

     Thumma dammarnal-ākharīn.

     Then We destroyed the others.

173. وَأَمۡطَرۡنَا عَلَيۡهِم مَّطَرٗاۖ فَسَآءَ مَطَرُ ٱلۡمُنذَرِينَ ١٧٣

     Wa amṭarnā ʿalayhim maṭarā, fasāʾa maṭarul-mundharīn.

     And We rained upon them a rain [of stones], and evil was the rain of those who were warned.

174. إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكۡثَرُهُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ ١٧٤

     Inna fī dhālika laʾāyah, wa mā kāna aktharuhum muʾminīn.

     Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

175. وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ١٧٥

     Wa inna rabbaka lahuwal-ʿazīzur-raḥīm.

     And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

176. كَذَّبَ أَصۡحَٰبُ لۡـَٔيۡكَةِ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلِينَ ١٧٦

     Kadhdhaba aṣḥābul-aykatil-mursalīn.

     The companions of the thicket [i.e., the people of Madyan] denied the messengers

177. إِذۡ قَالَ لَهُمۡ شُعَيۡبٌ أَلَا تَتَّقُونَ ١٧٧

     Idh qāla lahum shuʿaybun alā tattaqūn.

     When Shuʿayb said to them, "Will you not fear Allāh?

178. إِنِّي لَكُمۡ رَسُولٌ أَمِينٞ ١٧٨

     Innī lakum rasūlun amīn.

     Indeed, I am to you a trustworthy messenger.

179. فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَأَطِيعُونِ ١٧٩

     Fattaqullāha wa aṭīʿūn.

     So fear Allāh and obey me.

180. وَمَآ أَسۡـَٔلُكُمۡ عَلَيۡهِ مِنۡ أَجۡرٍۖ إِنۡ أَجۡرِيَ إِلَّا عَلَىٰ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٨٠

     Wa mā asʾalukum ʿalayhi min ajr, in ajriya illā ʿalā rabbil-ʿālamīn.

     And I do not ask you for it any payment. My payment is only from the Lord of the worlds.

181. ۞ أَوۡفُواْ ٱلۡكَيۡلَ وَلَا تَكُونُواْ مِنَ ٱلۡمُخۡسِرِينَ ١٨١

     Awful-kayla wa lā takūnū minal-mukhsirīn.

     Give full measure and do not be of those who cause loss.

182. وَزِنُواْ بِٱلۡقِسۡطَاسِ ٱلۡمُسۡتَقِيمِ ١٨٢

     Wazinū bil-qisṭāsil-mustaqīm.

     And weigh with an even [i.e., honest] balance.

183. وَلَا تَبۡخَسُواْ ٱلنَّاسَ أَشۡيَآءَهُمۡ وَلَا تَعۡثَوۡاْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ مُفۡسِدِينَ ١٨٣

     Wa lā tabkhasun-nāsa ashyāʾahum wa lā taʿthaw fil-arḍi mufsidīn.

     And do not deprive people of their due and do not commit abuse on earth, spreading corruption.

184. وَٱتَّقُواْ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكُمۡ وَٱلۡجِبِلَّةَ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ ١٨٤

     Wattaqul-ladhī khalaqakum wal-jibillatal-awwalīn.

     And fear He who created you and the former creation."¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. i.e., previous generations.

185. قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّمَآ أَنتَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُسَحَّرِينَ ١٨٥

     Qālū innamā anta minal-musaḥḥarīn.

     They said, "You are only of those affected by magic.

186. وَمَآ أَنتَ إِلَّا بَشَرٞ مِّثۡلُنَا وَإِن نَّظُنُّكَ لَمِنَ ٱلۡكَٰذِبِينَ ١٨٦

     Wa mā anta illā basharum mithlunā wa in naẓunnuka laminal-kādhibīn.

     You are but a man like ourselves, and indeed, we think you are among the liars.

187. فَأَسۡقِطۡ عَلَيۡنَا كِسَفٗا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ ١٨٧

     Fa asqiṭ ʿalaynā kisafam minas-samāʾi in kunta minaṣ-ṣādiqīn.

     So cause to fall upon us fragments of the sky, if you should be of the truthful."

188. قَالَ رَبِّيٓ أَعۡلَمُ بِمَا تَعۡمَلُونَ ١٨٨

     Qāla rabbī aʿlamu bimā taʿmalūn.

     He said, "My Lord is most knowing of what you do."

189. فَكَذَّبُوهُ فَأَخَذَهُمۡ عَذَابُ يَوۡمِ ٱلظُّلَّةِۚ إِنَّهُۥ كَانَ عَذَابَ يَوۡمٍ عَظِيمٍ ١٨٩

     Fakadhdhabūhu fa akhadhahum ʿadhābu yawmiẓ-ẓullah, innahū kāna ʿadhāba yawmin ʿaẓīm.

     And they denied him, so the punishment of the day of the black cloud seized them. Indeed, it was the punishment of a terrible day.

190. إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗۖ وَمَا كَانَ أَكۡثَرُهُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ ١٩٠

     Inna fī dhālika laʾāyah, wa mā kāna aktharuhum muʾminīn.

     Indeed in that is a sign, but most of them were not to be believers.

191. وَإِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلرَّحِيمُ ١٩١

     Wa inna rabbaka lahuwal-ʿazīzur-raḥīm.

     And indeed, your Lord - He is the Exalted in Might, the Merciful.

192. وَإِنَّهُۥ لَتَنزِيلُ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٩٢

     Wa innahū latanzīlu rabbil-ʿālamīn.

     And indeed, it [i.e., the Qur’ān] is the revelation of the Lord of the worlds.

193. نَزَلَ بِهِ ٱلرُّوحُ ٱلۡأَمِينُ ١٩٣

     Nazala bihir-rūḥul-amīn.

     The Trustworthy Spirit [i.e., Gabriel] has brought it down

194. عَلَىٰ قَلۡبِكَ لِتَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُنذِرِينَ ١٩٤

     ʿAlā qalbika litakūna minal-mundhirīn.

     Upon your heart, [O Muḥammad] - that you may be of the warners

195. بِلِسَانٍ عَرَبِيّٖ مُّبِينٖ ١٩٥

     Bilisānin ʿarabiyyim mubīn.

     In a clear Arabic language.

196. وَإِنَّهُۥ لَفِي زُبُرِ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ ١٩٦

     Wa innahū lafī zuburil-awwalīn.

     And indeed, it is [mentioned] in the scriptures of former peoples.

197. أَوَلَمۡ يَكُن لَّهُمۡ ءَايَةً أَن يَعۡلَمَهُۥ عُلَمَٰٓؤُاْ بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ ١٩٧

     Awalam yakul lahum āyatan ay yaʿlamahū ʿulamāʾu banī isrāʾīl.

     And has it not been a sign to them that it is recognized by the scholars of the Children of Israel?

198. وَلَوۡ نَزَّلۡنَٰهُ عَلَىٰ بَعۡضِ ٱلۡأَعۡجَمِينَ ١٩٨

     Wa law nazzalnāhu ʿalā baʿḍil-aʿjamīn.

     And even if We had revealed it to one among the foreigners¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. i.e., the non-Arabs or those who are not fluent in the Arabic language.

199. فَقَرَأَهُۥ عَلَيۡهِم مَّا كَانُواْ بِهِۦ مُؤۡمِنِينَ ١٩٩

     Faqaraʾahū ʿalayhim mā kānū bihī muʾminīn.

     And he had recited it to them [perfectly],¹ they would [still] not have been believers in it.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. As a miracle from Allāh.

200. كَذَٰلِكَ سَلَكۡنَٰهُ فِي قُلُوبِ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمِينَ ٢٠٠

     Kadhālika salaknāhu fī qulūbil-mujrimīn.

     Thus have We inserted it [i.e., disbelief] into the hearts of the criminals.

201. لَا يُؤۡمِنُونَ بِهِۦ حَتَّىٰ يَرَوُاْ ٱلۡعَذَابَ ٱلۡأَلِيمَ ٢٠١

     Lā yuʾminūna bihī ḥattā yarawul-ʿadhābal-alīm.

     They will not believe in it until they see the painful punishment.

202. فَيَأۡتِيَهُم بَغۡتَةٗ وَهُمۡ لَا يَشۡعُرُونَ ٢٠٢

     Fayaʾtiyahum baghtataw wa hum lā yashʿurūn.

     And it will come to them suddenly while they perceive [it] not.

203. فَيَقُولُواْ هَلۡ نَحۡنُ مُنظَرُونَ ٢٠٣

     Fayaqūlū hal naḥnu munẓarūn.

     And they will say, "May we be reprieved?"

204. أَفَبِعَذَابِنَا يَسۡتَعۡجِلُونَ ٢٠٤

     Afabiʿadhābinā yastaʿjilūn.

     So for Our punishment are they impatient?

205. أَفَرَءَيۡتَ إِن مَّتَّعۡنَٰهُمۡ سِنِينَ ٢٠٥

     Afaraʾayta im mattaʿnāhum sinīn.

     Then have you considered if We gave them enjoyment for years

206. ثُمَّ جَآءَهُم مَّا كَانُواْ يُوعَدُونَ ٢٠٦

     Thumma jāʾahum mā kānū yūʿadūn.

     And then there came to them that which they were promised?

207. مَآ أَغۡنَىٰ عَنۡهُم مَّا كَانُواْ يُمَتَّعُونَ ٢٠٧

     Mā aghnā ʿanhum mā kānū yumattaʿūn.

     They would not be availed by the enjoyment with which they were provided.

208. وَمَآ أَهۡلَكۡنَا مِن قَرۡيَةٍ إِلَّا لَهَا مُنذِرُونَ ٢٠٨

     Wa mā ahlaknā min qaryatin illā lahā mundhirūn.

     And We did not destroy any city except that it had warners

209. ذِكۡرَىٰ وَمَا كُنَّا ظَٰلِمِينَ ٢٠٩

     Dhikrā wa mā kunnā ẓālimīn.

     As a reminder; and never have We been unjust.

210. وَمَا تَنَزَّلَتۡ بِهِ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينُ ٢١٠

     Wa mā tanazzalat bihish-shayāṭīn.

     And the devils have not brought it [i.e., the revelation] down.¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. As was asserted by the disbelievers. Rather, it was brought by Gabriel, the Trustworthy Spirit.

211. وَمَا يَنۢبَغِي لَهُمۡ وَمَا يَسۡتَطِيعُونَ ٢١١

     Wa mā yanbaghī lahum wa mā yastaṭīʿūn.

     It is not allowable for them, nor would they be able.

212. إِنَّهُمۡ عَنِ ٱلسَّمۡعِ لَمَعۡزُولُونَ ٢١٢

     Innahum ʿanis-samʿi lamaʿzūlūn.

     Indeed they, from [its] hearing, are removed.¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. As mentioned in 72:9.

213. فَلَا تَدۡعُ مَعَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَٰهًا ءَاخَرَ فَتَكُونَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُعَذَّبِينَ ٢١٣

     Falā tadʿu maʿallāhi ilāhan ākhara fatakūna minal-muʿadhdhabīn.

     So do not invoke¹ with Allāh another deity and [thus] be among the punished.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. Or "worship."

214. وَأَنذِرۡ عَشِيرَتَكَ ٱلۡأَقۡرَبِينَ ٢١٤

     Wa andhir ʿashīratakal-aqrabīn.

     And warn, [O Muḥammad], your closest kindred.

215. وَٱخۡفِضۡ جَنَاحَكَ لِمَنِ ٱتَّبَعَكَ مِنَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ٢١٥

     Wakhfiḍ janāḥaka limanittabaʿaka minal-muʾminīn.

     And lower your wing [i.e., show kindness] to those who follow you of the believers.

216. فَإِنۡ عَصَوۡكَ فَقُلۡ إِنِّي بَرِيٓءٞ مِّمَّا تَعۡمَلُونَ ٢١٦

     Fa in ʿaṣawka faqul innī barīʾum mimmā taʿmalūn.

     And if they disobey you, then say, "Indeed, I am disassociated from what you are doing."

217. وَتَوَكَّلۡ عَلَى ٱلۡعَزِيزِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٢١٧

     Wa tawakkal ʿalal-ʿazīzir-raḥīm.

     And rely upon the Exalted in Might, the Merciful,

218. ٱلَّذِي يَرَىٰكَ حِينَ تَقُومُ ٢١٨

     Al-ladhī yarāka ḥīna taqūm.

     Who sees you when you arise¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. From your bed at night for prayer while you are alone.

219. وَتَقَلُّبَكَ فِي ٱلسَّٰجِدِينَ ٢١٩

     Wa taqallubaka fis-sājidīn.

     And your movement among those who prostrate.¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. i.e., among those who pray with you in congregation.

220. إِنَّهُۥ هُوَ ٱلسَّمِيعُ ٱلۡعَلِيمُ ٢٢٠

     Innahū huwas-samīʿul-ʿalīm.

     Indeed, He is the Hearing, the Knowing.

221. هَلۡ أُنَبِّئُكُمۡ عَلَىٰ مَن تَنَزَّلُ ٱلشَّيَٰطِينُ ٢٢١

     Hal unabbiʾukum ʿalā man tanazzalush-shayāṭīn.

     Shall I inform you upon whom the devils descend?

222. تَنَزَّلُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ أَفَّاكٍ أَثِيمٖ ٢٢٢

     Tanazzalu ʿalā kulli affākin athīm.

     They descend upon every sinful liar.

223. يُلۡقُونَ ٱلسَّمۡعَ وَأَكۡثَرُهُمۡ كَٰذِبُونَ ٢٢٣

     Yulqūnas-samʿa wa aktharuhum kādhibūn.

     They pass on what is heard,¹ and most of them are liars.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. This was before they were prevented, as described in 72:8-9.

224. وَٱلشُّعَرَآءُ يَتَّبِعُهُمُ ٱلۡغَاوُۥنَ ٢٢٤

     Wash-shuʿarāʾu yattabiʿuhumul-ghāwūn.

     And the poets - [only] the deviators follow them.

225. أَلَمۡ تَرَ أَنَّهُمۡ فِي كُلِّ وَادٖ يَهِيمُونَ ٢٢٥

     Alam tara annahum fī kulli wādiy yahīmūn.

     Do you not see that in every valley they roam¹

     Footnotes (1)

     1. Speaking lies indiscriminately and praising and disparaging others according to whim.

226. وَأَنَّهُمۡ يَقُولُونَ مَا لَا يَفۡعَلُونَ ٢٢٦

     Wa annahum yaqūlūna mā lā yafʿalūn.

     And that they say what they do not do? -

227. إِلَّا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَعَمِلُواْ ٱلصَّٰلِحَٰتِ وَذَكَرُواْ ٱللَّهَ كَثِيرٗا وَٱنتَصَرُواْ مِنۢ بَعۡدِ مَا ظُلِمُواْۗ وَسَيَعۡلَمُ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوٓاْ أَيَّ مُنقَلَبٖ يَنقَلِبُونَ ٢٢٧

     Illal-ladhīna āmanū wa ʿamiluṣ-ṣāliḥāti wa dhakarullāha kathīraw wantaṣarū mim baʿdi mā ẓulimū, wa sayaʿlamul-ladhīna ẓalamū ayya munqalabiy yanqalibūn.

     Except those [poets] who believe and do righteous deeds and remember Allāh often and defend [the Muslims]¹ after they were wronged. And those who have wronged are going to know to what [kind of] return they will be returned.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. By replying through poetry to the attacks of hostile poets.

﷽بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. طسٓۚ تِلۡكَ ءَايَٰتُ ٱلۡقُرۡءَانِ وَكِتَابٖ مُّبِينٍ ١

   Ṭā Sīn, tilka āyātul-qurʾāni wa kitābim mubīn.

   Ṭā, Seen.¹ These are the verses of the Qur’ān [i.e., recitation] and a clear Book

   Footnotes (1)

   1. See footnote to 2:1.

2. هُدٗى وَبُشۡرَىٰ لِلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ٢

   Hudaw wa bushrā lil-muʾminīn.

   As guidance and good tidings for the believers

3. ٱلَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَيُؤۡتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَهُم بِٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ هُمۡ يُوقِنُونَ ٣

   Al-ladhīna yuqīmūnaṣ-ṣalāta wa yuʾtūnaz-zakāta wa hum bil-ākhirati hum yūqinūn.

   Who establish prayer and give zakāh, and of the Hereafter they are certain [in faith].

4. إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤۡمِنُونَ بِٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ زَيَّنَّا لَهُمۡ أَعۡمَٰلَهُمۡ فَهُمۡ يَعۡمَهُونَ ٤

   Innal-ladhīna lā yuʾminūna bil-ākhirati zayyannā lahum aʿmālahum fahum yaʿmahūn.

   Indeed, for those who do not believe in the Hereafter, We have made pleasing to them their deeds, so they wander blindly.

5. أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَهُمۡ سُوٓءُ ٱلۡعَذَابِ وَهُمۡ فِي ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ هُمُ ٱلۡأَخۡسَرُونَ ٥

   Ulāʾikal-ladhīna lahum sūʾul-ʿadhābi wa hum fil-ākhirati humul-akhsarūn.

   Those are the ones for whom there will be the worst of punishment, and in the Hereafter they are the greatest losers.

6. وَإِنَّكَ لَتُلَقَّى ٱلۡقُرۡءَانَ مِن لَّدُنۡ حَكِيمٍ عَلِيمٍ ٦

   Wa innaka latulaqqal-qurʾāna mil ladun ḥakīmin ʿalīm.

   And indeed, [O Muḥammad], you receive the Qur’ān from one Wise and Knowing.

7. إِذۡ قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِأَهۡلِهِۦٓ إِنِّيٓ ءَانَسۡتُ نَارٗا سَـَٔاتِيكُم مِّنۡهَا بِخَبَرٍ أَوۡ ءَاتِيكُم بِشِهَابٖ قَبَسٖ لَّعَلَّكُمۡ تَصۡطَلُونَ ٧

   Idh qāla mūsā liʾahlihī innī ānastu nāran saʾātīkum minhā bikhabarin aw ātīkum bishihābin qabasil laʿallakum taṣṭalūn.

   [Mention] when Moses said to his family, "Indeed, I have perceived a fire. I will bring you from there information or will bring you a burning torch that you may warm yourselves."

8. فَلَمَّا جَآءَهَا نُودِيَ أَنۢ بُورِكَ مَن فِي ٱلنَّارِ وَمَنۡ حَوۡلَهَا وَسُبۡحَٰنَ ٱللَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ٨

   Falammā jāʾahā nūdiya am būrika man fin-nāri wa man ḥawlahā wa subḥānallāhi rabbil-ʿālamīn.

   But when he came to it, he was called, "Blessed is whoever is at the fire and whoever is around it. And exalted is Allāh, Lord of the worlds.

9. يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِنَّهُۥٓ أَنَا ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡعَزِيزُ ٱلۡحَكِيمُ ٩

   Yāmūsā innahū anallāhul-ʿazīzul-ḥakīm.

   O Moses, indeed it is I - Allāh, the Exalted in Might, the Wise."

10. وَأَلۡقِ عَصَاكَۚ فَلَمَّا رَءَاهَا تَهۡتَزُّ كَأَنَّهَا جَآنّٞ وَلَّىٰ مُدۡبِرٗا وَلَمۡ يُعَقِّبۡۚ يَٰمُوسَىٰ لَا تَخَفۡ إِنِّي لَا يَخَافُ لَدَيَّ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلُونَ ١٠

    Wa alqi ʿaṣāk, falammā raʾāhā tahtazzu kaʾannahā jānnuw wallā mudbiraw wa lam yuʿaqqib, yāmūsā lā takhaf innī lā yakhāfu ladayyal-mursalūn.

    And [he was told], "Throw down your staff." But when he saw it writhing as if it were a snake, he turned in flight and did not return.¹ [Allāh said], "O Moses, fear not. Indeed, in My presence the messengers do not fear.

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Or "did not look back."

11. إِلَّا مَن ظَلَمَ ثُمَّ بَدَّلَ حُسۡنَۢا بَعۡدَ سُوٓءٖ فَإِنِّي غَفُورٞ رَّحِيمٞ ١١

    Illā man ẓalama thumma baddala ḥusnā baʿda sūʾin fa innī ghafūrur raḥīm.

    Otherwise, he who wrongs, then substitutes good after evil - indeed, I am Forgiving and Merciful.

12. وَأَدۡخِلۡ يَدَكَ فِي جَيۡبِكَ تَخۡرُجۡ بَيۡضَآءَ مِنۡ غَيۡرِ سُوٓءٖۖ فِي تِسۡعِ ءَايَٰتٍ إِلَىٰ فِرۡعَوۡنَ وَقَوۡمِهِۦٓۚ إِنَّهُمۡ كَانُواْ قَوۡمٗا فَٰسِقِينَ ١٢

    Wa adkhil yadaka fī jaybika takhruj bayḍāʾa min ghayri sūʾ, fī tisʿi āyātin ilā firʿawna wa qawmih, innahum kānū qawman fāsiqīn.

    And put your hand into the opening of your garment [at the breast]; it will come out white without disease. [These are] among the nine signs [you will take] to Pharaoh and his people. Indeed, they have been a people defiantly disobedient."

13. فَلَمَّا جَآءَتۡهُمۡ ءَايَٰتُنَا مُبۡصِرَةٗ قَالُواْ هَٰذَا سِحۡرٞ مُّبِينٞ ١٣

    Falammā jāʾathum āyātunā mubṣiratan qālū hādhā siḥrum mubīn.

    But when there came to them Our visible signs, they said, "This is obvious magic."

14. وَجَحَدُواْ بِهَا وَٱسۡتَيۡقَنَتۡهَآ أَنفُسُهُمۡ ظُلۡمٗا وَعُلُوّٗاۚ فَٱنظُرۡ كَيۡفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلۡمُفۡسِدِينَ ١٤

    Wa jaḥadū bihā wastayqanathā anfusuhum ẓulmaw wa ʿuluwwā, fanẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatul-mufsidīn.

    And they rejected them, while their [inner] selves were convinced thereof, out of injustice and haughtiness. So see how was the end of the corrupters.

15. وَلَقَدۡ ءَاتَيۡنَا دَاوُۥدَ وَسُلَيۡمَٰنَ عِلۡمٗاۖ وَقَالَا ٱلۡحَمۡدُ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِي فَضَّلَنَا عَلَىٰ كَثِيرٖ مِّنۡ عِبَادِهِ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ١٥

    Wa laqad ātaynā dāwūda wa sulaymāna ʿilmā, wa qālal-ḥamdu lillāhil-ladhī faḍḍalanā ʿalā kathīrim min ʿibādihil-muʾminīn.

    And We had certainly given to David and Solomon knowledge, and they said, "Praise [is due] to Allāh, who has favored us over many of His believing servants."

16. وَوَرِثَ سُلَيۡمَٰنُ دَاوُۥدَۖ وَقَالَ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ عُلِّمۡنَا مَنطِقَ ٱلطَّيۡرِ وَأُوتِينَا مِن كُلِّ شَيۡءٍۖ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَهُوَ ٱلۡفَضۡلُ ٱلۡمُبِينُ ١٦

    Wa waritha sulaymānu dāwūd, wa qāla yāʾayyuhan-nāsu ʿullimnā manṭiqaṭ-ṭayri wa ūtīnā min kulli shayʾ, inna hādhā lahuwal-faḍlul-mubīn.

    And Solomon inherited David. He said, "O people, we have been taught the language of birds, and we have been given from all things. Indeed, this is evident bounty."

17. وَحُشِرَ لِسُلَيۡمَٰنَ جُنُودُهُۥ مِنَ ٱلۡجِنِّ وَٱلۡإِنسِ وَٱلطَّيۡرِ فَهُمۡ يُوزَعُونَ ١٧

    Wa ḥushira lisulaymāna junūduhū minal-jinni wal-insi waṭ-ṭayri fahum yūzaʿūn.

    And gathered for Solomon were his soldiers of the jinn and men and birds, and they were [marching] in rows

18. حَتَّىٰٓ إِذَآ أَتَوۡاْ عَلَىٰ وَادِ ٱلنَّمۡلِ قَالَتۡ نَمۡلَةٞ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّمۡلُ ٱدۡخُلُواْ مَسَٰكِنَكُمۡ لَا يَحۡطِمَنَّكُمۡ سُلَيۡمَٰنُ وَجُنُودُهُۥ وَهُمۡ لَا يَشۡعُرُونَ ١٨

    Ḥattā idhā ataw ʿalā wādin-namli qālat namlatuy yāʾayyuhan-namludkhulū masākinakum lā yaḥṭimannakum sulaymānu wa junūduhū wa hum lā yashʿurūn.

    Until, when they came upon the valley of the ants, an ant said, "O ants, enter your dwellings that you not be crushed by Solomon and his soldiers while they perceive not."

19. فَتَبَسَّمَ ضَاحِكٗا مِّن قَوۡلِهَا وَقَالَ رَبِّ أَوۡزِعۡنِيٓ أَنۡ أَشۡكُرَ نِعۡمَتَكَ ٱلَّتِيٓ أَنۡعَمۡتَ عَلَيَّ وَعَلَىٰ وَٰلِدَيَّ وَأَنۡ أَعۡمَلَ صَٰلِحٗا تَرۡضَىٰهُ وَأَدۡخِلۡنِي بِرَحۡمَتِكَ فِي عِبَادِكَ ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ ١٩

    Fatabassama ḍāḥikam min qawlihā wa qāla rabbi awziʿnī an ashkura niʿmatakal-latī anʿamta ʿalayya wa ʿalā wālidayya wa an aʿmala ṣāliḥan tarḍāhu wa adkhilnī biraḥmatika fī ʿibādikaṣ-ṣāliḥīn.

    So [Solomon] smiled, amused at her speech, and said, "My Lord, enable me¹ to be grateful for Your favor which You have bestowed upon me and upon my parents and to do righteousness of which You approve. And admit me by Your mercy into [the ranks of] Your righteous servants."²

    Footnotes (2)

    1. More literally, "gather within me the utmost strength and ability."
    2. Or "with Your righteous servants [into Paradise]."

20. وَتَفَقَّدَ ٱلطَّيۡرَ فَقَالَ مَالِيَ لَآ أَرَى ٱلۡهُدۡهُدَ أَمۡ كَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡغَآئِبِينَ ٢٠

    Wa tafaqqadaṭ-ṭayra faqāla mā liya lā aral-hudhuda am kāna minal-ghāʾibīn.

    And he took attendance of the birds and said, "Why do I not see the hoopoe - or is he among the absent?

21. لَأُعَذِّبَنَّهُۥ عَذَابٗا شَدِيدًا أَوۡ لَأَاْذۡبَحَنَّهُۥٓ أَوۡ لَيَأۡتِيَنِّي بِسُلۡطَٰنٖ مُّبِينٖ ٢١

    Laʾuʿadhdhibannahū ʿadhāban shadīdan aw laʾadhbaḥannahū aw layaʾtiyannī bisulṭānim mubīn.

    I will surely punish him with a severe punishment or slaughter him unless he brings me clear authorization."¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., a valid excuse.

22. فَمَكَثَ غَيۡرَ بَعِيدٖ فَقَالَ أَحَطتُ بِمَا لَمۡ تُحِطۡ بِهِۦ وَجِئۡتُكَ مِن سَبَإِۭ بِنَبَإٖ يَقِينٍ ٢٢

    Famakatha ghayra baʿīdin faqāla aḥaṭtu bimā lam tuḥiṭ bihī wa jiʾtuka min sabaʾim binabaʾiy yaqīn.

    But he [i.e., the hoopoe] stayed not long and said, "I have encompassed [in knowledge] that which you have not encompassed, and I have come to you from Sheba with certain news.

23. إِنِّي وَجَدتُّ ٱمۡرَأَةٗ تَمۡلِكُهُمۡ وَأُوتِيَتۡ مِن كُلِّ شَيۡءٖ وَلَهَا عَرۡشٌ عَظِيمٞ ٢٣

    Innī wajadttumraʾatan tamlikuhum wa ūtiyat min kulli shayʾiw wa lahā ʿarshun ʿaẓīm.

    Indeed, I found [there] a woman ruling them, and she has been given of all things, and she has a great throne.

24. وَجَدتُّهَا وَقَوۡمَهَا يَسۡجُدُونَ لِلشَّمۡسِ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَزَيَّنَ لَهُمُ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنُ أَعۡمَٰلَهُمۡ فَصَدَّهُمۡ عَنِ ٱلسَّبِيلِ فَهُمۡ لَا يَهۡتَدُونَ ٢٤

    Wajadttuhā wa qawmahā yasjudūna lish-shamsi min dūnillāhi wa zayyana lahumush-shayṭānu aʿmālahum faṣaddahum ʿanis-sabīli fahum lā yahtadūn.

    I found her and her people prostrating to the sun instead of Allāh, and Satan has made their deeds pleasing to them and averted them from [His] way, so they are not guided,

25. أَلَّاۤ يَسۡجُدُواْۤ لِلَّهِ ٱلَّذِي يُخۡرِجُ ٱلۡخَبۡءَ فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَيَعۡلَمُ مَا تُخۡفُونَ وَمَا تُعۡلِنُونَ ٢٥

    Allā yasjudū lillāhil-ladhī yukhrijul-khabʾa fis-samāwāti wal-arḍi wa yaʿlamu mā tukhfūna wa mā tuʿlinūn.

    [And] so they do not prostrate to Allāh, who brings forth what is hidden within the heavens and the earth and knows what you conceal and what you declare -

26. ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ رَبُّ ٱلۡعَرۡشِ ٱلۡعَظِيمِ۩ ٢٦

    Allāhu lā ilāha illā huwa rabbul-ʿarshil-ʿaẓīm.

    Allāh - there is no deity except Him, Lord of the Great Throne."

27. ۞ قَالَ سَنَنظُرُ أَصَدَقۡتَ أَمۡ كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلۡكَٰذِبِينَ ٢٧

    Qāla sananẓuru aṣadaqta am kunta minal-kādhibīn.

    [Solomon] said, "We will see whether you were truthful or were of the liars.

28. ٱذۡهَب بِّكِتَٰبِي هَٰذَا فَأَلۡقِهۡ إِلَيۡهِمۡ ثُمَّ تَوَلَّ عَنۡهُمۡ فَٱنظُرۡ مَاذَا يَرۡجِعُونَ ٢٨

    Idhhab bikitābī hādhā fa alqih ilayhim thumma tawalla ʿanhum fanẓur mādhā yarjiʿūn.

    Take this letter of mine and deliver it to them. Then leave them and see what [answer] they will return."

29. قَالَتۡ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلۡمَلَؤُاْ إِنِّيٓ أُلۡقِيَ إِلَيَّ كِتَٰبٞ كَرِيمٌ ٢٩

    Qālat yāʾayyuhal-malaʾu innī ulqiya ilayya kitābun karīm.

    She said, "O eminent ones, indeed, to me has been delivered a noble letter.

30. إِنَّهُۥ مِن سُلَيۡمَٰنَ وَإِنَّهُۥ بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ ٣٠

    Innahū min sulaymāna wa innahū bismillāhir-raḥmānir-raḥīm.

    Indeed, it is from Solomon, and indeed, it is [i.e., reads]: 'In the name of Allāh, the Entirely Merciful, the Especially Merciful,

31. أَلَّا تَعۡلُواْ عَلَيَّ وَأۡتُونِي مُسۡلِمِينَ ٣١

    Allā taʿlū ʿalayya waʾtūnī muslimīn.

    Be not haughty with me but come to me in submission [as Muslims].'"

32. قَالَتۡ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلۡمَلَؤُاْ أَفۡتُونِي فِيٓ أَمۡرِي مَا كُنتُ قَاطِعَةً أَمۡرًا حَتَّىٰ تَشۡهَدُونِ ٣٢

    Qālat yāʾayyuhal-malaʾu aftūnī fī amrī mā kuntu qāṭiʿatan amran ḥattā tashhadūn.

    She said, "O eminent ones, advise me in my affair. I would not decide a matter until you witness [for] me."¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., are present with me or testify in my favor.

33. قَالُواْ نَحۡنُ أُوْلُواْ قُوَّةٖ وَأُوْلُواْ بَأۡسٖ شَدِيدٖ وَٱلۡأَمۡرُ إِلَيۡكِ فَٱنظُرِي مَاذَا تَأۡمُرِينَ ٣٣

    Qālū naḥnu ulū quwwatiw wa ulū baʾsin shadīdiw wal-amru ilayki fanẓurī mādhā taʾmurīn.

    They said, "We are men of strength and of great military might, but the command is yours, so see what you will command."

34. قَالَتۡ إِنَّ ٱلۡمُلُوكَ إِذَا دَخَلُواْ قَرۡيَةً أَفۡسَدُوهَا وَجَعَلُوٓاْ أَعِزَّةَ أَهۡلِهَآ أَذِلَّةٗۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ يَفۡعَلُونَ ٣٤

    Qālat innal-mulūka idhā dakhalū qaryatan afsadūhā wa jaʿalū aʿizzata ahlihā adhillah, wa kadhālika yafʿalūn.

    She said, "Indeed kings - when they enter a city, they ruin it and render the honored of its people humbled. And thus do they do.

35. وَإِنِّي مُرۡسِلَةٌ إِلَيۡهِم بِهَدِيَّةٖ فَنَاظِرَةُۢ بِمَ يَرۡجِعُ ٱلۡمُرۡسَلُونَ ٣٥

    Wa innī mursilatun ilayhim bihadiyyatin fanāẓiratum bima yarjiʿul-mursalūn.

    But indeed, I will send to them a gift and see with what [reply] the messengers will return."

36. فَلَمَّا جَآءَ سُلَيۡمَٰنَ قَالَ أَتُمِدُّونَنِ بِمَالٖ فَمَآ ءَاتَىٰنِۦَ ٱللَّهُ خَيۡرٞ مِّمَّآ ءَاتَىٰكُمۚ بَلۡ أَنتُم بِهَدِيَّتِكُمۡ تَفۡرَحُونَ ٣٦

    Falammā jāʾa sulaymāna qāla atumiddūnani bimālin famā ātānillāhu khayrum mimmā ātākum, bal antum bihadiyyatikum tafraḥūn.

    So when they came to Solomon, he said, "Do you provide me with wealth? But what Allāh has given me is better than what He has given you. Rather, it is you who rejoice in your gift.

37. ٱرۡجِعۡ إِلَيۡهِمۡ فَلَنَأۡتِيَنَّهُم بِجُنُودٖ لَّا قِبَلَ لَهُم بِهَا وَلَنُخۡرِجَنَّهُم مِّنۡهَآ أَذِلَّةٗ وَهُمۡ صَٰغِرُونَ ٣٧

    Irjiʿ ilayhim falanaʾtiyannahum bijunūdil lā qibala lahum bihā wa lanukhrijannahum minhā adhillataw wa hum ṣāghirūn.

    Return to them, for we will surely come to them with soldiers that they will be powerless to encounter, and we will surely expel them therefrom in humiliation, and they will be debased."

38. قَالَ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلۡمَلَؤُاْ أَيُّكُمۡ يَأۡتِينِي بِعَرۡشِهَا قَبۡلَ أَن يَأۡتُونِي مُسۡلِمِينَ ٣٨

    Qāla yāʾayyuhal-malaʾu ayyukum yaʾtīnī biʿarshihā qabla ay yaʾtūnī muslimīn.

    [Solomon] said, "O assembly [of jinn], which of you will bring me her throne before they come to me in submission?"

39. قَالَ عِفۡرِيتٞ مِّنَ ٱلۡجِنِّ أَنَا۠ ءَاتِيكَ بِهِۦ قَبۡلَ أَن تَقُومَ مِن مَّقَامِكَۖ وَإِنِّي عَلَيۡهِ لَقَوِيٌّ أَمِينٞ ٣٩

    Qāla ʿifrītum minal-jinni ana ātīka bihī qabla an taqūma mim maqāmik, wa innī ʿalayhi laqawiyyun amīn.

    A powerful one from among the jinn said, "I will bring it to you before you rise from your place, and indeed, I am for this [task] strong and trustworthy."

40. قَالَ ٱلَّذِي عِندَهُۥ عِلۡمٞ مِّنَ ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ أَنَا۠ ءَاتِيكَ بِهِۦ قَبۡلَ أَن يَرۡتَدَّ إِلَيۡكَ طَرۡفُكَۚ فَلَمَّا رَءَاهُ مُسۡتَقِرًّا عِندَهُۥ قَالَ هَٰذَا مِن فَضۡلِ رَبِّي لِيَبۡلُوَنِيٓ ءَأَشۡكُرُ أَمۡ أَكۡفُرُۖ وَمَن شَكَرَ فَإِنَّمَا يَشۡكُرُ لِنَفۡسِهِۦۖ وَمَن كَفَرَ فَإِنَّ رَبِّي غَنِيّٞ كَرِيمٞ ٤٠

    Qālal-ladhī ʿindahū ʿilmum minal-kitābi ana ātīka bihī qabla ay yartadda ilayka ṭarfuk, falammā raʾāhu mustaqirran ʿindahū qāla hādhā min faḍli rabbī liyabluwanī aʾashkuru am akfur, wa man shakara fa innamā yashkuru linafsih, wa man kafara fa inna rabbī ghaniyyun karīm.

    Said one who had knowledge from the Scripture, "I will bring it to you before your glance returns to you." And when [Solomon] saw it placed before him, he said, "This is from the favor of my Lord to test me whether I will be grateful or ungrateful. And whoever is grateful - his gratitude is only for [the benefit of] himself. And whoever is ungrateful - then indeed, my Lord is Free of need and Generous."

41. قَالَ نَكِّرُواْ لَهَا عَرۡشَهَا نَنظُرۡ أَتَهۡتَدِيٓ أَمۡ تَكُونُ مِنَ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَهۡتَدُونَ ٤١

    Qāla nakkirū lahā ʿarshahā nanẓur atahtadī am takūnu minal-ladhīna lā yahtadūn.

    He said, "Disguise for her her throne; we will see whether she will be guided [to truth] or will be of those who is not guided."

42. فَلَمَّا جَآءَتۡ قِيلَ أَهَٰكَذَا عَرۡشُكِۖ قَالَتۡ كَأَنَّهُۥ هُوَۚ وَأُوتِينَا ٱلۡعِلۡمَ مِن قَبۡلِهَا وَكُنَّا مُسۡلِمِينَ ٤٢

    Falammā jāʾat qīla ahākadhā ʿarshuk, qālat kaʾannahū huw, wa ūtīnal-ʿilma min qablihā wa kunnā muslimīn.

    So when she arrived, it was said [to her], "Is your throne like this?" She said, "[It is] as though it was it." [Solomon said], "And we were given knowledge before her, and we have been Muslims [in submission to Allāh].

43. وَصَدَّهَا مَا كَانَت تَّعۡبُدُ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِۖ إِنَّهَا كَانَتۡ مِن قَوۡمٖ كَٰفِرِينَ ٤٣

    Wa ṣaddahā mā kānat taʿbudu min dūnillāh, innahā kānat min qawmin kāfirīn.

    And that which she was worshipping other than Allāh had averted her [from submission to Him]. Indeed, she was from a disbelieving people."

44. قِيلَ لَهَا ٱدۡخُلِي ٱلصَّرۡحَۖ فَلَمَّا رَأَتۡهُ حَسِبَتۡهُ لُجَّةٗ وَكَشَفَتۡ عَن سَاقَيۡهَاۚ قَالَ إِنَّهُۥ صَرۡحٞ مُّمَرَّدٞ مِّن قَوَارِيرَۗ قَالَتۡ رَبِّ إِنِّي ظَلَمۡتُ نَفۡسِي وَأَسۡلَمۡتُ مَعَ سُلَيۡمَٰنَ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ٤٤

    Qīla lahadkhuliṣ-ṣarḥ, falammā raʾathu ḥasibathu lujjataw wa kashafat ʿan sāqayhā, qāla innahū ṣarḥum mumarradum min qawārīr, qālat rabbi innī ẓalamtu nafsī wa aslamtu maʿa sulaymāna lillāhi rabbil-ʿālamīn.

    She was told, "Enter the palace." But when she saw it, she thought it was a body of water¹ and uncovered her shins [to wade through]. He said, "Indeed, it is a palace [whose floor is] made smooth with glass." She said, "My Lord, indeed I have wronged myself, and I submit with Solomon to Allāh, Lord of the worlds."

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    1. The floor was transparent, and beneath it was flowing water.

45. وَلَقَدۡ أَرۡسَلۡنَآ إِلَىٰ ثَمُودَ أَخَاهُمۡ صَٰلِحًا أَنِ ٱعۡبُدُواْ ٱللَّهَ فَإِذَا هُمۡ فَرِيقَانِ يَخۡتَصِمُونَ ٤٥

    Wa laqad arsalnā ilā thamūda akhāhum ṣāliḥan aniʿbudullāha fa idhā hum farīqāni yakhtaṣimūn.

    And We had certainly sent to Thamūd their brother Ṣāliḥ, [saying], "Worship Allāh," and at once they were two parties conflicting.

46. قَالَ يَٰقَوۡمِ لِمَ تَسۡتَعۡجِلُونَ بِٱلسَّيِّئَةِ قَبۡلَ ٱلۡحَسَنَةِۖ لَوۡلَا تَسۡتَغۡفِرُونَ ٱللَّهَ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تُرۡحَمُونَ ٤٦

    Qāla yāqawmi lima tastaʿjilūna bis-sayyiʾati qablal-ḥasanah, lawlā tastaghfirūnallāha laʿallakum turḥamūn.

    He said, "O my people, why are you impatient for evil before [i.e., instead of] good?¹ Why do you not seek forgiveness of Allāh that you may receive mercy?"

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    1. By challenging Ṣāliḥ to bring on the promised punishment rather than asking for mercy from Allāh.

47. قَالُواْ ٱطَّيَّرۡنَا بِكَ وَبِمَن مَّعَكَۚ قَالَ طَٰٓئِرُكُمۡ عِندَ ٱللَّهِۖ بَلۡ أَنتُمۡ قَوۡمٞ تُفۡتَنُونَ ٤٧

    Qāluṭṭayyarnā bika wabimam maʿak, qāla ṭāʾirukum ʿindallāh, bal antum qawmun tuftanūn.

    They said, "We consider you a bad omen, you and those with you." He said, "Your omen [i.e., fate] is with Allāh. Rather, you are a people being tested."¹

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    1. Or "being tempted [by Satan]."

48. وَكَانَ فِي ٱلۡمَدِينَةِ تِسۡعَةُ رَهۡطٖ يُفۡسِدُونَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَلَا يُصۡلِحُونَ ٤٨

    Wa kāna fil-madīnati tisʿatu rahṭiy yufsidūna fil-arḍi wa lā yuṣliḥūn.

    And there were in the city nine family heads causing corruption in the land and not amending [its affairs].

49. قَالُواْ تَقَاسَمُواْ بِٱللَّهِ لَنُبَيِّتَنَّهُۥ وَأَهۡلَهُۥ ثُمَّ لَنَقُولَنَّ لِوَلِيِّهِۦ مَا شَهِدۡنَا مَهۡلِكَ أَهۡلِهِۦ وَإِنَّا لَصَٰدِقُونَ ٤٩

    Qālū taqāsamū billāhi lanubayyitannahū wa ahlahū thumma lanaqūlanna liwaliyyihī mā shahidnā mahlika ahlihī wa innā laṣādiqūn.

    They said, "Take a mutual oath by Allāh that we will kill him by night, he and his family. Then we will say to his executor,¹ 'We did not witness the destruction of his family, and indeed, we are truthful.'"

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    1. i.e., the one responsible for executing his will and avenging his blood.

50. وَمَكَرُواْ مَكۡرٗا وَمَكَرۡنَا مَكۡرٗا وَهُمۡ لَا يَشۡعُرُونَ ٥٠

    Wa makarū makraw wa makarnā makraw wa hum lā yashʿurūn.

    And they planned a plan, and We planned a plan, while they perceived not.

51. فَٱنظُرۡ كَيۡفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ مَكۡرِهِمۡ أَنَّا دَمَّرۡنَٰهُمۡ وَقَوۡمَهُمۡ أَجۡمَعِينَ ٥١

    Fanẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu makrihim annā dammarnāhum wa qawmahum ajmaʿīn.

    Then look how was the outcome of their plan - that We destroyed them and their people, all.

52. فَتِلۡكَ بُيُوتُهُمۡ خَاوِيَةَۢ بِمَا ظَلَمُوٓاْۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَأٓيَةٗ لِّقَوۡمٖ يَعۡلَمُونَ ٥٢

    Fatilka buyūtuhum khāwiyatam bimā ẓalamū, inna fī dhālika laʾāyatal liqawmiy yaʿlamūn.

    So those are their houses, desolate because of the wrong they had done. Indeed in that is a sign for people who know.

53. وَأَنجَيۡنَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ وَكَانُواْ يَتَّقُونَ ٥٣

    Wa anjaynal-ladhīna āmanū wa kānū yattaqūn.

    And We saved those who believed and used to fear Allāh.

54. وَلُوطًا إِذۡ قَالَ لِقَوۡمِهِۦٓ أَتَأۡتُونَ ٱلۡفَٰحِشَةَ وَأَنتُمۡ تُبۡصِرُونَ ٥٤

    Wa lūṭan idh qāla liqawmihī ataʾtūnal-fāḥishata wa antum tubṣirūn.

    And [mention] Lot, when he said to his people, "Do you commit immorality¹ while you are seeing?²

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    1. Homosexual acts.
    2. i.e., openly. Another meaning is "...while you are aware [that it is wrong]."

55. أَئِنَّكُمۡ لَتَأۡتُونَ ٱلرِّجَالَ شَهۡوَةٗ مِّن دُونِ ٱلنِّسَآءِۚ بَلۡ أَنتُمۡ قَوۡمٞ تَجۡهَلُونَ ٥٥

    Aʾinnakum lataʾtūnar-rijāla shahwatam min dūnin-nisāʾ, bal antum qawmun tajhalūn.

    Do you indeed approach men with desire instead of women? Rather, you are a people behaving ignorantly."