بِسْمِ اللَّهِ
الرَّحْمَٰنِ الرَّحِيمِ
[In
the Name of ALLAH, the ENTIRELY MERCIFUL, the ESPECIALLY MERCIFUL]
11:1
الر ۚ كِتَابٌ
أُحْكِمَتْ آيَاتُهُ ثُمَّ فُصِّلَتْ مِن لَّدُنْ حَكِيمٍ خَبِيرٍ
Pronunciation
Alif-lam-ra
kitabun ohkimatayatuhu thumma fussilat min ladun hakeeminkhabeer
Translation
Alif,
Lam, Ra. [This is] a Book whose verses are perfected and then presented in
detail from [one who is] Wise and Acquainted.
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Alif
lām rā’: God knows best what He means by these [letters]; this is, a Book whose
verses have been set clear, through marvellous arrangement and wonderful
meanings, and then detailed, expounded, through rulings, stories and
admonitions, from One Wise, Informed, that is, [from] God.
أَلَّا
تَعْبُدُوا إِلَّا اللَّهَ ۚ إِنَّنِي لَكُم
مِّنْهُ نَذِيرٌ وَبَشِيرٌ
Pronunciation
Alla
taAAbudoo illa Allahainnanee lakum minhu natheerun wabasheer
Translation
[Through
a messenger, saying], "Do not worship except Allah. Indeed, I am to you
from Him a warner and a bringer of good tidings,"
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[Saying:]
‘Worship none but God. Truly I am to you a warner from Him, of chastisement, if
you disbelieve, and a bearer of good tidings’, of reward, if you believe.
وَأَنِ
اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ ثُمَّ تُوبُوا إِلَيْهِ يُمَتِّعْكُم مَّتَاعًا حَسَنًا
إِلَىٰ أَجَلٍ مُّسَمًّى وَيُؤْتِ كُلَّ ذِي فَضْلٍ فَضْلَهُ ۖ وَإِن
تَوَلَّوْا فَإِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ كَبِيرٍ
Pronunciation
Waani
istaghfiroo rabbakum thumma toobooilayhi yumattiAAkum mataAAan hasanan
ilaajalin musamman wayu/ti kulla thee fadlin fadlahuwa-in tawallaw fa-inee
akhafu AAalaykum AAathabayawmin kabeer
Translation
And
[saying], "Seek forgiveness of your Lord and repent to Him, [and] He will
let you enjoy a good provision for a specified term and give every doer of
favor his favor. But if you turn away, then indeed, I fear for you the
punishment of a great Day.
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And
[bidding you]: ‘Ask forgiveness of your Lord, for [your] idolatry, then repent,
return, to Him, through [acts of] obedience, and He will give you, in this
world, fair enjoyment, in the way of pleasant living and abundant provision,
until a time appointed, namely, death, and He will give, in the Hereafter,
every person of merit, in deed, [the due for] his merit, his reward. But if you
turn away (tawallaw: one of the two tā’ letters [of tatawallaw] has been
omitted), in other words, if you object, I fear for you the chastisement of an
awful day, namely, the Day of Resurrection.
إِلَى اللَّهِ
مَرْجِعُكُمْ ۖ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ قَدِيرٌ
Pronunciation
Ila
Allahi marjiAAukum wahuwaAAala kulli shay-in qadeer
Translation
To
Allah is your return, and He is over all things competent."
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Unto
God is your return, and He has power over all things’, including reward and
chastisement.
أَلَا إِنَّهُمْ
يَثْنُونَ صُدُورَهُمْ لِيَسْتَخْفُوا مِنْهُ ۚ أَلَا حِينَ
يَسْتَغْشُونَ ثِيَابَهُمْ يَعْلَمُ مَا يُسِرُّونَ وَمَا يُعْلِنُونَ ۚ إِنَّهُ عَلِيمٌ
بِذَاتِ الصُّدُورِ
Pronunciation
Ala
innahum yathnoona sudoorahumliyastakhfoo minhu ala heena yastaghshoona
thiyabahumyaAAlamu ma yusirroona wama yuAAlinoona innahuAAaleemun bithati
assudoor
Translation
Unquestionably,
they the disbelievers turn away their breasts to hide themselves from Him.
Unquestionably, [even] when they cover themselves in their clothing, Allah
knows what they conceal and what they declare. Indeed, He is Knowing of that
within the breasts.
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As
reported by al-Bukhārī [by way of an isnād] from Ibn ‘Abbās, the following was
revealed regarding those who were embarrassed to withdraw [to relieve nature]
or to have sexual intercourse [without their clothes] and become exposed to the
heaven. It is also said: [that it was revealed] regarding the hypocrites: Lo!,
they fold up their breasts that they may hide from Him, that is, [from] God;
lo! the moment they cover themselves with their garments, wrapping themselves
up therewith, He, God, exalted be He, knows what they keep hidden and what they
proclaim, and so their hiding is to no avail. Truly He knows what is in the
breasts [of men], that is, what is in the hearts.
وَمَا مِن
دَابَّةٍ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا عَلَى اللَّهِ رِزْقُهَا وَيَعْلَمُ مُسْتَقَرَّهَا
وَمُسْتَوْدَعَهَا ۚ كُلٌّ فِي كِتَابٍ مُّبِينٍ
Pronunciation
Wama
min dabbatin fee al-ardiilla AAala Allahi rizquha wayaAAlamumustaqarraha
wamustawdaAAaha kullun fee kitabinmubeen
Translation
And
there is no creature on earth but that upon Allah is its provision, and He
knows its place of dwelling and place of storage. All is in a clear register.
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And
there is not (wa-mā min: min is extra) a creature (dābba is that [creature]
which treads [dabba]) in the earth but the sustenance thereof rests on God,
[sustenance] which He has undertaken [to provide], out of His bounty, exalted
be He. And He knows its habitation, its dwelling-place in this world — or in
the loins — and its repository, after death, or in the womb. All, that which is
mentioned, is in a manifest, a clear, Book, which is the Preserved Tablet
(al-lawh al-mahfūz).
وَهُوَ الَّذِي
خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضَ فِي سِتَّةِ أَيَّامٍ وَكَانَ عَرْشُهُ عَلَى
الْمَاءِ لِيَبْلُوَكُمْ أَيُّكُمْ أَحْسَنُ عَمَلًا ۗ وَلَئِن قُلْتَ
إِنَّكُم مَّبْعُوثُونَ مِن بَعْدِ الْمَوْتِ لَيَقُولَنَّ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا
إِنْ هَٰذَا إِلَّا سِحْرٌ مُّبِينٌ
Pronunciation
Wahuwa
allathee khalaqa assamawatiwal-arda fee sittati ayyamin wakanaAAarshuhu AAala
alma-i liyabluwakum ayyukum ahsanuAAamalan wala-in qulta innakum mabAAoothoona
min baAAdi almawtilayaqoolanna allatheena kafaroo in hatha illasihrun mubeen
Translation
And
it is He who created the heavens and the earth in six days - and His Throne had
been upon water - that He might test you as to which of you is best in deed.
But if you say, "Indeed, you are resurrected after death," those who
disbelieve will surely say, "This is not but obvious magic."
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And
He it is Who created the heavens and the earth in six days, the first of which
was Sunday and the last, Friday — and His Throne, before creating them, was
upon the water, borne by the winds — that He might try you (li-yabluwakum is
semantically connected to khalaqa, ‘He [Who] created’), in other words, He
created them and all that is beneficial and good for you in them, in order to
test you: which of you is best in conduct, that is, [which of you] is most
obedient to God. And if you were to say, O Muhammad (s), to them: ‘Truly you
shall be raised again after death’, those who disbelieve will say, ‘This,
Qur’ān that speaks of resurrection — or, [this] that you are saying — is
nothing but manifest, clear, sorcery’ (sihrun: a variant reading has sāhirun,
‘sorcerer’, in which case the reference is to the Prophet (s).
وَلَئِنْ
أَخَّرْنَا عَنْهُمُ الْعَذَابَ إِلَىٰ أُمَّةٍ مَّعْدُودَةٍ لَّيَقُولُنَّ مَا
يَحْبِسُهُ ۗ أَلَا يَوْمَ يَأْتِيهِمْ لَيْسَ مَصْرُوفًا
عَنْهُمْ وَحَاقَ بِهِم مَّا كَانُوا بِهِ يَسْتَهْزِئُونَ
Pronunciation
Wala-in
akhkharna AAanhumu alAAathabaila ommatin maAAdoodatin layaqoolunna ma
yahbisuhuala yawma ya/teehim laysa masroofan AAanhum wahaqabihim ma kanoo bihi
yastahzi-oon
Translation
And
if We hold back from them the punishment for a limited time, they will surely
say, "What detains it?" Unquestionably, on the Day it comes to them,
it will not be averted from them, and they will be enveloped by what they used
to ridicule.
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And
if we postpone the chastisement for them until, the arrival of, a reckoned
time, [reckoned] moments, they will surely say, in mockery: ‘What is detaining
it?’, what is preventing it from being sent down? God, exalted be He, says:
Verily on the day when it comes to them, it cannot be averted, warded off, from
them, and that, chastisement, which they derided shall surround them, [it]
shall come down upon them.
وَلَئِنْ
أَذَقْنَا الْإِنسَانَ مِنَّا رَحْمَةً ثُمَّ نَزَعْنَاهَا مِنْهُ إِنَّهُ
لَيَئُوسٌ كَفُورٌ
Pronunciation
Wala-in
athaqna al-insanaminna rahmatan thumma nazaAAnahaminhu innahu layaoosun kafoor
Translation
And
if We give man a taste of mercy from Us and then We withdraw it from him,
indeed, he is despairing and ungrateful.
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And
if We cause, the disbelieving, man to taste some mercy from Us, [such as]
wealth and [good] health, and then wrest it from him, lo! he is despairing,
having lost hope of God’s mercy, ungrateful, intensely ungrateful to Him.
وَلَئِنْ
أَذَقْنَاهُ نَعْمَاءَ بَعْدَ ضَرَّاءَ مَسَّتْهُ لَيَقُولَنَّ ذَهَبَ
السَّيِّئَاتُ عَنِّي ۚ إِنَّهُ
لَفَرِحٌ فَخُورٌ
Pronunciation
Wala-in
athaqnahu naAAmaabaAAda darraa massat-hu layaqoolanna thahabaassayyi-atu
AAannee innahu lafarihunfakhoor
Translation
But
if We give him a taste of favor after hardship has touched him, he will surely
say, "Bad times have left me." Indeed, he is exultant and boastful -
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But
if We cause him to taste prosperity after some misery, [such as] impoverishment
and hardship, that had befallen him, assuredly he will say, ‘The ills, the
afflictions, have gone from me’, when he had not anticipated that they would go
away; yet still he does not give thanks for this; lo!, he is exultant, wanton,
boastful, to people of what he has been given;
إِلَّا الَّذِينَ
صَبَرُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ أُولَٰئِكَ لَهُم مَّغْفِرَةٌ وَأَجْرٌ كَبِيرٌ
Pronunciation
Illa
allatheena sabaroowaAAamiloo assalihati ola-ika lahummaghfiratun waajrun kabeer
Translation
Except
for those who are patient and do righteous deeds; those will have forgiveness
and great reward.
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save,
but, those who endure, misery, [patiently] and perform righteous deeds, during
times of comfort; theirs will be forgiveness and a great reward, which is
Paradise.
فَلَعَلَّكَ
تَارِكٌ بَعْضَ مَا يُوحَىٰ إِلَيْكَ وَضَائِقٌ بِهِ صَدْرُكَ أَن يَقُولُوا
لَوْلَا أُنزِلَ عَلَيْهِ كَنزٌ أَوْ جَاءَ مَعَهُ مَلَكٌ ۚ إِنَّمَا أَنتَ
نَذِيرٌ ۚ وَاللَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ وَكِيلٌ
Pronunciation
FalaAAallaka
tarikun baAAda mayooha ilayka wada-iqun bihi sadruka anyaqooloo lawla onzila
AAalayhi kanzun aw jaamaAAahu malakun innama anta natheerun wallahuAAala kulli
shay-in wakeel
Translation
Then
would you possibly leave [out] some of what is revealed to you, or is your
breast constrained by it because they say, "Why has there not been sent
down to him a treasure or come with him an angel?" But you are only a
warner. And Allah is Disposer of all things.
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Perhaps,
O Muhammad (s), you might [think to] leave out some of what is revealed to you,
such that you do not convey it to them, for they do not take it seriously, and
that your breast should be straitened by it, by reciting it to them, because
they say, ‘Why has a treasure not been sent down for him, or an angel not come
with him?’, to confirm his sincerity, as we had requested? You are but a
warner, and yours is only to convey [the Message], not to produce what they
have requested; and God is Guardian over all things, He is Preserver [of all
things], so He will requite them [accordingly].
أَمْ يَقُولُونَ
افْتَرَاهُ ۖ قُلْ فَأْتُوا بِعَشْرِ سُوَرٍ مِّثْلِهِ
مُفْتَرَيَاتٍ وَادْعُوا مَنِ اسْتَطَعْتُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ إِن كُنتُمْ
صَادِقِينَ
Pronunciation
Am
yaqooloona iftarahu qul fa/toobiAAashri suwarin mithlihi muftarayatin
wadAAoomani istataAAtum min dooni Allahi in kuntum sadiqeen
Translation
Or
do they say, "He invented it"? Say, "Then bring ten surahs like
it that have been invented and call upon [for assistance] whomever you can
besides Allah , if you should be truthful."
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Or
do they say, ‘He has invented it’?, that is, the Qur’ān. Say: ‘Then bring ten
sūras the like thereof, in terms of clarity and rhetorical excellence,
invented, for you are Arabs who speak [Arabic] eloquently, like myself — he
challenged them to these [ten sūras] first, and then to one sūra — and call, in
order [for them] to assist you, upon whom you can beside God, that is, [on]
other than Him, if you are truthful’, about it [the Qur’ān] being an invention
of lies.
فَإِلَّمْ
يَسْتَجِيبُوا لَكُمْ فَاعْلَمُوا أَنَّمَا أُنزِلَ بِعِلْمِ اللَّهِ وَأَن لَّا
إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ۖ فَهَلْ أَنتُم مُّسْلِمُونَ
Pronunciation
Fa-illam
yastajeeboo lakum faAAlamooannama onzila biAAilmi Allahi waan la ilahailla huwa
fahal antum muslimoon
Translation
And
if they do not respond to you - then know that the Qur'an was revealed with the
knowledge of Allah and that there is no deity except Him. Then, would you [not]
be Muslims?
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Then,
if they, that is, those on whom you call for assistance, do not answer you,
know, this address is to the idolaters, that it has been revealed, enwrapped,
only in God’s knowledge, not as an invention of lies against Him, and that (an
is softened, in other words [understand it as] annahu) there is no god save
Him. Will you then submit?, after this definitive argument; in other words:
‘Submit!’
مَن كَانَ
يُرِيدُ الْحَيَاةَ الدُّنْيَا وَزِينَتَهَا نُوَفِّ إِلَيْهِمْ أَعْمَالَهُمْ
فِيهَا وَهُمْ فِيهَا لَا يُبْخَسُونَ
Pronunciation
Man
kana yureedu alhayataaddunya wazeenataha nuwaffi ilayhim aAAmalahumfeeha wahum
feeha la yubkhasoon
Translation
Whoever
desires the life of this world and its adornments - We fully repay them for
their deeds therein, and they therein will not be deprived.
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He
who desires the life of this world and its adornment, by persisting in idolatry
— it is said that this was [revealed] regarding the dissimulators — We shall
repay them their deeds, that is, the requital of any good that they did, such
as charity or kindness to kin, in it, by giving them abundant provision, and
therein, that is, in this world, they shall not be defrauded, they shall [not]
be made to suffer diminution in anything.
أُولَٰئِكَ
الَّذِينَ لَيْسَ لَهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ إِلَّا النَّارُ ۖ وَحَبِطَ مَا
صَنَعُوا فِيهَا وَبَاطِلٌ مَّا كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ
Pronunciation
Ola-ika
allatheena laysa lahumfee al-akhirati illa annaru wahabitama sanaAAoo feeha
wabatilun makanoo yaAAmaloon
Translation
Those
are the ones for whom there is not in the Hereafter but the Fire. And lost is
what they did therein, and worthless is what they used to do.
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Those
are they for whom there is nothing in the Hereafter but the Fire; what they
contrive will have failed, [will] be invalid, therein, that is, in the
Hereafter, and will not be rewarded, and useless is that which they used to do.
أَفَمَن كَانَ
عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّهِ وَيَتْلُوهُ شَاهِدٌ مِّنْهُ وَمِن قَبْلِهِ
كِتَابُ مُوسَىٰ إِمَامًا وَرَحْمَةً ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ
يُؤْمِنُونَ بِهِ ۚ وَمَن يَكْفُرْ بِهِ مِنَ الْأَحْزَابِ
فَالنَّارُ مَوْعِدُهُ ۚ فَلَا تَكُ فِي
مِرْيَةٍ مِّنْهُ ۚ إِنَّهُ الْحَقُّ مِن رَّبِّكَ وَلَٰكِنَّ
أَكْثَرَ النَّاسِ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ
Pronunciation
Afaman
kana AAala bayyinatinmin rabbihi wayatloohu shahidun minhu wamin qablihi
kitabumoosa imaman warahmatan ola-ikayu/minoona bihi waman yakfur bihi mina
al-ahzabi fannarumawAAiduhu fala taku fee miryatin minhu innahu alhaqqumin
rabbika walakinna akthara annasi layu/minoon
Translation
So
is one who [stands] upon a clear evidence from his Lord [like the
aforementioned]? And a witness from Him follows it, and before it was the
Scripture of Moses to lead and as mercy. Those [believers in the former
revelations] believe in the Qur'an. But whoever disbelieves in it from the
[various] factions - the Fire is his promised destination. So be not in doubt
about it. Indeed, it is the truth from your Lord, but most of the people do not
believe.
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Is
he who relies on a clear proof, a clear statement, from his Lord, meaning the
Prophet (s), or the believers; it [the proof] being the Qur’ān, [a clear proof]
which is followed by a witness, to it of its veracity [as being], from Him,
that is, from God; he [the witness] being Gabriel, and before it, [before] the
Qur’ān, was the Book of Moses, the Torah, also a witness to it, as an example
and a mercy? (imāman wa-rahmatan is a circumstantial qualifier) [is such a
person] like one who is not so? No! Those, that is, the ones who rely on a
clear proof, they believe in it, that is, in the Qur’ān, and so for them will
be Paradise; but he who disbelieves in it of the partisans, [namely] all the
disbelievers, the Fire shall be his appointed place. So do not be in doubt, in
uncertainty, concerning it, concerning the Qur’ān. Truly it is the Truth from
your Lord, but most of mankind, that is, the people of Mecca, do not believe.
وَمَنْ أَظْلَمُ
مِمَّنِ افْتَرَىٰ عَلَى اللَّهِ كَذِبًا ۚ أُولَٰئِكَ
يُعْرَضُونَ عَلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ وَيَقُولُ الْأَشْهَادُ هَٰؤُلَاءِ الَّذِينَ
كَذَبُوا عَلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ ۚ أَلَا لَعْنَةُ
اللَّهِ عَلَى الظَّالِمِينَ
Pronunciation
Waman
athlamu mimmani iftaraAAala Allahi kathiban ola-ika yuAAradoonaAAala rabbihim
wayaqoolu al-ashhadu haola-iallatheena kathaboo AAala rabbihim alalaAAnatu
Allahi AAala aththalimeen
Translation
And
who is more unjust than he who invents a lie about Allah ? Those will be
presented before their Lord, and the witnesses will say, "These are the
ones who lied against their Lord." Unquestionably, the curse of Allah is
upon the wrongdoers.
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And
who, that is, none, does greater wrong than he who invents a lie concerning
God?, by ascribing to Him partner and child. Those, they shall be brought
before their Lord, on the Day of Resurrection, amid [the rest of] creation, and
the witnesses (ashhād is the plural of shāhid) namely, the angels, who will
bear witness that the messengers conveyed [the Message] and that the
disbelievers denied [them], will say, ‘These are they who lied concerning their
Lord’. Surely the curse of God is upon the wrong-doers, the idolaters;
الَّذِينَ
يَصُدُّونَ عَن سَبِيلِ اللَّهِ وَيَبْغُونَهَا عِوَجًا وَهُم بِالْآخِرَةِ هُمْ
كَافِرُونَ
Pronunciation
Allatheena
yasuddoona AAansabeeli Allahi wayabghoonaha AAiwajan wahum bil-akhiratihum
kafiroon
Translation
Who
averted [people] from the way of Allah and sought to make it [seem] deviant
while they, concerning the Hereafter, were disbelievers.
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they
who bar [people] from God’s way, [from] the religion of Islam, desiring [to
have] it, seeking that the way be, crooked; and in the Hereafter they (hum,
‘they’, is [reiterated] for emphasis) are disbelievers.
أُولَٰئِكَ لَمْ
يَكُونُوا مُعْجِزِينَ فِي الْأَرْضِ وَمَا كَانَ لَهُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ مِنْ
أَوْلِيَاءَ ۘ يُضَاعَفُ لَهُمُ الْعَذَابُ ۚ مَا كَانُوا
يَسْتَطِيعُونَ السَّمْعَ وَمَا كَانُوا يُبْصِرُونَ
Pronunciation
Ola-ika
lam yakoonoo muAAjizeena feeal-ardi wama kana lahum min dooni Allahimin awliyaa
yudaAAafu lahumu alAAathabu makanoo yastateeAAoona assamAAa wama kanooyubsiroon
Translation
Those
were not causing failure [to Allah ] on earth, nor did they have besides Allah
any protectors. For them the punishment will be multiplied. They were not able
to hear, nor did they see.
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Such
will not escape, God, in the earth and, beside God, other than Him, they [can]
have no allies, [no] helpers to protect them against His chastisement. For them
the chastisement will be double, for their having led others astray. They could
not hear, the truth, nor did they use to see, it; that is to say, because of
their extreme aversion to it, it is as though they did not have the [physical]
capacity for it.
أُولَٰئِكَ
الَّذِينَ خَسِرُوا أَنفُسَهُمْ وَضَلَّ عَنْهُم مَّا كَانُوا يَفْتَرُونَ
Pronunciation
Ola-ika
allatheena khasirooanfusahum wadalla AAanhum ma kanoo yaftaroon
Translation
Those
are the ones who will have lost themselves, and lost from them is what they
used to invent.
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Such
are they who have lost their souls, for their journey’s end shall be to the
Fire, made everlasting for them; and that which they used to invent, [of lies]
concerning God, in the way of claiming [that He has] a partner, has failed
them, is absent [before them].
لَا جَرَمَ
أَنَّهُمْ فِي الْآخِرَةِ هُمُ الْأَخْسَرُونَ
Pronunciation
La
jarama annahum fee al-akhiratihumu al-akhsaroon
Translation
Assuredly,
it is they in the Hereafter who will be the greatest losers.
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Without
doubt, verily, they will be the greatest losers in the Hereafter.
إِنَّ الَّذِينَ
آمَنُوا وَعَمِلُوا الصَّالِحَاتِ وَأَخْبَتُوا إِلَىٰ رَبِّهِمْ أُولَٰئِكَ
أَصْحَابُ الْجَنَّةِ ۖ هُمْ فِيهَا
خَالِدُونَ
Pronunciation
Inna
allatheena amanoowaAAamiloo asalihati waakhbatoo ilarabbihim ola-ika as-habu
aljannati hum feehakhalidoon
Translation
Indeed,
they who have believed and done righteous deeds and humbled themselves to their
Lord - those are the companions of Paradise; they will abide eternally therein.
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Truly
those who believe and perform righteous deeds and humble themselves, [who] are
at peace and feel reassured, or [who] repent, before their Lord: such will be
the inhabitants of Paradise, abiding therein.
مَثَلُ
الْفَرِيقَيْنِ كَالْأَعْمَىٰ وَالْأَصَمِّ وَالْبَصِيرِ وَالسَّمِيعِ ۚ هَلْ
يَسْتَوِيَانِ مَثَلًا ۚ أَفَلَا
تَذَكَّرُونَ
Pronunciation
Mathalu
alfareeqayni kalaAAmawal-asammi walbaseeri wassameeAAihal yastawiyani mathalan
afala tathakkaroon
Translation
The
example of the two parties is like the blind and deaf, and the seeing and
hearing. Are they equal in comparison? Then, will you not remember?
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The
likeness, the description, of the two parties, the disbelievers and the
believers, is as the blind and the deaf, this being the likeness of the
disbeliever, and the one who sees and the one who hears, this being the
likeness of the believer, are they equal in likeness? No! Will you not then remember?
(tadhakkarūn: the original tā’ [of tatadhakkarūn] has been assimilated with the
dhāl) [will you not then] be admonished?
وَلَقَدْ
أَرْسَلْنَا نُوحًا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِهِ إِنِّي لَكُمْ نَذِيرٌ مُّبِينٌ
Pronunciation
Walaqad
arsalna noohan ilaqawmihi innee lakum natheerun mubeen
Translation
And
We had certainly sent Noah to his people, [saying], " Indeed, I am to you
a clear warner
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And
verily We sent Noah to his people [and he said]: ‘I am (annī: a variant reading
has innī, in which case ‘he said’ has been omitted) for you a clear warner, one
whose warning is plain.
أَن لَّا
تَعْبُدُوا إِلَّا اللَّهَ ۖ إِنِّي أَخَافُ
عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ أَلِيمٍ
Pronunciation
An
la taAAbudoo illa Allahainnee akhafu AAalaykum AAathaba yawmin aleem
Translation
That
you not worship except Allah . Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a
painful day."
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That,
you worship none but God. Lo! I fear for you, should you worship other than
Him, the chastisement of a painful day’, painful in this world and in the
Hereafter.
فَقَالَ
الْمَلَأُ الَّذِينَ كَفَرُوا مِن قَوْمِهِ مَا نَرَاكَ إِلَّا بَشَرًا مِّثْلَنَا
وَمَا نَرَاكَ اتَّبَعَكَ إِلَّا الَّذِينَ هُمْ أَرَاذِلُنَا بَادِيَ الرَّأْيِ
وَمَا نَرَىٰ لَكُمْ عَلَيْنَا مِن فَضْلٍ بَلْ نَظُنُّكُمْ كَاذِبِينَ
Pronunciation
Faqala
almalao allatheenakafaroo min qawmihi ma naraka illa basharanmithlana wama naraka
ittabaAAaka illaallatheena hum arathiluna badiya arra/yiwama nara lakum
AAalayna min fadlinbal nathunnukum kathibeen
Translation
So
the eminent among those who disbelieved from his people said, " We do not
see you but as a man like ourselves, and we do not see you followed except by
those who are the lowest of us [and] at first suggestion. And we do not see in
you over us any merit; rather, we think you are liars."
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The
council, the respected elders, of his people who disbelieved, said: ‘We see you
but a mortal like us, and you have no merit over us, and we see not that any
follow you save the vilest among us, the riffraff among us, such as the weavers
and the shoemakers, [through] rash opinion (bādiya’l-ra’ya: read with hamza or
without [in both cases]), in other words, impulsively, without thinking you
over (it [bādiya’l-ra’ya] is in the accusative because it is an adverbial
clause, that is to say: at the time that their opinion first came into being).
We do not see that you have any merit over us, for which you would deserve our
following you; nay, we deem you liars’, with regard to your claim to [be
bringing] a Message: they [the disbelievers] included his folk with him in
their address [to him].
قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ
أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِن كُنتُ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّي وَآتَانِي رَحْمَةً مِّنْ
عِندِهِ فَعُمِّيَتْ عَلَيْكُمْ أَنُلْزِمُكُمُوهَا وَأَنتُمْ لَهَا كَارِهُونَ
Pronunciation
Qala
ya qawmi araaytum inkuntu AAala bayyinatin min rabbee waataneerahmatan min
AAindihi faAAummiyat AAalaykum anulzimukumoohawaantum laha karihoon
Translation
He
said, "O my people have you considered: if I should be upon clear evidence
from my Lord while He has given me mercy from Himself but it has been made
unapparent to you, should we force it upon you while you are averse to it?
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He
said, ‘O my people, have you considered: — inform me — if I am [acting] upon a
clear proof, a clear statement, from my Lord and He has given me mercy —
prophethood — from Him, and it has been obscured, concealed, from you (‘amiyat,
‘obscured’, a variant reading has the passive ‘ummiyat), can we compel you to
it, are we [able] to force you to accept it, while you are averse to it? We are
not able to do that.
وَيَا قَوْمِ لَا
أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ مَالًا ۖ إِنْ أَجْرِيَ
إِلَّا عَلَى اللَّهِ ۚ وَمَا أَنَا
بِطَارِدِ الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا ۚ إِنَّهُم
مُّلَاقُو رَبِّهِمْ وَلَٰكِنِّي أَرَاكُمْ قَوْمًا تَجْهَلُونَ
Pronunciation
Waya
qawmi la as-alukumAAalayhi malan in ajriya illa AAala Allahiwama ana bitaridi
allatheena amanooinnahum mulaqoo rabbihim walakinnee arakumqawman tajhaloon
Translation
And
O my people, I ask not of you for it any wealth. My reward is not but from
Allah . And I am not one to drive away those who have believed. Indeed, they
will meet their Lord, but I see that you are a people behaving ignorantly.
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And
O my people, I do not ask of you any wealth, which you should give me, for
this, for conveying the Message. My wage, my reward, falls only upon God and I
will not drive away those who believe, as you have commanded me; they shall
surely meet their Lord, at the Resurrection, and He will requite them and exact
vengeance for them from those who wronged them and drove them away. But I see
you are a people who are ignorant, of the consequence of your affair.
وَيَا قَوْمِ مَن
يَنصُرُنِي مِنَ اللَّهِ إِن طَرَدتُّهُمْ ۚ أَفَلَا
تَذَكَّرُونَ
Pronunciation
Waya
qawmi man yansurunee minaAllahi in taradtuhum afala tathakkaroon
Translation
And
O my people, who would protect me from Allah if I drove them away? Then will
you not be reminded?
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And
O my people, who would help, [who would] defend, me against God, that is,
[against] His chastisement, if I drive them away?, in other words, there is
none to help me. Will you not then remember? (tadhakkarūn: the original second
tā’ [in tatadhakkarūn] has been assimilated with the dhāl), [will you not then]
be admonished?
وَلَا أَقُولُ
لَكُمْ عِندِي خَزَائِنُ اللَّهِ وَلَا أَعْلَمُ الْغَيْبَ وَلَا أَقُولُ إِنِّي مَلَكٌ
وَلَا أَقُولُ لِلَّذِينَ تَزْدَرِي أَعْيُنُكُمْ لَن يُؤْتِيَهُمُ اللَّهُ
خَيْرًا ۖ اللَّهُ أَعْلَمُ بِمَا فِي أَنفُسِهِمْ ۖ إِنِّي إِذًا
لَّمِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ
Pronunciation
Wala
aqoolu lakum AAindee khaza-inuAllahi wala aAAlamu alghayba wala aqooluinnee
malakun wala aqoolu lillatheena tazdareeaAAyunukum lan yu/tiyahumu Allahu
khayran AllahuaAAlamu bima fee anfusihim innee ithan lamina aththalimeen
Translation
And
I do not tell you that I have the depositories [containing the provision] of
Allah or that I know the unseen, nor do I tell you that I am an angel, nor do I
say of those upon whom your eyes look down that Allah will never grant them any
good. Allah is most knowing of what is within their souls. Indeed, I would then
be among the wrongdoers."
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And
I do not say to you, “I possess the treasure houses of God” nor, “I have
knowledge of the Unseen”; nor do I say, “I am an angel”, nay, I am human like
you. Nor do I say to those whom your eyes scorn that God will not give them any
good — God knows best what is in their souls, [in] their hearts. Lo! if I were
to say this, then indeed I would be of the evildoers’.
قَالُوا يَا
نُوحُ قَدْ جَادَلْتَنَا فَأَكْثَرْتَ جِدَالَنَا فَأْتِنَا بِمَا تَعِدُنَا إِن
كُنتَ مِنَ الصَّادِقِينَ
Pronunciation
Qaloo
ya noohu qad jadaltanafaaktharta jidalana fa/tina bimataAAiduna in kunta mina
assadiqeen
Translation
They
said, "O Noah, you have disputed us and been frequent in dispute of us. So
bring us what you threaten us, if you should be of the truthful."
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They
said, ‘O Noah, you have disputed with us and disputed with us at length, so
bring upon us that wherewith you are threatening us, in the way of
chastisement, if you are of the truthful’.
قَالَ إِنَّمَا
يَأْتِيكُم بِهِ اللَّهُ إِن شَاءَ وَمَا أَنتُم بِمُعْجِزِينَ
Pronunciation
Qala
innama ya/teekum bihi Allahuin shaa wama antum bimuAAjizeen
Translation
He
said, " Allah will only bring it to you if He wills, and you will not
cause [Him] failure.
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He
said, ‘Only God will bring it upon you, if He wills, to hasten it on for you,
for the decision is His, not mine; and you cannot escape Him, elude God.
وَلَا
يَنفَعُكُمْ نُصْحِي إِنْ أَرَدتُّ أَنْ أَنصَحَ لَكُمْ إِن كَانَ اللَّهُ يُرِيدُ
أَن يُغْوِيَكُمْ ۚ هُوَ رَبُّكُمْ وَإِلَيْهِ تُرْجَعُونَ
Pronunciation
Wala
yanfaAAukum nushee inaradtu an ansaha lakum in kana Allahuyureedu an
yughwiyakum huwa rabbukum wa-ilayhi turjaAAoon
Translation
And
my advice will not benefit you - although I wished to advise you - If Allah
should intend to put you in error. He is your Lord, and to Him you will be
returned."
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And
my counsel will not benefit you if I desire to counsel you when God desires to
keep you astray (the response to the conditional is indicated by wa-lā
yanfa‘ukum nushī, ‘and my counsel will not benefit you’). He is your Lord and
to Him you will be brought back’.
أَمْ يَقُولُونَ
افْتَرَاهُ ۖ قُلْ إِنِ افْتَرَيْتُهُ فَعَلَيَّ إِجْرَامِي
وَأَنَا بَرِيءٌ مِّمَّا تُجْرِمُونَ
Pronunciation
Am
yaqooloona iftarahu qul iniiftaraytuhu faAAalayya ijramee waana baree-on
mimmatujrimoon
Translation
Or
do they say [about Prophet Muhammad], "He invented it"? Say, "If
I have invented it, then upon me is [the consequence of] my crime; but I am
innocent of what [crimes] you commit."
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God,
exalted be He, says: Or do they, the disbelievers of Mecca, say, ‘He has
invented it’?, Muhammad (s) has invented the Qur’ān? Say: ‘If I have invented
it, then my crime will be upon me, my sin [will be upon me], that is, the
punishment for it; and I am innocent of what you commit’, of crime, when you
attribute invention to me.
وَأُوحِيَ إِلَىٰ
نُوحٍ أَنَّهُ لَن يُؤْمِنَ مِن قَوْمِكَ إِلَّا مَن قَدْ آمَنَ فَلَا تَبْتَئِسْ
بِمَا كَانُوا يَفْعَلُونَ
Pronunciation
Waoohiya
ila noohinannahu lan yu/mina min qawmika illa man qad amanafala tabta-is bima
kanoo yafAAaloon
Translation
And
it was revealed to Noah that, "No one will believe from your people except
those who have already believed, so do not be distressed by what they have been
doing.
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And
it was revealed to Noah that: ‘None of your people will believe except he who
has already believed. Do not be distressed, grieved, because of what they do,
in the way of idolatry. So, he [Noah] invoked God against them with the words:
My Lord, leave not [one of the disbelievers] upon the earth [Q. 71:26]. God
responded to this invocation of his and said:
وَاصْنَعِ
الْفُلْكَ بِأَعْيُنِنَا وَوَحْيِنَا وَلَا تُخَاطِبْنِي فِي الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا ۚ إِنَّهُم
مُّغْرَقُونَ
Pronunciation
WasnaAAi
alfulka bi-aAAyuninawawahyina wala tukhatibnee fee allatheenathalamoo innahum
mughraqoon
Translation
And
construct the ship under Our observation and Our inspiration and do not address
Me concerning those who have wronged; indeed, they are [to be] drowned."
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Build
the Ark, the ship, under Our eyes, under Our watch and protection, and by Our
inspiration, [by] Our command, and do not address Me concerning those who have
done evil, [those who] have disbelieved, [by asking] that I should refrain from
destroying them; lo! they shall be drowned’.
وَيَصْنَعُ
الْفُلْكَ وَكُلَّمَا مَرَّ عَلَيْهِ مَلَأٌ مِّن قَوْمِهِ سَخِرُوا مِنْهُ ۚ قَالَ إِن
تَسْخَرُوا مِنَّا فَإِنَّا نَسْخَرُ مِنكُمْ كَمَا تَسْخَرُونَ
Pronunciation
WayasnaAAu
alfulka wakullamamarra AAalayhi malaon min qawmihi sakhiroo minhu qala
intaskharoo minna fa-inna naskharu minkum kamataskharoon
Translation
And
he constructed the ship, and whenever an assembly of the eminent of his people
passed by him, they ridiculed him. He said, "If you ridicule us, then we
will ridicule you just as you ridicule.
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And
he was building the Ark (yasna‘ is narrating a past state [in the present
tense]) and whenever a council, a group, of his people passed him, they scoffed
at him, mocked him. He said, ‘Though you scoff at us, yet we scoff at you, even
as you scoff, when we are saved, while you drown;
فَسَوْفَ
تَعْلَمُونَ مَن يَأْتِيهِ عَذَابٌ يُخْزِيهِ وَيَحِلُّ عَلَيْهِ عَذَابٌ مُّقِيمٌ
Pronunciation
Fasawfa
taAAlamoona man ya/teehi AAathabunyukhzeehi wayahillu AAalayhi AAathabun muqeem
Translation
And
you are going to know who will get a punishment that will disgrace him [on
earth] and upon whom will descend an enduring punishment [in the
Hereafter]."
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and
you shall know to whom (man introduces the relative clause which constitutes
the direct object of the [action of] ‘knowing’) will come a chastisement
degrading him, and upon whom an enduring, an everlasting, chastisement will
fall’.
حَتَّىٰ إِذَا
جَاءَ أَمْرُنَا وَفَارَ التَّنُّورُ قُلْنَا احْمِلْ فِيهَا مِن كُلٍّ زَوْجَيْنِ
اثْنَيْنِ وَأَهْلَكَ إِلَّا مَن سَبَقَ عَلَيْهِ الْقَوْلُ وَمَنْ آمَنَ ۚ وَمَا آمَنَ
مَعَهُ إِلَّا قَلِيلٌ
Pronunciation
Hatta
itha jaaamruna wafara attannooru qulna ihmilfeeha min kullin zawjayni ithnayni
waahlaka illaman sabaqa AAalayhi alqawlu waman amana wama amanamaAAahu illa
qaleel
Translation
[So
it was], until when Our command came and the oven overflowed, We said,
"Load upon the ship of each [creature] two mates and your family, except
those about whom the word has preceded, and [include] whoever has
believed." But none had believed with him, except a few.
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Such
that when (hattā represents the objective for [the action of] ‘building’) Our
command came, for their destruction, and the, baker’s, oven gushed forth, with
water — this was the sign for Noah — We said, ‘Load therein, in the ship, of
every kind, [of every] male and female, that is, of every species of these two,
two, a male and a female (ithnayn constitutes the direct object). According to
the story, God gathered for Noah all the beasts of prey and birds and other
[animals]; he [Noah] would go through every species [to select them] with his
hands, and his right hand would fall upon a male and the left upon a female,
whereupon he would take them aboard the ship; and your family — that is, his
wife and children — save those against whom the Word has already gone forth,
from among them, that they be destroyed: this was his wife and his son Canaan,
in contrast with Shem, Ham and Japheth, whom he took aboard together with their
three wives, and those who believe’. And none but a few believed with him: it
is said that these were six men and their wives; it is also said that the
number of all those aboard the ship was eighty, half of whom were men and the
other half, women.
وَقَالَ
ارْكَبُوا فِيهَا بِسْمِ اللَّهِ مَجْرَاهَا وَمُرْسَاهَا ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّي
لَغَفُورٌ رَّحِيمٌ
Pronunciation
Waqala
irkaboo feeha bismi Allahimajraha wamursaha inna rabbeelaghafoorun raheem
Translation
And
[Noah] said, "Embark therein; in the name of Allah is its course and its
anchorage. Indeed, my Lord is Forgiving and Merciful."
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And
he, Noah, said, ‘Embark therein! In the Name of God be its course and its
mooring (read majrāhā and marsāhā, or mujrāhā and mursāhā, both being verbal nouns,
meaning, the length of its course and where it docks, in other words, the
entire journey). Truly my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful’, for He did not destroy
us.
وَهِيَ تَجْرِي
بِهِمْ فِي مَوْجٍ كَالْجِبَالِ وَنَادَىٰ نُوحٌ ابْنَهُ وَكَانَ فِي مَعْزِلٍ يَا
بُنَيَّ ارْكَب مَّعَنَا وَلَا تَكُن مَّعَ الْكَافِرِينَ
Pronunciation
Wahiya
tajree bihim fee mawjin kaljibaliwanada noohunu ibnahu wakana feemaAAzilin ya
bunayya irkab maAAana walatakun maAAa alkafireen
Translation
And
it sailed with them through waves like mountains, and Noah called to his son
who was apart [from them], "O my son, come aboard with us and be not with
the disbelievers."
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And
it sailed with them amid waves like mountains, in terms of their height and
size, and Noah called out to his son, Canaan, who was standing away, from the
ship, ‘O my son, embark with us and do not be with the disbelievers!’
قَالَ سَآوِي
إِلَىٰ جَبَلٍ يَعْصِمُنِي مِنَ الْمَاءِ ۚ قَالَ لَا
عَاصِمَ الْيَوْمَ مِنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ إِلَّا مَن رَّحِمَ ۚ وَحَالَ
بَيْنَهُمَا الْمَوْجُ فَكَانَ مِنَ الْمُغْرَقِينَ
Pronunciation
Qala
saawee ila jabalinyaAAsimunee mina alma-i qala la AAasimaalyawma min amri
Allahi illa man rahima wahalabaynahuma almawju fakana mina almughraqeen
Translation
[But]
he said, "I will take refuge on a mountain to protect me from the
water." [Noah] said, "There is no protector today from the decree of
Allah , except for whom He gives mercy." And the waves came between them,
and he was among the drowned.
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He
said, ‘I shall take refuge in a mountain that will protect me, preserve me,
from the water’. Said he, ‘This day there is none that can protect from God’s
command, [from] His chastisement, except — but — him on whom He, God, has
mercy’, he will be protected. God, exalted be He, says: And the waves came
between them, so he was among the drowned.
وَقِيلَ يَا
أَرْضُ ابْلَعِي مَاءَكِ وَيَا سَمَاءُ أَقْلِعِي وَغِيضَ الْمَاءُ وَقُضِيَ
الْأَمْرُ وَاسْتَوَتْ عَلَى الْجُودِيِّ ۖ وَقِيلَ بُعْدًا
لِّلْقَوْمِ الظَّالِمِينَ
Pronunciation
Waqeela
ya ardu iblaAAee maakiwaya samao aqliAAee wagheeda almaowaqudiya al-amru
wastawat AAala aljoodiyyiwaqeela buAAdan lilqawmi aththalimeen
Translation
And
it was said, "O earth, swallow your water, and O sky, withhold [your
rain]." And the water subsided, and the matter was accomplished, and the
ship came to rest on the [mountain of] Judiyy. And it was said, "Away with
the wrongdoing people."
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And
it was said, ‘O earth, swallow your waters, that have sprung forth from you —
and it reabsorbed it [all] except for what came down from the sky and formed
rivers and seas — and O heaven, abate!’, withhold the rain, and it did. And the
waters subsided, decreased. And the affair was accomplished, the matter of the
destruction of Noah’s people was complete, and it settled, [and] the ship came
to rest, upon al-Jūdī, a mountain in Mespotamia (al-jazīra), near Mosul; and it
was said: ‘Away with — perish — the evildoing, the disbelieving, folk!’
وَنَادَىٰ نُوحٌ
رَّبَّهُ فَقَالَ رَبِّ إِنَّ ابْنِي مِنْ أَهْلِي وَإِنَّ وَعْدَكَ الْحَقُّ
وَأَنتَ أَحْكَمُ الْحَاكِمِينَ
Pronunciation
Wanada
noohun rabbahufaqala rabbi inna ibnee min ahlee wa-inna waAAdaka alhaqquwaanta
ahkamu alhakimeen
Translation
And
Noah called to his Lord and said, "My Lord, indeed my son is of my family;
and indeed, Your promise is true; and You are the most just of judges!"
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And
Noah called out to his Lord and said, ‘My Lord, lo! my son, Canaan, is of my
family, and You promised me that they would be saved, and truly Your promise is
the Truth, which never fails, and You are the Most Just of Judges’, the most
knowledgeable and the fairest of them.
قَالَ يَا نُوحُ
إِنَّهُ لَيْسَ مِنْ أَهْلِكَ ۖ إِنَّهُ عَمَلٌ
غَيْرُ صَالِحٍ ۖ فَلَا تَسْأَلْنِ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ بِهِ عِلْمٌ ۖ إِنِّي أَعِظُكَ
أَن تَكُونَ مِنَ الْجَاهِلِينَ
Pronunciation
Qala
ya noohu innahulaysa min ahlika innahu AAamalun ghayru salihin falatas-alni ma
laysa laka bihi AAilmun innee aAAithukaan takoona mina aljahileen
Translation
He
said, "O Noah, indeed he is not of your family; indeed, he is [one whose]
work was other than righteous, so ask Me not for that about which you have no
knowledge. Indeed, I advise you, lest you be among the ignorant."
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He,
[God] exalted be He, said: ‘O Noah, lo! he is not of your family, of those [who
will be] saved, or of the followers of your religion; lo! it, that is, your
asking me to save him, is not a righteous deed, for he is a disbeliever and
there is no deliverance for disbelievers (‘āmalun ghayru sālihin, ‘it is not a
righteous deed’: a variant reading has ‘āmila, the verb, with ghayra in the
accusative, in which case the person governing [the verb ‘amila] is his son).
So do not ask of Me (read either fa-lā tas’alanni, or fa-lā tas’alni) that
whereof you have no knowledge, in respect to saving your son. I admonish you
lest you be among the ignorant’, when you ask about what you do not know.
قَالَ رَبِّ
إِنِّي أَعُوذُ بِكَ أَنْ أَسْأَلَكَ مَا لَيْسَ لِي بِهِ عِلْمٌ ۖ وَإِلَّا
تَغْفِرْ لِي وَتَرْحَمْنِي أَكُن مِّنَ الْخَاسِرِينَ
Pronunciation
Qala
rabbi innee aAAoothu bikaan as-alaka ma laysa lee bihi AAilmun wa-illataghfir
lee watarhamnee akun mina alkhasireen
Translation
[Noah]
said, "My Lord, I seek refuge in You from asking that of which I have no
knowledge. And unless You forgive me and have mercy upon me, I will be among
the losers."
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He
said, ‘My Lord, I seek refuge in You, from [the sin], that I should ask of You
that whereof I have no knowledge. Unless You forgive me, my excess, and have
mercy on me I shall be among the losers’.
قِيلَ يَا نُوحُ
اهْبِطْ بِسَلَامٍ مِّنَّا وَبَرَكَاتٍ عَلَيْكَ وَعَلَىٰ أُمَمٍ مِّمَّن مَّعَكَ ۚ وَأُمَمٌ
سَنُمَتِّعُهُمْ ثُمَّ يَمَسُّهُم مِّنَّا عَذَابٌ أَلِيمٌ
Pronunciation
Qeela
ya noohu ihbitbisalamin minna wabarakatin AAalayka waAAalaomamin mimman maAAaka
waomamun sanumattiAAuhum thumma yamassuhumminna AAathabun aleem
Translation
It
was said, "O Noah, disembark in security from Us and blessings upon you
and upon nations [descending] from those with you. But other nations [of them]
We will grant enjoyment; then there will touch them from Us a painful
punishment."
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It
was said, ‘O Noah, go down, disembark from the ship, in peace, in safety, or
with a greeting, from Us and blessings, good things, upon you and upon some
communities [that will spring] from those with you, in the ship, that is, from
their children and their seed, those who are [and those who will be] the
believers. And [there will be other] communities (read umamun), [to spring]
from those with you, to whom We shall give enjoyment, in this world, and then a
painful chastisement will befall them’, in the Hereafter, and these will be the
disbelievers.
تِلْكَ مِنْ
أَنبَاءِ الْغَيْبِ نُوحِيهَا إِلَيْكَ ۖ مَا كُنتَ
تَعْلَمُهَا أَنتَ وَلَا قَوْمُكَ مِن قَبْلِ هَٰذَا ۖ فَاصْبِرْ ۖ إِنَّ
الْعَاقِبَةَ لِلْمُتَّقِينَ
Pronunciation
Tilka
min anba-i alghaybi nooheehailayka ma kunta taAAlamuha anta wala qawmukamin
qabli hatha fasbir inna alAAaqibatalilmuttaqeen
Translation
That
is from the news of the unseen which We reveal to you, [O Muhammad]. You knew
it not, neither you nor your people, before this. So be patient; indeed, the
[best] outcome is for the righteous .
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Those,
that is, these verses, containing [stories such as] the story of Noah, are of
the tidings of the Unseen, [of] the tales of that which was hidden from you,
which We inspire in you, O Muhammad (s). You yourself did not know it, nor did
your people [know it] before this, Qur’ān. So be patient, in conveying [the
Message] and in [enduring] your people’s hurt, as Noah endured. Truly the,
praiseworthy, sequel is for those who are God-fearing.
وَإِلَىٰ عَادٍ
أَخَاهُمْ هُودًا ۚ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مَا لَكُم
مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُ ۖ إِنْ أَنتُمْ
إِلَّا مُفْتَرُونَ
Pronunciation
Wa-ila
AAadin akhahumhoodan qala ya qawmi oAAbudoo Allaha malakum min ilahin ghayruhu
in antum illa muftaroon
Translation
And
to 'Aad [We sent] their brother Hud. He said, "O my people, worship Allah
; you have no deity other than Him. You are not but inventors [of falsehood].
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And,
We sent, to ‘Ād their brother, from the tribe, Hūd. He said, ‘O my people,
worship God!, affirm His Oneness. You have no god (min ilāhin: min is extra)
other than He. You, in your worship of graven images, do but invent, [you do
but] invent lies against God.
يَا قَوْمِ لَا
أَسْأَلُكُمْ عَلَيْهِ أَجْرًا ۖ إِنْ أَجْرِيَ
إِلَّا عَلَى الَّذِي فَطَرَنِي ۚ أَفَلَا
تَعْقِلُونَ
Pronunciation
Ya
qawmi la as-alukum AAalayhiajran in ajriya illa AAala allathee fataraneeafala
taAAqiloon
Translation
O
my people, I do not ask you for it any reward. My reward is only from the one
who created me. Then will you not reason?
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O
my people, I do not ask of you any wage for it, for the affirmation of His
Oneness. Lo! my wage falls only upon Him Who originated me, created me. Will
you not understand?
وَيَا قَوْمِ
اسْتَغْفِرُوا رَبَّكُمْ ثُمَّ تُوبُوا إِلَيْهِ يُرْسِلِ السَّمَاءَ عَلَيْكُم
مِّدْرَارًا وَيَزِدْكُمْ قُوَّةً إِلَىٰ قُوَّتِكُمْ وَلَا تَتَوَلَّوْا
مُجْرِمِينَ
Pronunciation
Waya
qawmi istaghfiroo rabbakumthumma tooboo ilayhi yursili assamaa AAalaykummidraran
wayazidkum quwwatan ila quwwatikum walatatawallaw mujrimeen
Translation
And
O my people, ask forgiveness of your Lord and then repent to Him. He will send
[rain from] the sky upon you in showers and increase you in strength [added] to
your strength. And do not turn away, [being] criminals."
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And,
O my people, ask forgiveness of your Lord, for [your] idolatry, then turn,
return, to Him repentant, through obedience; He will release the sky, [He will
release] the rain — for they had been denied it — upon you in abundance, with
abundant rainfall, and He will add to you strength to your strength, through
wealth and children. Do not turn away as sinners’, idolaters.
قَالُوا يَا هُودُ
مَا جِئْتَنَا بِبَيِّنَةٍ وَمَا نَحْنُ بِتَارِكِي آلِهَتِنَا عَن قَوْلِكَ وَمَا
نَحْنُ لَكَ بِمُؤْمِنِينَ
Pronunciation
Qaloo
ya hoodu maji/tana bibayyinatin wama nahnu bitarikeealihatina AAan qawlika wama
nahnulaka bimu/mineen
Translation
They
said, "O Hud, you have not brought us clear evidence, and we are not ones
to leave our gods on your say-so. Nor are we believers in you.
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They
said, ‘O Hūd, you have not brought us any clear proof, [any] evidence for what
you say, and we are not going to forsake our gods on [the basis of] your
saying, that is, because of what you say, and we are not believers in you.
إِن نَّقُولُ
إِلَّا اعْتَرَاكَ بَعْضُ آلِهَتِنَا بِسُوءٍ ۗ قَالَ إِنِّي
أُشْهِدُ اللَّهَ وَاشْهَدُوا أَنِّي بَرِيءٌ مِّمَّا تُشْرِكُونَ
Pronunciation
In
naqoolu illa iAAtaraka baAAdualihatina bisoo-in qala innee oshhidu
Allahawashhadoo annee baree-on mimma tushrikoon
Translation
We
only say that some of our gods have possessed you with evil." He said,
"Indeed, I call Allah to witness, and witness [yourselves] that I am free
from whatever you associate with Allah
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We
say nothing, concerning you, save that one of our gods has possessed you in
some evil way’, rendering you insane, for your having cursed them, and so you
are raving. He said, ‘Lo! I call God to bear witness, for me, and you, bear
witness also, that I am innocent of what you associate, with Him,
مِن دُونِهِ ۖ فَكِيدُونِي
جَمِيعًا ثُمَّ لَا تُنظِرُونِ
Pronunciation
Min
doonihi fakeedoonee jameeAAan thumma latunthiroon
Translation
Other
than Him. So plot against me all together; then do not give me respite.
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beside
Him; so plot against me, devise ways to destroy me, all together, you and your
graven images, then give me no respite, grant me [no] reprieve.
إِنِّي
تَوَكَّلْتُ عَلَى اللَّهِ رَبِّي وَرَبِّكُم ۚ مَّا مِن
دَابَّةٍ إِلَّا هُوَ آخِذٌ بِنَاصِيَتِهَا ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّي
عَلَىٰ صِرَاطٍ مُّسْتَقِيمٍ
Pronunciation
Innee
tawakkaltu AAala Allahirabbee warabbikum ma min dabbatin illa huwa
akhithunbinasiyatiha inna rabbee AAala siratinmustaqeem
Translation
Indeed,
I have relied upon Allah, my Lord and your Lord. There is no creature but that
He holds its forelock. Indeed, my Lord is on a path [that is] straight."
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Truly
I have put my trust in God, my Lord and your Lord; there is no (mā min: min is
extra) creature, no living thing that treads upon this earth, but He takes it
by the forelock, that is, [but] He is its possessor and subjugator, so that no
benefit or harm occurs except by His permission — the forelock is specifically
used here because he who is taken by his forelock suffers the ultimate
humiliation. Surely my Lord is on a straight path, that is, [on] the way of
truth and justice.
فَإِن تَوَلَّوْا
فَقَدْ أَبْلَغْتُكُم مَّا أُرْسِلْتُ بِهِ إِلَيْكُمْ ۚ وَيَسْتَخْلِفُ
رَبِّي قَوْمًا غَيْرَكُمْ وَلَا تَضُرُّونَهُ شَيْئًا ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّي
عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ حَفِيظٌ
Pronunciation
Fa-in
tawallaw faqad ablaghtukum maorsiltu bihi ilaykum wayastakhlifu rabbee qawman
ghayrakum walatadurroonahu shay-an inna rabbee AAala kullishay-in hafeeth
Translation
But
if they turn away, [say], "I have already conveyed that with which I was
sent to you. My Lord will give succession to a people other than you, and you
will not harm Him at all. Indeed my Lord is, over all things, Guardian."
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And
if you turn away (tawallaw: one of the two tā’ letters [of tatawallaw] has been
omitted), that is, if you object, still I have conveyed to you that wherewith I
was sent to you, and my Lord will set in place of you a folk other than you.
You cannot injure Him in any way, by your idolatry. Truly My Lord is Preserver,
Watcher, over all things’.
وَلَمَّا جَاءَ
أَمْرُنَا نَجَّيْنَا هُودًا وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ بِرَحْمَةٍ مِّنَّا
وَنَجَّيْنَاهُم مِّنْ عَذَابٍ غَلِيظٍ
Pronunciation
Walamma
jaa amrunanajjayna hoodan wallatheena amanoomaAAahu birahmatin minna
wanajjaynahum minAAathabin ghaleeth
Translation
And
when Our command came, We saved Hud and those who believed with him, by mercy
from Us; and We saved them from a harsh punishment.
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And
when Our command, Our chastisement, came to pass We delivered Hūd and those who
believed with him by a mercy, by guidance, from Us, and We delivered them from
a harsh, a severe, chastisement.
وَتِلْكَ عَادٌ ۖ جَحَدُوا
بِآيَاتِ رَبِّهِمْ وَعَصَوْا رُسُلَهُ وَاتَّبَعُوا أَمْرَ كُلِّ جَبَّارٍ
عَنِيدٍ
Pronunciation
Watilka
AAadun jahadoo bi-ayatirabbihim waAAasaw rusulahu wattabaAAoo amra
kullijabbarin AAaneed
Translation
And
that was 'Aad, who rejected the signs of their Lord and disobeyed His
messengers and followed the order of every obstinate tyrant.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And
that was ‘Ād — [this is] an allusion to their remains; in other words, go forth
in the land and look at these [remains]. God then describes their case, saying:
they knowingly denied the signs of their Lord and disobeyed His messengers
(rusulahu is in the plural, because when a person disobeys a messenger he has
[effectively] disobeyed all of them, since they share a common principle in
that [Message] with which they come, namely, [the principle of] God’s Oneness);
and they, that is, the riffraff, followed the command of every rebellious
tyrant, [every] leader of theirs who is obstinate with regard to the truth.
وَأُتْبِعُوا فِي
هَٰذِهِ الدُّنْيَا لَعْنَةً وَيَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ ۗ أَلَا إِنَّ
عَادًا كَفَرُوا رَبَّهُمْ ۗ أَلَا بُعْدًا
لِّعَادٍ قَوْمِ هُودٍ
Pronunciation
WaotbiAAoo
fee hathihi addunyalaAAnatan wayawma alqiyamati ala inna AAadankafaroo rabbahum
ala buAAdan liAAadin qawmi hood
Translation
And
they were [therefore] followed in this world with a curse and [as well] on the
Day of Resurrection. Unquestionably, 'Aad denied their Lord; then away with
'Aad, the people of Hud.
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And
a curse was made to follow them in this world, from people, and on the Day of
Resurrection, a curse [will follow them] for all creatures to see. ‘Lo! ‘Ād
disbelieved in, they knowingly denied, their Lord. Lo! away, [far] from God’s
mercy, with ‘Ād, the folk of Hūd!’
وَإِلَىٰ ثَمُودَ
أَخَاهُمْ صَالِحًا ۚ قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مَا لَكُم
مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُ ۖ هُوَ أَنشَأَكُم
مِّنَ الْأَرْضِ وَاسْتَعْمَرَكُمْ فِيهَا فَاسْتَغْفِرُوهُ ثُمَّ تُوبُوا
إِلَيْهِ ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّي قَرِيبٌ مُّجِيبٌ
Pronunciation
Wa-ila
thamooda akhahum salihanqala ya qawmi oAAbudoo Allaha malakum min ilahin
ghayruhu huwa anshaakum mina al-ardiwastaAAmarakum feeha fastaghfiroohu
thummatooboo ilayhi inna rabbee qareebun mujeeb
Translation
And
to Thamud [We sent] their brother Salih. He said, "O my people, worship
Allah ; you have no deity other than Him. He has produced you from the earth
and settled you in it, so ask forgiveness of Him and then repent to Him.
Indeed, my Lord is near and responsive."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And,
We sent, to Thamūd their brother, from the tribe, Sālih. He said, ‘O my people,
worship God!, affirm His Oneness. You have no god other than He. He it is Who
produced you, [Who] began your creation, from the earth, by creating your
father Adam from it, and has given you to live therein, He has made you
inhabitants, living therein; so ask forgiveness of Him, from idolatry, then
turn, return, to Him repentant, through [acts of] obedience. Truly my Lord is
Near, to His creation by [virtue of] His knowledge, Responsive’, to those who
ask of Him.
قَالُوا يَا
صَالِحُ قَدْ كُنتَ فِينَا مَرْجُوًّا قَبْلَ هَٰذَا ۖ أَتَنْهَانَا
أَن نَّعْبُدَ مَا يَعْبُدُ آبَاؤُنَا وَإِنَّنَا لَفِي شَكٍّ مِّمَّا تَدْعُونَا
إِلَيْهِ مُرِيبٍ
Pronunciation
Qaloo
ya salihuqad kunta feena marjuwwan qabla hatha atanhanaan naAAbuda ma yaAAbudu
abaonawa-innana lafee shakkin mimma tadAAoonailayhi mureeb
Translation
They
said, "O Salih, you were among us a man of promise before this. Do you
forbid us to worship what our fathers worshipped? And indeed we are, about that
to which you invite us, in disquieting doubt."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
They
said, ‘O Sālih, you had been one of promise among us, that is to say, we had
hoped that you would become [our] chief, before this, that has issued from you.
Do you forbid us to worship what our fathers worshipped?, in the way of graven
images? Truly we are in grave doubt, [doubt] creating [great] uncertainty,
concerning that to which you are calling us’, in the way of [affirming] God’s
Oneness.
قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ
أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِن كُنتُ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّي وَآتَانِي مِنْهُ رَحْمَةً
فَمَن يَنصُرُنِي مِنَ اللَّهِ إِنْ عَصَيْتُهُ ۖ فَمَا
تَزِيدُونَنِي غَيْرَ تَخْسِيرٍ
Pronunciation
Qala
ya qawmi araaytum inkuntu AAala bayyinatin min rabbee waataneeminhu rahmatan
faman yansurunee mina Allahiin AAasaytuhu fama tazeedoonanee ghayra takhseer
Translation
He
said, "O my people, have you considered: if I should be upon clear
evidence from my Lord and He has given me mercy from Himself, who would protect
me from Allah if I disobeyed Him? So you would not increase me except in loss.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
He
said, ‘O my people, have you considered: if I am [acting] upon a clear proof, a
[clear] statement, from my Lord, and He has given me from Him mercy,
prophethood, who will help me, [who will] defend me, against God, [against] His
chastisement, if I disobey Him? You would only be adding, by commanding me to
do that, to my loss, [my] misguidance.
وَيَا قَوْمِ
هَٰذِهِ نَاقَةُ اللَّهِ لَكُمْ آيَةً فَذَرُوهَا تَأْكُلْ فِي أَرْضِ اللَّهِ
وَلَا تَمَسُّوهَا بِسُوءٍ فَيَأْخُذَكُمْ عَذَابٌ قَرِيبٌ
Pronunciation
Waya
qawmi hathihi naqatuAllahi lakum ayatan fatharooha ta/kulfee ardi Allahi wala
tamassoohabisoo-in faya/khuthakum AAathabun qareeb
Translation
And
O my people, this is the she-camel of Allah - [she is] to you a sign. So let
her feed upon Allah 's earth and do not touch her with harm, or you will be
taken by an impending punishment."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And,
O my people, this is the she-camel of God, a sign for you (āyatan is a
circumstantial qualifier operated by the demonstrative noun [hādhihi, ‘this’]).
Leave her to eat in God’s earth and do not cause her any harm, [by]
hamstringing [her], lest you be seized by a near chastisement’, if you do
hamstring her.
فَعَقَرُوهَا
فَقَالَ تَمَتَّعُوا فِي دَارِكُمْ ثَلَاثَةَ أَيَّامٍ ۖ ذَٰلِكَ وَعْدٌ
غَيْرُ مَكْذُوبٍ
Pronunciation
FaAAaqarooha
faqalatamattaAAoo fee darikum thalathata ayyamin thalikawaAAdun ghayru makthoob
Translation
But
they hamstrung her, so he said, "Enjoy yourselves in your homes for three
days. That is a promise not to be denied."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
But
they hamstrung her, Qudār hamstrung her at their command, and he, Sālih, said,
‘Enjoy [yourselves], live, in your dwellings for three days, whereafter you
will be destroyed. That is a promise that will not be belied’.
فَلَمَّا جَاءَ
أَمْرُنَا نَجَّيْنَا صَالِحًا وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ بِرَحْمَةٍ مِّنَّا
وَمِنْ خِزْيِ يَوْمِئِذٍ ۗ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ
هُوَ الْقَوِيُّ الْعَزِيزُ
Pronunciation
Falamma
jaa amrunanajjayna salihan wallatheena amanoomaAAahu birahmatin minna wamin
khizyi yawmi-ithininna rabbaka huwa alqawiyyu alAAazeez
Translation
So
when Our command came, We saved Salih and those who believed with him, by mercy
from Us, and [saved them] from the disgrace of that day. Indeed, it is your
Lord who is the Powerful, the Exalted in Might.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
So,
when Our command came, for their destruction, We delivered Sālih and those who
believed with him, they numbered 4000, by a mercy from Us, and, We delivered
them, from the ignominy of that day (read yawmi’idhin [if understood] as
declinable, or read yawma’idhin on the basis of it [yawm, ‘day’] being annexed to
an invariable [idhin, ‘that’], which is the majority view). Truly your Lord is
the Strong, the Mighty, the Victor.
وَأَخَذَ
الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا الصَّيْحَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دِيَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ
Pronunciation
Waakhatha
allatheena thalamooassayhatu faasbahoo fee diyarihimjathimeen
Translation
And
the shriek seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes
[corpses] fallen prone
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And
those who did evil were seized by the Cry, so that they ended up lying lifeless
prostrate in their habitations, keeled over their knees, dead,
كَأَن لَّمْ
يَغْنَوْا فِيهَا ۗ أَلَا إِنَّ ثَمُودَ كَفَرُوا رَبَّهُمْ ۗ أَلَا بُعْدًا
لِّثَمُودَ
Pronunciation
Kaan
lam yaghnaw feeha alainna thamooda kafaroo rabbahum ala buAAdan lithamood
Translation
As
if they had never prospered therein. Unquestionably, Thamud denied their Lord;
then, away with Thamud.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
as
if (ka-an had been softened and its subject omitted, in other words [understand
it as] ka’annahum) they had not dwelt there, in their dwelling-place: ‘Lo!
Thamūd disbelieved in their Lord, lo! away with Thamūd!’ (this may be read,
declined, li-Thamūdan, or left, as indeclinable, li-Thamūda, referring to the
district or the tribe).
وَلَقَدْ جَاءَتْ
رُسُلُنَا إِبْرَاهِيمَ بِالْبُشْرَىٰ قَالُوا سَلَامًا ۖ قَالَ سَلَامٌ ۖ فَمَا لَبِثَ
أَن جَاءَ بِعِجْلٍ حَنِيذٍ
Pronunciation
Walaqad
jaat rusuluna ibraheemabilbushra qaloo salaman qalasalamun fama labitha an jaa
biAAijlin haneeth
Translation
And
certainly did Our messengers come to Abraham with good tidings; they said,
"Peace." He said, "Peace," and did not delay in bringing
[them] a roasted calf.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And
verily Our messengers came to Abraham with good tidings, of [the birth of]
Isaac and, after him, Jacob. They said, ‘Peace!’ (salāman is a verbal noun). He
said, ‘Peace!’, be upon you, and did not delay to bring a roasted calf.
فَلَمَّا رَأَىٰ
أَيْدِيَهُمْ لَا تَصِلُ إِلَيْهِ نَكِرَهُمْ وَأَوْجَسَ مِنْهُمْ خِيفَةً ۚ قَالُوا لَا تَخَفْ
إِنَّا أُرْسِلْنَا إِلَىٰ قَوْمِ لُوطٍ
Pronunciation
Falamma
raa aydiyahum latasilu ilayhi nakirahum waawjasa minhum kheefatan qaloola
takhaf inna orsilna ila qawmi loot
Translation
But
when he saw their hands not reaching for it, he distrusted them and felt from
them apprehension. They said, "Fear not. We have been sent to the people
of Lot."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And
when he saw their hands not reaching to it, he was suspicious of them and
conceived, he kept secret in himself, a fear of them. They said, ‘Fear not. Lo!
we have been sent to the people of Lot’, to destroy them.
وَامْرَأَتُهُ
قَائِمَةٌ فَضَحِكَتْ فَبَشَّرْنَاهَا بِإِسْحَاقَ وَمِن وَرَاءِ إِسْحَاقَ
يَعْقُوبَ
Pronunciation
Wamraatuhu
qa-imatun fadahikatfabashsharnaha bi-ishaqa wamin wara-iishaqa yaAAqoob
Translation
And
his Wife was standing, and she smiled. Then We gave her good tidings of Isaac
and after Isaac, Jacob.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And
his wife, that is, Abraham’s wife, Sarah, standing by, serving them, laughed,
at the good tiding of their destruction; and so We gave her the good tiding of
Isaac, and, after Isaac, of Jacob, his son, whom she would live to see.
قَالَتْ يَا
وَيْلَتَىٰ أَأَلِدُ وَأَنَا عَجُوزٌ وَهَٰذَا بَعْلِي شَيْخًا ۖ إِنَّ هَٰذَا
لَشَيْءٌ عَجِيبٌ
Pronunciation
Qalat
ya waylata aaliduwaana AAajoozun wahatha baAAlee shaykhan inna hathalashay-on
AAajeeb
Translation
She
said, "Woe to me! Shall I give birth while I am an old woman and this, my
husband, is an old man? Indeed, this is an amazing thing!"
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
She
said, ‘Woe to me! (yā waylatā is an expression used in [reaction to] a serious
matter; the alif [suffixed in waylatā] substitutes for the yā’ of the genitive
annexation [waylatī, ‘my woe’]). Shall I bear a child when I am an old woman,
99 years old, and this my husband is an old man?, 100 or 120 years old
(shaykhan is in the accusative because it is a circumstantial qualifier, operated
by the demonstrative import of dhā, ‘this’). Truly this is a strange thing’,
that a child should be born to such an aged couple.
قَالُوا
أَتَعْجَبِينَ مِنْ أَمْرِ اللَّهِ ۖ رَحْمَتُ
اللَّهِ وَبَرَكَاتُهُ عَلَيْكُمْ أَهْلَ الْبَيْتِ ۚ إِنَّهُ حَمِيدٌ
مَّجِيدٌ
Pronunciation
Qaloo
ataAAjabeena min amri Allahirahmatu Allahi wabarakatuhu AAalaykum ahlaalbayti
innahu hameedun majeed
Translation
They
said, "Are you amazed at the decree of Allah ? May the mercy of Allah and
His blessings be upon you, people of the house. Indeed, He is Praiseworthy and
Honorable."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
They
said, ‘Are you astonished by God’s command?, [by] His power? The mercy of God
and His blessings be upon you, O, people of the House!, the House of Abraham.
Truly He is Praised, Glorious!’, Generous.
فَلَمَّا ذَهَبَ
عَنْ إِبْرَاهِيمَ الرَّوْعُ وَجَاءَتْهُ الْبُشْرَىٰ يُجَادِلُنَا فِي قَوْمِ
لُوطٍ
Pronunciation
Falamma
thahaba AAan ibraheemaarrawAAu wajaat-hu albushra yujadilunafee qawmi loot
Translation
And
when the fright had left Abraham and the good tidings had reached him, he began
to argue with Us concerning the people of Lot.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And
when the awe, the fear, departed from Abraham and the good tiding came to him,
of a child, he began to plead with Us, pleading with Our messengers, concerning
the, matter of the, people of Lot.
إِنَّ
إِبْرَاهِيمَ لَحَلِيمٌ أَوَّاهٌ مُّنِيبٌ
Pronunciation
Inna
ibraheema lahaleemun awwahunmuneeb
Translation
Indeed,
Abraham was forbearing, grieving and [frequently] returning [to Allah ].
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
Assuredly
Abraham was forbearing, long-suffering, imploring, penitent, always returning
[to God] in repentance: thus he said to them, ‘Would you destroy a town in
which there are 300 believers?’ They said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Would you destroy a
town in which there are 200 believers?’ They said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Would you
destroy a town in which there are 40 believers?’ They said, ‘No’. He said,
‘Would you destroy a town in which there are 14 believers?’ They said, ‘No’. He
said, ‘What if there were one believer in it?’ They said, ‘No’. He said, ‘Lot is
in it’. They said, ‘We know full well who is in it’ … to the end [of the
narrative].
يَا إِبْرَاهِيمُ
أَعْرِضْ عَنْ هَٰذَا ۖ إِنَّهُ قَدْ
جَاءَ أَمْرُ رَبِّكَ ۖ وَإِنَّهُمْ
آتِيهِمْ عَذَابٌ غَيْرُ مَرْدُودٍ
Pronunciation
Ya
ibraheemu aAAridAAan hatha innahu qad jaa amru rabbika wa-innahum
ateehimAAathabun ghayru mardood
Translation
[The
angels said], "O Abraham, give up this [plea]. Indeed, the command of your
Lord has come, and indeed, there will reach them a punishment that cannot be
repelled."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
When
he had pleaded with them at length, they said: ‘O Abraham, desist from this,
pleading. Truly your Lord’s command, for their destruction, has gone forth, and
truly there will come upon them a chastisement which cannot be repelled’.
وَلَمَّا جَاءَتْ
رُسُلُنَا لُوطًا سِيءَ بِهِمْ وَضَاقَ بِهِمْ ذَرْعًا وَقَالَ هَٰذَا يَوْمٌ
عَصِيبٌ
Pronunciation
Walamma
jaat rusulunalootan see-a bihim wadaqa bihim tharAAan waqalahatha yawmun
AAaseeb
Translation
And
when Our messengers, [the angels], came to Lot, he was anguished for them and
felt for them great discomfort and said, "This is a trying day."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And
when Our messengers came to Lot, he was distressed, he was grieved on their
account, and felt constrained in his power to protect them, because they had
handsome faces and were dressed as [visiting] guests, and so he feared for them
from his people, and he said, ‘This is a distressful, a very difficult, day’.
وَجَاءَهُ
قَوْمُهُ يُهْرَعُونَ إِلَيْهِ وَمِن قَبْلُ كَانُوا يَعْمَلُونَ السَّيِّئَاتِ ۚ قَالَ يَا
قَوْمِ هَٰؤُلَاءِ بَنَاتِي هُنَّ أَطْهَرُ لَكُمْ ۖ فَاتَّقُوا
اللَّهَ وَلَا تُخْزُونِ فِي ضَيْفِي ۖ أَلَيْسَ
مِنكُمْ رَجُلٌ رَّشِيدٌ
Pronunciation
Wajaahu
qawmuhu yuhraAAoona ilayhiwamin qablu kanoo yaAAmaloona assayyi-ati qalaya
qawmi haola-i banatee hunna atharulakum fattaqoo Allaha wala tukhzooni fee
dayfeealaysa minkum rajulun rasheed
Translation
And
his people came hastening to him, and before [this] they had been doing evil
deeds. He said, "O my people, these are my daughters; they are purer for
you. So fear Allah and do not disgrace me concerning my guests. Is there not
among you a man of reason?"
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And
his people, when they became aware of them, came to him, running, hastening,
towards him — and previously, before they came, they had been committing
abominations, namely, penetrative sexual intercourse with men. He, Lot, said,
‘O my people! Here are my daughters, marry with them; they are purer for you.
So fear God, and do not degrade me, [do not] disgrace me, before my guests. Is
there not among you any upright man?’, to enjoin decency and forbid indecency?
قَالُوا لَقَدْ
عَلِمْتَ مَا لَنَا فِي بَنَاتِكَ مِنْ حَقٍّ وَإِنَّكَ لَتَعْلَمُ مَا نُرِيدُ
Pronunciation
Qaloo
laqad AAalimta ma lanafee banatika min haqqin wa-innaka lataAAlamu manureed
Translation
They
said, "You have already known that we have not concerning your daughters
any claim, and indeed, you know what we want."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
They
said, ‘You know full well that we have no right to, no need of, your daughters,
and you know well what we desire’, in the way of sexual intercourse with men.
قَالَ لَوْ أَنَّ
لِي بِكُمْ قُوَّةً أَوْ آوِي إِلَىٰ رُكْنٍ شَدِيدٍ
Pronunciation
Qala
law anna lee bikum quwwatan aw aweeila ruknin shadeed
Translation
He
said, "If only I had against you some power or could take refuge in a
strong support."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
He
said, ‘Would that I had strength, power, to resist you or could resort to some
strong support!’, [to] some clan that would help me, I would surely fall upon
you. So, when the angels saw this,
قَالُوا يَا
لُوطُ إِنَّا رُسُلُ رَبِّكَ لَن يَصِلُوا إِلَيْكَ ۖ فَأَسْرِ
بِأَهْلِكَ بِقِطْعٍ مِّنَ اللَّيْلِ وَلَا يَلْتَفِتْ مِنكُمْ أَحَدٌ إِلَّا
امْرَأَتَكَ ۖ إِنَّهُ مُصِيبُهَا مَا أَصَابَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّ
مَوْعِدَهُمُ الصُّبْحُ ۚ أَلَيْسَ
الصُّبْحُ بِقَرِيبٍ
Pronunciation
Qaloo
ya lootu innarusulu rabbika lan yasiloo ilayka faasri bi-ahlika biqitAAinmina
allayli wala yaltafit minkum ahadun illaimraataka innahu museebuha ma
asabahuminna mawAAidahumu assubhu alaysa assubhubiqareeb
Translation
The
angels said, "O Lot, indeed we are messengers of your Lord; [therefore],
they will never reach you. So set out with your family during a portion of the
night and let not any among you look back - except your wife; indeed, she will
be struck by that which strikes them. Indeed, their appointment is [for] the
morning. Is not the morning near?"
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
they
said, ‘O Lot, truly we are messengers of your Lord. They shall not reach you,
with any harm, so travel with your family during a part of the night, and let
not one of you turn round, lest they see the terrible predicament that will
befall them, except for your wife: (read illā imra’atuka, in the nominative, as
a substitute for ahadun; a variant reading has illā imra’ataka, in the
accusative, as [her being] an exception among [his] ‘family’, in other words,
do no take her along when you travel) lo! she shall be smitten by that which
smites them: it is said that he did not take her along with him; it is also
said that she did set out [with them] and turned round, and so exclaimed, ‘Woe
is my people!’, at which point a stone struck her and killed her. When he [Lot]
asked them about the time of their destruction, they replied: Truly their tryst
is [for] the morning, and when he said, ‘I want it to be sooner’, they said: is
the morning not nigh [enough]?’
فَلَمَّا جَاءَ
أَمْرُنَا جَعَلْنَا عَالِيَهَا سَافِلَهَا وَأَمْطَرْنَا عَلَيْهَا حِجَارَةً مِّن
سِجِّيلٍ مَّنضُودٍ
Pronunciation
Falamma
jaa amrunajaAAalna AAaliyaha safilahawaamtarna AAalayha hijaratanmin sijjeelin
mandood
Translation
So
when Our command came, We made the highest part [of the city] its lowest and
rained upon them stones of layered hard clay, [which were]
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
So
when Our command, for their destruction, came to pass We made their uppermost,
that is, their cities, the nethermost — when Gabriel raised them to the sky and
dropped them upside down to the earth, and We rained upon them stones of baked
clay, clay baked in fire, one after another,
مُّسَوَّمَةً
عِندَ رَبِّكَ ۖ وَمَا هِيَ مِنَ الظَّالِمِينَ بِبَعِيدٍ
Pronunciation
Musawwamatan
AAinda rabbika wama hiyamina aththalimeena bibaAAeed
Translation
Marked
from your Lord. And Allah 's punishment is not from the wrongdoers [very] far.
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marked,
[each one of them] with the name of the person it would strike, with your Lord
(‘inda rabbik is an adverbial qualifier for these [stones]), and they, the
stones — or their lands — are not far from the evildoers, that is, [from] the
people of Mecca.
وَإِلَىٰ
مَدْيَنَ أَخَاهُمْ شُعَيْبًا ۚ قَالَ يَا
قَوْمِ اعْبُدُوا اللَّهَ مَا لَكُم مِّنْ إِلَٰهٍ غَيْرُهُ ۖ وَلَا تَنقُصُوا
الْمِكْيَالَ وَالْمِيزَانَ ۚ إِنِّي أَرَاكُم
بِخَيْرٍ وَإِنِّي أَخَافُ عَلَيْكُمْ عَذَابَ يَوْمٍ مُّحِيطٍ
Pronunciation
Wa-ila
madyana akhahumshuAAayban qala ya qawmi oAAbudoo Allaha malakum min ilahin
ghayruhu wala tanqusooalmikyala walmeezana innee arakumbikhayrin wa-innee
akhafu AAalaykum AAathaba yawminmuheet
Translation
And
to Madyan [We sent] their brother Shu'ayb. He said, "O my people, worship
Allah ; you have no deity other than Him. And do not decrease from the measure
and the scale. Indeed, I see you in prosperity, but indeed, I fear for you the
punishment of an all-encompassing Day.
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And,
We sent, to Midian their brother Shu‘ayb. He said, ‘O my people, worship God!,
affirm His Oneness. You have no god other than He. And diminish not the measure
or the weight. I see you in prosperity, [enjoying] a grace which precludes any
need for stinting [people]; and I fear for you, should you not believe, the
chastisement of a besetting day, [besetting] you, destroying you (the
attribution of this term [‘besetting’] to ‘a day’ [as opposed to ‘the
chastisement’] is figurative, for it [the chastisement] will take place
thereupon).
وَيَا قَوْمِ
أَوْفُوا الْمِكْيَالَ وَالْمِيزَانَ بِالْقِسْطِ ۖ وَلَا
تَبْخَسُوا النَّاسَ أَشْيَاءَهُمْ وَلَا تَعْثَوْا فِي الْأَرْضِ مُفْسِدِينَ
Pronunciation
Waya
qawmi awfoo almikyala walmeezanabilqisti wala tabkhasoo annasaashyaahum wala
taAAthaw fee al-ardimufsideen
Translation
And
O my people, give full measure and weight in justice and do not deprive the
people of their due and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption.
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O
my people, give full measure and weight, fulfil [the due of] both of these, in
justice, and do not defraud people in respect of their goods, do not diminish
anything of their due, and do not be degenerate in the land, working
corruption, by killing or otherwise ([lā ta‘thaū] derives from ‘athiya, meaning
afsada, ‘he corrupted’; mufsidīn, ‘working corruption’, is a circumstantial
qualifier reiterating the import of the term operating it, ta‘thaū, ‘[do not]
be degenerate’).
بَقِيَّتُ
اللَّهِ خَيْرٌ لَّكُمْ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤْمِنِينَ ۚ وَمَا أَنَا
عَلَيْكُم بِحَفِيظٍ
Pronunciation
Baqiyyatu
Allahi khayrun lakum inkuntum mu/mineena wama ana AAalaykum bihafeeth
Translation
What
remains [lawful] from Allah is best for you, if you would be believers. But I
am not a guardian over you."
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The
remainder [which is] from God, that provision of His which remains for you
after you have given full measure and weight, is better for you, than fraud, if
you are believers; and I am not a guardian over you’, a watcher, that I should
requite you for your deeds: I was sent only as a warner.
قَالُوا يَا
شُعَيْبُ أَصَلَاتُكَ تَأْمُرُكَ أَن نَّتْرُكَ مَا يَعْبُدُ آبَاؤُنَا أَوْ أَن
نَّفْعَلَ فِي أَمْوَالِنَا مَا نَشَاءُ ۖ إِنَّكَ لَأَنتَ
الْحَلِيمُ الرَّشِيدُ
Pronunciation
Qaloo
ya shuAAaybu asalatukata/muruka an natruka ma yaAAbudu abaonaaw an nafAAala fee
amwalina ma nashaoinnaka laanta alhaleemu arrasheed
Translation
They
said, "O Shu'ayb, does your prayer command you that we should leave what
our fathers worship or not do with our wealth what we please? Indeed, you are
the forbearing, the discerning!"
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They
said, to him mockingly: ‘O Shu‘ayb, does your [way of] prayer command you, with
the obligation [to make sure], that we should leave what our fathers [used to]
worship, of idols, or, that we should cease, to do as we will with our goods?,
meaning that such a command is an absurdity which no person calling to good
would commend. You are indeed the forbearing, the right-guided’: they said this
in mockery.
قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ
أَرَأَيْتُمْ إِن كُنتُ عَلَىٰ بَيِّنَةٍ مِّن رَّبِّي وَرَزَقَنِي مِنْهُ رِزْقًا
حَسَنًا ۚ وَمَا أُرِيدُ أَنْ أُخَالِفَكُمْ إِلَىٰ مَا
أَنْهَاكُمْ عَنْهُ ۚ إِنْ أُرِيدُ إِلَّا الْإِصْلَاحَ مَا
اسْتَطَعْتُ ۚ وَمَا تَوْفِيقِي إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ ۚ عَلَيْهِ
تَوَكَّلْتُ وَإِلَيْهِ أُنِيبُ
Pronunciation
Qala
ya qawmi araaytum inkuntu AAala bayyinatin min rabbee warazaqanee minhu
rizqanhasanan wama oreedu an okhalifakum ilama anhakum AAanhu in oreedu illa
al-islahama istataAAtu wama tawfeeqee illa billahiAAalayhi tawakkaltu wa-ilayhi
oneeb
Translation
He
said, "O my people, have you considered: if I am upon clear evidence from
my Lord and He has provided me with a good provision from Him... ? And I do not
intend to differ from you in that which I have forbidden you; I only intend
reform as much as I am able. And my success is not but through Allah . Upon him
I have relied, and to Him I return.
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He
said, ‘O my people, have you considered that I might be [acting] upon a clear
proof from my Lord and that He has provided me with fair, wholesome, sustenance
from Him?, should I then blemish it with what is unlawful, in the way of fraud
or stinting? And I do not desire to be inconsistent, and then partake, in what
I forbid you, thus committing the same. I desire only to set things right, in
your case, by way of [enjoining] justice, so far as I am able. My success, my
ability to do this [successfully] and [to enjoin] other acts of obedience, is
only with God. In Him I trust and to Him I turn, I return, [repentant].
وَيَا قَوْمِ لَا
يَجْرِمَنَّكُمْ شِقَاقِي أَن يُصِيبَكُم مِّثْلُ مَا أَصَابَ قَوْمَ نُوحٍ أَوْ
قَوْمَ هُودٍ أَوْ قَوْمَ صَالِحٍ ۚ وَمَا قَوْمُ
لُوطٍ مِّنكُم بِبَعِيدٍ
Pronunciation
Waya
qawmi la yajrimannakumshiqaqee an yuseebakum mithlu ma asabaqawma noohin aw
qawma hoodin aw qawma salihinwama qawmu lootin minkum bibaAAeed
Translation
And
O my people, let not [your] dissension from me cause you to be struck by that
similar to what struck the people of Noah or the people of Hud or the people of
Salih. And the people of Lot are not from you far away.
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And,
O my people, let not the breach with me, the dispute [you have] with me
(shiqāqī, ‘the breach with me’, is the subject of the verb yajrimannakum, ‘make
you deserve’, in which the [suffixed] pronoun [-kum, ‘you’] constitutes the
first direct object, the second being [what follows]) make you deserve, earn
you [as punishment], that there befall you the like of what befell the people
of Noah, or the people of Hūd, or the people of Sālih, in the way of
chastisement; and the people of Lot, that is, their dwelling-places or the era
in which they were destroyed, are not far away from you, so take heed [of
this].
وَاسْتَغْفِرُوا
رَبَّكُمْ ثُمَّ تُوبُوا إِلَيْهِ ۚ إِنَّ رَبِّي
رَحِيمٌ وَدُودٌ
Pronunciation
Wastaghfiroo
rabbakum thumma toobooilayhi inna rabbee raheemun wadood
Translation
And
ask forgiveness of your Lord and then repent to Him. Indeed, my Lord is
Merciful and Affectionate."
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And
ask forgiveness of your Lord, then repent to Him. Truly my Lord is Merciful, to
believers, Affectionate’, loving towards them.
قَالُوا يَا شُعَيْبُ مَا نَفْقَهُ كَثِيرًا
مِّمَّا تَقُولُ وَإِنَّا لَنَرَاكَ فِينَا ضَعِيفًا ۖ وَلَوْلَا
رَهْطُكَ لَرَجَمْنَاكَ ۖ وَمَا أَنتَ
عَلَيْنَا بِعَزِيزٍ
Pronunciation
Qaloo ya shuAAaybu manafqahu
katheeran mimma taqoolu wa-inna lanarakafeena daAAeefan walawla
rahtukalarajamnaka wama anta AAalayna biAAazeez
Translation
They said, "O Shu'ayb, we do
not understand much of what you say, and indeed, we consider you among us as
weak. And if not for your family, we would have stoned you [to death]; and you
are not to us one respected."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
They said, in proclamation of
their lack of concern: ‘O Shu‘ayb, we do not understand much of what you say.
Truly we see you are weak, abject, among us, and were it not for your clan, we
would have stoned you; for you are not, too, powerful, [too] venerable, for
us’, to stone, but it is your clan that is powerful.
قَالَ يَا قَوْمِ أَرَهْطِي أَعَزُّ عَلَيْكُم
مِّنَ اللَّهِ وَاتَّخَذْتُمُوهُ وَرَاءَكُمْ ظِهْرِيًّا ۖ إِنَّ رَبِّي
بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ مُحِيطٌ
Pronunciation
Qala ya qawmi arahteeaAAazzu
AAalaykum mina Allahi wattakhathtumoohuwaraakum thihriyyan inna rabbee
bimataAAmaloona muheet
Translation
He said, "O my people, is my
family more respected for power by you than Allah ? But you put Him behind your
backs [in neglect]. Indeed, my Lord is encompassing of what you do.
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He said, ‘O my people, is my clan
more venerable in your sight than God?, such that you refrain from killing me
because of them, instead of [your] protecting me for [being the Messenger of]
God? And do you put Him, God, behind you, neglected?, rejected, behind your
backs, not mindful of Him? Truly my Lord encompasses, in knowledge, what you
do, and will requite you.
وَيَا قَوْمِ اعْمَلُوا عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِكُمْ
إِنِّي عَامِلٌ ۖ سَوْفَ تَعْلَمُونَ مَن يَأْتِيهِ عَذَابٌ
يُخْزِيهِ وَمَنْ هُوَ كَاذِبٌ ۖ وَارْتَقِبُوا
إِنِّي مَعَكُمْ رَقِيبٌ
Pronunciation
Waya qawmi iAAmaloo AAala
makanatikuminnee AAamilun sawfa taAAlamoona man ya/teehi AAathabunyukhzeehi
waman huwa kathibun wartaqiboo innemaAAakum raqeeb
Translation
And O my people, work according to
your position; indeed, I am working. You are going to know to whom will come a
punishment that will disgrace him and who is a liar. So watch; indeed, I am
with you a watcher, [awaiting the outcome]."
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And, O my people, act according to
your ability, your circumstances, lo! I [too] am acting, according to mine. You
will soon know upon whom (man is the relative particle introducing the direct
object of [the action of] ‘knowing’) will come the chastisement that will abase
him, and who is a liar. And sit in watch, wait for the consequence of your
affair: I too will be with you watching’, waiting.
وَلَمَّا جَاءَ أَمْرُنَا نَجَّيْنَا شُعَيْبًا
وَالَّذِينَ آمَنُوا مَعَهُ بِرَحْمَةٍ مِّنَّا وَأَخَذَتِ الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا
الصَّيْحَةُ فَأَصْبَحُوا فِي دِيَارِهِمْ جَاثِمِينَ
Pronunciation
Walamma jaa amrunanajjayna
shuAAayban wallatheena amanoomaAAahu birahmatin minna waakhathati
allatheenathalamoo assayhatu faasbahoofee diyarihim jathimeen
Translation
And when Our command came, We
saved Shu'ayb and those who believed with him, by mercy from Us. And the shriek
seized those who had wronged, and they became within their homes [corpses]
fallen prone
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And when Our command came, for
their destruction, We delivered Shu‘ayb and those who believed with him by a
mercy from Us; and the Cry seized those who were evildoers — Gabriel cried at
them — and they ended up lying lifeless prostrate in their habitations, keeled
over on their knees, dead,
كَأَن لَّمْ يَغْنَوْا فِيهَا ۗ أَلَا بُعْدًا
لِّمَدْيَنَ كَمَا بَعِدَتْ ثَمُودُ
Pronunciation
Kaan lam yaghnaw feeha alabuAAdan
limadyana kama baAAidat thamood
Translation
As if they had never prospered
therein. Then, away with Madyan as Thamud was taken away.
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as if (ka-an is softened, in other
words [understand it as] ka-annahum) they had never dwelt there: ‘Lo! Away with
Midian, just as Thamūd was done away with!’
وَلَقَدْ أَرْسَلْنَا مُوسَىٰ بِآيَاتِنَا
وَسُلْطَانٍ مُّبِينٍ
Pronunciation
Walaqad arsalna moosa
bi-ayatinawasultanin mubeen
Translation
And We did certainly send Moses
with Our signs and a clear authority
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And verily We sent Moses with Our
signs and a clear warrant, a manifest and evident proof,
إِلَىٰ فِرْعَوْنَ وَمَلَئِهِ فَاتَّبَعُوا
أَمْرَ فِرْعَوْنَ ۖ وَمَا أَمْرُ فِرْعَوْنَ بِرَشِيدٍ
Pronunciation
Ila firAAawna wamala-ihi
fattabaAAooamra firAAawna wama amru firAAawna birasheed
Translation
To Pharaoh and his establishment,
but they followed the command of Pharaoh, and the command of Pharaoh was not
[at all] discerning.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
to Pharaoh and his council; but
they followed Pharaoh’s command, and Pharaoh’s command was not right-guided,
appropriate.
يَقْدُمُ قَوْمَهُ يَوْمَ الْقِيَامَةِ
فَأَوْرَدَهُمُ النَّارَ ۖ وَبِئْسَ
الْوِرْدُ الْمَوْرُودُ
Pronunciation
Yaqdumu qawmahu yawma
alqiyamatifaawradahumu annara wabi/sa alwirdu almawrood
Translation
He will precede his people on the
Day of Resurrection and lead them into the Fire; and wretched is the place to
which they are led.
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He will go before his people on
the Day of Resurrection, and they will follow him, as they did in this world,
and he will lead them, he will admit them, to the Fire — an evil place, it is,
for those entering it!
وَأُتْبِعُوا فِي هَٰذِهِ لَعْنَةً وَيَوْمَ
الْقِيَامَةِ ۚ بِئْسَ الرِّفْدُ الْمَرْفُودُ
Pronunciation
WaotbiAAoo fee hathihi
laAAnatanwayawma alqiyamati bi/sa arrifdu almarfood
Translation
And they were followed in this
[world] with a curse and on the Day of Resurrection. And wretched is the gift
which is given.
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And a curse was made to follow
them in this [world], as well as, a curse, on the Day of Resurrection — evil is
the assistance offered!, in their case.
ذَٰلِكَ مِنْ أَنبَاءِ الْقُرَىٰ نَقُصُّهُ
عَلَيْكَ ۖ مِنْهَا قَائِمٌ وَحَصِيدٌ
Pronunciation
Thalika min anba-i alquranaqussuhu
AAalayka minha qa-imun wahaseed
Translation
That is from the news of the
cities, which We relate to you; of them, some are [still] standing and some are
[as] a harvest [mowed down].
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
That, which is mentioned (dhālika
is the subject, the predicate of which [follows]), is [something] of the
tidings of the towns, which We relate to you, O Muhammad (s). Some of them,
that is, [of] the towns, are standing, only its inhabitants having been
destroyed, and some, of them, have been cut down, destroyed together with its
inhabitants, such that there are no vestiges thereof, much like crops harvested
with sickles.
وَمَا ظَلَمْنَاهُمْ وَلَٰكِن ظَلَمُوا
أَنفُسَهُمْ ۖ فَمَا أَغْنَتْ عَنْهُمْ آلِهَتُهُمُ الَّتِي
يَدْعُونَ مِن دُونِ اللَّهِ مِن شَيْءٍ لَّمَّا جَاءَ أَمْرُ رَبِّكَ ۖ وَمَا
زَادُوهُمْ غَيْرَ تَتْبِيبٍ
Pronunciation
Wama thalamnahumwalakin thalamoo
anfusahum famaaghnat AAanhum alihatuhumu allatee yadAAoona min dooni Allahimin
shay-in lamma jaa amru rabbika wama zadoohumghayra tatbeeb
Translation
And We did not wrong them, but
they wronged themselves. And they were not availed at all by their gods which
they invoked other than Allah when there came the command of your Lord. And
they did not increase them in other than ruin.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And We did not wrong them,
destroying them for not having committed any sins, but they wronged themselves,
through idolatry. Their gods did not avail, defend, them in any way (min
shay’in: min is extra), those [gods] upon whom they called, [whom] they
worshipped, besides God, that is, other than Him, when the command of your
Lord, His chastisement, came; and they [their gods] — through their [the
disbelievers’] worship of these [gods], did not increase them in anything but
ruin, [but] loss.
وَكَذَٰلِكَ أَخْذُ رَبِّكَ إِذَا أَخَذَ
الْقُرَىٰ وَهِيَ ظَالِمَةٌ ۚ إِنَّ أَخْذَهُ
أَلِيمٌ شَدِيدٌ
Pronunciation
Wakathalika akhthu rabbika
ithaakhatha alqura wahiya thalimatuninna akhthahu aleemun shadeed
Translation
And thus is the seizure of your
Lord when He seizes the cities while they are committing wrong. Indeed, His
seizure is painful and severe.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
Such, like that seizing, is the
seizing of your Lord when He seizes the towns, meaning its inhabitants, while
they are doing wrong, by way of sins: in other words, nothing can avail them in
any way when He seizes them. Truly His seizing is painful, severe. The two
Shaykhs [Bukhārī and Muslim] reported [by way of an isnād] from Abū Mūsā
al-Ash‘arī that he said, ‘The Prophet (s) said, “God gives [extended] respite
to the evildoer, but when He seizes him there is no escape for him”, whereupon
the Prophet (s) recited the verse: Such is the seizing of your Lord [Q. 11:102,
above]’.
إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً لِّمَنْ خَافَ
عَذَابَ الْآخِرَةِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ يَوْمٌ مَّجْمُوعٌ لَّهُ النَّاسُ
وَذَٰلِكَ يَوْمٌ مَّشْهُودٌ
Pronunciation
Inna fee thalika laayatanliman
khafa AAathaba al-akhirati thalikayawmun majmooAAun lahu annasu wathalikayawmun
mashhoodun
Translation
Indeed in that is a sign for those
who fear the punishment of the Hereafter. That is a Day for which the people
will be collected, and that is a Day [which will be] witnessed.
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There is indeed in that, which is
mentioned of stories, a sign, a lesson, for him who fears the chastisement of
the Hereafter: that, in other words, the Day of Resurrection, is a day to
which, on which, mankind will be gathered, and that is a day witnessed,
witnessed by all creatures.
وَمَا نُؤَخِّرُهُ إِلَّا لِأَجَلٍ مَّعْدُودٍ
Pronunciation
Wama nu-akhkhiruhu illali-ajalin
maAAdood
Translation
And We do not delay it except for
a limited term.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And We do not defer it but to a
term [already] reckoned, [but] to a time predetermined by God.
يَوْمَ يَأْتِ لَا تَكَلَّمُ نَفْسٌ إِلَّا
بِإِذْنِهِ ۚ فَمِنْهُمْ شَقِيٌّ وَسَعِيدٌ
Pronunciation
Yawma ya/ti la takallamu nafsun
illabi-ithnihi faminhum shaqiyyun wasaAAeed
Translation
The Day it comes no soul will
speak except by His permission. And among them will be the wretched and the
prosperous.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
The day it, that day, comes, no
soul shall speak (takallamu: one of the tā’ letters [of tatakallamu] has been
omitted) except by His permission, exalted be He. Some of them, that is, [some]
creatures, will be wretched, and [some], of them, joyous, each having been
determined [to be thus] from pre-eternity.
فَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ شَقُوا فَفِي النَّارِ
لَهُمْ فِيهَا زَفِيرٌ وَشَهِيقٌ
Pronunciation
Faamma allatheena shaqoofafee
annari lahum feeha zafeerun washaheeq
Translation
As for those who were [destined to
be] wretched, they will be in the Fire. For them therein is [violent] exhaling
and inhaling.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
As for those who are damned,
according to God’s [prior] knowledge, they will be in the Fire; their lot
therein will be wailing, which is a loud sound, and sighing, which is a faint
sound;
خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا مَا دَامَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ
وَالْأَرْضُ إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ رَبُّكَ ۚ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ
فَعَّالٌ لِّمَا يُرِيدُ
Pronunciation
Khalideena feeha ma
damatiassamawatu wal-ardu illama shaa rabbuka inna rabbaka faAAAAalun
limayureed
Translation
[They will be] abiding therein as
long as the heavens and the earth endure, except what your Lord should will.
Indeed, your Lord is an effecter of what He intends.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
abiding therein for as long as the
heavens and the earth endure, that is, [for] the length of the duration of both
in this world, except, other than, what your Lord may will, in the way of
adding to the duration of these two, such that it [their abiding] becomes
indefinite: meaning that they will abide therein forever. Truly your Lord is
Doer of what He desires.
وَأَمَّا الَّذِينَ سُعِدُوا فَفِي الْجَنَّةِ
خَالِدِينَ فِيهَا مَا دَامَتِ السَّمَاوَاتُ وَالْأَرْضُ إِلَّا مَا شَاءَ
رَبُّكَ ۖ عَطَاءً غَيْرَ مَجْذُوذٍ
Pronunciation
Waamma allatheena suAAidoofafee
aljannati khalideena feeha ma damatiassamawatu wal-ardu illama shaa rabbuka
AAataan ghayra majthooth
Translation
And as for those who were
[destined to be] prosperous, they will be in Paradise, abiding therein as long
as the heavens and the earth endure, except what your Lord should will - a
bestowal uninterrupted.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And as for those who are fortunate
(read sa‘idū or su‘idū) they shall be in Paradise, abiding therein for as long
as the heavens and the earth endure except, other than, what your Lord may will
— as mentioned already [of increasing the duration], which in their case is
indicated by His words, an endless bounty, [one not] to be cut off. The
interpretation given above seems to be the clear and obvious one, devoid of
affectation, but God knows best what it means.
فَلَا تَكُ فِي مِرْيَةٍ مِّمَّا يَعْبُدُ
هَٰؤُلَاءِ ۚ مَا يَعْبُدُونَ إِلَّا كَمَا يَعْبُدُ
آبَاؤُهُم مِّن قَبْلُ ۚ وَإِنَّا
لَمُوَفُّوهُمْ نَصِيبَهُمْ غَيْرَ مَنقُوصٍ
Pronunciation
Fala taku fee miryatin
mimmayaAAbudu haola-i ma yaAAbudoona illakama yaAAbudu abaohum min qablu
wa-innalamuwaffoohum naseebahum ghayra manqoos
Translation
So do not be in doubt, [O
Muhammad], as to what these [polytheists] are worshipping. They worship not
except as their fathers worshipped before. And indeed, We will give them their
share undiminished.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
So do not be, O Muhammad (s), in
doubt, in uncertainty, concerning what these [folk] worship, of idols: We will
indeed chastise them as We did those before them — this is intended as solace
for the Prophet (s). They worship only as their fathers worshipped — that is,
in the same way — before, and indeed We chastised them; and We shall surely pay
them, like those [fathers of theirs], their whole due, their portion of the
chastisement, undiminished, that is, in full.
وَلَقَدْ آتَيْنَا مُوسَى الْكِتَابَ
فَاخْتُلِفَ فِيهِ ۚ وَلَوْلَا كَلِمَةٌ سَبَقَتْ مِن رَّبِّكَ
لَقُضِيَ بَيْنَهُمْ ۚ وَإِنَّهُمْ لَفِي شَكٍّ مِّنْهُ مُرِيبٍ
Pronunciation
Walaqad atayna moosaalkitaba
fakhtulifa feehi walawla kalimatunsabaqat min rabbika laqudiya baynahum
wa-innahum lafeeshakkin minhu mureeb
Translation
And We had certainly given Moses
the Scripture, but it came under disagreement. And if not for a word that
preceded from your Lord, it would have been judged between them. And indeed
they are, concerning the Qur'an, in disquieting doubt.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And We verily gave Moses the
Scripture, the Torah, but differences arose concerning it, some believing,
others denying, just as [is the case] with the Qur’ān; and were it not for a
word that went forth from your Lord, to defer the reckoning and the requital
for creatures to the Day of Resurrection, the case would have been decided
between them, in this world, regarding that over which they differed; and truly
they, that is, those who deny it, are in grave doubt concerning it, [doubt]
creating [great] uncertainty.
وَإِنَّ كُلًّا لَّمَّا لَيُوَفِّيَنَّهُمْ
رَبُّكَ أَعْمَالَهُمْ ۚ إِنَّهُ بِمَا
يَعْمَلُونَ خَبِيرٌ
Pronunciation
Wa-inna kullan
lammalayuwaffiyannahum rabbuka aAAmalahum innahu bimayaAAmaloona khabeer
Translation
And indeed, each [of the believers
and disbelievers] - your Lord will fully compensate them for their deeds.
Indeed, He is Acquainted with what they do.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And assuredly (read wa-in or
wa-inna) to each, that is, to all creatures, verily (la-mā: the mā is extra and
the lām is in the place of an implied oath or a separator; a variant reading
has lammā, with the sense of illā, ‘but’, making the [preceding] in for
negation), your Lord will pay for his works, that is, the requital thereof, in
full. Truly He is Aware of what they do, knowing the inner and outer aspects
thereof.
فَاسْتَقِمْ كَمَا أُمِرْتَ وَمَن تَابَ مَعَكَ
وَلَا تَطْغَوْا ۚ إِنَّهُ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ بَصِيرٌ
Pronunciation
Fastaqim kama omirta waman
tabamaAAaka wala tatghaw innahu bima taAAmaloonabaseer
Translation
So remain on a right course as you
have been commanded, [you] and those who have turned back with you [to Allah ],
and do not transgress. Indeed, He is Seeing of what you do.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
So remain upright, acting in
accordance with the commandment of your Lord and supplicating Him, as you have
been commanded, and, let him also remain upright, he who repents, [who]
believes, with you; and do not transgress, [do not] overstep the bounds of God.
Truly He sees what you do, and will requite you for it.
وَلَا تَرْكَنُوا إِلَى الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا
فَتَمَسَّكُمُ النَّارُ وَمَا لَكُم مِّن دُونِ اللَّهِ مِنْ أَوْلِيَاءَ ثُمَّ
لَا تُنصَرُونَ
Pronunciation
Wala tarkanoo ila
allatheenathalamoo fatamassakumu annaru wamalakum min dooni Allahi min awliyaa
thumma latunsaroon
Translation
And do not incline toward those
who do wrong, lest you be touched by the Fire, and you would not have other
than Allah any protectors; then you would not be helped.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And do not incline toward the
evildoers, through affection or adulation, or [by showing] satisfaction with
their actions, lest the Fire touch, smite, you, and you have, besides God,
other than Him, no protectors (min awliyā’: min is extra), to guard you from
Him; and then you will not be helped, you will [not] be protected from His
chastisement.
وَأَقِمِ الصَّلَاةَ طَرَفَيِ النَّهَارِ
وَزُلَفًا مِّنَ اللَّيْلِ ۚ إِنَّ
الْحَسَنَاتِ يُذْهِبْنَ السَّيِّئَاتِ ۚ ذَٰلِكَ
ذِكْرَىٰ لِلذَّاكِرِينَ
Pronunciation
Waaqimi assalata tarafayiannahari
wazulafan mina allayli inna alhasanatiyuthhibna assayyi-ati thalika
thikraliththakireen
Translation
And establish prayer at the two
ends of the day and at the approach of the night. Indeed, good deeds do away
with misdeeds. That is a reminder for those who remember.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And establish prayer at the two ends
of the day, at first light and before sunset, that is, [pray] in the morning,
at noon, and in the afternoon, and in some watches (zulafan is the plural of
zulfa), a portion, of the night, that is, at sunset and late evening. Indeed
good deeds, such as the five prayers, annul misdeeds, minor sins: this was
revealed regarding one who kissed a female stranger and told the Prophet (s)
about it, and then asked him, ‘Is this [verse true] for me?’ and the Prophet
said to him, ‘It is [so] for every person of my community’, as reported by the
two Shaykhs [Bukhārī and Muslim]. That is a remembrance for the mindful, an
admonition for those who heed them.
وَاصْبِرْ فَإِنَّ اللَّهَ لَا يُضِيعُ أَجْرَ
الْمُحْسِنِينَ
Pronunciation
Wasbir fa-inna Allahala yudeeAAu
ajra almuhsineen
Translation
And be patient, for indeed, Allah
does not allow to be lost the reward of those who do good.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And be patient, O Muhammad (s), in
[enduring] the harm inflicted [upon you] by your people, or in [performing]
prayer, for indeed God does not waste the wage of those who are virtuous, by
patiently enduring through [acts of] obedience [to God].
فَلَوْلَا كَانَ مِنَ الْقُرُونِ مِن قَبْلِكُمْ
أُولُو بَقِيَّةٍ يَنْهَوْنَ عَنِ الْفَسَادِ فِي الْأَرْضِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا
مِّمَّنْ أَنجَيْنَا مِنْهُمْ ۗ وَاتَّبَعَ
الَّذِينَ ظَلَمُوا مَا أُتْرِفُوا فِيهِ وَكَانُوا مُجْرِمِينَ
Pronunciation
Falawla kana mina alquroonimin
qablikum oloo baqiyyatin yanhawna AAani alfasadi feeal-ardi illa qaleelan
mimman anjayna minhumwattabaAAa allatheena thalamoo maotrifoo feehi wakanoo
mujrimeen
Translation
So why were there not among the
generations before you those of enduring discrimination forbidding corruption
on earth - except a few of those We saved from among them? But those who
wronged pursued what luxury they were given therein, and they were criminals.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
If only there had been among the
generations, past communities, before you men possessing a remnant [of good
sense], men of religion and virtue, forbidding corruption in the earth (this
[statement] is intended to be a negation, in other words, ‘there never were
such [men] among them’), except, but, a few of those whom (mimman: min is
explicative) We delivered from among them, did forbid [corruption] and were
thus delivered. But those who did wrong, through corruption and neglecting to
forbid, followed that by which they were made profligate, and were sinners.
وَمَا كَانَ رَبُّكَ لِيُهْلِكَ الْقُرَىٰ
بِظُلْمٍ وَأَهْلُهَا مُصْلِحُونَ
Pronunciation
Wama kana rabbuka liyuhlikaalqura
bithulmin waahluha muslihoon
Translation
And your Lord would not have
destroyed the cities unjustly while their people were reformers.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
Yet your Lord would never destroy
the towns through injustice, on His part, against them, while their inhabitants
were righteous, that is, believers.
وَلَوْ شَاءَ رَبُّكَ لَجَعَلَ النَّاسَ أُمَّةً
وَاحِدَةً ۖ وَلَا يَزَالُونَ مُخْتَلِفِينَ
Pronunciation
Walaw shaa rabbuka lajaAAala
annasaommatan wahidatan wala yazaloonamukhtalifeen
Translation
And if your Lord had willed, He
could have made mankind one community; but they will not cease to differ.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
Had your Lord willed, He would
have made mankind one community, people of one religion, but they continue to
differ, in religion,
إِلَّا مَن رَّحِمَ رَبُّكَ ۚ وَلِذَٰلِكَ
خَلَقَهُمْ ۗ وَتَمَّتْ كَلِمَةُ رَبِّكَ لَأَمْلَأَنَّ
جَهَنَّمَ مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالنَّاسِ أَجْمَعِينَ
Pronunciation
Illa man rahima rabbuka
walithalikakhalaqahum watammat kalimatu rabbika laamlaanna jahannama
minaaljinnati wannasi ajmaAAeen
Translation
Except whom your Lord has given
mercy, and for that He created them. But the word of your Lord is to be
fulfilled that, "I will surely fill Hell with jinn and men all
together."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
except those on whom your Lord has
mercy, [those] for whom He desires good, and so they do not differ in it — and
that is why He created them, that is, [He created] those of difference for that
[in other words, so that they should differ] and those deserving mercy for that
[in other words, so that they should receive mercy]. And the Word of your Lord
has been fulfilled, namely: ‘I will surely fill Hell with jinn and mankind
together’.
وَكُلًّا نَّقُصُّ عَلَيْكَ مِنْ أَنبَاءِ
الرُّسُلِ مَا نُثَبِّتُ بِهِ فُؤَادَكَ ۚ وَجَاءَكَ فِي
هَٰذِهِ الْحَقُّ وَمَوْعِظَةٌ وَذِكْرَىٰ لِلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Pronunciation
Wakullan naqussu AAalayka min
anba-iarrusuli ma nuthabbitu bihi fu-adaka wajaakafee hathihi alhaqqu
wamawAAithatun wathikralilmu/mineen
Translation
And each [story] We relate to you
from the news of the messengers is that by which We make firm your heart. And
there has come to you, in this, the truth and an instruction and a reminder for
the believers.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And all that (kullān is in the
accusative because [it is the direct object] of naqussu, ‘We relate’; and the
nunation compensates for a [missing] genitive annexation), that is, all that is
necessary, We relate to you of the accounts of the messengers, that (mā
substitutes for kullan, ‘all that’) with which We might strengthen, reassure,
your heart. And in these, accounts, or verses, there has come to you the Truth
and an admonition and a reminder to the believers: they are specifically
mentioned here because they are the ones to benefit from them, through their
belief [in them], in contrast to [the case with] the disbelievers.
وَقُل لِّلَّذِينَ لَا يُؤْمِنُونَ اعْمَلُوا
عَلَىٰ مَكَانَتِكُمْ إِنَّا عَامِلُونَ
Pronunciation
Waqul lillatheena layu/minoona
iAAmaloo AAala makanatikum innaAAamiloon
Translation
And say to those who do not
believe, "Work according to your position; indeed, we are working.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And say to those who do not
believe: ‘Act according to your ability, [according] to your status, we are
acting, according to our status — [this is] a threat for them.
وَانتَظِرُوا إِنَّا مُنتَظِرُونَ
Pronunciation
Wantathiroo innamuntathiroon
Translation
And wait, indeed, we are
waiting."
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And wait, for the consequence of
your affair, we are also waiting’, for this.
وَلِلَّهِ غَيْبُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالْأَرْضِ
وَإِلَيْهِ يُرْجَعُ الْأَمْرُ كُلُّهُ فَاعْبُدْهُ وَتَوَكَّلْ عَلَيْهِ ۚ وَمَا رَبُّكَ
بِغَافِلٍ عَمَّا تَعْمَلُونَ
Pronunciation
Walillahi ghaybu
assamawatiwal-ardi wa-ilayhi yurjaAAu al-amru kulluhu faAAbudhuwatawakkal
AAalayhi wama rabbuka bighafilin AaammataAAmaloon
Translation
And to Allah belong the unseen
[aspects] of the heavens and the earth and to Him will be returned the matter,
all of it, so worship Him and rely upon Him. And your Lord is not unaware of
that which you do.
Tafsir al-Jalalayn
And to God belongs the Unseen of
the heavens and the earth, that is, the knowledge of what is concealed within
them, and to Him all matters are returned (read active yarji‘u, meaning
‘return’, or passive yurja‘u, meaning ‘[are] returned’) and He will exact
retribution from those who were disobedient. So worship Him, affirm His
Oneness, and rely on Him, trust in Him, for He is sufficient for you, and your
Lord is not heedless of what they do, but He defers [dealing with] them until
their [appointed] time (a variant reading has ta‘malūn, ‘[what] you do’).
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