الذي له ملك السماوات والأرض ولم يتخذ ولدا ولم يكن له شريك في الملك وخلق كل شيء فقدره تقديرا
Yusuf Ali
He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth: no son has He begotten, nor has He a partner in His dominion: it is He who created all things, and ordered them in due proportions.
واتخذوا من دونه آلهة لا يخلقون شيئا وهم يخلقون ولا يملكون لأنفسهم ضرا ولا نفعا ولا يملكون موتا ولا حياة ولا نشورا
Yusuf Ali
Yet have they taken, besides him, gods that can create nothing but are themselves created; that have no control of hurt or good to themselves; nor can they control death nor life nor resurrection.
وقال الذين كفروا إن هذا إلا إفك افتراه وأعانه عليه قوم آخرون ۖ فقد جاءوا ظلما وزورا
Yusuf Ali
But the misbelievers say: "Naught is this but a lie which he has forged, and others have helped him at it." In truth it is they who have put forward an iniquity and a falsehood.
Transliteration
Waqala allatheena kafaroo in hatha illa ifkun iftarahu waaAAanahu AAalayhi qawmun akharoona faqad jaoo thulman wazooran
Arabic
وقالوا أساطير الأولين اكتتبها فهي تملى عليه بكرة وأصيلا
Yusuf Ali
And they say: "Tales of the ancients, which he has caused to be written: and they are dictated before him morning and evening."
وقالوا مال هذا الرسول يأكل الطعام ويمشي في الأسواق ۙ لولا أنزل إليه ملك فيكون معه نذيرا
Yusuf Ali
And they say: "What sort of a messenger is this, who eats food, and walks through the streets? Why has not an angel been sent down to him to give admonition with him?
أو يلقى إليه كنز أو تكون له جنة يأكل منها ۚ وقال الظالمون إن تتبعون إلا رجلا مسحورا
Yusuf Ali
"Or (Why) has not a treasure been bestowed on him, or why has he (not) a garden for enjoyment?" The wicked say: "Ye follow none other than a man bewitched."
Transliteration
Aw yulqa ilayhi kanzun aw takoonu lahu jannatun yakulu minha waqala alththalimoona in tattabiAAoona illa rajulan mashooran
Arabic
انظر كيف ضربوا لك الأمثال فضلوا فلا يستطيعون سبيلا
Yusuf Ali
See what kinds of comparisons they make for thee! But they have gone astray, and never a way will they be able to find!
Transliteration
Onthur kayfa daraboo laka alamthala fadalloo fala yastateeAAoona sabeelan
Arabic
تبارك الذي إن شاء جعل لك خيرا من ذلك جنات تجري من تحتها الأنهار ويجعل لك قصورا
Yusuf Ali
Blessed is He who, if that were His will, could give thee better (things) than those, - Gardens beneath which rivers flow; and He could give thee palaces (secure to dwell in).
Transliteration
Tabaraka allathee in shaa jaAAala laka khayran min thalika jannatin tajree min tahtiha alanharu wayajAAal laka qusooran
Arabic
بل كذبوا بالساعة ۖ وأعتدنا لمن كذب بالساعة سعيرا
Yusuf Ali
Nay they deny the hour (of the judgment to come): but We have prepared a blazing fire for such as deny the hour:
Transliteration
Bal kaththaboo bialssaAAati waaAAtadna liman kaththaba bialssaAAati saAAeeran
Arabic
إذا رأتهم من مكان بعيد سمعوا لها تغيظا وزفيرا
Yusuf Ali
When it sees them from a place far off, they will hear its fury and its ranging sigh.
Transliteration
Itha raathum min makanin baAAeedin samiAAoo laha taghayyuthan wazafeeran
Arabic
وإذا ألقوا منها مكانا ضيقا مقرنين دعوا هنالك ثبورا
Yusuf Ali
And when they are cast, bound together into a constricted place therein, they will plead for destruction there and then!
Transliteration
Waitha olqoo minha makanan dayyiqan muqarraneena daAAaw hunalika thubooran
Arabic
لا تدعوا اليوم ثبورا واحدا وادعوا ثبورا كثيرا
Yusuf Ali
"This day plead not for a single destruction: plead for destruction oft - repeated!"
Transliteration
La tadAAoo alyawma thubooran wahidan waodAAoo thubooran katheeran
Arabic
قل أذلك خير أم جنة الخلد التي وعد المتقون ۚ كانت لهم جزاء ومصيرا
Yusuf Ali
Say: "Is that best, or the eternal garden, promised to the righteous? for them, that is a reward as well as a goal (of attainment).
Transliteration
Qul athalika khayrun am jannatu alkhuldi allatee wuAAida almuttaqoona kanat lahum jazaan wamaseeran
Arabic
لهم فيها ما يشاءون خالدين ۚ كان على ربك وعدا مسئولا
Yusuf Ali
"For them there will be therein all that they wish for: they will dwell (there) for aye: A promise to be prayed for from thy Lord."
Transliteration
Lahum feeha ma yashaoona khalideena kana AAala rabbika waAAdan masoolan
Arabic
ويوم يحشرهم وما يعبدون من دون الله فيقول أأنتم أضللتم عبادي هؤلاء أم هم ضلوا السبيل
Yusuf Ali
The day He will gather them together as well as those whom they worship besides Allah, He will ask: "Was it ye who let these My servants astray, or did they stray from the Path themselves?"
Transliteration
Wayawma yahshuruhum wama yaAAbudoona min dooni Allahi fayaqoolu aantum adlaltum AAibadee haolai am hum dalloo alssabeela
Arabic
قالوا سبحانك ما كان ينبغي لنا أن نتخذ من دونك من أولياء ولكن متعتهم وآباءهم حتى نسوا الذكر وكانوا قوما بورا
Yusuf Ali
They will say: "Glory to Thee! not meet was it for us that we should take for protectors others besides Thee: But Thou didst bestow, on them and their fathers, good things (in life), until they forgot the Message: for they were a people (worthless and) lost."
Transliteration
Qaloo subhanaka ma kana yanbaghee lana an nattakhitha min doonika min awliyaa walakin mattaAAtahum waabaahum hatta nasoo alththikra wakanoo qawman booran
Arabic
فقد كذبوكم بما تقولون فما تستطيعون صرفا ولا نصرا ۚ ومن يظلم منكم نذقه عذابا كبيرا
Yusuf Ali
(Allah will say): "Now have they proved you liars in what ye say: so ye cannot avert (your penalty) nor (get) help." And whoever among you does wrong, him shall We cause to taste of a grievous Penalty.
وما أرسلنا قبلك من المرسلين إلا إنهم ليأكلون الطعام ويمشون في الأسواق ۗ وجعلنا بعضكم لبعض فتنة أتصبرون ۗ وكان ربك بصيرا
Yusuf Ali
And the messengers whom We sent before thee were all (men) who ate food and walked through the streets: We have made some of you as a trial for others: will ye have patience? for Allah is One Who sees (all things).
Transliteration
Wama arsalna qablaka mina almursaleena illa innahum layakuloona alttaAAama wayamshoona fee alaswaqi wajaAAalna baAAdakum libaAAdin fitnatan atasbiroona wakana rabbuka baseeran
Arabic
۞ وقال الذين لا يرجون لقاءنا لولا أنزل علينا الملائكة أو نرى ربنا ۗ لقد استكبروا في أنفسهم وعتوا عتوا كبيرا
Yusuf Ali
Such as fear not the meeting with Us (for Judgment) say: "Why are not the angels sent down to us, or (why) do we not see our Lord?" Indeed they have an arrogant conceit of themselves, and mighty is the insolence of their impiety!
Transliteration
Waqala allatheena la yarjoona liqaana lawla onzila AAalayna almalaikatu aw nara rabbana laqadi istakbaroo fee anfusihim waAAataw AAutuwwan kabeeran
Arabic
يوم يرون الملائكة لا بشرى يومئذ للمجرمين ويقولون حجرا محجورا
Yusuf Ali
The Day they see the angels, - no joy will there be to the sinners that Day: The (angels) will say: "There is a barrier forbidden (to you) altogether!"
Transliteration
Yawma yarawna almalaikata la bushra yawmaithin lilmujrimeena wayaqooloona hijran mahjooran
Arabic
وقدمنا إلى ما عملوا من عمل فجعلناه هباء منثورا
Yusuf Ali
And We shall turn to whatever deeds they did (in this life), and We shall make such deeds as floating dust scattered about.
Transliteration
Waqadimna ila ma AAamiloo min AAamalin fajaAAalnahu habaan manthooran
Arabic
أصحاب الجنة يومئذ خير مستقرا وأحسن مقيلا
Yusuf Ali
The Companions of the Garden will be well, that Day, in their abode, and have the fairest of places for repose.
وقال الذين كفروا لولا نزل عليه القرآن جملة واحدة ۚ كذلك لنثبت به فؤادك ۖ ورتلناه ترتيلا
Yusuf Ali
Those who reject Faith say: "Why is not the Qur'an revealed to him all at once? Thus (is it revealed), that We may strengthen thy heart thereby, and We have rehearsed it to thee in slow, well - arranged stages, gradually.
And the people of Noah, - when they rejected the messengers, We drowned them, and We made them as a Sign for mankind; and We have prepared for (all) wrong - doers a grievous Penalty; -
ولقد أتوا على القرية التي أمطرت مطر السوء ۚ أفلم يكونوا يرونها ۚ بل كانوا لا يرجون نشورا
Yusuf Ali
And the (Unbelievers) must indeed have passed by the town on which was rained a shower of evil: did they not then see it (with their own eyes)? But they fear not the Resurrection.
Transliteration
Walaqad ataw AAala alqaryati allatee omtirat matara alssawi afalam yakoonoo yarawnaha bal kanoo la yarjoona nushooran
Arabic
وإذا رأوك إن يتخذونك إلا هزوا أهذا الذي بعث الله رسولا
Yusuf Ali
When they see thee, they treat thee no otherwise than in mockery: "Is this the one whom Allah has sent as a messenger?"
Transliteration
Waitha raawka in yattakhithoonaka illa huzuwan ahatha allathee baAAatha Allahu rasoolan
Arabic
إن كاد ليضلنا عن آلهتنا لولا أن صبرنا عليها ۚ وسوف يعلمون حين يرون العذاب من أضل سبيلا
Yusuf Ali
"He indeed would well - nigh have misled us from our gods, had it not been that we were constant to them!" - Soon will they know, when they see the Penalty, who it is that is most misled in Path!
Transliteration
In kada layudilluna AAan alihatina lawla an sabarna AAalayha wasawfa yaAAlamoona heena yarawna alAAathaba man adallu sabeelan
Arabic
أرأيت من اتخذ إلهه هواه أفأنت تكون عليه وكيلا
Yusuf Ali
Seest thou such a one as taketh for his god his own passion (or impulse)? Couldst thou be a disposer of affairs for him?
أم تحسب أن أكثرهم يسمعون أو يعقلون ۚ إن هم إلا كالأنعام ۖ بل هم أضل سبيلا
Yusuf Ali
Or thinkest thou that most of them listen or understand? They are only like cattle; - nay, they are worse astray in Path.
Transliteration
Am tahsabu anna aktharahum yasmaAAoona aw yaAAqiloona in hum illa kaalanAAami bal hum adallu sabeelan
Arabic
ألم تر إلى ربك كيف مد الظل ولو شاء لجعله ساكنا ثم جعلنا الشمس عليه دليلا
Yusuf Ali
Hast thou not turned thy vision to thy Lord? - How He doth prolong the shadow! If He willed, He could make it stationary! then do We make the sun its guide;
Transliteration
Alam tara ila rabbika kayfa madda alththilla walaw shaa lajaAAalahu sakinan thumma jaAAalna alshshamsa AAalayhi daleelan
Arabic
ثم قبضناه إلينا قبضا يسيرا
Yusuf Ali
Then We draw it in towards Ourselves, - a contraction by easy stages.
Transliteration
Thumma qabadnahu ilayna qabdan yaseeran
Arabic
وهو الذي جعل لكم الليل لباسا والنوم سباتا وجعل النهار نشورا
Yusuf Ali
And He it is Who makes the Night as a Robe for you, and Sleep as Repose, and makes the Day (as it were) a Resurrection.
ولقد صرفناه بينهم ليذكروا فأبى أكثر الناس إلا كفورا
Yusuf Ali
And We have distributed the (water) amongst them, in order that they may celebrate (our) praises, but most men are averse (to aught) but (rank) ingratitude.
Transliteration
Walaqad sarrafnahu baynahum liyaththakkaroo faaba aktharu alnnasi illa kufooran
Arabic
ولو شئنا لبعثنا في كل قرية نذيرا
Yusuf Ali
Had it been Our Will, We could have sent a warner to every centre of population.
Therefore listen not to the Unbelievers, but strive against them with the utmost strenuousness, with the (Qur'an).
Transliteration
Fala tutiAAi alkafireena wajahidhum bihi jihadan kabeeran
Arabic
۞ وهو الذي مرج البحرين هذا عذب فرات وهذا ملح أجاج وجعل بينهما برزخا وحجرا محجورا
Yusuf Ali
It is He Who has let free the two bodies of flowing water: One palatable and sweet, and the other salt and bitter; yet has He made a barrier between them, a partition that is forbidden to be passed.
ويعبدون من دون الله ما لا ينفعهم ولا يضرهم ۗ وكان الكافر على ربه ظهيرا
Yusuf Ali
Yet do they worship, besides Allah, things that can neither profit them nor harm them: and the Misbeliever is a helper (of Evil), against his own Lord!
Transliteration
WayaAAbudoona min dooni Allahi ma la yanfaAAuhum wala yadurruhum wakana alkafiru AAala rabbihi thaheeran
Arabic
وما أرسلناك إلا مبشرا ونذيرا
Yusuf Ali
But thee We only sent to give glad tidings and admonition.
Transliteration
Wama arsalnaka illa mubashshiran wanatheeran
Arabic
قل ما أسألكم عليه من أجر إلا من شاء أن يتخذ إلى ربه سبيلا
Yusuf Ali
Say: "No reward do I ask of you for it but this: that each one who will may take a (straight) Path to his Lord."
Transliteration
Qul ma asalukum AAalayhi min ajrin illa man shaa an yattakhitha ila rabbihi sabeelan
Arabic
وتوكل على الحي الذي لا يموت وسبح بحمده ۚ وكفى به بذنوب عباده خبيرا
Yusuf Ali
And put thy trust in Him Who lives and dies not; and celebrate his praise; and enough is He to be acquainted with the faults of His servants; -
الذي خلق السماوات والأرض وما بينهما في ستة أيام ثم استوى على العرش ۚ الرحمن فاسأل به خبيرا
Yusuf Ali
He Who created the heavens and the earth and all that is between, in six days, and is firmly established on the Throne (of Authority): Allah Most Gracious: ask thou, then, about Him of any acquainted (with such things).
وإذا قيل لهم اسجدوا للرحمن قالوا وما الرحمن أنسجد لما تأمرنا وزادهم نفورا ۩
Yusuf Ali
When it is said to them, "Prostrate to (Allah) Most Gracious!", they say, "And what is (Allah) Most Gracious? Shall we prostrate to that which thou commandest us?" And it increases their flight (from the Truth).
والذين لا يدعون مع الله إلها آخر ولا يقتلون النفس التي حرم الله إلا بالحق ولا يزنون ۚ ومن يفعل ذلك يلق أثاما
Yusuf Ali
Those who invoke not, with Allah, any other god, nor slay such life as Allah has made sacred except for just cause, nor commit fornication; - and any that does this (not only) meets punishment.
إلا من تاب وآمن وعمل عملا صالحا فأولئك يبدل الله سيئاتهم حسنات ۗ وكان الله غفورا رحيما
Yusuf Ali
Unless he repents, believes, and works righteous deeds, for Allah will change the evil of such persons into good, and Allah is Oft - Forgiving, Most Merciful,
Transliteration
Illa man taba waamana waAAamila AAamalan salihan faolaika yubaddilu Allahu sayyiatihim hasanatin wakana Allahu ghafooran raheeman
Arabic
ومن تاب وعمل صالحا فإنه يتوب إلى الله متابا
Yusuf Ali
And whoever repents and does good has truly turned to Allah with an (acceptable) conversion; -
Transliteration
Waman taba waAAamila salihan fainnahu yatoobu ila Allahi mataban
Arabic
والذين لا يشهدون الزور وإذا مروا باللغو مروا كراما
Yusuf Ali
Those who witness no falsehood, and, if they pass by futility, they pass by it with honourable (avoidance);
Transliteration
Waallatheena la yashhadoona alzzoora waitha marroo biallaghwi marroo kiraman
Arabic
والذين إذا ذكروا بآيات ربهم لم يخروا عليها صما وعميانا
Yusuf Ali
Those who, when they are admonished with the Signs of their Lord, droop not down at them as if they were deaf or blind;
والذين يقولون ربنا هب لنا من أزواجنا وذرياتنا قرة أعين واجعلنا للمتقين إماما
Yusuf Ali
And those who pray, "Our Lord! Grant unto us wives and offspring who will be the comfort of our eyes, and give us (the grace) to lead the righteous."
Transliteration
Waallatheena yaqooloona rabbana hab lana min azwajina wathurriyyatina qurrata aAAyunin waijAAalna lilmuttaqeena imaman
Arabic
أولئك يجزون الغرفة بما صبروا ويلقون فيها تحية وسلاما
Yusuf Ali
Those are the ones who will be rewarded with the highest place in heaven, because of their patient constancy: therein shall they be met with salutations and peace,
Dwelling therein; - how beautiful an abode and place of rest!
Transliteration
Khalideena feehahasunat mustaqarran wamuqaman
Arabic
قل ما يعبأ بكم ربي لولا دعاؤكم ۖ فقد كذبتم فسوف يكون لزاما
Yusuf Ali
Say (to the Rejecters): "My Lord is not uneasy because of you if ye call not on Him: But ye have indeed rejected (Him), and soon will come the inevitable (punishment)!"