In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful. Alif-Lam-Ra. [These letters are one of the miracles of the Qur'an, and none but Allah (Alone) knows their meanings].These are Verses of the Book and a plain Qur'an.
Transliteration
Aliflamra tilka ayatu alkitabi waquranin mubeenin
Yusuf Ali
A. L. R. These are the Ayats of Revelation, - of a Qur'an that makes things clear.
How much would those who disbelieved wish that they had been Muslims [those who have submitted themselves to Allah's Will in Islam i.e. Islamic Monotheism - this will be on the Day of Resurrection when they will see the disbelievers going to Hell and the Muslims going to Paradise].
Transliteration
Rubama yawaddu allatheena kafaroo law kanoo muslimeena
Yusuf Ali
Again and again will those who disbelieve, wish that they had bowed (to Allah's will) in Islam.
And never came a Messenger to them but they did mock at him.
Transliteration
Wama yateehim min rasoolin illa kanoo bihi yastahzioona
Yusuf Ali
But never came a messenger to them but they mocked him.
Arabic, with marks
كَذَٰلِكَ نَسْلُكُهُ فِي قُلُوبِ الْمُجْرِمِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Thus do We let it (polytheism and disbelief) enter the hearts of the Mujrimun [criminals, polytheists and pagans (because of their mocking at the Messengers)].
Transliteration
Kathalika naslukuhu fee quloobi almujrimeena
Yusuf Ali
Even so do we let it creep into the hearts of the sinners -
And We have provided therein means of living, for you and for those whom you provide not [moving (living) creatures, cattle, beasts, and other animals].
And We send the winds fertilizing (to fill heavily the clouds with water), then cause the water (rain) to descend from the sky, and We give it to you to drink, and it is not you who are the owners of its stores [i.e. to give water to whom you like or to withhold it from whom you like].
Transliteration
Waarsalna alrriyaha lawaqiha faanzalna mina alssamai maan faasqaynakumoohu wama antum lahu bikhazineena
Yusuf Ali
And We send the fecundating winds, then cause the rain to descend from the sky, therewith providing you with water (in abundance), though ye are not the guardians of its stores.
And indeed, We know the first generations of you who had passed away, and indeed, We know the present generations of you (mankind), and also those who will come afterwards.
"So, when I have fashioned him completely and breathed into him (Adam) the soul which I created for him, then fall (you) down prostrating yourselves unto him."
Transliteration
Faitha sawwaytuhu wanafakhtu feehi min roohee faqaAAoo lahu sajideena
Yusuf Ali
"When I have fashioned him (in due proportion) and breathed into him of My spirit, fall ye down in obeisance unto him."
Arabic, with marks
فَسَجَدَ الْمَلَائِكَةُ كُلُّهُمْ أَجْمَعُونَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together.
Transliteration
Fasajada almalaikatu kulluhum ajmaAAoona
Yusuf Ali
So the angels prostrated themselves, all of them together:
[Iblis (Satan)] said: "O my Lord! Because you misled me, I shall indeed adorn the path of error for them (mankind) on the earth, and I shall mislead them all.
Transliteration
Qala rabbi bima aghwaytanee laozayyinanna lahum fee alardi walaoghwiyannahum ajmaAAeena
Yusuf Ali
(Iblis) said: "O my Lord! because Thou hast put me in the wrong, I will make (wrong) fair - seeming to them on the earth, and I will put them all in the wrong, -
Arabic, with marks
إِلَّا عِبَادَكَ مِنْهُمُ الْمُخْلَصِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
"Except Your chosen, (guided) slaves among them."
Transliteration
Illa AAibadaka minhumu almukhlaseena
Yusuf Ali
"Except Thy servants among them, sincere and purified (by Thy Grace)."
Arabic, with marks
قَالَ هَٰذَا صِرَاطٌ عَلَيَّ مُسْتَقِيمٌ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
(Allah) said: "This is the Way which will lead straight to Me."
Transliteration
Qala hathasiratun AAalayya mustaqeemun
Yusuf Ali
(Allah) said: "This (way of My sincere servants) is indeed a way that leads straight to Me.
"Certainly, you shall have no authority over My slaves, except those who follow you of the Ghawun (Mushrikun and those who go astray, criminals, polytheists, and evil-doers).
Transliteration
Inna AAibadee laysa laka AAalayhim sultanun illa mani ittabaAAaka mina alghaweena
Yusuf Ali
"For over My servants no authority shalt thou have, except such as put themselves in the wrong and follow thee."
Arabic, with marks
وَإِنَّ جَهَنَّمَ لَمَوْعِدُهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
"And surely, Hell is the promised place for them all.
Transliteration
Wainna jahannama lamawAAiduhum ajmaAAeena
Yusuf Ali
And verily, Hell is the promised abode for them all!
"And We shall remove from their breasts any deep feeling of bitterness (that they may have). (So they will be like) brothers facing each other on thrones.
Transliteration
WanazaAAna ma fee sudoorihim min ghillin ikhwanan AAala sururin mutaqabileena
Yusuf Ali
And We shall remove from their hearts any lurking sense of injury: (they will be) brothers (joyfully) facing each other on thrones (of dignity).
"Then travel in a part of the night with your family, and you go behind them in the rear, and let no one amongst you look back, but go on to where you are ordered."
"Then travel by night with thy household, when a portion of the night (yet remains), and do thou bring up the rear: let no one amongst you look back, but pass on whither ye are ordered."
And We made known this decree to him, that the root of those (sinners) was to be cut off in the early morning.
Transliteration
Waqadayna ilayhi thalika alamra anna dabira haolai maqtooAAun musbiheena
Yusuf Ali
And We made known this decree to him, that the last remnants of those (sinners) should be cut off by the morning.
Arabic, with marks
وَجَاءَ أَهْلُ الْمَدِينَةِ يَسْتَبْشِرُونَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And the inhabitants of the city came rejoicing (at the news of the young men's arrival).
Transliteration
Wajaa ahlu almadeenati yastabshiroona
Yusuf Ali
The inhabitants of the city came in (mad) joy (at news of the young men).
Arabic, with marks
قَالَ إِنَّ هَٰؤُلَاءِ ضَيْفِي فَلَا تَفْضَحُونِ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
[Lut (Lot)] said: "Verily! these are my guests, so shame me not.
Transliteration
Qala inna haolai dayfee fala tafdahooni
Yusuf Ali
Lut said: "These are my guests: disgrace me not:
Arabic, with marks
وَاتَّقُوا اللَّهَ وَلَا تُخْزُونِ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
"And fear Allah and disgrace me not."
Transliteration
Waittaqoo Allaha wala tukhzooni
Yusuf Ali
"But fear Allah, and shame me not."
Arabic, with marks
قَالُوا أَوَلَمْ نَنْهَكَ عَنِ الْعَالَمِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
They (people of the city) said: "Did we not forbid you from entertaining (or protecting) any of the 'Alamin (people, foreigners and strangers from us)?"
Transliteration
Qaloo awalam nanhaka AAani alAAalameena
Yusuf Ali
They said: "Did we not forbid thee (to speak) for all and sundry?"
Arabic, with marks
قَالَ هَٰؤُلَاءِ بَنَاتِي إِن كُنتُمْ فَاعِلِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
[Lut (Lot)] said: "These (the girls of the nation) are my daughters (to marry lawfully), if you must act (so)."
Transliteration
Qala haolai banatee in kuntum faAAileena
Yusuf Ali
He said: "There are my daughters (to marry), if ye must act (so)."
And We turned (the towns of Sodom in Palestine) upside down and rained down on them stones of baked clay.
Transliteration
FajaAAalna AAaliyaha safilaha waamtarna AAalayhim hijaratan min sijjeelin
Yusuf Ali
And We turned (the cities) upside down, and rained down on them brimstones hard as baked clay.
Arabic, with marks
إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّلْمُتَوَسِّمِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Surely! In this are signs for those who see (or understand or learn the lessons from the Signs of Allah).
Transliteration
Inna fee thalika laayatin lilmutawassimeena
Yusuf Ali
Behold! in this are Signs for those who by tokens do understand.
Arabic, with marks
وَإِنَّهَا لَبِسَبِيلٍ مُّقِيمٍ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And verily! They (the cities) were right on the highroad (from Makkah to Syria i.e. the place where the Dead Sea is now) .
Transliteration
Wainnaha labisabeelin muqeemin
Yusuf Ali
And the (cities were) right on the high - road.
Arabic, with marks
إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَةً لِّلْمُؤْمِنِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Surely! Therein is indeed a sign for the believers.
Transliteration
Inna fee thalika laayatan lilmumineena
Yusuf Ali
Behold! in this is a sign for those who believed.
Arabic, with marks
وَإِن كَانَ أَصْحَابُ الْأَيْكَةِ لَظَالِمِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And the Dwellers in the Wood [i.e. the people of Madyan (Midian) to whom Prophet Shu'aib (عليه السلام) was sent by Allah), were also Zalimun (polytheists and wrong-doers).
Transliteration
Wain kana ashabu alaykati lathalimeena
Yusuf Ali
And the Companions of the Wood were also wrong - doers;
And We created not the heavens and the earth and all that is between them except with truth, and the Hour is surely coming, so overlook (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم) their faults with gracious forgiveness. [This was before the ordainment of Jihad - holy fighting in Allah's cause].
We created not the heavens, the earth, and all between them, but for just ends. And the Hour is surely coming (when this will be manifest). So overlook (any human faults) with gracious forgiveness.
Arabic, with marks
إِنَّ رَبَّكَ هُوَ الْخَلَّاقُ الْعَلِيمُ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Verily, your Lord is the All-Knowing Creator.
Transliteration
Inna rabbaka huwa alkhallaqu alAAaleemu
Yusuf Ali
For verily it is thy Lord who is the Master - Creator, knowing all things.
Look not with your eyes ambitiously at what We have bestowed on certain classes of them (the disbelievers), nor grieve over them. And lower your wings for the believers (be courteous to the fellow-believers).
Transliteration
La tamuddanna AAaynayka ila ma mattaAAna bihi azwajan minhum wala tahzan AAalayhim waikhfid janahaka lilmumineena
Yusuf Ali
Strain not thine eyes. (Wistfully) at what We have bestowed on certain classes of them, nor grieve over them: but lower thy wing (in gentleness) to the believers.
Arabic, with marks
وَقُلْ إِنِّي أَنَا النَّذِيرُ الْمُبِينُ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
And say (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم): "I am indeed a plain warner."
Transliteration
Waqul innee ana alnnatheeru almubeenu
Yusuf Ali
And say: "I am indeed he that warneth openly and without ambiguity," -
Arabic, with marks
كَمَا أَنزَلْنَا عَلَى الْمُقْتَسِمِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
As We have sent down on the dividers, (Quraish pagans or Jews and Christians).
Transliteration
Kama anzalna AAala almuqtasimeena
Yusuf Ali
(Of just such wrath) as We sent down on those who divided (Scripture into arbitrary parts), -
Arabic, with marks
الَّذِينَ جَعَلُوا الْقُرْآنَ عِضِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Who have made the Qur'an into parts. (i.e. believed in one part and disbelieved in the other). [Tafsir At-Tabari]
Transliteration
Allatheena jaAAaloo alqurana AAideena
Yusuf Ali
(So also on such) as have made Qur'an into shreds (as they please).
Arabic, with marks
فَوَرَبِّكَ لَنَسْأَلَنَّهُمْ أَجْمَعِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
So, by your Lord (O Muhammad صلى الله عليه و سلم), We shall certainly call all of them to account.
Transliteration
Fawarabbika lanasalannahum ajmaAAeena
Yusuf Ali
Therefore, by the Lord, We will, of a surety, call them to account,
Therefore proclaim openly (Allah's Message - Islamic Monotheism) that which you are commanded, and turn away from Al-Mushrikun (polytheists, idolaters, and disbelievers - See V.2:105).
Transliteration
FaisdaAA bima tumaru waaAArid AAani almushrikeena
Yusuf Ali
Therefore expound openly what thou art commanded, and turn away from those who join false gods with Allah.
Arabic, with marks
إِنَّا كَفَيْنَاكَ الْمُسْتَهْزِئِينَ
Hilali & Muhsin Khan
Truly! We will suffice you against the scoffers,
Transliteration
Inna kafaynaka almustahzieena
Yusuf Ali
For sufficient are We unto thee against those who scoff, -