الزمر
Az-Zumar
Do Not Lose Heart
بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
The descent of the Scripture comes from God, the All-Powerful, the Wise.
تنزيل الكتب من الله العزيز الحكيم
We have sent down to you the Scripture in truth; so obey God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him.
انا انزلنا اليك الكتب بالحق فاعبد الله مخلصا له الدين
Is it not so: to God belongs the refined and exclusive Law.
الا لله الدين الخالص
And those who take allies besides Him: "We only obey them so that they may bring us nearer to God, as near as can be";
والذين اتخذوا من دونه اوليا ما نعبدهم الا ليقربونا الي الله زلفي
God will indeed judge between them concerning that in which they differ.
ان الله يحكم بينهم في ما هم فيه يختلفون
God does not guide one who is a liar, a great disowner.
ان الله لا يهدي من هو كذب كفار
Had God wanted to take a child, He would have chosen what He wills from what He creates;
لو اراد الله ان يتخذ ولدا لاصطفي مما يخلق ما يشا
glory be to Him —
سبحنه
He is God, the One, the Subjugator.
هو الله الوحد القهار
He created the heavens and the earth in truth;
خلق السموت والارض بالحق
He wraps the night around the day, and wraps the day around the night;
يكور اليل علي النهار ويكور النهار علي اليل
and He has subjected the sun and the moon,
وسخر الشمس والقمر
each running to an appointed term.
كل يجري لاجل مسمي
Is it not so: He is the All-Powerful, the Great Forgiver.
الا هو العزيز الغفر
He created you from a single Self, then brought forth from it its spouse;
خلقكم من نفس وحده ثم جعل منها زوجها
and He sent down for you, among the cattle, eight, in pairs;
وانزل لكم من الانعم ثمنيه ازوج
He creates you in the bellies of your mothers, creation after creation, in three darknesses;
يخلقكم في بطون امهتكم خلقا من بعد خلق في ظلمت ثلث
that is God, your Guardian; to Him belongs the dominion;
ذلكم الله ربكم له الملك
there is no deity but Him;
لا اله الا هو
how then are you turned away?
فاني تصرفون
If you disown, God is indeed Self-Sufficient, independent of you;
ان تكفروا فان الله غني عنكم
and He does not approve of disowning for His obedient ones;
ولا يرضي لعباده الكفر
but if you are grateful, He approves it for you.
وان تشكروا يرضه لكم
And no bearer of burden shall bear the burden of another;
ولا تزر وازره وزر اخري
then to your Guardian is your return, and He will inform you of what you used to do.
ثم الي ربكم مرجعكم فينبيكم بما كنتم تعملون
He is All-Knowing of what the chests contain.
انه عليم بذات الصدور
And when harm touches the human being, he calls upon his Guardian, having recourse to Him;
واذا مس الانسن ضر دعا ربه منيبا اليه
then, when He vouchsafes him a blessing from Himself, he forgets what he used to call upon before, and assigns equals to God, to lead astray from His way.
ثم اذا خوله نعمه منه نسي ما كان يدعوا اليه من قبل وجعل لله اندادا ليضل عن سبيله
Say: "Enjoy your disowning a little; you are indeed among the companions of the Fire."
قل تمتع بكفرك قليلا انك من اصحب النار
He who is devoted through the hours of the night, prostrating and standing, wary of the last life and hoping for the benevolence of his Guardian —
امن هو قنت انا اليل ساجدا وقايما يحذر الاخره ويرجوا رحمه ربه
say: "Are those who know equal to those who do not know?"
قل هل يستوي الذين يعلمون والذين لا يعلمون
Only the possessors of intelligence remember.
انما يتذكر اولوا الالبب
Say: "O My obedient ones who believe, guard yourselves toward your Guardian;
قل يعباد الذين امنوا اتقوا ربكم
for those who do good, in the present life, there is beauty;
للذين احسنوا في هذه الدنيا حسنه
and God's earth is vast;
وارض الله وسعه
only the patient will be faithfully repaid their reward, without count."
انما يوفي الصبرون اجرهم بغير حساب
Say: "I have been commanded to obey God, devoting the Law exclusively to Him, and I have been commanded to be the first of those true to Him alone."
قل اني امرت ان اعبد الله مخلصا له الدين وامرت لان اكون اول المسلمين
Say: "I indeed fear, if I disobey my Guardian, the punishment of an immense day."
قل اني اخاف ان عصيت ربي عذاب يوم عظيم
Say: "It is God I obey, devoting my Law exclusively to Him;
قل الله اعبد مخلصا له ديني
so obey whatever you will besides Him."
فاعبدوا ما شيتم من دونه
Say: "The losers are those who will have caused the loss of their Selves and of their families on the Day of Appearance;
قل ان الخسرين الذين خسروا انفسهم واهليهم يوم القيمه
is it not so: that is the manifest loss."
الا ذلك هو الخسران المبين
They will have, above them, canopies of Fire, and beneath them, likewise;
لهم من فوقهم ظلل من النار ومن تحتهم ظلل
it is by this that God frightens His obedient ones:
ذلك يخوف الله به عباده
"O My obedient ones, guard yourselves toward Me!"
يعباد فاتقون
And those who avoid obeying the Overreacher, and have recourse to God, to them the good tidings.
والذين اجتنبوا الطغوت ان يعبدوها وانابوا الي الله لهم البشري
So give good news to My obedient ones who listen to the saying and follow the most beautiful of it;
فبشر عباد الذين يستمعون القول فيتبعون احسنه
those are the ones God has guided,
اوليك الذين هديهم الله
and those are the possessors of intelligence.
واوليك هم اولوا الالبب
He against whom the word of punishment has proven true — will you save him who is in the Fire?
افمن حق عليه كلمه العذاب افانت تنقذ من في النار
But those who guarded themselves before their Guardian will have high chambers, above which other chambers are built, beneath which rivers flow;
لكن الذين اتقوا ربهم لهم غرف من فوقها غرف مبنيه تجري من تحتها الانهر
a promise of God —
وعد الله
God does not fail His promise.
لا يخلف الله الميعاد
Have you not seen that God sends down water from the sky, and channels it as springs in the earth, then brings forth with it crops of varying colors; then they wither, and you see them yellowed; then He turns them to debris?
الم تر ان الله انزل من السما ما فسلكه ينبيع في الارض ثم يخرج به زرعا مختلفا الونه ثم يهيج فتريه مصفرا ثم يجعله حطما
There is surely in that a reminder for the possessors of intelligence.
ان في ذلك لذكري لاولي الالبب
He whose chest God has opened to being true to God alone, so that he is upon a light from his Guardian —
افمن شرح الله صدره للاسلم فهو علي نور من ربه
so woe to those whose cores are hardened against the remembrance of God!
فويل للقسيه قلوبهم من ذكر الله
Those are in manifest error.
اوليك في ضلل مبين
God has sent down the most beautiful of discourse, a Scripture whose parts resemble one another, in couplets,
الله نزل احسن الحديث كتبا متشبها مثاني
at which the skins of those who dread their Guardian shiver; then their skins and their cores soften toward the remembrance of God;
تقشعر منه جلود الذين يخشون ربهم ثم تلين جلودهم وقلوبهم الي ذكر الله
that is the guidance of God, by which He guides whom He wills;
ذلك هدي الله يهدي به من يشا
and whoever God sends astray has no guide.
ومن يضلل الله فما له من هاد
He who guards himself with his face from the worst punishment on the Day of Appearance —
افمن يتقي بوجهه سو العذاب يوم القيمه
and it will be said to the wrongdoers: "Taste what you used to earn."
وقيل للظلمين ذوقوا ما كنتم تكسبون
Those before them denied, and the punishment came to them from where they did not sense;
كذب الذين من قبلهم فاتيهم العذاب من حيث لا يشعرون
God made them taste disgrace in the present life,
فاذاقهم الله الخزي في الحيوه الدنيا
and the punishment of the last life is greater, if only they knew.
ولعذاب الاخره اكبر لو كانوا يعلمون
And We have certainly multiplied for men, in this Recitation, every kind of example, perhaps they will remember — a flawless Recitation, without any crookedness, perhaps they will guard themselves.
ولقد ضربنا للناس في هذا القران من كل مثل لعلهم يتذكرون قرانا عربيا غير ذي عوج لعلهم يتقون
God multiplies an example: a man belonging to associates in disagreement, and a man belonging wholly to one man —
ضرب الله مثلا رجلا فيه شركا متشكسون ورجلا سلما لرجل
are they equal in example?
هل يستويان مثلا
Praise be to God!
الحمد لله
But most of them do not know.
بل اكثرهم لا يعلمون
You will die, and they will die; then, on the Day of Appearance, you will indeed quarrel before your Guardian.
انك ميت وانهم ميتون ثم انكم يوم القيمه عند ربكم تختصمون
Who then does more wrong than one who lies about God and denies veracity when it has come to him?
فمن اظلم ممن كذب علي الله وكذب بالصدق اذ جاه
Is there not, in Jahannam, a sojourn for those who disown?
اليس في جهنم مثوي للكفرين
And he who came with veracity, and declared it true, those are the ones who guard themselves.
والذي جا بالصدق وصدق به اوليك هم المتقون
They will have whatever they will, with their Guardian;
لهم ما يشاون عند ربهم
such is the recompense of those who do good, so that God may cover for them the worst of what they did, and recompense them with their reward, according to the most beautiful of what they used to do.
ذلك جزا المحسنين ليكفر الله عنهم اسوا الذي عملوا ويجزيهم اجرهم باحسن الذي كانوا يعملون
Is God not sufficient for His obedient one?
اليس الله بكاف عبده
And they seek to frighten you with those besides Him;
ويخوفونك بالذين من دونه
and whoever God sends astray has no guide.
ومن يضلل الله فما له من هاد
And whoever God guides has no one to lead him astray;
ومن يهد الله فما له من مضل
is God not All-Powerful, possessor of vengeance?
اليس الله بعزيز ذي انتقام
And if you ask them who created the heavens and the earth, they will surely say: "God";
ولين سالتهم من خلق السموت والارض ليقولن الله
say: "Have you considered, then, what you invoke besides God? If God wanted harm for me, could they remove His harm? Or if He wanted benevolence for me, could they hold back His benevolence?"
قل افريتم ما تدعون من دون الله ان ارادني الله بضر هل هن كشفت ضره او ارادني برحمه هل هن ممسكت رحمته
Say: "God suffices me;
قل حسبي الله
it is to Him that those who entrust themselves entrust themselves."
عليه يتوكل المتوكلون
Say: "O my people, act according to your position; I too am acting;
قل يقوم اعملوا علي مكانتكم اني عمل
you will soon know to whom a punishment will come that disgraces him, and upon whom a lasting punishment will fall."
فسوف تعلمون من ياتيه عذاب يخزيه ويحل عليه عذاب مقيم
We have sent down to you the Scripture for mankind, in truth;
انا انزلنا عليك الكتب للناس بالحق
whoever lets himself be guided, it is for himself;
فمن اهتدي فلنفسه
and whoever strays only strays against himself;
ومن ضل فانما يضل عليها
and you are not for them a trustee.
وما انت عليهم بوكيل
God keeps faithfully the Selves at the time of their death, and those that have not died, during their sleep;
الله يتوفي الانفس حين موتها والتي لم تمت في منامها
He retains those for whom He has decreed death, and sends back the others until an appointed term;
فيمسك التي قضي عليها الموت ويرسل الاخري الي اجل مسمي
there are surely in that signs for a people who reflect.
ان في ذلك لايت لقوم يتفكرون
Or have they taken intercessors besides God?
ام اتخذوا من دون الله شفعا
Say: "Even though they have no power over anything and do not reason?"
قل اولو كانوا لا يملكون شيا ولا يعقلون
Say: "Intercession belongs entirely to God;
قل لله الشفعه جميعا
to Him belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth;
له ملك السموت والارض
then to Him you will be returned."
ثم اليه ترجعون
And when God alone is remembered, the cores of those who do not believe in the last life shrink with revulsion;
واذا ذكر الله وحده اشمازت قلوب الذين لا يومنون بالاخره
but when those besides Him are remembered, at once they exult.
واذا ذكر الذين من دونه اذا هم يستبشرون
Say: "O God, Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of what escapes the senses and of what is witnessed, You alone will judge between Your obedient ones concerning that in which they used to differ."
قل اللهم فاطر السموت والارض علم الغيب والشهده انت تحكم بين عبادك في ما كانوا فيه يختلفون
And if those who did wrong possessed all that is on earth, and its equivalent with it, they would offer it as ransom from the worst punishment on the Day of Appearance;
ولو ان للذين ظلموا ما في الارض جميعا ومثله معه لافتدوا به من سو العذاب يوم القيمه
and there will appear to them, from God, what they had not accounted for.
وبدا لهم من الله ما لم يكونوا يحتسبون
And the evil consequences of what they earned will appear to them,
وبدا لهم سيات ما كسبوا
and what they used to mock will envelop them.
وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزون
When harm touches the human being, he calls upon Us; then, when We vouchsafe him a blessing from Us, he says: "It has only been given to me on account of a knowledge."
فاذا مس الانسن ضر دعانا ثم اذا خولنه نعمه منا قال انما اوتيته علي علم
Rather, it is a trial,
بل هي فتنه
but most of them do not know.
ولكن اكثرهم لا يعلمون
Those before them already said it, and what they used to earn availed them nothing.
قد قالها الذين من قبلهم فما اغني عنهم ما كانوا يكسبون
The evil consequences of what they earned struck them;
فاصابهم سيات ما كسبوا
and those among these who do wrong will be struck by the evil consequences of what they earned, and they will not be able to render Him powerless.
والذين ظلموا من هولا سيصيبهم سيات ما كسبوا وما هم بمعجزين
Do they not know that God extends provision to whom He wills, and measures it?
اولم يعلموا ان الله يبسط الرزق لمن يشا ويقدر
There are surely in that signs for a people who believe.
ان في ذلك لايت لقوم يومنون
Say: "O My obedient ones who have been excessive against yourselves, do not lose heart regarding the benevolence of God;
قل يعبادي الذين اسرفوا علي انفسهم لا تقنطوا من رحمه الله
God forgives all offenses;
ان الله يغفر الذنوب جميعا
it is indeed He, the Most-Forgiving, the Benevolent."
انه هو الغفور الرحيم
And have recourse to your Guardian, and be true to Him alone, before the punishment comes to you; then you will not be helped.
وانيبوا الي ربكم واسلموا له من قبل ان ياتيكم العذاب ثم لا تنصرون
And follow the most beautiful of what has been sent down to you from your Guardian, before the punishment comes to you unexpectedly, without your sensing it — lest a Self should say: "What desolation, for what I neglected on the side of God, and for having been among the scoffers!" or should say: "Had God guided me, I would have been among those who guard themselves"; or should say, upon seeing the punishment: "If only I had a comeback, I would be among those who do good."
واتبعوا احسن ما انزل اليكم من ربكم من قبل ان ياتيكم العذاب بغته وانتم لا تشعرون ان تقول نفس يحسرتي علي ما فرطت في جنب الله وان كنت لمن السخرين او تقول لو ان الله هديني لكنت من المتقين او تقول حين تري العذاب لو ان لي كره فاكون من المحسنين
"Yes! My signs came to you, but you denied them, grew proud, and were among those who disown."
بلي قد جاتك ايتي فكذبت بها واستكبرت وكنت من الكفرين
And on the Day of Appearance, you will see those who lied about God, their faces blackened.
ويوم القيمه تري الذين كذبوا علي الله وجوههم مسوده
Is there not, in Jahannam, a sojourn for the proud?
اليس في جهنم مثوي للمتكبرين
And God saves those who guarded themselves, by their triumph; no evil will touch them, and they will not grieve.
وينجي الله الذين اتقوا بمفازتهم لا يمسهم السو ولا هم يحزنون
God is the Creator of all things;
الله خلق كل شي
and He is, over all things, a trustee.
وهو علي كل شي وكيل
To Him belong the charges of the heavens and the earth;
له مقاليد السموت والارض
and those who disown the signs of God, those are the losers.
والذين كفروا بايت الله اوليك هم الخسرون
Say: "Do you then command me to obey other than God, O ignorant ones?"
قل افغير الله تامروني اعبد ايها الجهلون
It has surely been revealed to you, and to those before you: "If you associate, your work will surely collapse, and you will surely be among the losers."
ولقد اوحي اليك والي الذين من قبلك لين اشركت ليحبطن عملك ولتكونن من الخسرين
Rather, obey God, and be among the grateful.
بل الله فاعبد وكن من الشكرين
They did not measure God with His true measure; the whole earth will be in His grasp on the Day of Appearance, and the heavens will be folded in His right hand.
وما قدروا الله حق قدره والارض جميعا قبضته يوم القيمه والسموت مطويت بيمينه
Glory be to Him, and He is far above what they associate with Him.
سبحنه وتعلي عما يشركون
And the Horn will be blown, and whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth will be thunderstruck, except whom God wills;
ونفخ في الصور فصعق من في السموت ومن في الارض الا من شا الله
then it will be blown a second time, and at once they will stand up, looking on.
ثم نفخ فيه اخري فاذا هم قيام ينظرون
And the earth will shine with the light of its Guardian; the record will be set down; the informants and the witnesses will be brought forward; it will be decided between them in truth, and they will not be wronged.
واشرقت الارض بنور ربها ووضع الكتب وجاي بالنبين والشهدا وقضي بينهم بالحق وهم لا يظلمون
And every Self will be faithfully repaid for what it did, and He knows best what they do.
ووفيت كل نفس ما عملت وهو اعلم بما يفعلون
And those who disown will be driven toward Jahannam, in troops,
وسيق الذين كفروا الي جهنم زمرا
until, when they reach it, its gates will open, and its custodians will say to them: "Did messengers from among you not come to you, reciting to you the signs of your Guardian and warning you of the meeting of this your day?"
حتي اذا جاوها فتحت ابوبها وقال لهم خزنتها الم ياتكم رسل منكم يتلون عليكم ايت ربكم وينذرونكم لقا يومكم هذا
They will say: "Yes!" but the word of punishment will have proven true against those who disowned.
قالوا بلي ولكن حقت كلمه العذاب علي الكفرين
It will be said: "Enter the gates of Jahannam, to abide therein eternally."
قيل ادخلوا ابوب جهنم خلدين فيها
How wretched is the sojourn of the proud!
فبيس مثوي المتكبرين
And those who guarded themselves before their Guardian will be driven toward the Garden, in troops,
وسيق الذين اتقوا ربهم الي الجنه زمرا
until, when they reach it, its gates being open, its custodians will say to them: "Peace be upon you, you have been wholesome — enter it, to abide therein eternally."
حتي اذا جاوها وفتحت ابوبها وقال لهم خزنتها سلم عليكم طبتم فادخلوها خلدين
And they will say: "Praise be to God, who has kept His promise to us, and made us inherit the earth, settling in the Garden wherever we will; how excellent is the reward of those who work!"
وقالوا الحمد لله الذي صدقنا وعده واورثنا الارض نتبوا من الجنه حيث نشا فنعم اجر العملين
And you will see the Agents surrounding the Edifice, glorifying their Guardian with praise;
وتري المليكه حافين من حول العرش يسبحون بحمد ربهم
and it will be decided between them in truth,
وقضي بينهم بالحق
and it will be said: "Praise be to God, Guardian of all beings."
وقيل الحمد لله رب العلمين