Sourate Al-Mu'minun (23) unvowelled

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. The believers have attained success,i 1

بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم قد افلح المومنون

those who, in their Contact, are humble, 2

الذين هم في صلاتهم خشعون

and those who turn away from frivolity, 3

والذين هم عن اللغو معرضون

and those who fulfill the purifying alms,i 4

والذين هم للزكوة فعلون

and those who guard their private parts, except with their spouses or those bound by pledge — for then they are not blameworthy; 6

والذين هم لفروجهم حفظون الا على ازوجهم او ما ملكت ايمنهم فانهم غير ملومين

whoever seeks beyond that — those are the transgressors. 7

فمن ابتغى وراء ذلك فاوليك هم العادون

and those who are watchful over their trusts and their covenant,i 8

والذين هم لامنتهم وعهدهم رعون

And those who, toward their Contacts, are watchful — those are the inheritors, who will inherit Paradise,i 11

والذين هم على صلوتهم يحافظون اوليك هم الورثون الذين يرثون الفردوس

abiding therein forever.i 11

هم فيها خلدون

We created the human being from an extract of clay, 12

ولقد خلقنا الانسن من سللة من طين

then We made him a drop in a secure receptacle, 13

ثم جعلنه نطفة في قرار مكين

then We created from the drop a clinging form, then We created from the clinging form a lump, then We created from the lump bones, then We clothed the bones with flesh, then We brought it forth as another creation. 14

ثم خلقنا النطفة علقة فخلقنا العلقة مضغة فخلقنا المضغة عظما فكسونا العظم لحما ثم انشانه خلقا ءاخر

Blessed is God, the best of creators! 14

فتبارك الله احسن الخلقين

Then, after that, you are destined to die, 15

ثم انكم بعد ذلك لميتون

then, on the Day of Appearance, you will be raised.i 16

ثم انكم يوم القيمة تبعثون

We created above you seven passages, 17

ولقد خلقنا فوقكم سبع طرايق

and We have never been heedless of creation. 17

وما كنا عن الخلق غفلين

We sent down from the sky water in due measure, and We settled it in the earth — 18

وانزلنا من السماء ماء بقدر فاسكنه في الارض

and We are indeed able to take it away. 18

وانا على ذهاب به لقدرون

We thus brought forth for you, through it, gardens of palms and vines, wherein you have abundant fruits and from which you eat, and a tree that comes out of Mount Sinai, producing oil and a condiment for those who eat. 20

فانشانا لكم به جنت من نخيل واعنب لكم فيها فوكه كثيرة ومنها تاكلون وشجرة تخرج من طور سيناء تنبت بالدهن وصبغ للءاكلين

And there is indeed, for you, a lesson in the livestock: 21

وان لكم في الانعم لعبرة

We give you drink from what is in their bellies, 21

نسقيكم مما في بطونها

and you have in them many benefits, and you eat from them, and upon them as well as upon ships you are carried. 22

ولكم فيها منفع كثيرة ومنها تاكلون وعليها وعلى الفلك تحملون

We sent Nuh to his people, and he said: O my people, obey God, you have no deity other than Him.i 23

ولقد ارسلنا نوحا الى قومه فقال يقوم اعبدوا الله ما لكم من اله غيره

Will you not then guard yourselves? 23

افلا تتقون

The court of his people, those who denied, then said: This is nothing but a human being like you, who wants to gain superiority over you; had God willed, He would have sent down Agents; we have not heard this among our first ancestors. He is nothing but a man afflicted with derangement — so wait concerning him for a while.i 25

فقال الملوا الذين كفروا من قومه ما هذا الا بشر مثلكم يريد ان يتفضل عليكم ولو شاء الله لانزل مليكة ما سمعنا بهذا في ءاباينا الاولين ان هو الا رجل به جنة فتربصوا به حتى حين

He said [Nuh]: My Guardian, help me, for they have denied me.i 26

قال رب انصرني بما كذبون

We then revealed to him: Build the ark under Our eyes and by Our revelation. 27

فاوحينا اليه ان اصنع الفلك باعيننا ووحينا

Then, when Our command comes and the oven boils over, put into it a pair of every kind, along with your family, except him among them against whom the word has already been pronounced; 27

فاذا جاء امرنا وفار التنور فاسلك فيها من كل زوجين اثنين واهلك الا من سبق عليه القول منهم

and do not address Me concerning those who have done injustice, for they are to be drowned. 27

ولا تخطبني في الذين ظلموا انهم مغرقون

And when you are settled, you and those with you, upon the ark, say: Praise be to God who has saved us from the unjust people. 28

فاذا استويت انت ومن معك على الفلك فقل الحمد لله الذي نجىنا من القوم الظلمين

And say: My Guardian, grant me a blessed dwelling, for You are the best of those who grant a dwelling.i 29

وقل رب انزلني منزلا مباركا وانت خير المنزلين

There are indeed signs in that, 30

ان في ذلك لءايت

and We were indeed putting [that people] to the test. 30

وان كنا لمبتلين

Then We brought forth, after them, another generation, and We sent among them a messenger, [one] of themselves: Obey God, you have no deity other than Him. 32

ثم انشانا من بعدهم قرنا ءاخرين فارسلنا فيهم رسولا منهم ان اعبدوا الله ما لكم من اله غيره

Will you not then guard yourselves? 32

افلا تتقون

The court of his people, those who denied and treated the meeting of the hereafter as a lie, and to whom We had given ease in the present life, said: This is nothing but a human being like you, who eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink; and if you obey a human being like you, you will then indeed be losers. Does he promise you that, once dead and become dust and bones, you will be raised up? Far, far indeed is what you are promised! There is nothing but our present life, we die and we live, and we will not be raised up! He is nothing but a man who has invented a lie against God, and we will not believe him. 38

وقال الملا من قومه الذين كفروا وكذبوا بلقاء الءاخرة واترفنهم في الحيوة الدنيا ما هذا الا بشر مثلكم ياكل مما تاكلون منه ويشرب مما تشربون ولين اطعتم بشرا مثلكم انكم اذا لخسرون ايعدكم انكم اذا متم وكنتم ترابا وعظما انكم مخرجون هيهات هيهات لما توعدون ان هي الا حياتنا الدنيا نموت ونحيا وما نحن بمبعوثين ان هو الا رجل افترى على الله كذبا وما نحن له بمومنين

He said [the messenger]: My Guardian, help me, for they have denied me. 39

قال رب انصرني بما كذبون

He said [God]: A little while yet, and they will surely become full of regret. 40

قال عما قليل ليصبحن ندمين

The cry then seized them in all truth, and We made them into debris [scattered on the surface]. 41

فاخذتهم الصيحة بالحق فجعلنهم غثاء

Far removed then be the unjust people! 41

فبعدا للقوم الظلمين

Then We brought forth, after them, other generations. 42

ثم انشانا من بعدهم قرونا ءاخرين

No community precedes its term, nor does it delay it.i 43

ما تسبق من امة اجلها وما يستخرون

Then We sent Our messengers, one after another. 44

ثم ارسلنا رسلنا تترا

Every time a messenger came to a community, it treated him as a liar; 44

كل ما جاء امة رسولها كذبوه

We thus made them follow one another, and We made them into narrated tales. 44

فاتبعنا بعضهم بعضا وجعلنهم احاديث

Far removed then be a people that does not believe! 44

فبعدا لقوم لا يومنون

Then We sent Moussa and his brother Harun, with Our signs and a clear authority, to Fir'awn and his court; but they swelled with pride and were a haughty people,i 46

ثم ارسلنا موسى واخاه هرون بايتنا وسلطن مبين الى فرعون وملايه فاستكبروا وكانوا قوما عالين

and they said: Shall we believe in two human beings like ourselves, while their people are in our service? 47

فقالوا انومن لبشرين مثلنا وقومهما لنا عبدون

They treated them as liars, and were thus among those destroyed. 48

فكذبوهما فكانوا من المهلكين

We gave Moussa the Scripture, that they might be guided.i 49

ولقد ءاتينا موسى الكتب لعلهم يهتدون

And We made the son of Maryam and his mother a sign,i 50

وجعلنا ابن مريم وامه ءاية

and We sheltered them toward a height endowed with stability and a spring.i 50

وءاوينهما الى ربوة ذات قرار ومعين

O messengers, eat of the good things and act righteously — 51

يايها الرسل كلوا من الطيبت واعملوا صلحا

I am, of what you do, fully informed. 51

اني بما تعملون عليم

And this community of yours is a single community, 52

وان هذه امتكم امة وحدة

and I am your Guardian: so guard yourselves toward Me. 52

وانا ربكم فاتقون

But they split, concerning their affair, into divided factions, 53

فتقطعوا امرهم بينهم زبرا

each faction rejoicing in what it holds. 53

كل حزب بما لديهم فرحون

So leave them in their [state of] daze, for a while. 54

فذرهم في غمرتهم حتى حين

Do they think that, what We grant them of wealth and children, We hasten toward them with good things? 56

ايحسبون انما نمدهم به من مال وبنين نسارع لهم في الخيرت

No, they do not perceive. 56

بل لا يشعرون

Those who, out of reverent awe of their Guardian, are watchful, and those who believe in the signs of their Guardian, and those who associate nothing with their Guardian, and those who give what they give, their core trembling [at the thought] that they are returning to their Guardian — those hasten toward good things, 61

ان الذين هم من خشية ربهم مشفقون والذين هم بايت ربهم يومنون والذين هم بربهم لا يشركون والذين يوتون ما ءاتوا وقلوبهم وجلة انهم الى ربهم رجعون اوليك يسرعون في الخيرت

and they are foremost in that. 61

وهم لها سبقون

And We do not burden a Self beyond its capacity, 62

ولا نكلف نفسا الا وسعها

and We have a record that speaks with truth, and they will not be wronged.i 62

ولدينا كتب ينطق بالحق وهم لا يظلمون

But their core is in a [dark] blindness about this, 63

بل قلوبهم في غمرة من هذا

and they have, apart from that, deeds 63

ولهم اعمل من دون ذلك

which they will continue to commit — 63

هم لها عملون

until, when We seize their privileged ones with punishment, there they are, crying out in distress. 64

حتى اذا اخذنا مترفيهم بالعذاب اذا هم يجرون

Do not cry out today, 65

لا تجروا اليوم

you will not be helped by Us. 65

انكم منا لا تنصرون

My signs were indeed recited to you, and you turned back on your heels, swelling with pride about them, 67

قد كانت ءايتي تتلى عليكم فكنتم على اعقبكم تنكصون مستكبرين به

conversing by night [about them], speaking ill of it. 67

سمرا تهجرون

Have they then not pondered the word, or has there come to them what did not come to their first ancestors? 68

افلم يدبروا القول ام جاءهم ما لم يات ءاباءهم الاولين

Or did they not recognize their messenger, to the point that they disown him? 69

ام لم يعرفوا رسولهم فهم له منكرون

Or do they say that he is afflicted with derangement? 70

ام يقولون به جنة

No, he has come to them with the truth, 70

بل جاءهم بالحق

but most of them have an aversion to the truth. 70

واكثرهم للحق كرهون

And had the truth followed their emotions, the heavens, the earth, and those therein would have been corrupted. 71

ولو اتبع الحق اهواءهم لفسدت السموت والارض ومن فيهن

No, We have brought them their own Reminder, 71

بل اتينهم بذكرهم

but they turn away from their Reminder. 71

فهم عن ذكرهم معرضون

Or do you ask them for a tribute? 72

ام تسلهم خرجا

The tribute of your Guardian is better, 72

فخراج ربك خير

and He is the best of providers. 72

وهو خير الرزقين

And you indeed call them toward a straight path; 73

وانك لتدعوهم الى صرط مستقيم

but those who do not believe in the hereafter indeed deviate from that path. 74

وان الذين لا يومنون بالءاخرة عن الصرط لنكبون

And if We had benevolence on them and removed from them the harm that afflicts them, they would persist, blinded, in their tyranny. 75

ولو رحمنهم وكشفنا ما بهم من ضر للجوا في طغينهم يعمهون

We did seize them with punishment, yet they did not submit to their Guardian, nor did they humbly plead, 76

ولقد اخذنهم بالعذاب فما استكانوا لربهم وما يتضرعون

until, when We open upon them a gate of severe punishment, there they are, in despair. 77

حتى اذا فتحنا عليهم بابا ذا عذاب شديد اذا هم فيه مبلسون

And He is the One who brought forth for you hearing, sight, and Conscience. 78

وهو الذي انشا لكم السمع والابصر والافدة

How little you are grateful! 78

قليلا ما تشكرون

And He is the One who has scattered you upon the earth, and it is to Him that you will be gathered. 79

وهو الذي ذراكم في الارض واليه تحشرون

And He is the One who gives life and gives death, 80

وهو الذي يحي ويميت

and to Him belongs the alternation of night and day. 80

وله اختلف اليل والنهار

Will you not then reason? 80

افلا تعقلون

But they said the same thing that the ancients used to say; they said: Is it that, once dead and become dust and bones, we will be raised up? 82

بل قالوا مثل ما قال الاولون قالوا اءذا متنا وكنا ترابا وعظما اءنا لمبعوثون

We were promised this, we and our ancestors, before already; 83

لقد وعدنا نحن وءاباونا هذا من قبل

this is nothing but legends of the ancients. 83

ان هذا الا اسطير الاولين

Say: To whom belongs the earth and what is in it, if you know? They will say: To God. 85

قل لمن الارض ومن فيها ان كنتم تعلمون سيقولون لله

Say: Will you not then remember? 85

قل افلا تذكرون

Say: Who is the Guardian of the seven heavens and the Guardian of the immense Edifice? 86

قل من رب السموت السبع ورب العرش العظيم

They will say: God. 87

سيقولون لله

Say: Will you not then guard yourselves? 87

قل افلا تتقون

Say: Who holds in His hand the sovereign dominion of everything, who protects and against whom none can be protected, if you know? They will say: God.i 89

قل من بيده ملكوت كل شىء وهو يجير ولا يجار عليه ان كنتم تعلمون سيقولون لله

Say: How then are you bewitched by an illusion?i 89

قل فانى تسحرون

No, We have brought them the truth, 90

بل اتينهم بالحق

and they are indeed liars. 90

وانهم لكذبون

God has taken no child, 91

ما اتخذ الله من ولد

and there was with Him no deity — 91

وما كان معه من اله

otherwise, each deity would have gone off with what it created, and some would have risen above others. 91

اذا لذهب كل اله بما خلق ولعلا بعضهم على بعض

Glory be to God, beyond what they describe! 91

سبحن الله عما يصفون

Knower of what escapes our presence and of what is manifest, 92

علم الغيب والشهدة

He is far beyond what they associate with Him. 92

فتعلى عما يشركون

Say: My Guardian, if You show me what they are promised, then, my Guardian, do not place me among the unjust people. 94

قل رب اما تريني ما يوعدون رب فلا تجعلني في القوم الظلمين

And We are indeed able to show you what We promise them. 95

وانا على ان نريك ما نعدهم لقدرون

Repel evil with what is better — 96

ادفع بالتي هي احسن السيية

We know best what they describe. 96

نحن اعلم بما يصفون

And say: My Guardian, I seek protection with You from the incitements of the Diverters, and I seek protection with You, my Guardian, against their being present with me.i 98

وقل رب اعوذ بك من همزت الشيطين واعوذ بك رب ان يحضرون

Until, when death comes to one of them, he says: My Guardian, send me back, that I may act righteously in that which I left. Never! 100

حتى اذا جاء احدهم الموت قال رب ارجعون لعلي اعمل صلحا فيما تركت كلا

It is a word that he utters [in vain], 100

انها كلمة هو قايلها

and behind them there is a barrier, until the day they are raised up. 100

ومن ورايهم برزخ الى يوم يبعثون

Then, when the Trumpet is blown, there will be no ties of lineage between them that day, and they will not question one another. 101

فاذا نفخ في الصور فلا انساب بينهم يوميذ ولا يتساءلون

Those whose weights are heavy — those are the ones who succeed; 102

فمن ثقلت موزينه فاوليك هم المفلحون

And those whose weights are light — those are the ones who have lost their own Self, abiding forever in Jahannam; the fire will scorch their faces, and they will grimace therein. 104

ومن خفت موزينه فاوليك الذين خسروا انفسهم في جهنم خلدون تلفح وجوههم النار وهم فيها كلحون

Were My signs not recited to you, and you denied them? 105

الم تكن ءايتي تتلى عليكم فكنتم بها تكذبون

They will say: Our Guardian, our misery overcame us, and we were an astray people. 106

قالوا ربنا غلبت علينا شقوتنا وكنا قوما ضالين

Our Guardian, bring us out of it; if we relapse, we will then [truly] be unjust. 107

ربنا اخرجنا منها فان عدنا فانا ظلمون

He will say: Remain therein, humiliated, and do not speak to Me. 108

قال اخسوا فيها ولا تكلمون

There was a group among My obedient ones who said: Our Guardian, we believe; forgive us and have benevolence on us, for You are the best of those who show benevolence — but you took them in mockery, until they made you forget My Reminder, and you used to laugh at them. 110

انه كان فريق من عبادي يقولون ربنا ءامنا فاغفر لنا وارحمنا وانت خير الرحمين فاتخذتموهم سخريا حتى انسوكم ذكري وكنتم منهم تضحكون

I have this day rewarded them for their endurance: it is they who are the triumphant. 111

اني جزيتهم اليوم بما صبروا انهم هم الفايزون

He will say: How many years did you remain on the earth? 112

قل كم لبثتم في الارض عدد سنين

They will say: We remained a day, 113

قالوا لبثنا يوما

or part of a day; so ask those who keep count. 113

او بعض يوم فسل العادين

He will say: You remained only a little, if only you knew. 114

قل ان لبثتم الا قليلا لو انكم كنتم تعلمون

Did you then think that We created you in vain, and that you would not be returned to Us? 115

افحسبتم انما خلقنكم عبثا وانكم الينا لا ترجعون

Exalted be God, the Sovereign, the Truth! 116

فتعلى الله الملك الحق

There is no deity but Him, 116

لا اله الا هو

the Guardian of the generous Edifice. 116

رب العرش الكريم

And whoever invokes, with God, another deity, having no proof of it, his account rests only with his Guardian. 117

ومن يدع مع الله الها ءاخر لا برهن له به فانما حسابه عند ربه

Those who deny do not attain success. 117

انه لا يفلح الكفرون

And say: My Guardian, forgive and have benevolence, for You are the best of those who show benevolence. 118

وقل رب اغفر وارحم وانت خير الرحمين