An-Nur
The Light
بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
This is a surah which We have sent down and which We have made obligatory, and in which We have sent down clear signs, perhaps you will remember.
سورة أنزلنها وفرضنها وأنزلنا فيهآ ءايت بينت لعلكم تذكرون
The fornicatress and the fornicator, inflict on each of them a hundred strokes on the skin,
ٱلزانية وٱلزاني فٱجلدوا كل وحد منهما مائة جلدة
and let no kindness for them seize you in the Law of God, if you believe in God and the Last Day;
ولا تأخذكم بهما رأفة في دين ٱلله إن كنتم تؤمنون بٱلله وٱليوم ٱلءاخر
and let a group of believers witness their punishment.
وليشهد عذابهما طآئفة من ٱلمؤمنين
The fornicator takes as wife only a fornicatress or an associator,
ٱلزاني لا ينكح إلا زانية أو مشركة
and the fornicatress, only a fornicator or an associator takes her as wife;
وٱلزانية لا ينكحهآ إلا زان أو مشرك
and that is prohibited to the believers.
وحرم ذلك على ٱلمؤمنين
And those who accuse women protected by the marital bond, then do not bring four witnesses, inflict on them eighty strokes on the skin,
وٱلذين يرمون ٱلمحصنت ثم لم يأتوا بأربعة شهدآء فٱجلدوهم ثمنين جلدة
and never accept their testimony again — those are the oversteppers, except those who turned back after that and became sound, for God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
ولا تقبلوا لهم شهدة أبدا وأولئك هم ٱلفسقون إلا ٱلذين تابوا من بعد ذلك وأصلحوا فإن ٱلله غفور رحيم
And those who accuse their spouses, having no witnesses except themselves, the testimony of one of them shall be to testify four times by God that he is surely among the veracious, and a fifth time, that the curse of God be upon him if he is among the liars.
وٱلذين يرمون أزوجهم ولم يكن لهم شهدآء إلآ أنفسهم فشهدة أحدهم أربع شهدت بٱلله إنه لمن ٱلصدقين وٱلخمسة أن لعنت ٱلله عليه إن كان من ٱلكذبين
And the punishment will be averted from her if she testifies four times by God that he is surely among the liars, and a fifth time, that the anger of God be upon her if he is among the veracious.
ويدرؤا عنها ٱلعذاب أن تشهد أربع شهدت بٱلله إنه لمن ٱلكذبين وٱلخمسة أن غضب ٱلله عليهآ إن كان من ٱلصدقين
And were it not for the favor of God upon you and His benevolence, and that God is the Ever-Accepter of repentance, Wise…
ولولا فضل ٱلله عليكم ورحمته وأن ٱلله تواب حكيم
Those who came with the distortion are indeed a group from among you; do not think it is an ill for you,
إن ٱلذين جآءو بٱلإفك عصبة منكم لا تحسبوه شرا لكم
no, it is a good for you.
بل هو خير لكم
To each person among them, what they have earned of transgression,
لكل ٱمرئ منهم ما ٱكتسب من ٱلإثم
and he among them who took the greatest part of it will have an immense punishment.
وٱلذي تولى كبره منهم له عذاب عظيم
If only, upon hearing it, the believing men and women had presumed good of themselves, and had said: "This is a manifest distortion!"
لولآ إذ سمعتموه ظن ٱلمؤمنون وٱلمؤمنت بأنفسهم خيرا وقالوا هذآ إفك مبين
If only they had brought four witnesses concerning it!
لولا جآءو عليه بأربعة شهدآء
Since they did not bring the witnesses, those are, in the sight of God, the liars.
فإذ لم يأتوا بٱلشهدآء فأولئك عند ٱلله هم ٱلكذبون
And were it not for the favor of God upon you and His benevolence, in the present life and the last life, an immense punishment would have touched you for what you indulged in, when you received it with your tongues and said with your mouths that of which you had no knowledge, deeming it trivial while it is, in the sight of God, immense.
ولولا فضل ٱلله عليكم ورحمته في ٱلدنيا وٱلءاخرة لمسكم في مآ أفضتم فيه عذاب عظيم إذ تلقونه بألسنتكم وتقولون بأفواهكم ما ليس لكم به علم وتحسبونه هينا وهو عند ٱلله عظيم
And if only, upon hearing it, you had said: "It is not for us to speak of this — glory be to You, this is an immense slander!"
ولولآ إذ سمعتموه قلتم ما يكون لنآ أن نتكلم بهذا سبحنك هذا بهتن عظيم
God exhorts you never to return to the like of it, if you are believers.
يعظكم ٱلله أن تعودوا لمثله أبدا إن كنتم مؤمنين
And God makes the signs clear to you,
ويبين ٱلله لكم ٱلءايت
and God is All-Knowing, Wise.
وٱلله عليم حكيم
Those who love that indecency should spread among those who believe will indeed have a painful punishment, in the present life and the last life,
إن ٱلذين يحبون أن تشيع ٱلفحشة في ٱلذين ءامنوا لهم عذاب أليم في ٱلدنيا وٱلءاخرة
and God knows,
وٱلله يعلم
and you do not know.
وأنتم لا تعلمون
And were it not for the favor of God upon you and His benevolence, and that God is full of kindness, Benevolent…
ولولا فضل ٱلله عليكم ورحمته وأن ٱلله رءوف رحيم
O you who have believed! Do not follow the footsteps of the Diverter;
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا لا تتبعوا خطوت ٱلشيطن
and whoever follows the footsteps of the Diverter — he indeed commands indecency and what is disavowed.
ومن يتبع خطوت ٱلشيطن فإنه يأمر بٱلفحشآء وٱلمنكر
And were it not for the favor of God upon you and His benevolence, not one of you would ever have been purified,
ولولا فضل ٱلله عليكم ورحمته ما زكى منكم من أحد أبدا
but God purifies whom He wills,
ولكن ٱلله يزكي من يشآء
and God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
وٱلله سميع عليم
And let not those among you who have favor and ease swear not to give to their relatives, the destitute, and those who emigrated in the way of God,
ولا يأتل أولوا ٱلفضل منكم وٱلسعة أن يؤتوا أولي ٱلقربى وٱلمسكين وٱلمهجرين في سبيل ٱلله
and let them rather overlook and turn the page.
وليعفوا وليصفحوا
Would you not love for God to forgive you?
ألا تحبون أن يغفر ٱلله لكم
And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
وٱلله غفور رحيم
Those who accuse women protected by the marital bond, unwitting, believing, are indeed cursed in the present life and the last life, and they will have an immense punishment, on the day when their tongues, their hands, and their feet will testify against them for what they used to do.
إن ٱلذين يرمون ٱلمحصنت ٱلغفلت ٱلمؤمنت لعنوا في ٱلدنيا وٱلءاخرة ولهم عذاب عظيم يوم تشهد عليهم ألسنتهم وأيديهم وأرجلهم بما كانوا يعملون
That day, God will faithfully repay them their just due,
يومئذ يوفيهم ٱلله دينهم ٱلحق
and they will know that God is the manifest Truth.
ويعلمون أن ٱلله هو ٱلحق ٱلمبين
The vile for the vile, and the vile for the vile;
ٱلخبيثت للخبيثين وٱلخبيثون للخبيثت
and the wholesome for the wholesome, and the wholesome for the wholesome.
وٱلطيبت للطيبين وٱلطيبون للطيبت
Those are made quit of what is said;
أولئك مبرءون مما يقولون
they have forgiveness and a generous provision.
لهم مغفرة ورزق كريم
O you who have believed! Do not enter houses other than your own until you have made yourselves known and greeted their occupants —
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا لا تدخلوا بيوتا غير بيوتكم حتى تستأنسوا وتسلموا على أهلها
that is better for you, perhaps you will remember.
ذلكم خير لكم لعلكم تذكرون
If you find no one therein, do not enter until you are given permission;
فإن لم تجدوا فيهآ أحدا فلا تدخلوها حتى يؤذن لكم
and if you are told: "Return," then return — it is purer for you.
وإن قيل لكم ٱرجعوا فٱرجعوا هو أزكى لكم
And God is All-Knowing of what you do.
وٱلله بما تعملون عليم
No blame upon you for entering uninhabited houses in which there is a use for you.
ليس عليكم جناح أن تدخلوا بيوتا غير مسكونة فيها متع لكم
And God knows what you make appear and what you withhold.
وٱلله يعلم ما تبدون وما تكتمون
Say to the believing men to cast down their sights and preserve their private parts — that is purer for them.
قل للمؤمنين يغضوا من أبصرهم ويحفظوا فروجهم ذلك أزكى لهم
God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what they do.
إن ٱلله خبير بما يصنعون
And say to the believing women to cast down their sights and preserve their private parts,
وقل للمؤمنت يغضضن من أبصرهن ويحفظن فروجهن
and not to make appear that which, in them, arouses desire, except what appears of it,
ولا يبدين زينتهن إلا ما ظهر منها
and let them multiply their covering cloth over the neckline of their chest,
وليضربن بخمرهن على جيوبهن
and let them not make appear what, in them, arouses desire, except to their husbands, or their fathers, or their husbands' fathers, or their sons, or their husbands' sons, or their brothers, or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or the women of their circle, or those bound by oath, or male attendants devoid of desire, or children who have no awareness yet of women's private matters.
ولا يبدين زينتهن إلا لبعولتهن أو ءابآئهن أو ءابآء بعولتهن أو أبنآئهن أو أبنآء بعولتهن أو إخونهن أو بني إخونهن أو بني أخوتهن أو نسآئهن أو ما ملكت أيمنهن أو ٱلتبعين غير أولي ٱلإربة من ٱلرجال أو ٱلطفل ٱلذين لم يظهروا على عورت ٱلنسآء
And let them not multiply their steps so as to make known what they hide of what arouses desire in them.
ولا يضربن بأرجلهن ليعلم ما يخفين من زينتهن
And turn all together to God, O believers, perhaps you will succeed.
وتوبوا إلى ٱلله جميعا أيه ٱلمؤمنون لعلكم تفلحون
And marry the unmarried among you, as well as those who are sound among your male and female obedient ones.
وأنكحوا ٱلأيمى منكم وٱلصلحين من عبادكم وإمآئكم
If they are poor, God will enrich them from His favor.
إن يكونوا فقرآء يغنهم ٱلله من فضله
And God is Vast, All-Knowing.
وٱلله وسع عليم
And let those who do not find marriage refrain, until God enriches them from His favor.
وليستعفف ٱلذين لا يجدون نكاحا حتى يغنيهم ٱلله من فضله
And those, among those bound by oath, who seek the written deed of marriage, draw up that deed with them if you know good in them,
وٱلذين يبتغون ٱلكتب مما ملكت أيمنكم فكاتبوهم إن علمتم فيهم خيرا
and give them from the goods of God which He has given you.
وءاتوهم من مال ٱلله ٱلذي ءاتىكم
And do not compel your young women to prostitution, if they wish to be protected, seeking merely the goods of the present life.
ولا تكرهوا فتيتكم على ٱلبغآء إن أردن تحصنا لتبتغوا عرض ٱلحيوة ٱلدنيا
And whoever compels them — after their compulsion, God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
ومن يكرههن فإن ٱلله من بعد إكرههن غفور رحيم
We have sent down to you clear signs, an example from those who passed before you, and an admonition for those who guard themselves.
ولقد أنزلنآ إليكم ءايت مبينت ومثلا من ٱلذين خلوا من قبلكم وموعظة للمتقين
God is the Light of the heavens and the earth.
ٱلله نور ٱلسموت وٱلأرض
The example of His Light is like a niche wherein is a lamp.
مثل نوره كمشكوة فيها مصباح
The lamp is in a glass.
ٱلمصباح في زجاجة
The glass is like a brilliant heavenly body, kindled from a blessed olive tree, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is about to glow forth even without fire touching it.
ٱلزجاجة كأنها كوكب دري يوقد من شجرة مبركة زيتونة لا شرقية ولا غربية يكاد زيتها يضيء ولو لم تمسسه نار
Light upon light.
نور على نور
God guides to His Light whom He wills,
يهدي ٱلله لنوره من يشآء
and God multiplies examples for mankind,
ويضرب ٱلله ٱلأمثل للناس
and God is All-Knowing of all things.
وٱلله بكل شىء عليم
In houses whose elevation God has authorized, and in which His name is remembered — there glorify Him, morning and evening, men whom neither trade nor selling distracts from the remembrance of God, the maintaining of the Contact, and the giving of pure liberality,
في بيوت أذن ٱلله أن ترفع ويذكر فيها ٱسمه يسبح له فيها بٱلغدو وٱلءاصال رجال لا تلهيهم تجرة ولا بيع عن ذكر ٱلله وإقام ٱلصلوة وإيتآء ٱلزكوة
fearing a day when the cores and the sights will capsize, so that God may recompense them according to the best of what they have done, and give them more of His favor.
يخافون يوما تتقلب فيه ٱلقلوب وٱلأبصر ليجزيهم ٱلله أحسن ما عملوا ويزيدهم من فضله
And God provides for whom He wills, without reckoning.
وٱلله يرزق من يشآء بغير حساب
And those who disown, their works are like a mirage in a desert plain, which the thirsty one takes for water, until, when he comes to it, he finds nothing, but he finds God there, who faithfully squares his account.
وٱلذين كفروا أعملهم كسراب بقيعة يحسبه ٱلظمان مآء حتى إذا جآءه لم يجده شيا ووجد ٱلله عنده فوفىه حسابه
And God is swift in reckoning.
وٱلله سريع ٱلحساب
Or like darknesses on a deep, surging sea: a wave covers it, above which is another wave, above which is a cloud —
أو كظلمت في بحر لجي يغشىه موج من فوقه موج من فوقه سحاب
darknesses, one above another:
ظلمت بعضها فوق بعض
when he puts out his hand, he can hardly see it.
إذآ أخرج يده لم يكد يرىها
And he to whom God grants no light has no light.
ومن لم يجعل ٱلله له نورا فما له من نور
Have you not seen that God — He is glorified by those in the heavens and on the earth, and the birds aligning their wings?
ألم تر أن ٱلله يسبح له من في ٱلسموت وٱلأرض وٱلطير صفت
Each one knows its Contact and its glorification,
كل قد علم صلاته وتسبيحه
and God is All-Knowing of what they do.
وٱلله عليم بما يفعلون
And to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth,
ولله ملك ٱلسموت وٱلأرض
and to God is the destination.
وإلى ٱلله ٱلمصير
Have you not seen that God makes the clouds glide, then joins them together, then makes them into a mass, and you see the shower come out from within it?
ألم تر أن ٱلله يزجي سحابا ثم يؤلف بينه ثم يجعله ركاما فترى ٱلودق يخرج من خلله
And He sends down from the sky, from mountains therein, hail, with which He strikes whom He wills, and which He turns away from whom He wills;
وينزل من ٱلسمآء من جبال فيها من برد فيصيب به من يشآء ويصرفه عن من يشآء
the flash of its lightning is about to take away the sight.
يكاد سنا برقه يذهب بٱلأبصر
God alternates the night and the day.
يقلب ٱلله ٱليل وٱلنهار
There is surely a lesson in that for the possessors of sight.
إن في ذلك لعبرة لأولي ٱلأبصر
And God created every living being from water.
وٱلله خلق كل دآبة من مآء
Among them is one that walks on its belly,
فمنهم من يمشي على بطنه
and among them is one that walks on two feet,
ومنهم من يمشي على رجلين
and among them is one that walks on four.
ومنهم من يمشي على أربع
God creates what He wills,
يخلق ٱلله ما يشآء
God is indeed capable of all things.
إن ٱلله على كل شىء قدير
We have sent down clear signs,
لقد أنزلنآ ءايت مبينت
and God guides whom He wills to a straight path.
وٱلله يهدي من يشآء إلى صرط مستقيم
And they say: "We believe in God and in the messenger, and we defer" — then a fraction among them turns its back after that;
ويقولون ءامنا بٱلله وبٱلرسول وأطعنا ثم يتولى فريق منهم من بعد ذلك
and these are not believers.
ومآ أولئك بٱلمؤمنين
And when they are called to God and His messenger so that he may judge between them, there is a fraction among them that turns away.
وإذا دعوا إلى ٱلله ورسوله ليحكم بينهم إذا فريق منهم معرضون
But if the right is on their side, they come to him in full compliance.
وإن يكن لهم ٱلحق يأتوا إليه مذعنين
Is there a sickness in their cores, or do they doubt, or do they fear that God and His messenger will lean against them?
أفي قلوبهم مرض أم ٱرتابوا أم يخافون أن يحيف ٱلله عليهم ورسوله
No, it is they who are the wrongdoers.
بل أولئك هم ٱلظلمون
The only saying of the believers, when they are called to God and His messenger so that he may judge between them, is to say: "We have heard and we have deferred."
إنما كان قول ٱلمؤمنين إذا دعوا إلى ٱلله ورسوله ليحكم بينهم أن يقولوا سمعنا وأطعنا
And those are the ones who succeed.
وأولئك هم ٱلمفلحون
And whoever defers to God and His messenger, dreads God and guards himself toward Him — those are the triumphant.
ومن يطع ٱلله ورسوله ويخش ٱلله ويتقه فأولئك هم ٱلفآئزون
And they swore by God, with the utmost strength of their oaths, that if you ordered them, they would certainly go forth.
وأقسموا بٱلله جهد أيمنهم لئن أمرتهم ليخرجن
Say: "Do not swear;
قل لا تقسموا
a recognized deference!
طاعة معروفة
God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what you do."
إن ٱلله خبير بما تعملون
Say: "Defer to God and defer to the messenger;
قل أطيعوا ٱلله وأطيعوا ٱلرسول
but if you turn your backs, upon him rests only what he has been made to carry, and upon you rests only what you have been made to carry.
فإن تولوا فإنما عليه ما حمل وعليكم ما حملتم
And if you defer to him, you will let yourselves be guided.
وإن تطيعوه تهتدوا
And only the clear transmission is incumbent upon the messenger."
وما على ٱلرسول إلا ٱلبلغ ٱلمبين
And God has promised those among you who believe and do sound deeds that He will surely make them successors on the earth, as He made successors those before them, that He will surely establish firmly for them their Law which He has approved for them, and that He will surely change their state, after their fear, into security.
وعد ٱلله ٱلذين ءامنوا منكم وعملوا ٱلصلحت ليستخلفنهم في ٱلأرض كما ٱستخلف ٱلذين من قبلهم وليمكنن لهم دينهم ٱلذي ٱرتضى لهم وليبدلنهم من بعد خوفهم أمنا
They obey Me without associating anything with Me.
يعبدونني لا يشركون بي شيا
And whoever disowns after that — those are the oversteppers.
ومن كفر بعد ذلك فأولئك هم ٱلفسقون
And maintain the Contact, and give pure liberality,
وأقيموا ٱلصلوة وءاتوا ٱلزكوة
and defer to the messenger, perhaps benevolence will be shown to you.
وأطيعوا ٱلرسول لعلكم ترحمون
Do not ever think that those who disown can render Him powerless on the earth;
لا تحسبن ٱلذين كفروا معجزين في ٱلأرض
and their refuge is the Fire,
ومأوىهم ٱلنار
and what an evil destination!
ولبئس ٱلمصير
O you who have believed! Let those bound by oath and those among you who have not yet reached the age of composure ask your permission at three times: before the Contact of dawn, when you lay aside your clothes at midday, and after the Contact of evening —
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا ليستذنكم ٱلذين ملكت أيمنكم وٱلذين لم يبلغوا ٱلحلم منكم ثلث مرت من قبل صلوة ٱلفجر وحين تضعون ثيابكم من ٱلظهيرة ومن بعد صلوة ٱلعشآء
three times of privacy for you.
ثلث عورت لكم
No blame, neither upon you nor upon them, outside these times,
ليس عليكم ولا عليهم جناح بعدهن
being visitors among you,
طوفون عليكم
one with another.
بعضكم على بعض
Thus does God make the signs clear to you,
كذلك يبين ٱلله لكم ٱلءايت
and God is All-Knowing, Wise.
وٱلله عليم حكيم
And when the children among you reach the age of composure, let them ask permission as those before them asked permission.
وإذا بلغ ٱلأطفل منكم ٱلحلم فليستذنوا كما ٱستذن ٱلذين من قبلهم
Thus does God make His signs clear to you,
كذلك يبين ٱلله لكم ءايته
and God is All-Knowing, Wise.
وٱلله عليم حكيم
And the elderly women, among women, who no longer hope for marriage, no blame upon them for laying aside their clothes, without ostentatiously displaying what, in them, arouses desire;
وٱلقوعد من ٱلنسآء ٱلتي لا يرجون نكاحا فليس عليهن جناح أن يضعن ثيابهن غير متبرجت بزينة
but that they refrain is better for them.
وأن يستعففن خير لهن
And God is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
وٱلله سميع عليم
There is no discomfort for the blind, nor discomfort for the lame, nor discomfort for the sick, nor for yourselves, in eating in your own houses, or the houses of your fathers, or the houses of your mothers, or the houses of your brothers, or the houses of your sisters, or the houses of your paternal uncles, or the houses of your paternal aunts, or the houses of your maternal uncles, or the houses of your maternal aunts, or in what you hold the keys of, or at your friend's.
ليس على ٱلأعمى حرج ولا على ٱلأعرج حرج ولا على ٱلمريض حرج ولا على أنفسكم أن تأكلوا من بيوتكم أو بيوت ءابآئكم أو بيوت أمهتكم أو بيوت إخونكم أو بيوت أخوتكم أو بيوت أعممكم أو بيوت عمتكم أو بيوت أخولكم أو بيوت خلتكم أو ما ملكتم مفاتحه أو صديقكم
No blame upon you for eating together or separately.
ليس عليكم جناح أن تأكلوا جميعا أو أشتاتا
And when you enter houses, greet one another with a greeting from God, blessed and wholesome.
فإذا دخلتم بيوتا فسلموا على أنفسكم تحية من عند ٱلله مبركة طيبة
Thus does God make the signs clear to you, perhaps you will reason.
كذلك يبين ٱلله لكم ٱلءايت لعلكم تعقلون
The believers are only those who believe in God and His messenger, and who, when they are with him for a common matter, do not leave until they have asked his permission.
إنما ٱلمؤمنون ٱلذين ءامنوا بٱلله ورسوله وإذا كانوا معه على أمر جامع لم يذهبوا حتى يستذنوه
Those who ask your permission, those are indeed the ones who believe in God and His messenger.
إن ٱلذين يستذنونك أولئك ٱلذين يؤمنون بٱلله ورسوله
And when they ask your permission for some matter concerning them, grant it to whom you will among them, and ask God's forgiveness for them.
فإذا ٱستذنوك لبعض شأنهم فأذن لمن شئت منهم وٱستغفر لهم ٱلله
God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
إن ٱلله غفور رحيم
Do not consider the call of the messenger among yourselves as the call of one of you to another.
لا تجعلوا دعآء ٱلرسول بينكم كدعآء بعضكم بعضا
God will surely distinguish those among you who slip away furtively.
قد يعلم ٱلله ٱلذين يتسللون منكم لواذا
Let those who oppose his order beware lest a trial strike them, or a painful punishment strike them.
فليحذر ٱلذين يخالفون عن أمره أن تصيبهم فتنة أو يصيبهم عذاب أليم
Is it not so: to God belongs what is in the heavens and on the earth.
ألآ إن لله ما في ٱلسموت وٱلأرض
He will surely know the state you are in,
قد يعلم مآ أنتم عليه
and the day when they are returned to Him, He will inform them of what they did.
ويوم يرجعون إليه فينبئهم بما عملوا
And God is All-Knowing of all things.
وٱلله بكل شىء عليم