Al-Ahzab
The Parties
بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
O Informant, guard yourself toward God,
يأيها ٱلنبي ٱتق ٱلله
and do not defer to those who disown nor to the hypocrites.
ولا تطع ٱلكفرين وٱلمنفقين
God is indeed All-Knowing, Wise.
إن ٱلله كان عليما حكيما
And follow what is revealed to you from your Guardian.
وٱتبع ما يوحى إليك من ربك
God is indeed Intimately Acquainted with what you do.
إن ٱلله كان بما تعملون خبيرا
And entrust yourself to God:
وتوكل على ٱلله
God suffices as a trustee.
وكفى بٱلله وكيلا
God has not assigned to any man two cores within his breast.
ما جعل ٱلله لرجل من قلبين في جوفه
Nor has He made your wives — those against whom you pronounce the exclusion formula — your mothers,
وما جعل أزوجكم ٱلي تظهرون منهن أمهتكم
nor has He made your adopted sons your sons.
وما جعل أدعيآءكم أبنآءكم
That is your saying with your mouths;
ذلكم قولكم بأفوهكم
and God speaks the truth, and it is He who guides to the way.
وٱلله يقول ٱلحق وهو يهدي ٱلسبيل
Call them by their fathers' names: that is more equitable with God.
ٱدعوهم لءابآئهم هو أقسط عند ٱلله
And if you do not know their fathers, then they are your brothers in the Law, and your allies.
فإن لم تعلموا ءابآءهم فإخونكم في ٱلدين وموليكم
And no blame upon you in what you may have done by mistake,
وليس عليكم جناح فيمآ أخطأتم به
but rather in what your cores have premeditated.
ولكن ما تعمدت قلوبكم
And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
وكان ٱلله غفورا رحيما
The Informant is closer to the believers than they are to themselves,
ٱلنبي أولى بٱلمؤمنين من أنفسهم
and his wives are their mothers.
وأزوجه أمهتهم
And those bound by kinship are closer to one another under God's Code than the believers and the emigrants — except that you do what is recognized toward your allies.
وأولوا ٱلأرحام بعضهم أولى ببعض في كتب ٱلله من ٱلمؤمنين وٱلمهجرين إلآ أن تفعلوا إلى أوليآئكم معروفا
That was recorded in the Scripture.
كان ذلك في ٱلكتب مسطورا
And when We took from the informants their solemn engagement, and from you, and from Nuh, Ibrahim, Moussa, and Issa, son of Maryam —
وإذ أخذنا من ٱلنبين ميثقهم ومنك ومن نوح وإبرهيم وموسى وعيسى ٱبن مريم
and We took from them a solemn and firm engagement, so that He might question the veracious about their veracity;
وأخذنا منهم ميثقا غليظا ليسل ٱلصدقين عن صدقهم
and He has prepared for those who disown a painful punishment.
وأعد للكفرين عذابا أليما
O you who have believed! Remember God's blessing upon you, when armies came against you, and We sent upon them a wind and armies you did not see.
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا ٱذكروا نعمة ٱلله عليكم إذ جآءتكم جنود فأرسلنا عليهم ريحا وجنودا لم تروها
And God is All-Seeing of what you do.
وكان ٱلله بما تعملون بصيرا
When they came upon you from above you and from below you,
إذ جآءوكم من فوقكم ومن أسفل منكم
and when sights deviated, and cores reached the throats, and you formed about God all manner of presumptions.
وإذ زاغت ٱلأبصر وبلغت ٱلقلوب ٱلحناجر وتظنون بٱلله ٱلظنونا
There the believers were tested, and shaken with a violent quaking.
هنالك ٱبتلي ٱلمؤمنون وزلزلوا زلزالا شديدا
And when the hypocrites, and those in whose cores is a sickness, said, "God and His messenger promised us nothing but delusion,"
وإذ يقول ٱلمنفقون وٱلذين في قلوبهم مرض ما وعدنا ٱلله ورسوله إلا غرورا
and when a group among them said, "O people of Yathrib, there is no place for you; return,"
وإذ قالت طآئفة منهم يأهل يثرب لا مقام لكم فٱرجعوا
and a fraction among them was asking the Informant's leave, saying, "Our houses indeed lack privacy" — when they did not:
ويستذن فريق منهم ٱلنبي يقولون إن بيوتنا عورة وما هي بعورة
they wanted nothing but to flee.
إن يريدون إلا فرارا
And if they had been entered from all their sides, and they had then been asked for the trial, they would have lent themselves to it, and would have delayed but a little.
ولو دخلت عليهم من أقطارها ثم سئلوا ٱلفتنة لءاتوها وما تلبثوا بهآ إلا يسيرا
And they had certainly made a pact with God before, not to turn their backs;
ولقد كانوا عهدوا ٱلله من قبل لا يولون ٱلأدبر
and God's pact will be questioned.
وكان عهد ٱلله مسولا
Say, "Flight will not benefit you if you flee from death or killing,
قل لن ينفعكم ٱلفرار إن فررتم من ٱلموت أو ٱلقتل
and then you would be given enjoyment only a little."
وإذا لا تمتعون إلا قليلا
Say, "Who, then, could safeguard you from God, should He intend for you harm, or intend for you benevolence?"
قل من ذا ٱلذي يعصمكم من ٱلله إن أراد بكم سوءا أو أراد بكم رحمة
And they will find, besides God, neither protector nor help.
ولا يجدون لهم من دون ٱلله وليا ولا نصيرا
God will surely distinguish those among you who obstruct, and those who say to their brothers, "Come to us," and who come to the fight only a little, being greedy toward you.
قد يعلم ٱلله ٱلمعوقين منكم وٱلقآئلين لإخونهم هلم إلينا ولا يأتون ٱلبأس إلا قليلا أشحة عليكم
Then, when fear comes, you see them looking at you, their eyes rolling like those of one whom death makes swoon.
فإذا جآء ٱلخوف رأيتهم ينظرون إليك تدور أعينهم كٱلذي يغشى عليه من ٱلموت
Then, when the fear departs, they assail you with sharp tongues, greedy for any good.
فإذا ذهب ٱلخوف سلقوكم بألسنة حداد أشحة على ٱلخير
Those have not believed, so God has voided their works,
أولئك لم يؤمنوا فأحبط ٱلله أعملهم
and that is, for God, an easy thing.
وكان ذلك على ٱلله يسيرا
They think the parties have not gone;
يحسبون ٱلأحزاب لم يذهبوا
and were the parties to come, they would wish they had withdrawn among the notables,
وإن يأت ٱلأحزاب يودوا لو أنهم بادون في ٱلأعراب
asking for information about you; and were they among you, they would have fought only a little.
يسلون عن أنبآئكم ولو كانوا فيكم ما قتلوا إلا قليلا
You have certainly had, in the messenger of God, a good example for whoever hopes for God and the Last Day, and remembers God much.
لقد كان لكم في رسول ٱلله أسوة حسنة لمن كان يرجوا ٱلله وٱليوم ٱلءاخر وذكر ٱلله كثيرا
And when the believers saw the parties, they said, "This is what God and His messenger promised us, and God and His messenger spoke truly,"
ولما رءا ٱلمؤمنون ٱلأحزاب قالوا هذا ما وعدنا ٱلله ورسوله وصدق ٱلله ورسوله
and it only increased them in faith and adherence with complete integrity.
وما زادهم إلآ إيمنا وتسليما
Among the believers are men who have been true to the pact they made with God:
من ٱلمؤمنين رجال صدقوا ما عهدوا ٱلله عليه
some of them have concluded their commitment, and some of them are waiting,
فمنهم من قضى نحبه ومنهم من ينتظر
and they have not changed in the least — so that God may recompense the veracious for their veracity, and punish the hypocrites, if He wills, or turn toward them with clemency.
وما بدلوا تبديلا ليجزي ٱلله ٱلصدقين بصدقهم ويعذب ٱلمنفقين إن شآء أو يتوب عليهم
God is indeed Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
إن ٱلله كان غفورا رحيما
And God turned back those who disowned, in their rage, without any good accruing to them;
ورد ٱلله ٱلذين كفروا بغيظهم لم ينالوا خيرا
and God spared the believers the fight.
وكفى ٱلله ٱلمؤمنين ٱلقتال
And God is Strong, All-Powerful.
وكان ٱلله قويا عزيزا
And He brought down from their strongholds those, among the People of the Scripture, who had supported them, and hurled terror into their cores:
وأنزل ٱلذين ظهروهم من أهل ٱلكتب من صياصيهم وقذف في قلوبهم ٱلرعب
one fraction you were killing, and another fraction you were taking captive;
فريقا تقتلون وتأسرون فريقا
and He made you inherit their land, their abodes, and their goods, and a land you had not trodden.
وأورثكم أرضهم وديرهم وأمولهم وأرضا لم تطوها
And God is capable of all things.
وكان ٱلله على كل شىء قديرا
O Informant, say to your wives, "If you want the present life and its adornment, come, I will grant you enjoyment and release you with a gracious release;
يأيها ٱلنبي قل لأزوجك إن كنتن تردن ٱلحيوة ٱلدنيا وزينتها فتعالين أمتعكن وأسرحكن سراحا جميلا
but if you want God, His messenger, and the last abode, then God has indeed prepared, for those among you who do good, an immense reward."
وإن كنتن تردن ٱلله ورسوله وٱلدار ٱلءاخرة فإن ٱلله أعد للمحسنت منكن أجرا عظيما
O wives of the Informant, whoever among you commits a manifest indecency, the punishment would be doubled for her, twice over;
ينسآء ٱلنبي من يأت منكن بفحشة مبينة يضعف لها ٱلعذاب ضعفين
and that is, for God, an easy thing.
وكان ذلك على ٱلله يسيرا
And whoever among you is devoted to God and His messenger and does a sound deed, We will give her reward twice, and We have made ready for her a generous provision.
ومن يقنت منكن لله ورسوله وتعمل صلحا نؤتهآ أجرها مرتين وأعتدنا لها رزقا كريما
O wives of the Informant, you are not like any other of women, if you guard yourselves.
ينسآء ٱلنبي لستن كأحد من ٱلنسآء إن ٱتقيتن
So do not let the tone of your saying be yielding, lest he in whose core is a sickness should covet; and speak a recognized saying, and remain in your houses,
فلا تخضعن بٱلقول فيطمع ٱلذي في قلبه مرض وقلن قولا معروفا وقرن في بيوتكن
and do not flaunt yourselves as was flaunted in the former ignorance.
ولا تبرجن تبرج ٱلجهلية ٱلأولى
Maintain the Contact, and give pure liberality,
وأقمن ٱلصلوة وءاتين ٱلزكوة
and defer to God and His messenger.
وأطعن ٱلله ورسوله
God only intends to remove from you filth, People of the House, and to purify you completely.
إنما يريد ٱلله ليذهب عنكم ٱلرجس أهل ٱلبيت ويطهركم تطهيرا
And remember what is recited in your houses of God's signs and wisdom.
وٱذكرن ما يتلى في بيوتكن من ءايت ٱلله وٱلحكمة
God is Subtle, Intimately Acquainted.
إن ٱلله كان لطيفا خبيرا
Men true to God alone and women true to God alone, believing men and believing women, devoted men and devoted women, veracious men and veracious women, patient men and patient women, humble men and humble women, men who give in charity and women who give in charity, men and women who abstain, men who preserve their private parts and women who preserve them, men who remember God much and women who remember Him — God has indeed prepared for them forgiveness and an immense reward.
إن ٱلمسلمين وٱلمسلمت وٱلمؤمنين وٱلمؤمنت وٱلقنتين وٱلقنتت وٱلصدقين وٱلصدقت وٱلصبرين وٱلصبرت وٱلخشعين وٱلخشعت وٱلمتصدقين وٱلمتصدقت وٱلصئمين وٱلصئمت وٱلحفظين فروجهم وٱلحفظت وٱلذكرين ٱلله كثيرا وٱلذكرت أعد ٱلله لهم مغفرة وأجرا عظيما
And it is not for any believing man or believing woman, when God and His messenger have decided a matter, to have the option in their own affair.
وما كان لمؤمن ولا مؤمنة إذا قضى ٱلله ورسوله أمرا أن يكون لهم ٱلخيرة من أمرهم
And whoever disobeys God and His messenger has strayed into manifest error.
ومن يعص ٱلله ورسوله فقد ضل ضللا مبينا
And when you said to the one God had favored and you had favored, "Retain your wife and guard yourself toward God," while hiding within yourself what God was going to make appear, and dreading mankind, when God is more deserving that you dread Him.
وإذ تقول للذي أنعم ٱلله عليه وأنعمت عليه أمسك عليك زوجك وٱتق ٱلله وتخفي في نفسك ما ٱلله مبديه وتخشى ٱلناس وٱلله أحق أن تخشىه
Then when Zayd had ended all ties with her, We gave her to you in marriage, so that there would be no discomfort for the believers concerning the wives of their adopted sons, once they have ended all ties with them.
فلما قضى زيد منها وطرا زوجنكها لكى لا يكون على ٱلمؤمنين حرج في أزوج أدعيآئهم إذا قضوا منهن وطرا
And God's command is always a thing done.
وكان أمر ٱلله مفعولا
There is no discomfort for the Informant in what God has fixed for him —
ما كان على ٱلنبي من حرج فيما فرض ٱلله له
such is God's norm with those who passed before.
سنة ٱلله في ٱلذين خلوا من قبل
And God's command is a determined measure.
وكان أمر ٱلله قدرا مقدورا
Those who convey God's messages, and dread Him, and dread no one but God —
ٱلذين يبلغون رسلت ٱلله ويخشونه ولا يخشون أحدا إلا ٱلله
and God suffices as a reckoner.
وكفى بٱلله حسيبا
Muhammad is not the father of any of your men,
ما كان محمد أبآ أحد من رجالكم
but rather the messenger of God and the seal of the informants.
ولكن رسول ٱلله وخاتم ٱلنبين
And God is All-Knowing of all things.
وكان ٱلله بكل شىء عليما
O you who have believed! Remember God much, and glorify Him morning and evening.
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا ٱذكروا ٱلله ذكرا كثيرا وسبحوه بكرة وأصيلا
It is He who is in contact with you, He and His Agents, so as to bring you out of the darknesses into the light;
هو ٱلذي يصلي عليكم وملئكته ليخرجكم من ٱلظلمت إلى ٱلنور
and He is, toward the believers, Benevolent.
وكان بٱلمؤمنين رحيما
Their greeting, the day they meet Him, will be, "Peace."
تحيتهم يوم يلقونه سلم
And He has prepared for them a generous reward.
وأعد لهم أجرا كريما
O Informant, We have indeed sent you as a witness, a bearer of good tidings, and a warner, as one calling to God by His permission, and as an illuminating torch.
يأيها ٱلنبي إنآ أرسلنك شهدا ومبشرا ونذيرا وداعيا إلى ٱلله بإذنه وسراجا منيرا
And give the believers the good news that they will have, from God, great favor.
وبشر ٱلمؤمنين بأن لهم من ٱلله فضلا كبيرا
And do not defer to those who disown nor to the hypocrites,
ولا تطع ٱلكفرين وٱلمنفقين
and disregard their nuisance,
ودع أذىهم
and entrust yourself to God:
وتوكل على ٱلله
God suffices as a trustee.
وكفى بٱلله وكيلا
O you who have believed! When you marry believing women and then repudiate them before you have touched them, you have no waiting period against them for you to number.
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا إذا نكحتم ٱلمؤمنت ثم طلقتموهن من قبل أن تمسوهن فما لكم عليهن من عدة تعتدونها
So grant them an enjoyment, and release them with a gracious release.
فمتعوهن وسرحوهن سراحا جميلا
O Informant, We have permitted to you your wives to whom you have given their rewards, she who is bound to you by oath among what God has restored to you, and the daughters of your paternal uncle, the daughters of your paternal aunts, the daughters of your maternal uncle, and the daughters of your maternal aunts who emigrated with you, and any believing woman if she bestows herself on the Informant — provided the Informant wishes to marry her:
يأيها ٱلنبي إنآ أحللنا لك أزوجك ٱلتي ءاتيت أجورهن وما ملكت يمينك ممآ أفآء ٱلله عليك وبنات عمك وبنات عمتك وبنات خالك وبنات خلتك ٱلتي هاجرن معك وٱمرأة مؤمنة إن وهبت نفسها للنبي إن أراد ٱلنبي أن يستنكحها
exclusively for you, to the exclusion of the believers.
خالصة لك من دون ٱلمؤمنين
We certainly know what We have fixed for them concerning their wives and those bound to them by oath, so that there may be no discomfort for you;
قد علمنا ما فرضنا عليهم في أزوجهم وما ملكت أيمنهم لكيلا يكون عليك حرج
and God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
وكان ٱلله غفورا رحيما
You may postpone whom you will of them, and take to yourself whom you will;
ترجي من تشآء منهن وتوي إليك من تشآء
and whomever you seek of those you had set aside, no blame upon you.
ومن ٱبتغيت ممن عزلت فلا جناح عليك
That is nearer so that their gaze may rest, and they not grieve, and they be satisfied, all of them, with what you give them.
ذلك أدنى أن تقر أعينهن ولا يحزن ويرضين بمآ ءاتيتهن كلهن
And God knows what is in your cores;
وٱلله يعلم ما في قلوبكم
and God is All-Knowing, Forbearing.
وكان ٱلله عليما حليما
Women are not permitted to you after this, nor to exchange them for other wives, even were their beauty to dazzle you — except she who is bound to you by oath.
لا يحل لك ٱلنسآء من بعد ولآ أن تبدل بهن من أزوج ولو أعجبك حسنهن إلا ما ملكت يمينك
And God is, over all things, an Observer.
وكان ٱلله على كل شىء رقيبا
O you who have believed! Do not enter the houses of the Informant unless permission is given you for food, without awaiting its readiness;
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا لا تدخلوا بيوت ٱلنبي إلآ أن يؤذن لكم إلى طعام غير نظرين إنىه
but when you are invited, enter; and when you have fed, deploy, without tarrying for discourse.
ولكن إذا دعيتم فٱدخلوا فإذا طعمتم فٱنتشروا ولا مستنسين لحديث
That indeed used to trouble the Informant, though he felt shy toward you,
إن ذلكم كان يؤذي ٱلنبي فيستحي منكم
whereas God is not shy of the truth.
وٱلله لا يستحي من ٱلحق
And when you ask them for an item, ask them from behind a veil:
وإذا سألتموهن متعا فسلوهن من ورآء حجاب
that is cleaner for your cores and their cores.
ذلكم أطهر لقلوبكم وقلوبهن
And it is not for you to trouble the messenger of God, nor to marry his wives after him, ever;
وما كان لكم أن تؤذوا رسول ٱلله ولآ أن تنكحوا أزوجه من بعده أبدا
that is, with God, immense.
إن ذلكم كان عند ٱلله عظيما
Whether you make a thing appear or hide it, God is indeed All-Knowing of all things.
إن تبدوا شيا أو تخفوه فإن ٱلله كان بكل شىء عليما
No blame upon them concerning their fathers, nor their sons, nor their brothers, nor their brothers' sons, nor their sisters' sons, nor the women of their circle, nor those bound to them by oath.
لا جناح عليهن في ءابآئهن ولآ أبنآئهن ولآ إخونهن ولآ أبنآء إخونهن ولآ أبنآء أخوتهن ولا نسآئهن ولا ما ملكت أيمنهن
And guard yourselves toward God:
وٱتقين ٱلله
God is indeed witness over all things.
إن ٱلله كان على كل شىء شهيدا
God and His Agents are in constant contact with the Informant.
إن ٱلله وملئكته يصلون على ٱلنبي
O you who have believed! Be in contact with him, and greet him with a salutation.
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا صلوا عليه وسلموا تسليما
Those who trouble God and His messenger — God has indeed cursed them in the present life and the last life, and has prepared for them a degrading punishment.
إن ٱلذين يؤذون ٱلله ورسوله لعنهم ٱلله في ٱلدنيا وٱلءاخرة وأعد لهم عذابا مهينا
And those who trouble believing men and believing women without their having committed anything make themselves the bearers of a slander and a manifest transgression.
وٱلذين يؤذون ٱلمؤمنين وٱلمؤمنت بغير ما ٱكتسبوا فقد ٱحتملوا بهتنا وإثما مبينا
O Informant, tell your wives, your daughters, and the women of the believers to draw over themselves part of their outer garments:
يأيها ٱلنبي قل لأزوجك وبناتك ونسآء ٱلمؤمنين يدنين عليهن من جلبيبهن
that is nearer so that they will be recognized and not be troubled.
ذلك أدنى أن يعرفن فلا يؤذين
And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
وكان ٱلله غفورا رحيما
If the hypocrites, those in whose cores is a sickness, and the rumor-mongers in the Capital do not cease, We will certainly unleash you against them; then they will not remain your neighbors there except a little, being cursed.
لئن لم ينته ٱلمنفقون وٱلذين في قلوبهم مرض وٱلمرجفون في ٱلمدينة لنغرينك بهم ثم لا يجاورونك فيهآ إلا قليلا ملعونين
Wherever they are surprised, they will be seized and massacred in an utter massacre.
أينما ثقفوا أخذوا وقتلوا تقتيلا
Such is God's norm with those who passed before,
سنة ٱلله في ٱلذين خلوا من قبل
and you will never find any change in God's norm.
ولن تجد لسنة ٱلله تبديلا
Men ask you about the Hour.
يسلك ٱلناس عن ٱلساعة
Say: "Knowledge of it is only with God,
قل إنما علمها عند ٱلله
and what gives you an idea?
وما يدريك
Perhaps the Hour is near."
لعل ٱلساعة تكون قريبا
God has indeed cursed those who disown, and has prepared for them an inferno in which they will abide eternally, forever, finding neither protector nor help —
إن ٱلله لعن ٱلكفرين وأعد لهم سعيرا خلدين فيهآ أبدا لا يجدون وليا ولا نصيرا
the day their faces capsize in the Fire, they will say, "Would that we had deferred to God and deferred to the messenger!"
يوم تقلب وجوههم في ٱلنار يقولون يليتنآ أطعنا ٱلله وأطعنا ٱلرسولا
And they will say, "Our Guardian, we indeed deferred to our chiefs and our great ones, and they led us astray from the way.
وقالوا ربنآ إنآ أطعنا سادتنا وكبرآءنا فأضلونا ٱلسبيلا
Our Guardian, give them double punishment, and curse them with an abundant curse."
ربنآ ءاتهم ضعفين من ٱلعذاب وٱلعنهم لعنا كبيرا
O you who have believed! Do not be like those who troubled Moussa; God made him quit of what they said,
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا لا تكونوا كٱلذين ءاذوا موسى فبرأه ٱلله مما قالوا
and he was, with God, of high standing.
وكان عند ٱلله وجيها
O you who have believed! Guard yourselves toward God and speak a straight saying: He will make your deeds sound for you and forgive you your offenses.
يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا ٱتقوا ٱلله وقولوا قولا سديدا يصلح لكم أعملكم ويغفر لكم ذنوبكم
And whoever defers to God and His messenger has attained an immense triumph.
ومن يطع ٱلله ورسوله فقد فاز فوزا عظيما
We offered the trust to the heavens, the earth, and the mountains; they refused to bear it and were apprehensive of it,
إنا عرضنا ٱلأمانة على ٱلسموت وٱلأرض وٱلجبال فأبين أن يحملنها وأشفقن منها
and the human being bore it: he was indeed a great wrongdoer, deeply ignorant — so that God may punish the hypocrites, men and women, and the associators, men and women, and that God turn with clemency toward the believing men and the believing women.
وحملها ٱلإنسن إنه كان ظلوما جهولا ليعذب ٱلله ٱلمنفقين وٱلمنفقت وٱلمشركين وٱلمشركت ويتوب ٱلله على ٱلمؤمنين وٱلمؤمنت
And God is Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
وكان ٱلله غفورا رحيما