Maryam

Kaf. Ha. Ya. ʿAyn. Ṣad.

كهيعص

A remembrance of your Guardian's benevolence toward His obedient one Zakariya, when he called upon his Guardian with a hidden call,

ذكر رحمت ربك عبده زكريآ إذ نادى ربه ندآء خفيا

he said: "My Guardian, the bone has indeed grown frail within me, the head has blazed white, and never, in invoking You, my Guardian, have I been wretched.

قال رب إني وهن ٱلعظم مني وٱشتعل ٱلرأس شيبا ولم أكن بدعآئك رب شقيا

and make him, my Guardian, well-pleasing."

وٱجعله رب رضيا

"O Zakariya, We indeed give you glad tidings of a boy: his attribute is Yahya, for whom We have made, before him, no one who shares this attribute."

يزكريآ إنا نبشرك بغلم ٱسمه يحيى لم نجعل له من قبل سميا

He said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a boy, when my wife is barren and I have reached, in old age, utter decrepitude?"

قال رب أنى يكون لي غلم وكانت ٱمرأتي عاقرا وقد بلغت من ٱلكبر عتيا

He said: "So it will be. Your Guardian has said: That is easy for Me, and I created you before, when you were nothing."

قال كذلك قال ربك هو على هين وقد خلقتك من قبل ولم تك شيا

He said: "Your sign is that you shall not speak to men for three complete nights."

قال ءايتك ألا تكلم ٱلناس ثلث ليال سويا

He came out to his people, from the oratory, and signaled to them: "Glorify at morning and evening."

فخرج على قومه من ٱلمحراب فأوحى إليهم أن سبحوا بكرة وعشيا

And We gave him judgment, while he was a young child,

وءاتينه ٱلحكم صبيا

and he guarded himself.

وكان تقيا

And virtuous toward his parents, he was neither tyrannical nor disobedient.

وبرا بولديه ولم يكن جبارا عصيا

And peace be upon him the day he was born, the day he dies, and the day he is raised alive.

وسلم عليه يوم ولد ويوم يموت ويوم يبعث حيا

So We sent to her Our Influx, who took before her the form of a well-formed human.

فأرسلنآ إليها روحنا فتمثل لها بشرا سويا

She said: "I indeed take refuge from you with the All-Benevolent! If you guard yourself…"

قالت إني أعوذ بٱلرحمن منك إن كنت تقيا

He said: "I am only the messenger of your Guardian, that He may bestow on you a pure boy."

قال إنمآ أنا رسول ربك لأهب لك غلما زكيا

She said: "How shall I have a boy, when no human has touched me and I have not been unchaste?"

قالت أنى يكون لي غلم ولم يمسسني بشر ولم أك بغيا

It is a matter already decreed."

وكان أمرا مقضيا

She carried him, then secluded herself with him in a far-off place.

فحملته فٱنتبذت به مكانا قصيا

The pangs of childbirth drove her to the trunk of the palm tree. She said: "Would that I had died before this, and been a thing forgotten, utterly forgotten!"

فأجآءها ٱلمخاض إلى جذع ٱلنخلة قالت يليتني مت قبل هذا وكنت نسيا منسيا

He called to her from below her: "Do not grieve! Your Guardian has set beneath you a stream.

فنادىها من تحتهآ ألا تحزني قد جعل ربك تحتك سريا

And shake toward you the trunk of the palm tree: it will let fresh, ripe dates tumble upon you.

وهزي إليك بجذع ٱلنخلة تسقط عليك رطبا جنيا

If you see anyone among the humans, say: 'I have vowed to the All-Benevolent an abstention; so I shall not speak today to any human.'"

فإما ترين من ٱلبشر أحدا فقولي إني نذرت للرحمن صوما فلن أكلم ٱليوم إنسيا

They said: "O Maryam, you have indeed come to a monstrous thing!

قالوا يمريم لقد جئت شيا فريا

O sister of Harun, your father was not a man of evil, nor your mother unchaste."

يأخت هرون ما كان أبوك ٱمرأ سوء وما كانت أمك بغيا

They said: "How shall we speak to one who is a young child in the cradle?"

قالوا كيف نكلم من كان في ٱلمهد صبيا

And He has not made me tyrannical or wretched.

ولم يجعلني جبارا شقيا

And peace be upon me the day I was born, the day I die, and the day I am raised alive."

وٱلسلم على يوم ولدت ويوم أموت ويوم أبعث حيا

the saying of truth, about which they contend.

قول ٱلحق ٱلذي فيه يمترون

and it is.

فيكون

This is a straight path.

هذا صرط مستقيم

So woe to those who disown, at the witnessing of an immense Day!

فويل للذين كفروا من مشهد يوم عظيم

Yet the wrongdoers, today, are in manifest error.

لكن ٱلظلمون ٱليوم في ضلل مبين

And warn them of the Day of Desolation, when the matter is decided, while they are heedless and do not believe,

وأنذرهم يوم ٱلحسرة إذ قضي ٱلأمر وهم في غفلة وهم لا يؤمنون

and to Us they will be returned.

وإلينا يرجعون

And mention, in the Scripture, Ibrahim: he was a veracious man, an informant, when he said to his father: "O my father, why do you obey what neither hears nor sees clearly and avails you nothing?

وٱذكر في ٱلكتب إبرهيم إنه كان صديقا نبيا إذ قال لأبيه يأبت لم تعبد ما لا يسمع ولا يبصر ولا يغني عنك شيا

O my father, there has indeed come to me of knowledge what has not come to you; so follow me, I will guide you along an even path.

يأبت إني قد جآءني من ٱلعلم ما لم يأتك فٱتبعني أهدك صرطا سويا

for the Diverter is disobedient toward the All-Benevolent.

إن ٱلشيطن كان للرحمن عصيا

O my father, I fear that a punishment from the All-Benevolent will touch you, and you become an ally of the Diverter."

يأبت إني أخاف أن يمسك عذاب من ٱلرحمن فتكون للشيطن وليا

If you do not desist, I will surely banish you! Keep away from me for a long time."

يإبرهيم لئن لم تنته لأرجمنك وٱهجرني مليا

Ibrahim said: "Peace be upon you. I will ask my Guardian's forgiveness for you: He has ever been attentive to me. I draw apart from you and from what you invoke besides God, and I invoke my Guardian; it may be that, in invoking my Guardian, I shall not be wretched."

قال سلم عليك سأستغفر لك ربي إنه كان بي حفيا وأعتزلكم وما تدعون من دون ٱلله وأدعوا ربي عسى ألآ أكون بدعآء ربي شقيا

and each We made an informant.

وكلا جعلنا نبيا

And We bestowed on them of Our benevolence, and gave them a lofty tongue of veracity.

ووهبنا لهم من رحمتنا وجعلنا لهم لسان صدق عليا

And mention, in the Scripture, Moussa: he was devoted exclusively to God, and he was a messenger, an informant.

وٱذكر في ٱلكتب موسى إنه كان مخلصا وكان رسولا نبيا

And We called him from the right side of the Mount, and drew him near in private converse.

وندينه من جانب ٱلطور ٱلأيمن وقربنه نجيا

And We bestowed on him, out of Our benevolence, his brother Harun, an informant.

ووهبنا له من رحمتنآ أخاه هرون نبيا

and he was, with his Guardian, well-pleasing.

وكان عند ربه مرضيا

And mention, in the Scripture, Idris: he was a veracious man, an informant.

وٱذكر في ٱلكتب إدريس إنه كان صديقا نبيا

And We elevated him to a lofty station.

ورفعنه مكانا عليا

When the signs of the All-Benevolent were recited to them, they fell down prostrate, weeping.

إذا تتلى عليهم ءايت ٱلرحمن خروا سجدا وبكيا

for His promise is to be fulfilled.

إنه كان وعده مأتيا

And they will have their provision there, morning and evening.

ولهم رزقهم فيها بكرة وعشيا

Such is the Garden that We shall give as inheritance, among Our obedient ones, to whoever guarded himself.

تلك ٱلجنة ٱلتي نورث من عبادنا من كان تقيا

And your Guardian is never forgetful."

وما كان ربك نسيا

Do you know anyone who shares His attribute?

هل تعلم له سميا

And the human being says: "When I am dead, shall I really be brought forth alive?"

ويقول ٱلإنسن أءذا ما مت لسوف أخرج حيا

Does the human being not remember that We created him before, when he was nothing?

أولا يذكر ٱلإنسن أنا خلقنه من قبل ولم يك شيا

By your Guardian, We will surely gather them, along with the Diverters; then We will surely bring them around Jahannam, on their knees.

فوربك لنحشرنهم وٱلشيطين ثم لنحضرنهم حول جهنم جثيا

Then We will surely pluck out, from every faction, those most insolent toward the All-Benevolent.

ثم لننزعن من كل شيعة أيهم أشد على ٱلرحمن عتيا

Then it is We who know best who most deserves to burn in it.

ثم لنحن أعلم بٱلذين هم أولى بها صليا

And there is none of you but will arrive at it: that is, for your Guardian, an irrevocable sentence.

وإن منكم إلا واردها كان على ربك حتما مقضيا

Then We will save those who guarded themselves, and forsake the wrongdoers in it, on their knees.

ثم ننجي ٱلذين ٱتقوا ونذر ٱلظلمين فيها جثيا

And when Our clear signs are recited to them, those who disown say to those who believe: "Which of the two fractions has the better standing and the more beautiful circle?"

وإذا تتلى عليهم ءايتنا بينت قال ٱلذين كفروا للذين ءامنوا أى ٱلفريقين خير مقاما وأحسن نديا

How many a generation before them We have annihilated, more beautiful in possessions and in looks!

وكم أهلكنا قبلهم من قرن هم أحسن أثثا ورءيا

until, seeing what they are promised — either the punishment or the Hour — they know who has the worst place and who is weakest in army."

حتى إذا رأوا ما يوعدون إما ٱلعذاب وإما ٱلساعة فسيعلمون من هو شر مكانا وأضعف جندا

And the enduring, sound deeds are, with your Guardian, better in requital and better in what they yield.

وٱلبقيت ٱلصلحت خير عند ربك ثوابا وخير مردا

We will record what he says and extend for him the punishment, at length.

سنكتب ما يقول ونمد له من ٱلعذاب مدا

And We will inherit what he says, and he will come to Us, alone.

ونرثه ما يقول ويأتينا فردا

They will disown their obedience and stand against them as adversaries.

سيكفرون بعبادتهم ويكونون عليهم ضدا

Have you not seen that We have loosed the Diverters upon those who disown, inflaming them relentlessly?

ألم تر أنآ أرسلنا ٱلشيطين على ٱلكفرين تؤزهم أزا

We only number for them, one by one.

إنما نعد لهم عدا

The Day We gather those who guarded themselves to the All-Benevolent, as a delegation, and drive the severed to Jahannam, to arrive there.

يوم نحشر ٱلمتقين إلى ٱلرحمن وفدا ونسوق ٱلمجرمين إلى جهنم وردا

They will possess no mediation, except one who has taken a pact with the All-Benevolent.

لا يملكون ٱلشفعة إلا من ٱتخذ عند ٱلرحمن عهدا

And they have said: "The All-Benevolent has taken a child."

وقالوا ٱتخذ ٱلرحمن ولدا

You have indeed come to an enormity! The heavens are close to being rent asunder by it, the earth to splitting open, and the mountains to falling in rubble — that they have ascribed a child to the All-Benevolent.

لقد جئتم شيا إدا تكاد ٱلسموت يتفطرن منه وتنشق ٱلأرض وتخر ٱلجبال هدا أن دعوا للرحمن ولدا

It does not befit the All-Benevolent to take a child.

وما ينبغي للرحمن أن يتخذ ولدا

There is none in the heavens and the earth but comes to the All-Benevolent as an obedient one.

إن كل من في ٱلسموت وٱلأرض إلآ ءاتي ٱلرحمن عبدا

He has indeed enumerated them and numbered them, one by one.

لقد أحصىهم وعدهم عدا

And each of them will come to Him, on the Day of Appearance, alone.

وكلهم ءاتيه يوم ٱلقيمة فردا

To those who have believed and done sound deeds, the All-Benevolent will indeed grant affection.

إن ٱلذين ءامنوا وعملوا ٱلصلحت سيجعل لهم ٱلرحمن ودا

We have made it easy on your tongue only so that you may give glad tidings by it to those who guard themselves and warn by it a fierce people.

فإنما يسرنه بلسانك لتبشر به ٱلمتقين وتنذر به قوما لدا

How many a generation before them We have annihilated! Do you perceive a single one of them, or hear from them the faintest murmur?

وكم أهلكنا قبلهم من قرن هل تحس منهم من أحد أو تسمع لهم ركزا