Al-Isra

It is indeed He, the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing.

إنه هو ٱلسميع ٱلبصير

He was a grateful obedient one.

إنه كان عبدا شكورا

And We decreed to the Sons of Israel, in the Scripture: "You will surely sow corruption on the earth twice, and you will surely rise with great haughtiness."

وقضينآ إلى بني إسرءيل في ٱلكتب لتفسدن في ٱلأرض مرتين ولتعلن علوا كبيرا

and it was a promise, a thing done.

وكان وعدا مفعولا

Then We gave you back the upper hand over them, and reinforced you with goods and sons, and made you more numerous in ranks.

ثم رددنا لكم ٱلكرة عليهم وأمددنكم بأمول وبنين وجعلنكم أكثر نفيرا

Then, when the promise of the second time came, it was for them to stamp vexation upon your faces, to enter the place of prostration as they had entered it the first time, and to devastate utterly whatever they had seized.

فإذا جآء وعد ٱلءاخرة ليسوا وجوهكم وليدخلوا ٱلمسجد كما دخلوه أول مرة وليتبروا ما علوا تتبيرا

And We have made Jahannam, for those who disown, an enclosure.

وجعلنا جهنم للكفرين حصيرا

This Recitation indeed guides to what is most upright, and gives the believers who do sound deeds the glad tidings that they will have a great reward, and that those who do not believe in the last life — We have made ready for them a painful punishment.

إن هذا ٱلقرءان يهدي للتي هي أقوم ويبشر ٱلمؤمنين ٱلذين يعملون ٱلصلحت أن لهم أجرا كبيرا وأن ٱلذين لا يؤمنون بٱلءاخرة أعتدنا لهم عذابا أليما

for the human being is hasty.

وكان ٱلإنسن عجولا

And everything, We have set out in detail.

وكل شىء فصلنه تفصيلا

And to every human being We have fastened his own omen to his neck; and We shall bring forth for him, on the Day of Appearance, a register which he will meet deployed:

وكل إنسن ألزمنه طئره في عنقه ونخرج له يوم ٱلقيمة كتبا يلقىه منشورا

"Read your register: today, it suffices that you be your own reckoner."

ٱقرأ كتبك كفى بنفسك ٱليوم عليك حسيبا

And We never punish until We have raised up a messenger.

وما كنا معذبين حتى نبعث رسولا

And when We wish to annihilate a city, We address Our commands to its affluent ones, but they overstep within it; so the saying proves true against it, and We destroy it utterly.

وإذآ أردنآ أن نهلك قرية أمرنا مترفيها ففسقوا فيها فحق عليها ٱلقول فدمرنها تدميرا

Your Guardian suffices as Intimately Acquainted and All-Seeing regarding the offenses of His obedient ones.

وكفى بربك بذنوب عباده خبيرا بصيرا

Whoever wants the immediate life, We hasten for him in it what We will, to whom We want; then We assign him Jahannam, where he will burn, reproved, driven away.

من كان يريد ٱلعاجلة عجلنا له فيها ما نشآء لمن نريد ثم جعلنا له جهنم يصلىها مذموما مدحورا

And whoever wants the last life and endeavours for it with the effort it deserves, while being a believer — those are the ones whose effort will be acknowledged.

ومن أراد ٱلءاخرة وسعى لها سعيها وهو مؤمن فأولئك كان سعيهم مشكورا

and your Guardian's endowment is never restricted.

وما كان عطآء ربك محظورا

and the last life is indeed greater in degrees, and greater in favor.

وللءاخرة أكبر درجت وأكبر تفضيلا

Do not place, alongside God, another deity, or you would find yourself reproved, abandoned.

لا تجعل مع ٱلله إلها ءاخر فتقعد مذموما مخذولا

but speak to them a noble saying.

وقل لهما قولا كريما

and say: "My Guardian, have benevolence on them as they brought me up when I was small."

وقل رب ٱرحمهما كما ربياني صغيرا

If you are sound, He is indeed, toward those ever-returning to Him, Most-Forgiving.

إن تكونوا صلحين فإنه كان للأوبين غفورا

and do not squander wastefully.

ولا تبذر تبذيرا

and the Diverter is, toward his Guardian, a great disowner.

وكان ٱلشيطن لربه كفورا

And if you must turn away from them, seeking a benevolence from your Guardian that you hope for, then speak to them an easy saying.

وإما تعرضن عنهم ٱبتغآء رحمة من ربك ترجوها فقل لهم قولا ميسورا

Do not keep your hand shackled to your neck, nor stretch it out completely, or you would find yourself censured, drained by desolation.

ولا تجعل يدك مغلولة إلى عنقك ولا تبسطها كل ٱلبسط فتقعد ملوما محسورا

He is indeed, toward His obedient ones, Intimately Acquainted and All-Seeing.

إنه كان بعباده خبيرا بصيرا

Killing them is a great fault.

إن قتلهم كان خطا كبيرا

Do not approach fornication: it is an indecency, and what an evil way!

ولا تقربوا ٱلزنى إنه كان فحشة وسآء سبيلا

for he will be helped.

إنه كان منصورا

for the pact will be questioned.

إن ٱلعهد كان مسولا

that is better, and of finer interpretation.

ذلك خير وأحسن تأويلا

hearing, sight, and the Conscience — each of them will be questioned.

إن ٱلسمع وٱلبصر وٱلفؤاد كل أولئك كان عنه مسولا

you will never make a hole in the earth, nor reach the mountains in height.

إنك لن تخرق ٱلأرض ولن تبلغ ٱلجبال طولا

All that, its evil is, with your Guardian, detestable.

كل ذلك كان سيئه عند ربك مكروها

Do not place, alongside God, another deity, or you would be cast into Jahannam, censured, driven away.

ولا تجعل مع ٱلله إلها ءاخر فتلقى في جهنم ملوما مدحورا

You are surely saying an immense saying.

إنكم لتقولون قولا عظيما

We have indeed diversified the examples in this Recitation, so that they might remember; but it only increases their recoil.

ولقد صرفنا في هذا ٱلقرءان ليذكروا وما يزيدهم إلا نفورا

Say: "If there were, with Him, deities, as they say, they would then have sought a way to the Holder of the Edifice."

قل لو كان معه ءالهة كما يقولون إذا لٱبتغوا إلى ذي ٱلعرش سبيلا

Glory be to Him, and He is far above what they say, in great exaltation.

سبحنه وتعلى عما يقولون علوا كبيرا

He is Forbearing, Most-Forgiving.

إنه كان حليما غفورا

And when you read the Recitation, We place between you and those who do not believe in the last life a hidden veil,

وإذا قرأت ٱلقرءان جعلنا بينك وبين ٱلذين لا يؤمنون بٱلءاخرة حجابا مستورا

And when you mention your Guardian in the Recitation, Him alone, they turn their backs in recoil.

وإذا ذكرت ربك في ٱلقرءان وحده ولوا على أدبرهم نفورا

We know best what they listen for, when they listen to you, and when they are in secret talk, when the wrongdoers say: "You follow none but a man abused by illusion."

نحن أعلم بما يستمعون به إذ يستمعون إليك وإذ هم نجوى إذ يقول ٱلظلمون إن تتبعون إلا رجلا مسحورا

so they cannot find a way.

فلا يستطيعون سبيلا

And they said: "When we are bones and crumbled remains, shall we really be raised in a new creation?"

وقالوا أءذا كنا عظما ورفتا أءنا لمبعوثون خلقا جديدا

Say: "It may be that it is near.

قل عسى أن يكون قريبا

The Day He calls you, you will respond in praise of Him, and you will presume you had remained only a little while."

يوم يدعوكم فتستجيبون بحمده وتظنون إن لبثتم إلا قليلا

the Diverter is indeed, to the human being, a manifest enemy.

إن ٱلشيطن كان للإنسن عدوا مبينا

We have not sent you to be their trustee.

ومآ أرسلنك عليهم وكيلا

We have indeed favored some informants above others, and We gave Dawud a Formulary.

ولقد فضلنا بعض ٱلنبين على بعض وءاتينا داود زبورا

Say: "Invoke those you claim besides Him: they possess no power to remove harm from you, nor to shift it."

قل ٱدعوا ٱلذين زعمتم من دونه فلا يملكون كشف ٱلضر عنكم ولا تحويلا

for your Guardian's punishment is one to beware of.

إن عذاب ربك كان محذورا

that is inscribed in the register.

كان ذلك في ٱلكتب مسطورا

And We send the signs only to frighten.

وما نرسل بٱلءايت إلا تخويفا

And We frighten them, but it only increases their great immoderation.

ونخوفهم فما يزيدهم إلا طغينا كبيرا

except Iblis: he said: "Shall I prostrate before one You created from clay?"

إلآ إبليس قال ءأسجد لمن خلقت طينا

He said: "Do You see this one You have honored above me? If You give me respite until the Day of Appearance, I shall surely seize his descendants, except a few."

قال أرءيتك هذا ٱلذي كرمت على لئن أخرتن إلى يوم ٱلقيمة لأحتنكن ذريته إلا قليلا

He said: "Go! Whoever among them follows you — Jahannam will indeed be your recompense, an abundant recompense.

قال ٱذهب فمن تبعك منهم فإن جهنم جزآؤكم جزآء موفورا

but the Diverter promises them only delusion.

وما يعدهم ٱلشيطن إلا غرورا

and your Guardian suffices as trustee."

وكفى بربك وكيلا

He is, toward you, Benevolent.

إنه كان بكم رحيما

the human being is a great disowner.

وكان ٱلإنسن كفورا

Are you then sure He will not cause a part of the dry land to swallow you, or send upon you a storm of stones, leaving you then to find no trustee? Or are you sure He will not bring you back into it another time, to send upon you a shattering wind that drowns you, for your disowning, leaving you then to find no one to pursue Us on your behalf?

أفأمنتم أن يخسف بكم جانب ٱلبر أو يرسل عليكم حاصبا ثم لا تجدوا لكم وكيلا أم أمنتم أن يعيدكم فيه تارة أخرى فيرسل عليكم قاصفا من ٱلريح فيغرقكم بما كفرتم ثم لا تجدوا لكم علينا به تبيعا

We have indeed honored the sons of Adam, carried them on land and sea, provided them with wholesome things, and markedly favored them above many of those We have created.

ولقد كرمنا بني ءادم وحملنهم في ٱلبر وٱلبحر ورزقنهم من ٱلطيبت وفضلنهم على كثير ممن خلقنا تفضيلا

whoever is given his register in his right hand — those will read their register, and not be wronged a hair's breadth.

فمن أوتي كتبه بيمينه فأولئك يقرءون كتبهم ولا يظلمون فتيلا

And whoever is blind in this life will be blind in the last life, and further astray as to the way.

ومن كان في هذه أعمى فهو في ٱلءاخرة أعمى وأضل سبيلا

and then, they would have taken you as an intimate friend.

وإذا لٱتخذوك خليلا

And had We not made you firm, you would well nigh have leaned upon them, a little.

ولولآ أن ثبتنك لقد كدت تركن إليهم شيا قليلا

We would then have made you taste the double of life and the double of death; then you would have found, against Us, no help.

إذا لأذقنك ضعف ٱلحيوة وضعف ٱلممات ثم لا تجد لك علينا نصيرا

and then, they would not have remained after you, except a little.

وإذا لا يلبثون خلفك إلا قليلا

and you will find no shift in Our norm.

ولا تجد لسنتنا تحويلا

the Recitation of dawn is witnessed.

إن قرءان ٱلفجر كان مشهودا

And for part of the night, keep vigil with it, as an addition for you: it may be that your Guardian will raise you to a praised station.

ومن ٱليل فتهجد به نافلة لك عسى أن يبعثك ربك مقاما محمودا

And say: "My Guardian, cause me to enter by an entrance of veracity, and cause me to exit by an exit of veracity, and appoint for me, from Yourself, a supporting authority."

وقل رب أدخلني مدخل صدق وأخرجني مخرج صدق وٱجعل لي من لدنك سلطنا نصيرا

falsehood is indeed bound to vanish."

إن ٱلبطل كان زهوقا

but it only increases the wrongdoers in loss.

ولا يزيد ٱلظلمين إلا خسارا

and when ill touches him, he is hopeless.

وإذا مسه ٱلشر كان يوسا

Say: "Each one acts according to his own manner; your Guardian knows best who is best guided as to the way."

قل كل يعمل على شاكلته فربكم أعلم بمن هو أهدى سبيلا

Say: "The Influx is of my Guardian's command; and you have been given of knowledge only a little."

قل ٱلروح من أمر ربي ومآ أوتيتم من ٱلعلم إلا قليلا

His favor toward you is great.

إن فضله كان عليك كبيرا

Say: "If humans and the Occulted united to bring the equal of this Recitation, they would not bring its equal, even were they mutual support to one another."

قل لئن ٱجتمعت ٱلإنس وٱلجن على أن يأتوا بمثل هذا ٱلقرءان لا يأتون بمثله ولو كان بعضهم لبعض ظهيرا

We have indeed diversified for mankind, in this Recitation, every kind of example; but most men refused everything except disowning.

ولقد صرفنا للناس في هذا ٱلقرءان من كل مثل فأبى أكثر ٱلناس إلا كفورا

Say: "Glory be to my Guardian! Am I anything but a human, a messenger?"

قل سبحان ربي هل كنت إلا بشرا رسولا

And nothing prevented mankind from believing, when guidance came to them, except that they said: "Would God have raised up a human as a messenger?"

وما منع ٱلناس أن يؤمنوا إذ جآءهم ٱلهدى إلآ أن قالوا أبعث ٱلله بشرا رسولا

Say: "Had there been on earth Agents walking about calmly, We would have sent down to them, from the sky, an Agent, as messenger."

قل لو كان في ٱلأرض ملئكة يمشون مطمئنين لنزلنا عليهم من ٱلسمآء ملكا رسولا

He is indeed, toward His obedient ones, Intimately Acquainted and All-Seeing."

إنه كان بعباده خبيرا بصيرا

every time it dies down, We increase for them the inferno.

كلما خبت زدنهم سعيرا

That is their recompense, for having disowned Our signs and said: "When we are bones and crumbled remains, shall we really be raised in a new creation?"

ذلك جزآؤهم بأنهم كفروا بايتنا وقالوا أءذا كنا عظما ورفتا أءنا لمبعوثون خلقا جديدا

But the wrongdoers refused everything except disowning.

فأبى ٱلظلمون إلا كفورا

The human being is stingy.

وكان ٱلإنسن قتورا

so ask the Sons of Israel: when he came to them, Fir'awn said to him: "I presume you are surely abused by illusion, O Moussa."

فسل بني إسرءيل إذ جآءهم فقال له فرعون إني لأظنك يموسى مسحورا

and I presume you are surely ruined, O Fir'awn."

وإني لأظنك يفرعون مثبورا

He then wanted to shake them out of that land; but We drowned him, and all those with him.

فأراد أن يستفزهم من ٱلأرض فأغرقنه ومن معه جميعا

then, when the promise of the second time comes, We shall bring you all together, intertwined.

فإذا جآء وعد ٱلءاخرة جئنا بكم لفيفا

and We have sent you only as a bearer of good tidings and a warner.

ومآ أرسلنك إلا مبشرا ونذيرا

and We have sent it down by successive stages.

ونزلنه تنزيلا

Say: "Believe in it, or do not believe:

قل ءامنوا به أو لا تؤمنوا

those to whom knowledge was given before it, when it is recited to them, fall prostrate on their chins, saying: "Glory be to our Guardian! Our Guardian's promise is surely a thing done."

إن ٱلذين أوتوا ٱلعلم من قبله إذا يتلى عليهم يخرون للأذقان سجدا ويقولون سبحن ربنآ إن كان وعد ربنا لمفعولا

And they fall on their chins, weeping, and it increases their humility.

ويخرون للأذقان يبكون ويزيدهم خشوعا

Do not speak too loudly in your Contact, nor say it in an undertone either: seek, between the two, a way.

ولا تجهر بصلاتك ولا تخافت بها وٱبتغ بين ذلك سبيلا

and proclaim His greatness, fully.

وكبره تكبيرا