Al-Imran

and He sent down, before, the Tawrah and the Injil, a guidance for mankind, and He sent down the Discernment.

وأنزل ٱلتورىة وٱلإنجيل من قبل هدى للناس وأنزل ٱلفرقان

Indeed, those who have disowned the signs of God will have a severe punishment.

إن ٱلذين كفروا بايت ٱلله لهم عذاب شديد

It is He who gives you form in the wombs as He wills.

هو ٱلذي يصوركم في ٱلأرحام كيف يشآء

There is no deity but Him,

لآ إله إلا هو

It is He who sent down upon you the Scripture;

هو ٱلذي أنزل عليك ٱلكتب منه

in it are univocal signs, which are the matrix of the Scripture, and others, subject to resemblance.

ءايت محكمت هن أم ٱلكتب وأخر متشبهت

As for those in whose cores is a deviation, they follow what, in the Scripture, lends itself to resemblance, in pursuit of the trial and in pursuit of its interpretation;

فأما ٱلذين في قلوبهم زيغ فيتبعون ما تشبه منه ٱبتغآء ٱلفتنة وٱبتغآء تأويله

but none knows its interpretation, except God.

وما يعلم تأويله إلا ٱلله

And those who are deeply rooted in knowledge say: "We believe in it; all of it comes from our Guardian";

وٱلرسخون في ٱلعلم يقولون ءامنا به كل من عند ربنا

"Our Guardian, do not let our cores deviate after You have guided us, and bestow on us, from Yourself, a benevolence;

ربنا لا تزغ قلوبنا بعد إذ هديتنا وهب لنا من لدنك رحمة

Our Guardian, You are the One who brings mankind together for a day about which there is no doubt.

ربنآ إنك جامع ٱلناس ليوم لا ريب فيه

Those are the ones who will fuel the Fire, like the conduct of the clan of Fir'awn,

وأولئك هم وقود ٱلنار كدأب ءال فرعون

and of those before them, who denied Our signs; God then seized them for their offenses.

وٱلذين من قبلهم كذبوا بايتنا فأخذهم ٱلله بذنوبهم

Say to those who disown: "You will be defeated, and gathered toward Jahannam."

قل للذين كفروا ستغلبون وتحشرون إلى جهنم

You had a sign in those two battalions that met:

قد كان لكم ءاية في فئتين ٱلتقتا

one fought in the way of God, and the other disowned, seeing it, with the naked eye, twice as numerous as itself.

فئة تقتل في سبيل ٱلله وأخرى كافرة يرونهم مثليهم رأي ٱلعين

God fortifies, by His help, whom He wills.

وٱلله يؤيد بنصره من يشآء

The love of passions has been embellished for men: women, sons, heaped quintals of gold and silver, marked horses, cattle, and tilth.

زين للناس حب ٱلشهوت من ٱلنسآء وٱلبنين وٱلقنطير ٱلمقنطرة من ٱلذهب وٱلفضة وٱلخيل ٱلمسومة وٱلأنعم وٱلحرث

That is the enjoyment of the present life;

ذلك متع ٱلحيوة ٱلدنيا

Say: "Shall I inform you of something better than that?

قل أؤنبئكم بخير من ذلكم

For those who guard themselves, with their Guardian, gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, purified spouses, and a good pleasure from God."

للذين ٱتقوا عند ربهم جنت تجري من تحتها ٱلأنهر خلدين فيها وأزوج مطهرة ورضون من ٱلله

God bears witness, and so do the Agents and the possessors of knowledge, that there is no deity but Him, standing firm in equity.

شهد ٱلله أنه لآ إله إلا هو وٱلملئكة وأولوا ٱلعلم قآئما بٱلقسط

There is no deity but Him,

لآ إله إلا هو

The Law, with God, is indeed being true to Him alone.

إن ٱلدين عند ٱلله ٱلإسلم

And those to whom the Scripture was given diverged only after knowledge had come to them,

وما ٱختلف ٱلذين أوتوا ٱلكتب إلا من بعد ما جآءهم ٱلعلم

out of iniquity among themselves.

بغيا بينهم

If they dispute with you, say then: "I render my direction true to God alone, as do those who have followed me."

فإن حآجوك فقل أسلمت وجهي لله ومن ٱتبعن

And say to those to whom the Scripture was given, and to the people without a prior Scripture: "Have you become true to God alone?"

وقل للذين أوتوا ٱلكتب وٱلأمين ءأسلمتم

If they become so, they then let themselves be guided;

فإن أسلموا فقد ٱهتدوا

and if they turn their backs, only the transmission is incumbent upon you.

وإن تولوا فإنما عليك ٱلبلغ

Those are the ones whose works have collapsed, in the present life and in the last life,

أولئك ٱلذين حبطت أعملهم في ٱلدنيا وٱلءاخرة

Say: "O God, Sovereign of dominion! You give dominion to whom You will, and You strip dominion from whom You will; You make mighty whom You will, and You humiliate whom You will; good is in Your hand.

قل ٱللهم ملك ٱلملك تؤتي ٱلملك من تشآء وتنزع ٱلملك ممن تشآء وتعز من تشآء وتذل من تشآء بيدك ٱلخير

Let not the believers take those who disown as allies, besides the believers;

لا يتخذ ٱلمؤمنون ٱلكفرين أوليآء من دون ٱلمؤمنين

and whoever does that has nothing more to do with God — except if you guard yourselves from them as a precaution.

ومن يفعل ذلك فليس من ٱلله في شىء إلآ أن تتقوا منهم تقىة

God warns you against Himself,

ويحذركم ٱلله نفسه

Say: "Whether you hide what is in your chests, or make it appear, God knows it.

قل إن تخفوا ما في صدوركم أو تبدوه يعلمه ٱلله

And He knows what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.

ويعلم ما في ٱلسموت وما في ٱلأرض

The day when every Self will find present what it has done of good,

يوم تجد كل نفس ما عملت من خير محضرا

and what it has done of evil, it would wish there were between that and itself a distant span.

وما عملت من سوء تود لو أن بينها وبينه أمدا بعيدا

God warns you against Himself.

ويحذركم ٱلله نفسه

Say: "If you love God, follow me: God will love you and forgive you your offenses.

قل إن كنتم تحبون ٱلله فٱتبعوني يحببكم ٱلله ويغفر لكم ذنوبكم

Say: "Defer to God and the messenger";

قل أطيعوا ٱلله وٱلرسول

God has chosen Adam, Nuh, the clan of Ibrahim, and the clan of Imran, above all beings, descendants one from another.

إن ٱلله ٱصطفى ءادم ونوحا وءال إبرهيم وءال عمرن على ٱلعلمين ذرية بعضها من بعض

when the wife of Imran said: "My Guardian, I make a vow to You of what is in my belly, made independent of all; accept it, then, from me.

إذ قالت ٱمرأت عمرن رب إني نذرت لك ما في بطني محررا فتقبل مني

Then, when she gave birth to her, she said: "My Guardian, I have indeed given birth to her, a girl" — God knew better, though, what she had given birth to —

فلما وضعتها قالت رب إني وضعتهآ أنثى وٱلله أعلم بما وضعت

"and the male is not like the female;

وليس ٱلذكر كٱلأنثى

I have given her the attribute Maryam,

وإني سميتها مريم

Her Guardian received her with a beautiful reception, and made her grow with a beautiful growth,

فتقبلها ربها بقبول حسن وأنبتها نباتا حسنا

and entrusted custody of her to Zakariya.

وكفلها زكريا

Every time Zakariya entered upon her in the oratory, he found near her a provision.

كلما دخل عليها زكريا ٱلمحراب وجد عندها رزقا

He said: "O Maryam! From where does this come to you?"

قال يمريم أنى لك هذا

She said: "It comes from God.

قالت هو من عند ٱلله

Right there, Zakariya invoked his Guardian.

هنالك دعا زكريا ربه

He said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a boy, when old age has already reached me, and my wife is barren?"

قال رب أنى يكون لي غلم وقد بلغني ٱلكبر وٱمرأتي عاقر

He said: "Thus it is:

قال كذلك

He said: "My Guardian, appoint for me a sign."

قال رب ٱجعل لي ءاية

He said: "Your sign will be that you will not speak to men except by gestures, for three days.

قال ءايتك ألا تكلم ٱلناس ثلثة أيام إلا رمزا

That is part of the information about what escapes the senses, which We reveal to you.

ذلك من أنبآء ٱلغيب نوحيه إليك

and you were not with them when they quarreled. When the Agents said: "O Maryam! God announces to you a word from Himself,

وما كنت لديهم إذ يختصمون إذ قالت ٱلملئكة يمريم إن ٱلله يبشرك بكلمة منه

He will speak to men in the cradle and in his prime,

ويكلم ٱلناس في ٱلمهد وكهلا

She said: "My Guardian, how shall I have a child, when no human has touched me?"

قالت رب أنى يكون لي ولد ولم يمسسني بشر

He said: "Thus it is:

قال كذلك

God creates what He wills.

ٱلله يخلق ما يشآء

When He decrees a matter, He only says to it: Be",

إذا قضى أمرا فإنما يقول له كن

"And He will teach him the Code, wisdom, the Tawrah and the Injil, and a messenger to the Sons of Israel: I bring you a sign from your Guardian:

ويعلمه ٱلكتب وٱلحكمة وٱلتورىة وٱلإنجيل ورسولا إلى بني إسرءيل أني قد جئتكم باية من ربكم

I create for you, from clay, the form of a bird, then I breathe into it, and it becomes a bird, with God's permission.

أني أخلق لكم من ٱلطين كهية ٱلطير فأنفخ فيه فيكون طيرا بإذن ٱلله

And I restore the born-blind and the leper, and I bring the dead back to life, with God's permission.

وأبرئ ٱلأكمه وٱلأبرص وأحي ٱلموتى بإذن ٱلله

And I inform you of what you eat and what you store up in your houses.

وأنبئكم بما تأكلون وما تدخرون في بيوتكم

And confirming what, of the Tawrah, precedes me, and to permit you a part of what was prohibited to you.

ومصدقا لما بين يدى من ٱلتورىة ولأحل لكم بعض ٱلذي حرم عليكم

I bring you a sign from your Guardian;

وجئتكم باية من ربكم

God is indeed my Guardian and your Guardian; obey Him, then.

إن ٱلله ربي وربكم فٱعبدوه

When Issa perceived disowning from them, he said: "Who will be my helpers toward God?"

فلمآ أحس عيسى منهم ٱلكفر قال من أنصاري إلى ٱلله

The disciples said: "We are the helpers of God.

قال ٱلحواريون نحن أنصار ٱلله

They plotted, and God plotted,

ومكروا ومكر ٱلله

when God said: "O Issa! I am indeed going to keep you faithfully, elevate you to Me, and purify you from those who disowned,

إذ قال ٱلله يعيسى إني متوفيك ورافعك إلى ومطهرك من ٱلذين كفروا

and place those who followed you above those who disowned, until the Day of Appearance.

وجاعل ٱلذين ٱتبعوك فوق ٱلذين كفروا إلى يوم ٱلقيمة

As for those who disowned, I will punish them with a severe punishment, in the present life and in the last life,

فأما ٱلذين كفروا فأعذبهم عذابا شديدا في ٱلدنيا وٱلءاخرة

And as for those who have believed and done sound deeds, He will faithfully repay them their rewards.

وأما ٱلذين ءامنوا وعملوا ٱلصلحت فيوفيهم أجورهم

The example of Issa, with God, is indeed like that of Adam:

إن مثل عيسى عند ٱلله كمثل ءادم

He created him from earth, then said to him: "Be",

خلقه من تراب ثم قال له كن

The truth comes from your Guardian;

ٱلحق من ربك

This is surely the true account,

إن هذا لهو ٱلقصص ٱلحق

and there is no deity but God.

وما من إله إلا ٱلله

Say: "O people of the Scripture! Come to an equitable word between us and you: that we obey none but God, that we associate nothing with Him, and that none of us take others as masters besides God."

قل يأهل ٱلكتب تعالوا إلى كلمة سوآء بيننا وبينكم ألا نعبد إلا ٱلله ولا نشرك به شيا ولا يتخذ بعضنا بعضا أربابا من دون ٱلله

O people of the Scripture! Why do you dispute concerning Ibrahim,

يأهل ٱلكتب لم تحآجون في إبرهيم

when the Tawrah and the Injil were sent down only after him?

ومآ أنزلت ٱلتورىة وٱلإنجيل إلا من بعده

Here you are disputing about that of which you have some knowledge; but why do you dispute about that of which you have no knowledge?

هأنتم هؤلآء حججتم فيما لكم به علم فلم تحآجون فيما ليس لكم به علم

God knows,

وٱلله يعلم

Ibrahim was neither Reoriented nor a Helper, but he was wholly turned toward God, true to Him alone,

ما كان إبرهيم يهوديا ولا نصرانيا ولكن كان حنيفا مسلما

Of mankind, those closest to Ibrahim are surely those who followed him, as well as this informant and those who have believed.

إن أولى ٱلناس بإبرهيم للذين ٱتبعوه وهذا ٱلنبي وٱلذين ءامنوا

A group among the people of the Scripture would have liked to lead you astray;

ودت طآئفة من أهل ٱلكتب لو يضلونكم

"And give credit only to him who follows your Law."

ولا تؤمنوا إلا لمن تبع دينكم

Say: "The guidance is indeed the guidance of God" — lest anyone be given the like of what you were given, or lest they dispute with you before your Guardian.

قل إن ٱلهدى هدى ٱلله أن يؤتى أحد مثل مآ أوتيتم أو يحآجوكم عند ربكم

Say: "Favor is in the hand of God,

قل إن ٱلفضل بيد ٱلله

He gives it to whom He wills.

يؤتيه من يشآء

He reserves His benevolence for whom He wills.

يختص برحمته من يشآء

And among the people of the Scripture, there are some who, if you entrust them with a quintal, will return it to you;

ومن أهل ٱلكتب من إن تأمنه بقنطار يؤده إليك

and there are some who, if you entrust them with a dinar, do not return it to you unless you keep standing over them.

ومنهم من إن تأمنه بدينار لا يؤده إليك إلا ما دمت عليه قآئما

That is because they say: "We have, toward the people without a prior Scripture, no obligation",

ذلك بأنهم قالوا ليس علينا في ٱلأمين سبيل

Indeed, those who buy, with the pact of God and their oaths, a paltry price — those are the ones who will have no allotment in the last life; God will not speak to them, will not look at them on the Day of Appearance, and will not purify them.

إن ٱلذين يشترون بعهد ٱلله وأيمنهم ثمنا قليلا أولئك لا خلق لهم في ٱلءاخرة ولا يكلمهم ٱلله ولا ينظر إليهم يوم ٱلقيمة ولا يزكيهم

And among them, there is surely a fraction who twist their tongues with the Scripture, so that you might take it for an extract of the Scripture, when it is not part of it,

وإن منهم لفريقا يلون ألسنتهم بٱلكتب لتحسبوه من ٱلكتب وما هو من ٱلكتب

and they say: "This comes from God",

ويقولون هو من عند ٱلله

when it does not come from God,

وما هو من عند ٱلله

And he would not order you to take the Agents and the informants as masters.

ولا يأمركم أن تتخذوا ٱلملئكة وٱلنبين أربابا

And when God took the solemn engagement of the informants: "What I have given you of Scripture and wisdom, then a messenger comes to you, confirming what is with you, you must certainly believe in him, and certainly help him."

وإذ أخذ ٱلله ميثق ٱلنبين لمآ ءاتيتكم من كتب وحكمة ثم جآءكم رسول مصدق لما معكم لتؤمنن به ولتنصرنه

He said: "Have you consented, and taken upon yourselves My yoke on this condition?"

قال ءأقررتم وأخذتم على ذلكم إصري

They said: "We have consented."

قالوا أقررنا

Would they seek then a Law other than God's, while whoever is in the heavens and the earth is true to Him alone, willingly or unwillingly,

أفغير دين ٱلله يبغون وله أسلم من في ٱلسموت وٱلأرض طوعا وكرها

And whoever seeks a Law other than being true to God alone, it will never be accepted from him,

ومن يبتغ غير ٱلإسلم دينا فلن يقبل منه

How would God guide a people who disowned after having believed, and after having testified that the messenger is true, and the clear proofs had come to them?

كيف يهدي ٱلله قوما كفروا بعد إيمنهم وشهدوا أن ٱلرسول حق وجآءهم ٱلبينت

Indeed, those who disown after having believed, then increase in disowning, their repentance will never be accepted,

إن ٱلذين كفروا بعد إيمنهم ثم ٱزدادوا كفرا لن تقبل توبتهم

Indeed, those who disown and die while disowning, there will never be accepted from any of them the whole earth filled with gold, even were he to offer it as ransom.

إن ٱلذين كفروا وماتوا وهم كفار فلن يقبل من أحدهم ملء ٱلأرض ذهبا ولو ٱفتدى به

Those are the ones who will have a painful punishment,

أولئك لهم عذاب أليم

Virtue will not accrue to you unless you spend of what you love.

لن تنالوا ٱلبر حتى تنفقوا مما تحبون

All food was permitted to the Sons of Israel, except what Israel had prohibited to himself, before the Tawrah was sent down.

كل ٱلطعام كان حلا لبني إسرءيل إلا ما حرم إسرءيل على نفسه من قبل أن تنزل ٱلتورىة

Say: "God has spoken with veracity.

قل صدق ٱلله

Follow, then, the doctrine of Ibrahim, wholly turned toward God,

فٱتبعوا ملة إبرهيم حنيفا

The first House set down for mankind is surely that at the place of the throng, blessed and a guidance for all beings; in it are clear signs.

إن أول بيت وضع للناس للذي ببكة مباركا وهدى للعلمين فيه ءايت بينت

The station of Ibrahim,

مقام إبرهيم

and whoever enters it is secure.

ومن دخله كان ءامنا

And the Hajj of the House is a duty toward God for mankind, for whoever has the capacity to take the way to it;

ولله على ٱلناس حج ٱلبيت من ٱستطاع إليه سبيلا

Say: "O people of the Scripture! Why do you bar from the way of God him who has believed, seeking to make it crooked, while you are witnesses to it?"

قل يأهل ٱلكتب لم تصدون عن سبيل ٱلله من ءامن تبغونها عوجا وأنتم شهدآء

And how would you disown, when the signs of God are recited to you, and His messenger is among you?

وكيف تكفرون وأنتم تتلى عليكم ءايت ٱلله وفيكم رسوله

O you who have believed! Guard yourselves toward God as one should guard oneself toward Him,

يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا ٱتقوا ٱلله حق تقاته

And hold, all of you, firmly, to the rope of God,

وٱعتصموا بحبل ٱلله جميعا

and do not divide yourselves.

ولا تفرقوا

And remember God's blessing upon you, when you were enemies, and He reconciled your cores, so that you became, by His blessing, brothers;

وٱذكروا نعمت ٱلله عليكم إذ كنتم أعدآء فألف بين قلوبكم فأصبحتم بنعمته إخونا

and you were at the edge of a pit of fire, and He saved you from it.

وكنتم على شفا حفرة من ٱلنار فأنقذكم منها

And let there be from among you a community that calls to good, orders what is recognized, and forbids what is disavowed.

ولتكن منكم أمة يدعون إلى ٱلخير ويأمرون بٱلمعروف وينهون عن ٱلمنكر

Those are the ones who will have an immense punishment, on the day when faces will brighten and faces will darken.

وأولئك لهم عذاب عظيم يوم تبيض وجوه وتسود وجوه

And as for those whose faces will have brightened, they will be in the benevolence of God,

وأما ٱلذين ٱبيضت وجوههم ففي رحمة ٱلله

Those are the signs of God, which We recite to you in truth.

تلك ءايت ٱلله نتلوها عليك بٱلحق

And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth,

ولله ما في ٱلسموت وما في ٱلأرض

You are the best community brought forth for mankind: you order what is recognized, you forbid what is disavowed, and you believe in God.

كنتم خير أمة أخرجت للناس تأمرون بٱلمعروف وتنهون عن ٱلمنكر وتؤمنون بٱلله

And had the people of the Scripture believed, it would have been better for them.

ولو ءامن أهل ٱلكتب لكان خيرا لهم

Among them, there are believers,

منهم ٱلمؤمنون

They can never harm you,

لن يضروكم

except by a nuisance.

إلآ أذى

And if they fight you, they will turn their backs to you;

وإن يقتلوكم يولوكم ٱلأدبار

Humiliation has been imprinted upon them, wherever they are surprised,

ضربت عليهم ٱلذلة أين ما ثقفوا

except by a rope from God and a rope from mankind; they incur the anger of God,

إلا بحبل من ٱلله وحبل من ٱلناس وبآءو بغضب من ٱلله

and misery has been imprinted upon them.

وضربت عليهم ٱلمسكنة

That is because they used to disown the signs of God, and kill the informants without right.

ذلك بأنهم كانوا يكفرون بايت ٱلله ويقتلون ٱلأنبيآء بغير حق

They are not all equal:

ليسوا سوآء

They believe in God and the Last Day, order what is recognized, forbid what is disavowed, and speed toward good deeds.

يؤمنون بٱلله وٱليوم ٱلءاخر ويأمرون بٱلمعروف وينهون عن ٱلمنكر ويسرعون في ٱلخيرت

And whatever good they do, it will never be disowned them.

وما يفعلوا من خير فلن يكفروه

Indeed, those who disown, neither their goods nor their children will avail them at all against God,

إن ٱلذين كفروا لن تغني عنهم أمولهم ولآ أولدهم من ٱلله شيا

The example of what they spend in the present life is that of an icy wind, which strikes the tilth of a people who have wronged themselves, and annihilates it.

مثل ما ينفقون في هذه ٱلحيوة ٱلدنيا كمثل ريح فيها صر أصابت حرث قوم ظلموا أنفسهم فأهلكته

And God did not wrong them,

وما ظلمهم ٱلله

O you who have believed! Do not take close confidants apart from your own: they never cease to cause you confusion, and would like you to be overwhelmed.

يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا لا تتخذوا بطانة من دونكم لا يألونكم خبالا ودوا ما عنتم

Hatred has already appeared in their mouths, and what their chests hide is far graver still.

قد بدت ٱلبغضآء من أفوههم وما تخفي صدورهم أكبر

Here you are, you who love them, while they do not love you, and you believe in the whole of the Scripture.

هأنتم أولآء تحبونهم ولا يحبونكم وتؤمنون بٱلكتب كله

And when they meet you, they say: "We have believed";

وإذا لقوكم قالوا ءامنا

but when they are alone, they bite their fingertips, out of rage against you.

وإذا خلوا عضوا عليكم ٱلأنامل من ٱلغيظ

Say: "Die in your rage."

قل موتوا بغيظكم

If good touches you, it vexes them,

إن تمسسكم حسنة تسؤهم

and if evil strikes you, they rejoice at it.

وإن تصبكم سيئة يفرحوا بها

But if you are patient and guard yourselves, their scheming will not harm you at all.

وإن تصبروا وتتقوا لا يضركم كيدهم شيا

And when you left your household early, to settle the believers in positions for battle.

وإذ غدوت من أهلك تبوئ ٱلمؤمنين مقعد للقتال

When two of your groups almost gave ground, God being the protector of both —

إذ همت طآئفتان منكم أن تفشلا وٱلله وليهما

God indeed helped you at Badr, when you were humiliated.

ولقد نصركم ٱلله ببدر وأنتم أذلة

And to God belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth.

ولله ما في ٱلسموت وما في ٱلأرض

He forgives whom He wills, and He punishes whom He wills.

يغفر لمن يشآء ويعذب من يشآء

O you who have believed! Do not devour usury, doubled and redoubled.

يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا لا تأكلوا ٱلربوا أضعفا مضعفة

And speed toward a forgiveness from your Guardian, and a Garden whose extent is that of the heavens and the earth, prepared for those who guard themselves, who spend in ease and hardship, restrain their rage, and overlook men's faults.

وسارعوا إلى مغفرة من ربكم وجنة عرضها ٱلسموت وٱلأرض أعدت للمتقين ٱلذين ينفقون في ٱلسرآء وٱلضرآء وٱلكظمين ٱلغيظ وٱلعافين عن ٱلناس

And those who, when they commit an indecency or wrong themselves, remember God and ask forgiveness for their offenses —

وٱلذين إذا فعلوا فحشة أو ظلموا أنفسهم ذكروا ٱلله فٱستغفروا لذنوبهم

and who forgives offenses, but God? —

ومن يغفر ٱلذنوب إلا ٱلله

Those are the ones whose recompense is a forgiveness from their Guardian, and gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally.

أولئك جزآؤهم مغفرة من ربهم وجنت تجري من تحتها ٱلأنهر خلدين فيها

Norms have indeed passed before you;

قد خلت من قبلكم سنن

If a wound touches you, a similar wound has already touched that people.

إن يمسسكم قرح فقد مس ٱلقوم قرح مثله

Thus do the days go: We make them pass from one to another among mankind,

وتلك ٱلأيام نداولها بين ٱلناس

so that God may distinguish those who have believed, and take from among you witnesses —

وليعلم ٱلله ٱلذين ءامنوا ويتخذ منكم شهدآء

Muhammad is only a messenger; messengers have indeed passed before him.

وما محمد إلا رسول قد خلت من قبله ٱلرسل

If he then died, or was killed, would you turn back on your heels?

أفإين مات أو قتل ٱنقلبتم على أعقبكم

And whoever turns back on his heels does not harm God at all,

ومن ينقلب على عقبيه فلن يضر ٱلله شيا

And it is not for any Self to die, except with the permission of God,

وما كان لنفس أن تموت إلا بإذن ٱلله

according to a register with an appointed term.

كتبا مؤجلا

And whoever wants the requital of the present life, We give it to him;

ومن يرد ثواب ٱلدنيا نؤته منها

and whoever wants the requital of the last life, We give it to him.

ومن يرد ثواب ٱلءاخرة نؤته منها

How many an informant has fought, accompanied by many attached to the Guardian!

وكأين من نبي قتل معه ربيون كثير

They did not slacken for what struck them in the way of God, did not weaken, and did not bend.

فما وهنوا لمآ أصابهم في سبيل ٱلله وما ضعفوا وما ٱستكانوا

God then gave them the requital of the present life, and the beautiful requital of the last life.

فاتىهم ٱلله ثواب ٱلدنيا وحسن ثواب ٱلءاخرة

God, rather, is your nearest Guarantor,

بل ٱلله مولىكم

We will cast terror into the cores of those who disown, for having associated with God that for which He has sent down no authority.

سنلقي في قلوب ٱلذين كفروا ٱلرعب بمآ أشركوا بٱلله ما لم ينزل به سلطنا

Their refuge will be the Fire,

ومأوىهم ٱلنار

God indeed kept His promise to you, when you were decimating them with His permission,

ولقد صدقكم ٱلله وعده إذ تحسونهم بإذنه

until, having given ground, you disputed among yourselves over the matter, and disobeyed, after He had shown you what you loved.

حتى إذا فشلتم وتنزعتم في ٱلأمر وعصيتم من بعد مآ أرىكم ما تحبون

Among you, there were some who wanted the present life, and among you, there were some who wanted the last life;

منكم من يريد ٱلدنيا ومنكم من يريد ٱلءاخرة

then He turned you away from them, so as to test you.

ثم صرفكم عنهم ليبتليكم

He has indeed already overlooked it for you.

ولقد عفا عنكم

when you were climbing, without turning back to anyone, while the messenger was calling you, at the rear of your ranks; He then requited you with anguish upon anguish, so that you would not grieve either for what you had missed, or for what had struck you.

إذ تصعدون ولا تلون على أحد وٱلرسول يدعوكم في أخرىكم فأثبكم غما بغم لكيلا تحزنوا على ما فاتكم ولا مآ أصبكم

Then He sent down upon you, after the anguish, a security, a drowsiness that covered a group among you,

ثم أنزل عليكم من بعد ٱلغم أمنة نعاسا يغشى طآئفة منكم

while a group, preoccupied with its own Self, formed about God, contrary to the truth, a presumption of the age of ignorance,

وطآئفة قد أهمتهم أنفسهم يظنون بٱلله غير ٱلحق ظن ٱلجهلية

saying: "Do we have any part in the matter?"

يقولون هل لنا من ٱلأمر من شىء

Say: "The matter, entirely, indeed belongs to God."

قل إن ٱلأمر كله لله

They hide, within themselves, what they do not make appear to you,

يخفون في أنفسهم ما لا يبدون لك

saying: "Had we had, in this matter, any power, we would not have been killed here."

يقولون لو كان لنا من ٱلأمر شىء ما قتلنا ههنا

Say: "Had you been in your houses, those for whom killing was prescribed would certainly have gone forth to the places where they were to lie down" — and so that God might test what is in your chests, and purify what is in your cores.

قل لو كنتم في بيوتكم لبرز ٱلذين كتب عليهم ٱلقتل إلى مضاجعهم وليبتلي ٱلله ما في صدوركم وليمحص ما في قلوبكم

Those among you who turned their backs, on the day the two forces met, it was only the Diverter who made them slip, for a part of what they had earned.

إن ٱلذين تولوا منكم يوم ٱلتقى ٱلجمعان إنما ٱستزلهم ٱلشيطن ببعض ما كسبوا

God has indeed already overlooked it for them.

ولقد عفا ٱلله عنهم

O you who have believed! Do not be like those who disowned, and who say of their brothers, when they travel through the land or go off on an expedition: "Had they stayed with us, they would not have died, and would not have been killed" — so that God may make of it a desolation in their cores.

يأيها ٱلذين ءامنوا لا تكونوا كٱلذين كفروا وقالوا لإخونهم إذا ضربوا في ٱلأرض أو كانوا غزى لو كانوا عندنا ما ماتوا وما قتلوا ليجعل ٱلله ذلك حسرة في قلوبهم

God gives life and causes death.

وٱلله يحي ويميت

It is by a benevolence from God that you have been gentle toward them;

فبما رحمة من ٱلله لنت لهم

and had you been surly, hard of core, they would certainly have dispersed away from you.

ولو كنت فظا غليظ ٱلقلب لٱنفضوا من حولك

So overlook it for them, ask forgiveness for them, and confer with them on the matter;

فٱعف عنهم وٱستغفر لهم وشاورهم في ٱلأمر

and once your decision is made, rely upon God.

فإذا عزمت فتوكل على ٱلله

If God helps you, none can overcome you;

إن ينصركم ٱلله فلا غالب لكم

and if He abandons you, who then could help you after Him?

وإن يخذلكم فمن ذا ٱلذي ينصركم من بعده

It is not for an informant to commit an embezzlement;

وما كان لنبي أن يغل

and whoever commits an embezzlement will come, on the Day of Appearance, with what he embezzled,

ومن يغلل يأت بما غل يوم ٱلقيمة

Is he who follows the good pleasure of God, then, like him who incurs the displeasure of God, and whose refuge will be Jahannam?

أفمن ٱتبع رضون ٱلله كمن بآء بسخط من ٱلله ومأوىه جهنم

They have degrees with God.

هم درجت عند ٱلله

How then, when misfortune strikes you, after you had caused double that to strike, do you say: "From where, then, does this come?"

أولمآ أصبتكم مصيبة قد أصبتم مثليها قلتم أنى هذا

Say: "This comes from yourselves."

قل هو من عند أنفسكم

And what struck you, on the day the two forces met, was with God's permission, and so that He might distinguish the believers, and distinguish those who practiced hypocrisy,

ومآ أصبكم يوم ٱلتقى ٱلجمعان فبإذن ٱلله وليعلم ٱلمؤمنين وليعلم ٱلذين نافقوا

and so that it might be said to them: "Come, fight in the way of God, or repel";

وقيل لهم تعالوا قتلوا في سبيل ٱلله أو ٱدفعوا

they said: "If we knew how to fight, we would certainly have followed you."

قالوا لو نعلم قتالا لٱتبعنكم

That day, they were closer to disowning than to faith,

هم للكفر يومئذ أقرب منهم للإيمن

saying with their mouths what was not in their cores.

يقولون بأفوههم ما ليس في قلوبهم

Those who, having stayed seated, said of their brothers: "Had they deferred to us, they would not have been killed."

ٱلذين قالوا لإخونهم وقعدوا لو أطاعونا ما قتلوا

They exult in a blessing from God and a favor, and that God does not let the reward of the believers dissipate, those who responded to God and to the messenger after the wound had struck them.

يستبشرون بنعمة من ٱلله وفضل وأن ٱلله لا يضيع أجر ٱلمؤمنين ٱلذين ٱستجابوا لله وٱلرسول من بعد مآ أصابهم ٱلقرح

Those to whom men said: "Men have indeed come together against you, so dread them" — that increased their faith.

ٱلذين قال لهم ٱلناس إن ٱلناس قد جمعوا لكم فٱخشوهم فزادهم إيمنا

They returned then with a blessing from God and a favor, without any evil having touched them, and they followed the good pleasure of God.

فٱنقلبوا بنعمة من ٱلله وفضل لم يمسسهم سوء وٱتبعوا رضون ٱلله

It is only that Diverter who frightens his allies; do not fear them, then,

إنما ذلكم ٱلشيطن يخوف أوليآءه فلا تخافوهم

And let not those grieve you who speed into disowning:

ولا يحزنك ٱلذين يسرعون في ٱلكفر

they will not harm God at all.

إنهم لن يضروا ٱلله شيا

God wants to assign them no share in the last life,

يريد ٱلله ألا يجعل لهم حظا في ٱلءاخرة

And let those who disown by no means think that the delay We grant them is a good for themselves:

ولا يحسبن ٱلذين كفروا أنما نملي لهم خير لأنفسهم

We grant it to them only so that they may increase in transgression,

إنما نملي لهم ليزدادوا إثما

It is not for God to forsake the believers in the state you are in, without distinguishing the vile from the wholesome,

ما كان ٱلله ليذر ٱلمؤمنين على مآ أنتم عليه حتى يميز ٱلخبيث من ٱلطيب

and it is not for God to let you pierce what escapes the senses,

وما كان ٱلله ليطلعكم على ٱلغيب

but God elects, among His messengers, whom He wills.

ولكن ٱلله يجتبي من رسله من يشآء

So believe in God and in His messengers;

فامنوا بٱلله ورسله

And let those who are stingy with what God has given them of His favor by no means think that it is a good for them;

ولا يحسبن ٱلذين يبخلون بمآ ءاتىهم ٱلله من فضله هو خيرا لهم

it is rather an ill for them.

بل هو شر لهم

They will be encircled by what they were stingy with, on the Day of Appearance.

سيطوقون ما بخلوا به يوم ٱلقيمة

And to God belongs the inheritance of the heavens and the earth.

ولله ميرث ٱلسموت وٱلأرض

God has indeed heard the saying of those who said: "God is poor, and we are rich."

لقد سمع ٱلله قول ٱلذين قالوا إن ٱلله فقير ونحن أغنيآء

Those who said: "God has bound us by a pact not to give credit to any messenger, until he brings us an offering that the fire consumes",

ٱلذين قالوا إن ٱلله عهد إلينآ ألا نؤمن لرسول حتى يأتينا بقربان تأكله ٱلنار

Every Self will taste death,

كل نفس ذآئقة ٱلموت

and it is only on the Day of Appearance that you will be faithfully repaid your rewards.

وإنما توفون أجوركم يوم ٱلقيمة

Whoever is pulled away from the Fire and admitted into the Garden has thus triumphed.

فمن زحزح عن ٱلنار وأدخل ٱلجنة فقد فاز

You will certainly be tested in your goods and in your Selves, and you will certainly hear, from those to whom the Scripture was given before you, and from those who have associated, much nuisance.

لتبلون في أمولكم وأنفسكم ولتسمعن من ٱلذين أوتوا ٱلكتب من قبلكم ومن ٱلذين أشركوا أذى كثيرا

And when God took the solemn engagement of those to whom the Scripture was given: "You will certainly make it clear to mankind, and you will not withhold it"; but they cast it behind their backs, and bought with it a paltry price.

وإذ أخذ ٱلله ميثق ٱلذين أوتوا ٱلكتب لتبيننه للناس ولا تكتمونه فنبذوه ورآء ظهورهم وٱشتروا به ثمنا قليلا

Do not ever think that those who rejoice in what they have done, and love to be praised for what they did not do — do not ever think that they will evade the punishment.

لا تحسبن ٱلذين يفرحون بمآ أتوا ويحبون أن يحمدوا بما لم يفعلوا فلا تحسبنهم بمفازة من ٱلعذاب

And to God belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.

ولله ملك ٱلسموت وٱلأرض

There are surely, in the creation of the heavens and the earth, and in the alternation of night and day, signs for the possessors of intelligence, those who remember God, standing, sitting, or lying on their sides, and reflect on the creation of the heavens and the earth:

إن في خلق ٱلسموت وٱلأرض وٱختلف ٱليل وٱلنهار لءايت لأولي ٱلألبب ٱلذين يذكرون ٱلله قيما وقعودا وعلى جنوبهم ويتفكرون في خلق ٱلسموت وٱلأرض

"Our Guardian, You did not create this in vain. Glory be to You!

ربنا ما خلقت هذا بطلا سبحنك

Our Guardian, whoever You admit into the Fire, You have indeed covered him with disgrace,

ربنآ إنك من تدخل ٱلنار فقد أخزيته

Our Guardian, we have heard a herald calling to faith: Believe in your Guardian — and we have believed.

ربنآ إننا سمعنا مناديا ينادي للإيمن أن ءامنوا بربكم فامنا

Our Guardian, and grant us what You promised us through Your messengers, and do not cover us with disgrace on the Day of Appearance:

ربنا وءاتنا ما وعدتنا على رسلك ولا تخزنا يوم ٱلقيمة

Their Guardian answered them, then: "I never let the deed of one of you who acts dissipate, male or female —

فٱستجاب لهم ربهم أني لآ أضيع عمل عمل منكم من ذكر أو أنثى

you are of one another.

بعضكم من بعض

Those who have emigrated, been expelled from their abodes, been troubled on My way, fought, and been killed, I will certainly cover their evil deeds, and I will certainly admit them into gardens beneath which rivers flow" — a requital from God.

فٱلذين هاجروا وأخرجوا من ديرهم وأوذوا في سبيلي وقتلوا وقتلوا لأكفرن عنهم سياتهم ولأدخلنهم جنت تجري من تحتها ٱلأنهر ثوابا من عند ٱلله

It is an enjoyment of little worth,

متع قليل

then their refuge will be Jahannam,

ثم مأوىهم جهنم

But those who have guarded themselves toward their Guardian will have gardens beneath which rivers flow, wherein they will abide eternally, as a welcome from God.

لكن ٱلذين ٱتقوا ربهم لهم جنت تجري من تحتها ٱلأنهر خلدين فيها نزلا من عند ٱلله

And among the people of the Scripture, there are surely some who believe in God, in what has been sent down to you, and in what was sent down to them, humble toward God,

وإن من أهل ٱلكتب لمن يؤمن بٱلله ومآ أنزل إليكم ومآ أنزل إليهم خشعين لله

not buying, with the signs of God, a paltry price.

لا يشترون بايت ٱلله ثمنا قليلا

Those are the ones who have their reward with their Guardian.

أولئك لهم أجرهم عند ربهم