Al-A'raf
Am I Not Your Guardian?
بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم
In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent.
Alif. Lam. Mim. Ṣad.
المص
A Scripture has been sent down to you — let there be no discomfort in your chest because of it — so that you may warn by it, and a reminder for the believers.
كتب أنزل إليك فلا يكن في صدرك حرج منه لتنذر به وذكرى للمؤمنين
Follow what has been sent down to you from your Guardian,
ٱتبعوا مآ أنزل إليكم من ربكم
and do not follow allies besides Him.
ولا تتبعوا من دونه أوليآء
How little you remember!
قليلا ما تذكرون
How many a city have We annihilated! Our rigor came upon it by night, or while it was taking its midday rest.
وكم من قرية أهلكنها فجآءها بأسنا بيتا أو هم قآئلون
Their only cry, when Our rigor came to them, was to say: "We have indeed been wrongdoers."
فما كان دعوىهم إذ جآءهم بأسنآ إلآ أن قالوا إنا كنا ظلمين
We will certainly question those who were sent to, and We will certainly question the envoys,
فلنسلن ٱلذين أرسل إليهم ولنسلن ٱلمرسلين
and We will relate to them, with full knowledge,
فلنقصن عليهم بعلم
for We were not absent.
وما كنا غآئبين
The weighing, on that day, will be the truth.
وٱلوزن يومئذ ٱلحق
Those whose balances are heavy — those are the ones who succeed.
فمن ثقلت موزينه فأولئك هم ٱلمفلحون
And those whose balances are light — those are the ones who will have caused the loss of their Selves, for having done wrong toward Our signs.
ومن خفت موزينه فأولئك ٱلذين خسروا أنفسهم بما كانوا بايتنا يظلمون
We have indeed established you on the earth, and We have made for you therein means of livelihood.
ولقد مكنكم في ٱلأرض وجعلنا لكم فيها معيش
How little you are grateful!
قليلا ما تشكرون
We indeed created you, then We gave you form, then We said to the Agents: "Prostrate before Adam," they prostrated,
ولقد خلقنكم ثم صورنكم ثم قلنا للملئكة ٱسجدوا لءادم فسجدوا
except Iblis: he was not among those who prostrated.
إلآ إبليس لم يكن من ٱلسجدين
He said: "What prevented you from prostrating, when I commanded you?"
قال ما منعك ألا تسجد إذ أمرتك
He said: "I am better than him: You created me from fire, and You created him from clay."
قال أنا خير منه خلقتني من نار وخلقته من طين
He said: "Then descend from here: it is not for you to act proudly here; go out, then, you are indeed among the diminished."
قال فٱهبط منها فما يكون لك أن تتكبر فيها فٱخرج إنك من ٱلصغرين
He said: "Grant me a delay until the day they are raised."
قال أنظرني إلى يوم يبعثون
He said: "You are among those granted a delay."
قال إنك من ٱلمنظرين
He said: "Since You have let me err, I will certainly sit in wait for them on Your straight path, then I will certainly come at them, from before them and from behind them, from their right and from their left,
قال فبمآ أغويتني لأقعدن لهم صرطك ٱلمستقيم ثم لءاتينهم من بين أيديهم ومن خلفهم وعن أيمنهم وعن شمآئلهم
and You will not find most of them grateful."
ولا تجد أكثرهم شكرين
He said: "Get out of here, reviled, driven away.
قال ٱخرج منها مذءوما مدحورا
Whoever among them follows you — I will certainly fill Jahannam with all of you."
لمن تبعك منهم لأملأن جهنم منكم أجمعين
"O Adam! Dwell, you and your spouse, in the Garden, and eat from it wherever you will,
ويادم ٱسكن أنت وزوجك ٱلجنة فكلا من حيث شئتما
but do not approach this tree, lest you be among the wrongdoers."
ولا تقربا هذه ٱلشجرة فتكونا من ٱلظلمين
But the Diverter whispered to them, so as to make appear to them what had been concealed from them of their nakedness,
فوسوس لهما ٱلشيطن ليبدي لهما ما وري عنهما من سوءتهما
and he said: "Your Guardian has forbidden you this tree only to prevent you from becoming Agents, or from being among those who abide eternally."
وقال ما نهىكما ربكما عن هذه ٱلشجرة إلآ أن تكونا ملكين أو تكونا من ٱلخلدين
And he swore to them both: "I am surely, for you two, among the sincere advisors" — thus he brought them down by delusion.
وقاسمهمآ إني لكما لمن ٱلنصحين فدلىهما بغرور
When they had tasted the tree, their nakedness became apparent to them, and they both set about stitching leaves from the Garden onto themselves.
فلما ذاقا ٱلشجرة بدت لهما سوءتهما وطفقا يخصفان عليهما من ورق ٱلجنة
And their Guardian called out to them: "Did I not forbid you that tree, and did I not tell you that the Diverter is, for you two, a manifest enemy?"
ونادىهما ربهمآ ألم أنهكما عن تلكما ٱلشجرة وأقل لكمآ إن ٱلشيطن لكما عدو مبين
They both said: "Our Guardian, we have wronged ourselves; if You do not forgive us and have benevolence on us, we will certainly be among the losers."
قالا ربنا ظلمنآ أنفسنا وإن لم تغفر لنا وترحمنا لنكونن من ٱلخسرين
He said: "Descend.
قال ٱهبطوا
You will be enemies to one another.
بعضكم لبعض عدو
And you will have, on the earth, a haven and an enjoyment for a time."
ولكم في ٱلأرض مستقر ومتع إلى حين
He said: "There you will live, there you will die, and from there you will be brought forth."
قال فيها تحيون وفيها تموتون ومنها تخرجون
O sons of Adam! We have sent down for you a garment that covers your nakedness, as well as feathers; and the garment of guardedness —
يبني ءادم قد أنزلنا عليكم لباسا يوري سوءتكم وريشا ولباس ٱلتقوى
that is better.
ذلك خير
That is one of the signs of God — perhaps they will remember.
ذلك من ءايت ٱلله لعلهم يذكرون
O sons of Adam! Let not the Diverter try you as he made your two ancestors go out of the Garden, stripping them of their garment to show them their nakedness.
يبني ءادم لا يفتننكم ٱلشيطن كمآ أخرج أبويكم من ٱلجنة ينزع عنهما لباسهما ليريهما سوءتهمآ
He indeed sees you, he and his tribe, from where you do not see them.
إنه يرىكم هو وقبيله من حيث لا ترونهم
We have made the Diverters allies for those who do not believe.
إنا جعلنا ٱلشيطين أوليآء للذين لا يؤمنون
And when they commit an indecency, they say: "We found our ancestors doing this, and God has ordered it of us."
وإذا فعلوا فحشة قالوا وجدنا عليهآ ءابآءنا وٱلله أمرنا بها
Say: "God indeed does not order indecency.
قل إن ٱلله لا يأمر بٱلفحشآء
Will you say about God what you do not know?"
أتقولون على ٱلله ما لا تعلمون
Say: "My Guardian has ordered equity.
قل أمر ربي بٱلقسط
Maintain your directions toward Him at every moment of prostration,
وأقيموا وجوهكم عند كل مسجد
and invoke Him, devoting the Law exclusively to Him.
وٱدعوه مخلصين له ٱلدين
As He gave you a beginning, you will return."
كما بدأكم تعودون
One fraction, He has guided;
فريقا هدى
and another fraction, error has proven true upon them.
وفريقا حق عليهم ٱلضللة
That is because they took the Diverters as allies besides God, while thinking they are among those who let themselves be guided.
إنهم ٱتخذوا ٱلشيطين أوليآء من دون ٱلله ويحسبون أنهم مهتدون
O sons of Adam! Take your adornment at every moment of prostration, and eat and drink,
يبني ءادم خذوا زينتكم عند كل مسجد وكلوا وٱشربوا
but do not waste:
ولا تسرفوا
He indeed does not love the wasteful.
إنه لا يحب ٱلمسرفين
Say: "Who has held as prohibited God's adornment, which He brought forth for His obedient ones, and the wholesome things of provision?"
قل من حرم زينة ٱلله ٱلتي أخرج لعباده وٱلطيبت من ٱلرزق
Say: "It is for those who have believed in the present life, exclusive on the Day of Appearance."
قل هي للذين ءامنوا في ٱلحيوة ٱلدنيا خالصة يوم ٱلقيمة
Thus do We detail the signs for a people who know.
كذلك نفصل ٱلءايت لقوم يعلمون
Say: "My Guardian has prohibited only indecencies, apparent or hidden, transgression, iniquity without right, that you associate with God that for which He has sent down no authority, and that you say about God what you do not know."
قل إنما حرم ربي ٱلفوحش ما ظهر منها وما بطن وٱلإثم وٱلبغي بغير ٱلحق وأن تشركوا بٱلله ما لم ينزل به سلطنا وأن تقولوا على ٱلله ما لا تعلمون
And to every community a term.
ولكل أمة أجل
When their term arrives, they cannot delay it by an hour,
فإذا جآء أجلهم لا يستأخرون ساعة
nor advance it.
ولا يستقدمون
O sons of Adam! If messengers from among yourselves come to you, relating My signs to you — whoever guards himself and becomes sound, no fear upon them, and they will not grieve.
يبني ءادم إما يأتينكم رسل منكم يقصون عليكم ءايتي فمن ٱتقى وأصلح فلا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون
But those who denied Our signs and grew too proud for them — those are the companions of the Fire, they abide therein eternally.
وٱلذين كذبوا بايتنا وٱستكبروا عنهآ أولئك أصحب ٱلنار هم فيها خلدون
Who then does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God, or denies His signs?
فمن أظلم ممن ٱفترى على ٱلله كذبا أو كذب بايته
Those are the ones to whom their portion of the register will accrue,
أولئك ينالهم نصيبهم من ٱلكتب
until Our envoys come to keep them faithfully, and say: "Where are those you used to invoke besides God?" They will say: "They have strayed away from us",
حتى إذا جآءتهم رسلنا يتوفونهم قالوا أين ما كنتم تدعون من دون ٱلله قالوا ضلوا عنا
and they will bear witness against themselves that they were disowning.
وشهدوا على أنفسهم أنهم كانوا كفرين
He will say: "Enter among communities that have already passed before you, of the Occulted and humans, into the Fire."
قال ٱدخلوا في أمم قد خلت من قبلكم من ٱلجن وٱلإنس في ٱلنار
Every time a community enters, it curses its sister,
كلما دخلت أمة لعنت أختها
until, having all joined therein, the last of them will say of the first: "Our Guardian, these are the ones who led us astray; give them, then, a double punishment from the Fire."
حتى إذا ٱداركوا فيها جميعا قالت أخرىهم لأولىهم ربنا هؤلآء أضلونا فاتهم عذابا ضعفا من ٱلنار
He will say: "To each the double,
قال لكل ضعف
but you do not know."
ولكن لا تعلمون
And the first of them will say to the last: "You then have no advantage over us; taste, then, the punishment, for what you used to earn."
وقالت أولىهم لأخرىهم فما كان لكم علينا من فضل فذوقوا ٱلعذاب بما كنتم تكسبون
Indeed, those who denied Our signs and grew too proud for them, the gates of heaven will not open for them, and they will not enter the Garden, until the camel passes through the eye of the needle.
إن ٱلذين كذبوا بايتنا وٱستكبروا عنها لا تفتح لهم أبوب ٱلسمآء ولا يدخلون ٱلجنة حتى يلج ٱلجمل في سم ٱلخياط
Thus do We recompense the severed.
وكذلك نجزي ٱلمجرمين
They will have, from Jahannam, a bed,
لهم من جهنم مهاد
and, above them, covers.
ومن فوقهم غواش
Thus do We recompense the wrongdoers.
وكذلك نجزي ٱلظلمين
Those who have believed and done sound deeds — We do not impose upon any Self except its capacity —
وٱلذين ءامنوا وعملوا ٱلصلحت لا نكلف نفسا إلا وسعهآ
those are the companions of the Garden, they abide therein eternally.
أولئك أصحب ٱلجنة هم فيها خلدون
And We will have removed from their chests all rancor; rivers will flow beneath them,
ونزعنا ما في صدورهم من غل تجري من تحتهم ٱلأنهر
and they will say: "Praise be to God, who guided us to this;
وقالوا ٱلحمد لله ٱلذي هدىنا لهذا
we would not have let ourselves be guided, had God not guided us.
وما كنا لنهتدي لولآ أن هدىنا ٱلله
The messengers of our Guardian did indeed come with the truth."
لقد جآءت رسل ربنا بٱلحق
And it will be called out to them: "This is the Garden which you have inherited, for what you used to do."
ونودوا أن تلكم ٱلجنة أورثتموها بما كنتم تعملون
And the companions of the Garden will call out to the companions of the Fire: "We have found true what our Guardian promised us; have you found true what your Guardian promised you?"
ونادى أصحب ٱلجنة أصحب ٱلنار أن قد وجدنا ما وعدنا ربنا حقا فهل وجدتم ما وعد ربكم حقا
They will say: "Yes."
قالوا نعم
Then a herald will proclaim among them: "The curse of God is upon the wrongdoers, who bar from the way of God, seeking to make it crooked, and who disown the last life."
فأذن مؤذن بينهم أن لعنة ٱلله على ٱلظلمين ٱلذين يصدون عن سبيل ٱلله ويبغونها عوجا وهم بٱلءاخرة كفرون
And between the two, a veil.
وبينهما حجاب
And on the Heights, men who recognize each one by his marks,
وعلى ٱلأعراف رجال يعرفون كلا بسيمىهم
and they will call out to the companions of the Garden: "Peace be upon you" —
ونادوا أصحب ٱلجنة أن سلم عليكم
they themselves have not entered it, though coveting it.
لم يدخلوها وهم يطمعون
And when their sights are turned toward the companions of the Fire, they will say: "Our Guardian, do not place us with the wrongdoing people."
وإذا صرفت أبصرهم تلقآء أصحب ٱلنار قالوا ربنا لا تجعلنا مع ٱلقوم ٱلظلمين
And the companions of the Heights will call out to men whom they recognize by their marks: "Your force has availed you nothing, nor your growing proud."
ونادى أصحب ٱلأعراف رجالا يعرفونهم بسيمىهم قالوا مآ أغنى عنكم جمعكم وما كنتم تستكبرون
"Are these the ones about whom you swore that God would not make any benevolence accrue to them?"
أهؤلآء ٱلذين أقسمتم لا ينالهم ٱلله برحمة
"Enter the Garden; no fear upon you, and you will not grieve."
ٱدخلوا ٱلجنة لا خوف عليكم ولآ أنتم تحزنون
And the companions of the Fire will call out to the companions of the Garden: "Make some water overflow upon us, or some of what God has provided you."
ونادى أصحب ٱلنار أصحب ٱلجنة أن أفيضوا علينا من ٱلمآء أو مما رزقكم ٱلله
They will say: "God has indeed prohibited both to those who disown, those who took their Law for distraction and play, and whom the present life deluded.
قالوا إن ٱلله حرمهما على ٱلكفرين ٱلذين ٱتخذوا دينهم لهوا ولعبا وغرتهم ٱلحيوة ٱلدنيا
Today, then, We forget them, as they forgot the meeting of this day of theirs, and because they used to stubbornly reject Our signs."
فٱليوم ننسىهم كما نسوا لقآء يومهم هذا وما كانوا بايتنا يجحدون
We indeed brought them a Scripture, which We detailed with full knowledge, a guidance and a benevolence for a people who believe.
ولقد جئنهم بكتب فصلنه على علم هدى ورحمة لقوم يؤمنون
Do they await anything but its prediction?
هل ينظرون إلا تأويله
On the day its prediction comes, those who had forgotten it before will say: "The messengers of our Guardian did indeed come with the truth; do we have intercessors, that they might intercede for us, or could we be sent back, so that we might act otherwise than we used to act?"
يوم يأتي تأويله يقول ٱلذين نسوه من قبل قد جآءت رسل ربنا بٱلحق فهل لنا من شفعآء فيشفعوا لنآ أو نرد فنعمل غير ٱلذي كنا نعمل
They will have caused the loss of their Selves, and what they used to invent will have strayed away from them.
قد خسروا أنفسهم وضل عنهم ما كانوا يفترون
Your Guardian is indeed God, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice.
إن ربكم ٱلله ٱلذي خلق ٱلسموت وٱلأرض في ستة أيام ثم ٱستوى على ٱلعرش
He covers the day with the night, which pursues it relentlessly; the sun, the moon, and the stars are subjected to His command.
يغشي ٱليل ٱلنهار يطلبه حثيثا وٱلشمس وٱلقمر وٱلنجوم مسخرت بأمره
Is it not to Him that creation and the Order belong?
ألا له ٱلخلق وٱلأمر
Blessed is God, Guardian of all beings.
تبارك ٱلله رب ٱلعلمين
Invoke your Guardian, beseechingly and covertly.
ٱدعوا ربكم تضرعا وخفية
He indeed does not love those who cross the limits.
إنه لا يحب ٱلمعتدين
And do not sow corruption on the earth after its being made sound,
ولا تفسدوا في ٱلأرض بعد إصلحها
and invoke Him with fear and hope.
وٱدعوه خوفا وطمعا
The benevolence of God is indeed near to those who do good.
إن رحمت ٱلله قريب من ٱلمحسنين
It is He who sends the winds, as bearers of good tidings, before His benevolence,
وهو ٱلذي يرسل ٱلريح بشرا بين يدى رحمته
until, when they are laden with heavy clouds, We drive them toward a dead land: We then send down water from it, and We bring forth by it every kind of fruit.
حتى إذآ أقلت سحابا ثقالا سقنه لبلد ميت فأنزلنا به ٱلمآء فأخرجنا به من كل ٱلثمرت
Thus will We bring forth the dead — perhaps you will remember.
كذلك نخرج ٱلموتى لعلكم تذكرون
And the wholesome land, its vegetation comes out with the permission of its Guardian,
وٱلبلد ٱلطيب يخرج نباته بإذن ربه
while that which is vile brings forth only scantily.
وٱلذي خبث لا يخرج إلا نكدا
Thus do We diversify the signs for a people who are grateful.
كذلك نصرف ٱلءايت لقوم يشكرون
We indeed sent Nuh to his people; he said: "O my people! Obey God: you have no other deity than Him.
لقد أرسلنا نوحا إلى قومه فقال يقوم ٱعبدوا ٱلله ما لكم من إله غيره
I indeed fear for you the punishment of an immense day."
إني أخاف عليكم عذاب يوم عظيم
The court of his people said: "We see you surely in manifest error."
قال ٱلملأ من قومه إنا لنرىك في ضلل مبين
He said: "O my people! There is no error in me, but I am a messenger from the Guardian of all beings.
قال يقوم ليس بي ضللة ولكني رسول من رب ٱلعلمين
I convey to you the messages of my Guardian, I advise you sincerely, and I know, from God, what you do not know.
أبلغكم رسلت ربي وأنصح لكم وأعلم من ٱلله ما لا تعلمون
Do you marvel that a reminder from your Guardian should come to you through a man from among yourselves, that he might warn you, that you might guard yourselves, and that, perhaps, benevolence might be shown to you?"
أوعجبتم أن جآءكم ذكر من ربكم على رجل منكم لينذركم ولتتقوا ولعلكم ترحمون
They denied him; We saved him, and those with him in the vessel,
فكذبوه فأنجينه وٱلذين معه في ٱلفلك
and We drowned those who had denied Our signs.
وأغرقنا ٱلذين كذبوا بايتنآ
They were indeed a blind people.
إنهم كانوا قوما عمين
And to the Aad, their brother Hud —
وإلى عاد أخاهم هودا
he said: "O my people! Obey God: you have no other deity than Him.
قال يقوم ٱعبدوا ٱلله ما لكم من إله غيره
Will you not then guard yourselves?"
أفلا تتقون
The court of his people, those who had disowned, said: "We see you surely in sheer foolishness, and we surely presume you to be among the liars."
قال ٱلملأ ٱلذين كفروا من قومه إنا لنرىك في سفاهة وإنا لنظنك من ٱلكذبين
He said: "O my people! There is no foolishness in me, but I am a messenger from the Guardian of all beings.
قال يقوم ليس بي سفاهة ولكني رسول من رب ٱلعلمين
I convey to you the messages of my Guardian, and I am for you a trustworthy advisor.
أبلغكم رسلت ربي وأنا لكم ناصح أمين
Do you marvel that a reminder from your Guardian should come to you through a man from among yourselves, that he might warn you?
أوعجبتم أن جآءكم ذكر من ربكم على رجل منكم لينذركم
Remember that He made you successors after the people of Nuh, and increased you in breadth in creation.
وٱذكروا إذ جعلكم خلفآء من بعد قوم نوح وزادكم في ٱلخلق بصطة
Remember, then, the blessings of God, perhaps you will succeed."
فٱذكروا ءالآء ٱلله لعلكم تفلحون
They said: "Have you come to us so that we may obey God alone, and forsake what our ancestors used to obey? Bring us then what you promise us, if you are among the veracious."
قالوا أجئتنا لنعبد ٱلله وحده ونذر ما كان يعبد ءابآؤنا فأتنا بما تعدنآ إن كنت من ٱلصدقين
He said: "Filth and anger from your Guardian have already befallen you.
قال قد وقع عليكم من ربكم رجس وغضب
Do you argue with me concerning attributes that you and your ancestors have named, for which God has sent down no authority?
أتجدلونني في أسمآء سميتموهآ أنتم وءابآؤكم ما نزل ٱلله بها من سلطن
Wait then: I am indeed, with you, among those who wait."
فٱنتظروا إني معكم من ٱلمنتظرين
So We saved him, and those with him, by a benevolence from Us, and We cut off to the last remnant those who had denied Our signs: they were not believers.
فأنجينه وٱلذين معه برحمة منا وقطعنا دابر ٱلذين كذبوا بايتنا وما كانوا مؤمنين
And to the Thamud, their brother Salih —
وإلى ثمود أخاهم صلحا
he said: "O my people! Obey God: you have no other deity than Him.
قال يقوم ٱعبدوا ٱلله ما لكم من إله غيره
A clear proof has indeed come to you from your Guardian:
قد جآءتكم بينة من ربكم
this is the she-camel of God, a sign for you.
هذه ناقة ٱلله لكم ءاية
So let her be, that she may eat on God's earth,
فذروها تأكل في أرض ٱلله
and touch her with no evil, lest a painful punishment seize you."
ولا تمسوها بسوء فيأخذكم عذاب أليم
And remember that He made you successors after the Aad, and settled you on the earth: in its plains you take palaces, and you carve the mountains into houses.
وٱذكروا إذ جعلكم خلفآء من بعد عاد وبوأكم في ٱلأرض تتخذون من سهولها قصورا وتنحتون ٱلجبال بيوتا
Remember, then, the blessings of God,
فٱذكروا ءالآء ٱلله
and do not spread disorder on the earth as corrupters.
ولا تعثوا في ٱلأرض مفسدين
The court of his people, those who had grown proud, said to those who had been reduced to weakness, to those among them who had believed: "Do you know that Salih is sent by his Guardian?"
قال ٱلملأ ٱلذين ٱستكبروا من قومه للذين ٱستضعفوا لمن ءامن منهم أتعلمون أن صلحا مرسل من ربه
They said: "We indeed believe in what he was sent with."
قالوا إنا بمآ أرسل به مؤمنون
Those who had grown proud said: "We, for our part, indeed disown what you believe in."
قال ٱلذين ٱستكبروا إنا بٱلذي ءامنتم به كفرون
They then hamstrung the she-camel, insolently defied the order of their Guardian,
فعقروا ٱلناقة وعتوا عن أمر ربهم
and said: "O Salih! Bring us what you promise us, if you are among the envoys."
وقالوا يصلح ٱئتنا بما تعدنآ إن كنت من ٱلمرسلين
Then the tremor seized them, and they found themselves, in their abode, lying, still.
فأخذتهم ٱلرجفة فأصبحوا في دارهم جثمين
He turned his back on them and said: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the message of my Guardian, and I advised you,
فتولى عنهم وقال يقوم لقد أبلغتكم رسالة ربي ونصحت لكم
but you do not love sincere advisors."
ولكن لا تحبون ٱلنصحين
And Lut, when he said to his people: "Do you commit the indecency in which none, among all beings, has raced ahead of you?
ولوطا إذ قال لقومه أتأتون ٱلفحشة ما سبقكم بها من أحد من ٱلعلمين
You surely come to men out of desire, instead of women.
إنكم لتأتون ٱلرجال شهوة من دون ٱلنسآء
Rather, you are a people of the excessive."
بل أنتم قوم مسرفون
And the only answer of his people was to say: "Expel them from your city;
وما كان جواب قومه إلآ أن قالوا أخرجوهم من قريتكم
they are men who want to purify themselves."
إنهم أناس يتطهرون
So We saved him, and his family, except his wife, who was among those who lingered behind.
فأنجينه وأهله إلا ٱمرأته كانت من ٱلغبرين
And We rained down upon them a rain.
وأمطرنا عليهم مطرا
So look at what was the end of the severed.
فٱنظر كيف كان عقبة ٱلمجرمين
And to Madyan, their brother Shu'ayb —
وإلى مدين أخاهم شعيبا
he said: "O my people! Obey God: you have no other deity than Him.
قال يقوم ٱعبدوا ٱلله ما لكم من إله غيره
A clear proof has indeed come to you from your Guardian.
قد جآءتكم بينة من ربكم
So give the measure and the balance faithfully,
فأوفوا ٱلكيل وٱلميزان
and do not shortchange men in their things,
ولا تبخسوا ٱلناس أشيآءهم
and do not sow corruption on the earth after its being made sound.
ولا تفسدوا في ٱلأرض بعد إصلحها
That is better for you, if you are believers.
ذلكم خير لكم إن كنتم مؤمنين
And do not sit in wait on every path, threatening and barring from the way of God whoever believes in Him, and seeking to make it crooked.
ولا تقعدوا بكل صرط توعدون وتصدون عن سبيل ٱلله من ءامن به وتبغونها عوجا
And remember that you were few, and He made you many.
وٱذكروا إذ كنتم قليلا فكثركم
And look at what was the end of the corrupters.
وٱنظروا كيف كان عقبة ٱلمفسدين
And if a group among you has believed in what I was sent with, and another group has not believed, be patient then until God judges between us:
وإن كان طآئفة منكم ءامنوا بٱلذي أرسلت به وطآئفة لم يؤمنوا فٱصبروا حتى يحكم ٱلله بيننا
He is the best of judges.
وهو خير ٱلحكمين
The court of his people, those who had grown proud, said: "We will certainly expel you from our city, O Shu'ayb, you and those who have believed with you, unless you return to our doctrine."
قال ٱلملأ ٱلذين ٱستكبروا من قومه لنخرجنك يشعيب وٱلذين ءامنوا معك من قريتنآ أو لتعودن في ملتنا
He said: "Even if we were averse to it?
قال أولو كنا كرهين
We would indeed have invented a lie against God, if we returned to your doctrine after God has saved us from it.
قد ٱفترينا على ٱلله كذبا إن عدنا في ملتكم بعد إذ نجىنا ٱلله منها
It is not for us to return to it, unless God, our Guardian, wills it.
وما يكون لنآ أن نعود فيهآ إلآ أن يشآء ٱلله ربنا
Our Guardian embraces all things in His knowledge.
وسع ربنا كل شىء علما
It is to God that we entrust ourselves.
على ٱلله توكلنا
Our Guardian, open between us and our people, in truth:
ربنا ٱفتح بيننا وبين قومنا بٱلحق
You are the best of those who open."
وأنت خير ٱلفتحين
And the court of his people, those who disowned, said: "If you follow Shu'ayb, you will then surely be losers."
وقال ٱلملأ ٱلذين كفروا من قومه لئن ٱتبعتم شعيبا إنكم إذا لخسرون
Then the tremor seized them, and they found themselves, in their abode, lying, still.
فأخذتهم ٱلرجفة فأصبحوا في دارهم جثمين
Those who had denied Shu'ayb, it was as if they had never dwelt there.
ٱلذين كذبوا شعيبا كأن لم يغنوا فيها
Those who had denied Shu'ayb, they were the losers.
ٱلذين كذبوا شعيبا كانوا هم ٱلخسرين
He turned his back on them and said: "O my people! I did indeed convey to you the messages of my Guardian, and I advised you.
فتولى عنهم وقال يقوم لقد أبلغتكم رسلت ربي ونصحت لكم
How then should I lament for a people who disown?"
فكيف ءاسى على قوم كفرين
We have not sent, into any city, an informant without seizing its inhabitants with adversity and hardship, perhaps they would beseech.
ومآ أرسلنا في قرية من نبي إلآ أخذنآ أهلها بٱلبأسآء وٱلضرآء لعلهم يضرعون
Then We replaced evil with good, until they prospered
ثم بدلنا مكان ٱلسيئة ٱلحسنة حتى عفوا
and said: "Hardship and ease already touched our ancestors"; We then seized them unexpectedly, without their sensing it.
وقالوا قد مس ءابآءنا ٱلضرآء وٱلسرآء فأخذنهم بغتة وهم لا يشعرون
And had the inhabitants of the cities believed and guarded themselves, We would indeed have opened upon them blessings from the sky and the earth;
ولو أن أهل ٱلقرى ءامنوا وٱتقوا لفتحنا عليهم بركت من ٱلسمآء وٱلأرض
but they denied, and We then seized them for what they used to earn.
ولكن كذبوا فأخذنهم بما كانوا يكسبون
Are the inhabitants of the cities then sure that Our rigor will not come upon them by night, while they sleep? Or are the inhabitants of the cities sure that Our rigor will not come upon them in broad morning, while they play?
أفأمن أهل ٱلقرى أن يأتيهم بأسنا بيتا وهم نآئمون أوأمن أهل ٱلقرى أن يأتيهم بأسنا ضحى وهم يلعبون
Do they then feel secure from God's plot?
أفأمنوا مكر ٱلله
None feels secure from God's plot, except the people of the losers.
فلا يأمن مكر ٱلله إلا ٱلقوم ٱلخسرون
Are those who inherit the earth after its inhabitants not then guided by this: if We willed, We would strike them for their offenses,
أولم يهد للذين يرثون ٱلأرض من بعد أهلهآ أن لو نشآء أصبنهم بذنوبهم
and We stamp their cores, so that they do not hear?
ونطبع على قلوبهم فهم لا يسمعون
Those are the cities of which We relate to you certain information.
تلك ٱلقرى نقص عليك من أنبآئها
Their messengers had indeed come to them with clear proofs, but they were not disposed to believe what they had first denied.
ولقد جآءتهم رسلهم بٱلبينت فما كانوا ليؤمنوا بما كذبوا من قبل
Thus does God stamp the cores of those who disown.
كذلك يطبع ٱلله على قلوب ٱلكفرين
And We found, in most of them, no pact kept;
وما وجدنا لأكثرهم من عهد
and We indeed found most of them to be oversteppers.
وإن وجدنآ أكثرهم لفسقين
Then We raised up, after them, Moussa with Our signs, to Fir'awn and his court, but they did wrong toward them.
ثم بعثنا من بعدهم موسى بايتنآ إلى فرعون وملإيه فظلموا بها
So look at what was the end of the corrupters.
فٱنظر كيف كان عقبة ٱلمفسدين
And Moussa said: "O Fir'awn! I am indeed a messenger from the Guardian of all beings, in truth,
وقال موسى يفرعون إني رسول من رب ٱلعلمين حقيق
bound to say about God nothing but the truth.
على أن لآ أقول على ٱلله إلا ٱلحق
I have come to you with a clear proof from your Guardian;
قد جئتكم ببينة من ربكم
so let the Sons of Israel go with me."
فأرسل معي بني إسرءيل
He said: "If you have come with a sign, bring it then, if you are among the veracious."
قال إن كنت جئت باية فأت بهآ إن كنت من ٱلصدقين
He then threw down his staff, and behold, it was a manifest serpent; and he drew out his hand, and behold, it was white to those who looked.
فألقى عصاه فإذا هي ثعبان مبين ونزع يده فإذا هي بيضآء للنظرين
The court of Fir'awn's people said: "This is surely a knowledgeable worker of illusion, who wants to bring you out of your land."
قال ٱلملأ من قوم فرعون إن هذا لسحر عليم يريد أن يخرجكم من أرضكم
"What then do you advise?"
فماذا تأمرون
They said: "Put him off, him and his brother, and send into the capitals gatherers, who will bring you every knowledgeable worker of illusion."
قالوا أرجه وأخاه وأرسل في ٱلمدآئن حشرين يأتوك بكل سحر عليم
And the workers of illusion came to Fir'awn; they said: "Will we surely have a reward, if we are the victors?"
وجآء ٱلسحرة فرعون قالوا إن لنا لأجرا إن كنا نحن ٱلغلبين
He said: "Yes, and you will surely be among those brought near."
قال نعم وإنكم لمن ٱلمقربين
They said: "O Moussa! Either you throw, or we will be the ones who throw."
قالوا يموسى إمآ أن تلقي وإمآ أن نكون نحن ٱلملقين
He said: "Throw."
قال ألقوا
When they had thrown, they beguiled the eyes of men with illusion, and filled them with reverence,
فلمآ ألقوا سحروا أعين ٱلناس وٱسترهبوهم
and they brought an immense illusion.
وجآءو بسحر عظيم
And We revealed to Moussa: "Throw your staff";
وأوحينآ إلى موسى أن ألق عصاك
and behold, it snapped up what they distorted.
فإذا هي تلقف ما يأفكون
The truth then came to pass, and what they were doing proved vain.
فوقع ٱلحق وبطل ما كانوا يعملون
They were defeated, right there, and went away diminished.
فغلبوا هنالك وٱنقلبوا صغرين
And the workers of illusion were cast down, prostrate.
وألقي ٱلسحرة سجدين
They said: "We believe in the Guardian of all beings, the Guardian of Moussa and Harun."
قالوا ءامنا برب ٱلعلمين رب موسى وهرون
Fir'awn said: "You have believed in him before I gave you permission! This is surely a plot you plotted in the Capital, so as to drive out its inhabitants; you will soon know.
قال فرعون ءامنتم به قبل أن ءاذن لكم إن هذا لمكر مكرتموه في ٱلمدينة لتخرجوا منهآ أهلها فسوف تعلمون
I will certainly cut off your hands and feet, on opposite sides, then I will certainly crucify you all together."
لأقطعن أيديكم وأرجلكم من خلف ثم لأصلبنكم أجمعين
They said: "It is to our Guardian that we return.
قالوا إنآ إلى ربنا منقلبون
And you resent us for nothing, except that we believed in the signs of our Guardian, once they came to us.
وما تنقم منآ إلآ أن ءامنا بايت ربنا لما جآءتنا
Our Guardian, inundate us with patience, and keep us faithfully as those true to God alone."
ربنآ أفرغ علينا صبرا وتوفنا مسلمين
And the court of Fir'awn's people said: "Will you let Moussa and his people be, to sow corruption on the earth and to forsake you and your deities?"
وقال ٱلملأ من قوم فرعون أتذر موسى وقومه ليفسدوا في ٱلأرض ويذرك وءالهتك
He said: "We will massacre their sons and violate the modesty of their women; we hold indeed the upper hand over them."
قال سنقتل أبنآءهم ونستحي نسآءهم وإنا فوقهم قهرون
Moussa said to his people: "Seek help in God, and be patient;
قال موسى لقومه ٱستعينوا بٱلله وٱصبروا
the earth indeed belongs to God; He gives it as inheritance to whom He wills among His obedient ones,
إن ٱلأرض لله يورثها من يشآء من عباده
and the outcome belongs to those who guard themselves."
وٱلعقبة للمتقين
They said: "We were troubled before you came to us, and after you came to us."
قالوا أوذينا من قبل أن تأتينا ومن بعد ما جئتنا
He said: "It may be that your Guardian will annihilate your enemy and make you successors on the earth, so as to look at how you would act."
قال عسى ربكم أن يهلك عدوكم ويستخلفكم في ٱلأرض فينظر كيف تعملون
And We indeed seized the clan of Fir'awn with years and a diminution of fruits, perhaps they would remember.
ولقد أخذنآ ءال فرعون بٱلسنين ونقص من ٱلثمرت لعلهم يذكرون
When good comes to them, they say: "This belongs to us";
فإذا جآءتهم ٱلحسنة قالوا لنا هذه
and if evil strikes them, they attribute it to an ill omen from Moussa and those with him.
وإن تصبهم سيئة يطيروا بموسى ومن معه
Is it not that in reality their omen is with God?
ألآ إنما طئرهم عند ٱلله
But most of them do not know.
ولكن أكثرهم لا يعلمون
And they said: "Whatever sign you bring us, to beguile us with it, we will not give you credit."
وقالوا مهما تأتنا به من ءاية لتسحرنا بها فما نحن لك بمؤمنين
We then sent upon them the flood, the locusts, the lice, the frogs, and the blood, detailed signs; but they grew proud and were a severed people.
فأرسلنا عليهم ٱلطوفان وٱلجراد وٱلقمل وٱلضفادع وٱلدم ءايت مفصلت فٱستكبروا وكانوا قوما مجرمين
And when the defilement befell them, they said: "O Moussa! Invoke for us your Guardian, by the pact He has made with you; if you remove the defilement from us, we will certainly give you credit, and we will certainly let the Sons of Israel go with you."
ولما وقع عليهم ٱلرجز قالوا يموسى ٱدع لنا ربك بما عهد عندك لئن كشفت عنا ٱلرجز لنؤمنن لك ولنرسلن معك بني إسرءيل
But when We had removed the defilement from them until a term they were to reach, there they were, going back on their word.
فلما كشفنا عنهم ٱلرجز إلى أجل هم بلغوه إذا هم ينكثون
We then took vengeance upon them, and We drowned them in the deep, for having denied Our signs and remained heedless of them.
فٱنتقمنا منهم فأغرقنهم في ٱليم بأنهم كذبوا بايتنا وكانوا عنها غفلين
And We made the people who had been reduced to weakness inherit the risings and the settings of the land which We had blessed.
وأورثنا ٱلقوم ٱلذين كانوا يستضعفون مشرق ٱلأرض ومغربها ٱلتي بركنا فيها
And the beautiful word of your Guardian was completed toward the Sons of Israel, for having been patient;
وتمت كلمت ربك ٱلحسنى على بني إسرءيل بما صبروا
and We destroyed what Fir'awn and his people were doing, and what they were building.
ودمرنا ما كان يصنع فرعون وقومه وما كانوا يعرشون
And We made the Sons of Israel traverse the sea; they came upon a people posted before idols of their own.
وجوزنا ببني إسرءيل ٱلبحر فأتوا على قوم يعكفون على أصنام لهم
They said: "O Moussa! Make for us a deity, as they have deities."
قالوا يموسى ٱجعل لنآ إلها كما لهم ءالهة
He said: "You are indeed an ignorant people.
قال إنكم قوم تجهلون
What these practice is doomed to devastation,
إن هؤلآء متبر ما هم فيه
and vain is what they were doing."
وبطل ما كانوا يعملون
He said: "Should I seek for you a deity other than God, while He has favored you above all beings?"
قال أغير ٱلله أبغيكم إلها وهو فضلكم على ٱلعلمين
And when We saved you from the clan of Fir'awn, who inflicted upon you the worst of punishments, massacring your sons and violating the modesty of your women —
وإذ أنجينكم من ءال فرعون يسومونكم سوء ٱلعذاب يقتلون أبنآءكم ويستحيون نسآءكم
and there was in that an immense testing from your Guardian.
وفي ذلكم بلآء من ربكم عظيم
We fixed for Moussa an appointment of thirty nights, which We completed with ten: thus the appointed time set by his Guardian was completed, in forty nights.
ووعدنا موسى ثلثين ليلة وأتممنها بعشر فتم ميقت ربه أربعين ليلة
And Moussa said to his brother Harun: "Take my place among my people, make things sound, and do not follow the way of the corrupters."
وقال موسى لأخيه هرون ٱخلفني في قومي وأصلح ولا تتبع سبيل ٱلمفسدين
And when Moussa came at Our appointed time, and his Guardian spoke to him, he said: "My Guardian, show Yourself to me, that I may look at You."
ولما جآء موسى لميقتنا وكلمه ربه قال رب أرني أنظر إليك
He said: "You will not see Me, but look at the mountain: if it remains in place, then you will see Me."
قال لن ترىني ولكن ٱنظر إلى ٱلجبل فإن ٱستقر مكانه فسوف ترىني
When his Guardian unveiled Himself to the mountain, He made it sink down under pressure, and Moussa fell thunderstruck.
فلما تجلى ربه للجبل جعله دكا وخر موسى صعقا
When he came to, he said: "Glory be to You! I turn back to You, and I am the first of the believers."
فلمآ أفاق قال سبحنك تبت إليك وأنا أول ٱلمؤمنين
He said: "O Moussa! I have chosen you among mankind for My messages and for My word; take, then, what I have given you, and be among the grateful."
قال يموسى إني ٱصطفيتك على ٱلناس برسلتي وبكلمي فخذ مآ ءاتيتك وكن من ٱلشكرين
And We wrote for him, on the Tablets, an admonition concerning all things, and a detail of all things.
وكتبنا له في ٱلألواح من كل شىء موعظة وتفصيلا لكل شىء
Take them, then, with strength, and order your people to take what is best in them.
فخذها بقوة وأمر قومك يأخذوا بأحسنها
I will show you the abode of the oversteppers.
سأوريكم دار ٱلفسقين
I will turn away from My signs those who act proudly on the earth without right; even if they saw every sign, they would not believe in it, and if they saw the way of rectitude, they would not take it as a way, while, if they saw the way of errancy, they would take it as a way.
سأصرف عن ءايتي ٱلذين يتكبرون في ٱلأرض بغير ٱلحق وإن يروا كل ءاية لا يؤمنوا بها وإن يروا سبيل ٱلرشد لا يتخذوه سبيلا وإن يروا سبيل ٱلغى يتخذوه سبيلا
That is because they denied Our signs and remained heedless of them.
ذلك بأنهم كذبوا بايتنا وكانوا عنها غفلين
And those who denied Our signs and the meeting of the last life, their works have collapsed; are they recompensed except according to what they used to do?
وٱلذين كذبوا بايتنا ولقآء ٱلءاخرة حبطت أعملهم هل يجزون إلا ما كانوا يعملون
And the people of Moussa took, after him, from their ornaments, a calf, a body that lowed.
وٱتخذ قوم موسى من بعده من حليهم عجلا جسدا له خوار
Did they not see that it did not speak to them and did not guide them to any way?
ألم يروا أنه لا يكلمهم ولا يهديهم سبيلا
They took it, and were wrongdoers.
ٱتخذوه وكانوا ظلمين
And when they were struck with regret, seeing that they had gone astray, they said: "If our Guardian does not have benevolence on us and does not forgive us, we will certainly be among the losers."
ولما سقط في أيديهم ورأوا أنهم قد ضلوا قالوا لئن لم يرحمنا ربنا ويغفر لنا لنكونن من ٱلخسرين
When Moussa returned to his people, angry, bitter, he said: "How evil is what you have done in my place, after me!
ولما رجع موسى إلى قومه غضبن أسفا قال بئسما خلفتموني من بعدي
Did you want to hasten the command of your Guardian?"
أعجلتم أمر ربكم
And he threw down the Tablets, and seized his brother by the head, dragging him toward himself.
وألقى ٱلألواح وأخذ برأس أخيه يجره إليه
He said: "Son of my mother! The people indeed reduced me to weakness, and almost killed me; do not, then, let the enemies gloat over me, and do not place me with the wrongdoing people."
قال ٱبن أم إن ٱلقوم ٱستضعفوني وكادوا يقتلونني فلا تشمت بي ٱلأعدآء ولا تجعلني مع ٱلقوم ٱلظلمين
He said: "My Guardian, forgive me, and my brother, and admit us into Your benevolence;
قال رب ٱغفر لي ولأخي وأدخلنا في رحمتك
You are the most benevolent of the benevolent."
وأنت أرحم ٱلرحمين
Those who took the calf, an anger from their Guardian will indeed accrue to them, as well as a humiliation in the present life.
إن ٱلذين ٱتخذوا ٱلعجل سينالهم غضب من ربهم وذلة في ٱلحيوة ٱلدنيا
Thus do We recompense the inventors of lies.
وكذلك نجزي ٱلمفترين
And those who committed evil deeds, then repented after that and believed — your Guardian, after that, is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
وٱلذين عملوا ٱلسيات ثم تابوا من بعدها وءامنوا إن ربك من بعدها لغفور رحيم
And when Moussa's anger had subsided, he took the Tablets; in their inscription, there was guidance and benevolence for those who revere their Guardian.
ولما سكت عن موسى ٱلغضب أخذ ٱلألواح وفي نسختها هدى ورحمة للذين هم لربهم يرهبون
And Moussa opted, from among his people, for seventy men, with a view to Our appointed time.
وٱختار موسى قومه سبعين رجلا لميقتنا
When the tremor had seized them, he said: "My Guardian, had You willed, You would have annihilated them before, and me as well.
فلمآ أخذتهم ٱلرجفة قال رب لو شئت أهلكتهم من قبل وإيي
Would You annihilate us for what the foolish among us have done?
أتهلكنا بما فعل ٱلسفهآء منآ
This is nothing but Your trial, by which You lead astray whom You will, and guide whom You will.
إن هي إلا فتنتك تضل بها من تشآء وتهدي من تشآء
You are our protector; forgive us, then, and have benevolence on us; You are the best of those who forgive.
أنت ولينا فٱغفر لنا وٱرحمنا وأنت خير ٱلغفرين
And inscribe for us, in the present life, a good, as well as in the last life;
وٱكتب لنا في هذه ٱلدنيا حسنة وفي ٱلءاخرة
we indeed return to You."
إنا هدنآ إليك
He said: "My punishment, I strike with it whom I will,
قال عذابي أصيب به من أشآء
and My benevolence embraces all things.
ورحمتي وسعت كل شىء
I will inscribe it, then, for those who guard themselves, give pure liberality, and who believe in Our signs, those who follow the messenger, the informant without a prior Scripture, whom they find written down with them in the Tawrah and the Injil, who orders them what is recognized and forbids them what is disavowed, permits them the wholesome things and prohibits to them the vile things, and lifts from them their yoke and the shackles that were upon them.
فسأكتبها للذين يتقون ويؤتون ٱلزكوة وٱلذين هم بايتنا يؤمنون ٱلذين يتبعون ٱلرسول ٱلنبي ٱلأمي ٱلذي يجدونه مكتوبا عندهم في ٱلتورىة وٱلإنجيل يأمرهم بٱلمعروف وينهىهم عن ٱلمنكر ويحل لهم ٱلطيبت ويحرم عليهم ٱلخبئث ويضع عنهم إصرهم وٱلأغلل ٱلتي كانت عليهم
Those who believe in him, champion him, help him, and follow the light sent down with him — those are the ones who succeed.
فٱلذين ءامنوا به وعزروه ونصروه وٱتبعوا ٱلنور ٱلذي أنزل معه أولئك هم ٱلمفلحون
Say: "O mankind! I am indeed the messenger of God to all of you, Him to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth.
قل يأيها ٱلناس إني رسول ٱلله إليكم جميعا ٱلذي له ملك ٱلسموت وٱلأرض
There is no deity but Him.
لآ إله إلا هو
He gives life and causes death.
يحي ويميت
So believe in God and His messenger, the informant without a prior Scripture, who believes in God and His words,
فامنوا بٱلله ورسوله ٱلنبي ٱلأمي ٱلذي يؤمن بٱلله وكلمته
and follow him, perhaps you will let yourselves be guided."
وٱتبعوه لعلكم تهتدون
And among the people of Moussa, there is a community that guides according to the truth and that, by it, acts with justice.
ومن قوم موسى أمة يهدون بٱلحق وبه يعدلون
And We divided them into twelve bloodlines, into communities,
وقطعنهم ٱثنتى عشرة أسباطا أمما
and We revealed to Moussa, when his people asked him for drink: "Strike the rock with your staff";
وأوحينآ إلى موسى إذ ٱستسقىه قومه أن ٱضرب بعصاك ٱلحجر
and behold, twelve springs welled forth from it:
فٱنبجست منه ٱثنتا عشرة عينا
each group of men knew its drinking place.
قد علم كل أناس مشربهم
And We spread over them the shade of the cloud, and We sent down upon them manna and quails:
وظللنا عليهم ٱلغمم وأنزلنا عليهم ٱلمن وٱلسلوى
"Eat of the wholesome things We have provided you."
كلوا من طيبت ما رزقنكم
They did not wrong Us,
وما ظلمونا
but it was themselves that they wronged.
ولكن كانوا أنفسهم يظلمون
And when it was said to them: "Dwell in this city, eat from it wherever you will, say: Unburden us, and enter by the gate, prostrate: We will forgive you your faults.
وإذ قيل لهم ٱسكنوا هذه ٱلقرية وكلوا منها حيث شئتم وقولوا حطة وٱدخلوا ٱلباب سجدا نغفر لكم خطيتكم
We will give more to those who do good."
سنزيد ٱلمحسنين
But those among them who did wrong substituted a saying other than what had been said to them; We then sent upon them a defilement from the sky, for having done wrong.
فبدل ٱلذين ظلموا منهم قولا غير ٱلذي قيل لهم فأرسلنا عليهم رجزا من ٱلسمآء بما كانوا يظلمون
And ask them about the city that was near the sea: when they crossed the limits concerning the Rest, their fish came to them on the day of their Rest, in the open; and on the day they did not keep the Rest, they did not come to them.
وسلهم عن ٱلقرية ٱلتي كانت حاضرة ٱلبحر إذ يعدون في ٱلسبت إذ تأتيهم حيتانهم يوم سبتهم شرعا ويوم لا يسبتون لا تأتيهم
Thus did We test them, for having overstepped.
كذلك نبلوهم بما كانوا يفسقون
And when a community among them said: "Why do you exhort a people whom God is going to annihilate, or punish with a severe punishment?"
وإذ قالت أمة منهم لم تعظون قوما ٱلله مهلكهم أو معذبهم عذابا شديدا
They said: "For an excuse before your Guardian, and perhaps they will guard themselves."
قالوا معذرة إلى ربكم ولعلهم يتقون
When they forgot what they had been reminded of, We saved those who forbade evil, and We seized the wrongdoers with a harsh punishment, for having overstepped.
فلما نسوا ما ذكروا به أنجينا ٱلذين ينهون عن ٱلسوء وأخذنا ٱلذين ظلموا بعذاب بيس بما كانوا يفسقون
Then, when they insolently defied what had been forbidden them, We said to them: "Be apes, rebuffed."
فلما عتوا عن ما نهوا عنه قلنا لهم كونوا قردة خسين
And when your Guardian proclaimed that He would certainly raise up against them, until the Day of Appearance, one who would inflict upon them the worst of punishments.
وإذ تأذن ربك ليبعثن عليهم إلى يوم ٱلقيمة من يسومهم سوء ٱلعذاب
Your Guardian is surely swift in sanction,
إن ربك لسريع ٱلعقاب
and He is surely Most-Forgiving, Benevolent.
وإنه لغفور رحيم
And We divided them on the earth into communities:
وقطعنهم في ٱلأرض أمما
there are among them those who are sound, and among them those who are less so.
منهم ٱلصلحون ومنهم دون ذلك
And We tested them with good things and bad things, perhaps they would return.
وبلونهم بٱلحسنت وٱلسيات لعلهم يرجعون
Then a posterity succeeded them, who inherited the Scripture, taking the fleeting goods of this lower world, and saying: "It will be forgiven us"; and if a similar good comes to them again, they take it.
فخلف من بعدهم خلف ورثوا ٱلكتب يأخذون عرض هذا ٱلأدنى ويقولون سيغفر لنا وإن يأتهم عرض مثله يأخذوه
Was not the solemn engagement of the Scripture taken from them, that they would say about God nothing but the truth?
ألم يؤخذ عليهم ميثق ٱلكتب أن لا يقولوا على ٱلله إلا ٱلحق
And they have studied what is in it.
ودرسوا ما فيه
But the last abode is better for those who guard themselves.
وٱلدار ٱلءاخرة خير للذين يتقون
Will you not then reason?
أفلا تعقلون
And those who hold firmly to the Scripture and maintain the Contact — We indeed do not let the reward of those who make things sound dissipate.
وٱلذين يمسكون بٱلكتب وأقاموا ٱلصلوة إنا لا نضيع أجر ٱلمصلحين
And when We tore the mountain out above them, as though it were a canopy, and they presumed it was going to topple upon them:
وإذ نتقنا ٱلجبل فوقهم كأنه ظلة وظنوا أنه واقع بهم
"Take with strength what We have given you, and remember what is in it, perhaps you will guard yourselves."
خذوا مآ ءاتينكم بقوة وٱذكروا ما فيه لعلكم تتقون
And when your Guardian took from the sons of Adam, from their backs, their descendants, and made them bear witness concerning themselves: "Am I not your Guardian?" They said: "Yes, we bear witness!"
وإذ أخذ ربك من بني ءادم من ظهورهم ذريتهم وأشهدهم على أنفسهم ألست بربكم قالوا بلى
Lest you say, on the Day of Appearance: "We were indeed heedless of this", or that you say: "It was our ancestors who, before, associated, and we were only descendants after them.
شهدنآ أن تقولوا يوم ٱلقيمة إنا كنا عن هذا غفلين أو تقولوا إنمآ أشرك ءابآؤنا من قبل وكنا ذرية من بعدهم
Would You annihilate us for what the workers of falsehood have done?"
أفتهلكنا بما فعل ٱلمبطلون
Thus do We detail the signs, and perhaps they will return.
وكذلك نفصل ٱلءايت ولعلهم يرجعون
And recite to them the information concerning him to whom We gave Our signs, and who divested himself of them, so that the Diverter pursued him, and he was among the errant.
وٱتل عليهم نبأ ٱلذي ءاتينه ءايتنا فٱنسلخ منها فأتبعه ٱلشيطن فكان من ٱلغاوين
Had We willed, We would have elevated him by these; but he clung to the earth and followed his emotion.
ولو شئنا لرفعنه بها ولكنه أخلد إلى ٱلأرض وٱتبع هوىه
His example is that of the dog: if you bear down on it, it pants, and if you leave it, it pants.
فمثله كمثل ٱلكلب إن تحمل عليه يلهث أو تتركه يلهث
That is the example of the people who denied Our signs.
ذلك مثل ٱلقوم ٱلذين كذبوا بايتنا
Relate, then, the account, perhaps they will reflect.
فٱقصص ٱلقصص لعلهم يتفكرون
Evil is the example of the people who denied Our signs, and who wronged themselves.
سآء مثلا ٱلقوم ٱلذين كذبوا بايتنا وأنفسهم كانوا يظلمون
Whoever God guides, that is the one who lets himself be guided;
من يهد ٱلله فهو ٱلمهتدي
and whoever He leads astray, those are the losers.
ومن يضلل فأولئك هم ٱلخسرون
And We have scattered, for Jahannam, many of the Occulted and humans;
ولقد ذرأنا لجهنم كثيرا من ٱلجن وٱلإنس
they have cores with which they do not understand,
لهم قلوب لا يفقهون بها
they have eyes with which they do not see clearly,
ولهم أعين لا يبصرون بها
and they have ears with which they do not hear.
ولهم ءاذان لا يسمعون بهآ
Those are the ones who are like cattle — no, they are even more astray.
أولئك كٱلأنعم بل هم أضل
Those are the heedless.
أولئك هم ٱلغفلون
And to God belong the most beautiful attributes; invoke Him, then, by them,
ولله ٱلأسمآء ٱلحسنى فٱدعوه بها
and forsake those who pervert His attributes.
وذروا ٱلذين يلحدون في أسمئه
They will be recompensed according to what they used to do.
سيجزون ما كانوا يعملون
And among those We have created, there is a community that guides according to the truth and that, by it, acts with justice.
وممن خلقنآ أمة يهدون بٱلحق وبه يعدلون
And those who deny Our signs, We will gradually lead them, from where they do not know, and I grant them a delay.
وٱلذين كذبوا بايتنا سنستدرجهم من حيث لا يعلمون وأملي لهم
My scheme is indeed solid.
إن كيدي متين
Do they not then reflect?
أولم يتفكروا
Their companion has no derangement.
ما بصاحبهم من جنة
He is nothing but a manifest warner.
إن هو إلا نذير مبين
Have they not looked into the sovereign dominion of the heavens and the earth, and into everything God has created, and that it may be that their term has already drawn near?
أولم ينظروا في ملكوت ٱلسموت وٱلأرض وما خلق ٱلله من شىء وأن عسى أن يكون قد ٱقترب أجلهم
In what discourse, after this one, will they then believe?
فبأى حديث بعده يؤمنون
Whoever God leads astray, no guide for him,
من يضلل ٱلله فلا هادي له
and He forsakes them in their immoderation, where they go about blindly.
ويذرهم في طغينهم يعمهون
They ask you about the Hour: when will it drop anchor?
يسلونك عن ٱلساعة أيان مرسىها
Say: "Knowledge of it is only with my Guardian;
قل إنما علمها عند ربي
none but Him will unveil it in its time.
لا يجليها لوقتهآ إلا هو
It weighs heavily in the heavens and on the earth;
ثقلت في ٱلسموت وٱلأرض
it will come to you only unexpectedly."
لا تأتيكم إلا بغتة
They ask you as if you had searched it out to the end.
يسلونك كأنك حفي عنها
Say: "Knowledge of it is only with God,
قل إنما علمها عند ٱلله
but most men do not know."
ولكن أكثر ٱلناس لا يعلمون
Say: "I hold, for myself, neither benefit nor harm, except what God wills.
قل لآ أملك لنفسي نفعا ولا ضرا إلا ما شآء ٱلله
And if I knew what escapes the senses, I would indeed have amassed abundant good things,
ولو كنت أعلم ٱلغيب لٱستكثرت من ٱلخير
and evil would not have touched me.
وما مسني ٱلسوء
I am nothing but a warner,
إن أنا إلا نذير
and a bearer of good tidings for a people who believe."
وبشير لقوم يؤمنون
It is He who created you from a single Self, and made from it its spouse, so that he might find rest with it.
هو ٱلذي خلقكم من نفس وحدة وجعل منها زوجها ليسكن إليها
And when he had covered her, she carried a light bearing, with which she went her way;
فلما تغشىها حملت حملا خفيفا فمرت به
and when she became heavy with it, they both invoked God, their Guardian: "If You give us a sound child, we will certainly be among the grateful."
فلمآ أثقلت دعوا ٱلله ربهما لئن ءاتيتنا صلحا لنكونن من ٱلشكرين
But when He had given them a sound child, they assigned to Him associates in what He had given them.
فلمآ ءاتىهما صلحا جعلا له شركآء فيمآ ءاتىهما
But God is far above what they associate with Him.
فتعلى ٱلله عما يشركون
Do they associate with Him what creates nothing, and is created,
أيشركون ما لا يخلق شيا وهم يخلقون
and can neither help them, nor help itself?
ولا يستطيعون لهم نصرا ولآ أنفسهم ينصرون
And if you call them to guidance, they do not follow you.
وإن تدعوهم إلى ٱلهدى لا يتبعوكم
It is the same to you, whether you call them, or remain silent.
سوآء عليكم أدعوتموهم أم أنتم صمتون
Those you invoke besides God are indeed obedient ones like yourselves;
إن ٱلذين تدعون من دون ٱلله عباد أمثالكم
invoke them, then, and let them answer you, if you are veracious.
فٱدعوهم فليستجيبوا لكم إن كنتم صدقين
Do they have feet with which they walk?
ألهم أرجل يمشون بهآ
Or do they have hands with which they grip?
أم لهم أيد يبطشون بهآ
Or do they have eyes with which they see clearly?
أم لهم أعين يبصرون بهآ
Or do they have ears with which they hear?
أم لهم ءاذان يسمعون بها
Say: "Invoke your associates, then scheme against me, and grant me no delay.
قل ٱدعوا شركآءكم ثم كيدون فلا تنظرون
My protector is indeed God, who sent down the Scripture,
إن ولي ٱلله ٱلذي نزل ٱلكتب
and it is He who protects those who are sound.
وهو يتولى ٱلصلحين
And those you invoke besides Him can neither help you, nor help themselves."
وٱلذين تدعون من دونه لا يستطيعون نصركم ولآ أنفسهم ينصرون
And if you call them to guidance, they do not hear;
وإن تدعوهم إلى ٱلهدى لا يسمعوا
and you see them looking at you, without seeing clearly.
وترىهم ينظرون إليك وهم لا يبصرون
Take the surplus,
خذ ٱلعفو
order what is recognized,
وأمر بٱلعرف
and turn away from the ignorant.
وأعرض عن ٱلجهلين
And if a goad from the Diverter goads you, seek refuge in God.
وإما ينزغنك من ٱلشيطن نزغ فٱستعذ بٱلله
He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
إنه سميع عليم
Indeed, those who guard themselves, when a procession from the Diverter touches them, remember, and there they are, clear-sighted;
إن ٱلذين ٱتقوا إذا مسهم طئف من ٱلشيطن تذكروا فإذا هم مبصرون
while their brothers draw them ever further into errancy,
وإخونهم يمدونهم في ٱلغى
then they do not stop.
ثم لا يقصرون
And when you do not bring them a sign, they say: "Why did you not elect it yourself?"
وإذا لم تأتهم باية قالوا لولا ٱجتبيتها
Say: "I only follow what is revealed to me from my Guardian;
قل إنمآ أتبع ما يوحى إلى من ربي
these are insights from your Guardian, a guidance and a benevolence for a people who believe."
هذا بصآئر من ربكم وهدى ورحمة لقوم يؤمنون
And when this Recitation is read, listen to it and be silent, perhaps benevolence will be shown to you.
وإذا قرئ ٱلقرءان فٱستمعوا له وأنصتوا لعلكم ترحمون
And remember your Guardian, within yourself, beseechingly and with fear, without saying it aloud, in the morning and in the evening, and do not be among the heedless.
وٱذكر ربك في نفسك تضرعا وخيفة ودون ٱلجهر من ٱلقول بٱلغدو وٱلءاصال ولا تكن من ٱلغفلين
Those who are with your Guardian do not grow too proud to obey Him, they glorify Him, and it is before Him that they prostrate.
إن ٱلذين عند ربك لا يستكبرون عن عبادته ويسبحونه وله يسجدون