Sourate Al-Ahqaf (46) with hamza shown

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Ha-Mim.i 1

بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم حم

The gradual revelation of the Scripture comes from God, the All-Powerful, the Wise.i 2

تنزيل ٱلكتب من ٱلله ٱلعزيز ٱلحكيم

We did not create the heavens and the earth, and what is between them, except in truth and for an appointed term. 3

ما خلقنا ٱلسموت وٱلأرض وما بينهمآ إلا بٱلحق وأجل مسمى

And those who deny turn away from what they were warned of. 3

وٱلذين كفروا عمآ أنذروا معرضون

Say: "Have you considered what you invoke besides God? Show me what they have created of the earth, or do they have a share in the heavens?" 4

قل أرءيتم ما تدعون من دون ٱلله أروني ماذا خلقوا من ٱلأرض أم لهم شرك في ٱلسموت

Bring me a Writ prior to this one, or a remnant of knowledge, if you are truthful.i 4

ٱئتوني بكتب من قبل هذآ أو أثرة من علم إن كنتم صدقين

And who is more astray than one who invokes, besides God, that which will not answer him until the Day of Appearance, while they remain heedless of their invocation?i 5

ومن أضل ممن يدعوا من دون ٱلله من لا يستجيب له إلى يوم ٱلقيمة وهم عن دعآئهم غفلون

And when mankind is gathered, [these objects of invocation] will be enemies to them, and they will deny [deny] that obey [which was devoted to them]. 6

وإذا حشر ٱلناس كانوا لهم أعدآء وكانوا بعبادتهم كفرين

And when Our clear signs are recited to them, those who deny say of the truth once it reaches them: "This is a manifest illusion." 7

وإذا تتلى عليهم ءايتنا بينت قال ٱلذين كفروا للحق لما جآءهم هذا سحر مبين

Or do they say: "He has invented it"? 8

أم يقولون ٱفترىه

Say: "If I have invented it, you can do nothing for me against God." 8

قل إن ٱفتريته فلا تملكون لي من ٱلله شيا

He knows best what you engage in concerning it. 8

هو أعلم بما تفيضون فيه

He suffices as a witness between me and you. 8

كفى به شهيدا بيني وبينكم

And He is the Forgiving, the benevolent. 8

وهو ٱلغفور ٱلرحيم

Say: "I am not a novelty among the messengers, and I do not know what will be done with me or with you." 9

قل ما كنت بدعا من ٱلرسل ومآ أدري ما يفعل بي ولا بكم

I follow only what is revealed to me. 9

إن أتبع إلا ما يوحى إلى

And I am only a clear warner. 9

ومآ أنا إلا نذير مبين

Say: "Have you considered: if this is from God and you deny it, while a witness among the Children of Israel has testified to its conformity and believed, whereas you are arrogant..." 10

قل أرءيتم إن كان من عند ٱلله وكفرتم به وشهد شاهد من بني إسرءيل على مثله فامن وٱستكبرتم

Indeed, God does not guide the unjust people. 10

إن ٱلله لا يهدي ٱلقوم ٱلظلمين

And those who deny say to those who believe: "If it were good, they would not have preceded us to it." 11

وقال ٱلذين كفروا للذين ءامنوا لو كان خيرا ما سبقونآ إليه

And since they are not guided by it, they will say: "This is an ancient falsehood." 11

وإذ لم يهتدوا به فسيقولون هذآ إفك قديم

And before it was the Scripture of Moussa, a guide and a benevolence.i 12

ومن قبله كتب موسى إماما ورحمة

And this is a confirming Writ, in an unblemished, undistorted expression, so that you may warn those who have done wrong, and as good news for those who do good.i 12

وهذا كتب مصدق لسانا عربيا لينذر ٱلذين ظلموا وبشرى للمحسنين

Indeed, those who say: "Our Guardian is God," then stand firm — no fear will be upon them, nor will they grieve. 13

إن ٱلذين قالوا ربنا ٱلله ثم ٱستقموا فلا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون

Those are the companions of the Garden, abiding therein eternally, 14

أولئك أصحب ٱلجنة خلدين فيها

as a reward for what they used to do. 14

جزآء بما كانوا يعملون

And We enjoined upon the human being kindness toward his two parents.i 15

ووصينا ٱلإنسن بولديه إحسنا

His mother carried him with hardship and bore him with hardship. 15

حملته أمه كرها ووضعته كرها

And his bearing and his weaning are thirty months. 15

وحمله وفصله ثلثون شهرا

Until he reaches his full maturity and reaches forty years, he says: "My Guardian, inspire me to be grateful for Your favor which You bestowed upon me and upon my parents, and to do righteousness that pleases You. 15

حتى إذا بلغ أشده وبلغ أربعين سنة قال رب أوزعني أن أشكر نعمتك ٱلتي أنعمت على وعلى ولدى وأن أعمل صلحا ترضىه

And make righteous for me my offspring. 15

وأصلح لي في ذريتي

Indeed, I turn to You, and I am among those true to God alone." 15

إني تبت إليك وإني من ٱلمسلمين

Those are the ones from whom We accept the best of what they did, and overlook their bad deeds, among the companions of the Garden — 16

أولئك ٱلذين نتقبل عنهم أحسن ما عملوا ونتجاوز عن سياتهم في أصحب ٱلجنة

a true promise which they were promised. 16

وعد ٱلصدق ٱلذي كانوا يوعدون

And he who says to his two parents: "Fie on you both! Do you promise me that I will be raised, when generations have already passed before me?" — while they both cry out to God for help: "Woe to you, believe! Indeed the promise of God is true" — and he says: "This is nothing but legends of the ancients." 17

وٱلذي قال لولديه أف لكمآ أتعدانني أن أخرج وقد خلت ٱلقرون من قبلي وهما يستغيثان ٱلله ويلك ءامن إن وعد ٱلله حق فيقول ما هذآ إلآ أسطير ٱلأولين

Those are the ones against whom the word [of punishment] has come due, among communities that had already passed before them, of the Occulted and mankind.i 18

أولئك ٱلذين حق عليهم ٱلقول في أمم قد خلت من قبلهم من ٱلجن وٱلإنس

Indeed, they were losers. 18

إنهم كانوا خسرين

And to each are degrees according to what they did, 19

ولكل درجت مما عملوا

and so that He may fully repay them for their deeds, and they will not be wronged.i 19

وليوفيهم أعملهم وهم لا يظلمون

And the Day those who deny are exposed to the Fire: "You exhausted your good things in your present life and enjoyed them." 20

ويوم يعرض ٱلذين كفروا على ٱلنار أذهبتم طيبتكم في حياتكم ٱلدنيا وٱستمتعتم بها

So today you are repaid the punishment of disgrace for what you used to arrogantly claim on earth without right, and for your overstepping [the limits]. 20

فٱليوم تجزون عذاب ٱلهون بما كنتم تستكبرون في ٱلأرض بغير ٱلحق وبما كنتم تفسقون

And remember the brother of the Recidivists [Aad], when he warned his people at the Ahqaf — while warners had already passed before him and after him — [saying]: "Obey none but God." 21

وٱذكر أخا عاد إذ أنذر قومه بٱلأحقاف وقد خلت ٱلنذر من بين يديه ومن خلفه ألا تعبدوا إلا ٱلله

Indeed, I fear for you the punishment of a tremendous day. 21

إني أخاف عليكم عذاب يوم عظيم

They said: "Have you come to us to turn us away by falsehood from our gods? Then bring us what you promise us, if you are among the truthful." 22

قالوا أجئتنا لتأفكنا عن ءالهتنا فأتنا بما تعدنآ إن كنت من ٱلصدقين

He said: "The knowledge [of that] is with God alone; I convey to you what I was sent with, but I see you to be a people who are ignorant." 23

قال إنما ٱلعلم عند ٱلله وأبلغكم مآ أرسلت به ولكني أرىكم قوما تجهلون

Then, when they saw it as a cloud approaching their valleys, they said: "This is a cloud bringing us rain." 24

فلما رأوه عارضا مستقبل أوديتهم قالوا هذا عارض ممطرنا

No, it is rather what you sought to hasten — 24

بل هو ما ٱستعجلتم به

a wind carrying a painful punishment, 24

ريح فيها عذاب أليم

destroying everything by the command of its Guardian. 25

تدمر كل شىء بأمر ربها

And they became such that nothing could be seen except their dwellings.i 25

فأصبحوا لا يرى إلا مسكنهم

Thus do We repay the severed people. 25

كذلك نجزي ٱلقوم ٱلمجرمين

And We had certainly established them in what We have not established you, and We gave them hearing, sight, and consciences, 26

ولقد مكنهم فيمآ إن مكنكم فيه وجعلنا لهم سمعا وأبصرا وأفدة

but neither their hearing, nor their sight, nor their consciences availed them anything, since they used to deny the signs of God, 26

فمآ أغنى عنهم سمعهم ولآ أبصرهم ولآ أفدتهم من شىء إذ كانوا يجحدون بايت ٱلله

and there enveloped them that which they used to mock. 26

وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزءون

And We had certainly destroyed the cities around you, and We diversified the signs, that they might return. 27

ولقد أهلكنا ما حولكم من ٱلقرى وصرفنا ٱلءايت لعلهم يرجعون

Why then did those they took, besides God, as an offering — as gods — not help them? 28

فلولا نصرهم ٱلذين ٱتخذوا من دون ٱلله قربانا ءالهة

Rather, they strayed from them, 28

بل ضلوا عنهم

and that was their falsehood and what they used to invent. 28

وذلك إفكهم وما كانوا يفترون

And remember when We directed toward you a group of the Occulted, listening to the Recitation; and when they were present at it, they said: "Listen closely."i 29

وإذ صرفنآ إليك نفرا من ٱلجن يستمعون ٱلقرءان فلما حضروه قالوا أنصتوا

Then, when it was concluded, they turned back to their people as warners. 29

فلما قضي ولوا إلى قومهم منذرين

They said: "O our people, we have heard a scripture sent down after Moussa, confirming what came before it, guiding to the truth and to a straight path.i 30

قالوا يقومنآ إنا سمعنا كتبا أنزل من بعد موسى مصدقا لما بين يديه يهدي إلى ٱلحق وإلى طريق مستقيم

O our people, respond to the caller of God and believe in him: He will forgive you some of your wrongs and protect you from a painful punishment. 31

يقومنآ أجيبوا داعي ٱلله وءامنوا به يغفر لكم من ذنوبكم ويجركم من عذاب أليم

And whoever does not respond to the caller of God cannot escape on earth, and has no protectors besides Him. 32

ومن لا يجب داعي ٱلله فليس بمعجز في ٱلأرض وليس له من دونه أوليآء

Those are in manifest error. 32

أولئك في ضلل مبين

Do they not see that God, who created the heavens and the earth and was not wearied by their creation, is able to give life to the dead? Yes, indeed. 33

أولم يروا أن ٱلله ٱلذي خلق ٱلسموت وٱلأرض ولم يعي بخلقهن بقدر على أن يحي ٱلموتى بلى

He is capable of all things. 33

إنه على كل شىء قدير

And the Day those who deny are exposed to the Fire: "Is this not the truth?" 34

ويوم يعرض ٱلذين كفروا على ٱلنار أليس هذا بٱلحق

They will say: "Yes, by our Guardian!" 34

قالوا بلى وربنا

He will say: "Then taste the punishment for what you used to deny." 34

قال فذوقوا ٱلعذاب بما كنتم تكفرون

So be patient, as the resolute among the messengers were patient, and do not seek to hasten [the punishment], 35

فٱصبر كما صبر أولوا ٱلعزم من ٱلرسل ولا تستعجل

To them: "As if, on the day they see what they were promised, they had remained only an hour of the day" — this is an Announcement.i 35

لهم كأنهم يوم يرون ما يوعدون لم يلبثوا إلا ساعة من نهار بلغ

So will any be destroyed except the overstepping people? 35

فهل يهلك إلا ٱلقوم ٱلفسقون