Sourate Al-Furqan (25) with hamza shown

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Blessed is He who sent down the Criterion upon His obedient one, that he may be a warner to all beings,i 1

بسم ٱلله ٱلرحمن ٱلرحيم تبارك ٱلذي نزل ٱلفرقان على عبده ليكون للعلمين نذيرا

He to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth, who has taken no child and has no associate in the dominion, 2

ٱلذي له ملك ٱلسموت وٱلأرض ولم يتخذ ولدا ولم يكن له شريك في ٱلملك

and who created everything and measured it with precision. 2

وخلق كل شىء فقدره تقديرا

Yet they have taken, besides Him, deities that create nothing and are themselves created, that hold for themselves neither harm nor benefit, and that hold neither death, nor life, nor Awakening.i 3

وٱتخذوا من دونه ءالهة لا يخلقون شيا وهم يخلقون ولا يملكون لأنفسهم ضرا ولا نفعا ولا يملكون موتا ولا حيوة ولا نشورا

Those who deny say: This is nothing but a fabrication he invented, and another group helped him with it. 4

وقال ٱلذين كفروا إن هذآ إلآ إفك ٱفترىه وأعانه عليه قوم ءاخرون

They have thus come with injustice and falsehood, saying: These are legends of the ancients that he has transcribed himself, dictated to him morning and evening. 5

فقد جآءو ظلما وزورا وقالوا أسطير ٱلأولين ٱكتتبها فهي تملى عليه بكرة وأصيلا

Say: He who knows the secret of the heavens and the earth has sent it down. 6

قل أنزله ٱلذي يعلم ٱلسر في ٱلسموت وٱلأرض

He is ever the Forgiving, the benevolent. 6

إنه كان غفورا رحيما

They say: What is with this messenger, that he eats food and walks in the marketplaces? Why has not an Agent been sent down to him to be a warner with him, or why is a treasure not thrown down to him, or why does he not have a garden to eat from!i 8

وقالوا مال هذا ٱلرسول يأكل ٱلطعام ويمشي في ٱلأسواق لولآ أنزل إليه ملك فيكون معه نذيرا أو يلقى إليه كنز أو تكون له جنة يأكل منها

And the unjust say: You follow none but a man under the effect of an illusion. 8

وقال ٱلظلمون إن تتبعون إلا رجلا مسحورا

See how they multiply examples about you: they have thus gone astray and can no longer find a way. 9

ٱنظر كيف ضربوا لك ٱلأمثل فضلوا فلا يستطيعون سبيلا

Blessed is He who, if He willed, would give you better than that: gardens beneath which rivers flow, and He would give you palaces. 10

تبارك ٱلذي إن شآء جعل لك خيرا من ذلك جنت تجري من تحتها ٱلأنهر ويجعل لك قصورا

But rather they have denied the Hour. 11

بل كذبوا بٱلساعة

And We have prepared, for whoever denies the Hour, the Blaze. When it sees them from a distant place, they will hear its fury and its roar. 12

وأعتدنا لمن كذب بٱلساعة سعيرا إذا رأتهم من مكان بعيد سمعوا لها تغيظا وزفيرا

And when they are thrown into a narrow place therein, bound together, they will call there for their ruin. 13

وإذآ ألقوا منها مكانا ضيقا مقرنين دعوا هنالك ثبورا

Do not call today for a single ruin, but call for many ruins. 14

لا تدعوا ٱليوم ثبورا وحدا وٱدعوا ثبورا كثيرا

Say: Is that better, or the garden of everlastingness promised to those who guard themselves? 15

قل أذلك خير أم جنة ٱلخلد ٱلتي وعد ٱلمتقون

It will be for them a reward and a destination. 15

كانت لهم جزآء ومصيرا

They will have therein whatever they desire, abiding therein — 16

لهم فيها ما يشآءون خلدين

that is, on the part of your Guardian, a promise that will be called to account. 16

كان على ربك وعدا مسولا

And the day when He gathers them, them and what they obeyed besides God, He will say: Was it you who led these obedient ones of Mine astray, or did they themselves stray from the way?i 17

ويوم يحشرهم وما يعبدون من دون ٱلله فيقول ءأنتم أضللتم عبادي هؤلآء أم هم ضلوا ٱلسبيل

They will say: Glory be to You! It was not fitting for us to take, besides You, any protectors; 18

قالوا سبحنك ما كان ينبغي لنآ أن نتخذ من دونك من أوليآء

but You granted them enjoyment, them and their ancestors, until they forgot the Reminder and became a ruined people. 18

ولكن متعتهم وءابآءهم حتى نسوا ٱلذكر وكانوا قوما بورا

They have thus denied you in what you say; they can neither avert [the punishment] nor [give you] help.i 19

فقد كذبوكم بما تقولون فما تستطيعون صرفا ولا نصرا

Whoever among you commits injustice, We will make him taste a great punishment. 19

ومن يظلم منكم نذقه عذابا كبيرا

We did not send before you any messenger who did not eat food and walk in the marketplaces. 20

ومآ أرسلنا قبلك من ٱلمرسلين إلآ إنهم ليأكلون ٱلطعام ويمشون في ٱلأسواق

And We have made some of you a trial for others. 20

وجعلنا بعضكم لبعض فتنة

Will you endure? 20

أتصبرون

Your Guardian sees all. 20

وكان ربك بصيرا

And those who do not hope for Our meeting say: Why are the Agents not sent down to us, or why do we not see our Guardian!i 21

وقال ٱلذين لا يرجون لقآءنا لولآ أنزل علينا ٱلملئكة أو نرى ربنا

They have greatly swelled with pride within themselves and overstepped all bounds with immense insolence. 21

لقد ٱستكبروا في أنفسهم وعتو عتوا كبيرا

The day they see the Agents, there will be, on that day, no good news for the severed,i 22

يوم يرون ٱلملئكة لا بشرى يومئذ للمجرمين

and they will say: 'A barrier 22

ويقولون حجرا

that cannot be crossed!' 22

محجورا

And We turned to every deed they had done, and We reduced it to scattered dust. 23

وقدمنآ إلى ما عملوا من عمل فجعلنه هبآء منثورا

The companions of the garden, that day, will have a better abode and a more beautiful resting place. 24

أصحب ٱلجنة يومئذ خير مستقرا وأحسن مقيلا

And the day when the sky will split apart with the clouds, and the Agents will be sent down, a complete descent,i 25

ويوم تشقق ٱلسمآء بٱلغمم ونزل ٱلملئكة تنزيلا

the dominion, that day, in all truth, will belong to the All-Benevolent, 26

ٱلملك يومئذ ٱلحق للرحمن

and it will be, for those who deny, a difficult day. 26

وكان يوما على ٱلكفرين عسيرا

And the day the unjust one bites his hands, he will say: Ah, if only I had taken a way with the messenger! Woe to me! If only I had not taken so-and-so as an intimate friend! He led me astray from the Reminder after it had reached me. 29

ويوم يعض ٱلظالم على يديه يقول يليتني ٱتخذت مع ٱلرسول سبيلا يويلتى ليتني لم أتخذ فلانا خليلا لقد أضلني عن ٱلذكر بعد إذ جآءني

The Diverter is, for the human being, one who always abandons him [at the critical moment].i 29

وكان ٱلشيطن للإنسن خذولا

And the messenger will say: O my Guardian, my people have forsaken this Recitation. 30

وقال ٱلرسول يرب إن قومي ٱتخذوا هذا ٱلقرءان مهجورا

Thus have We given to every prophet an enemy from among the severed. 31

وكذلك جعلنا لكل نبي عدوا من ٱلمجرمين

Your Guardian suffices as guide and as helper. 31

وكفى بربك هاديا ونصيرا

And those who deny say: Why was the Recitation not sent down upon him all at once! 32

وقال ٱلذين كفروا لولا نزل عليه ٱلقرءان جملة وحدة

Thus, so that We may steady your Conscience through it — 32

كذلك لنثبت به فؤادك

and We conveyed it to you in measured order. 32

ورتلنه ترتيلا

They bring you no example without Our bringing you the truth and a better explanation. 33

ولا يأتونك بمثل إلا جئنك بٱلحق وأحسن تفسيرا

Those who will be gathered upon their faces toward Jahannam — those have the worst position and the most astray path. 34

ٱلذين يحشرون على وجوههم إلى جهنم أولئك شر مكانا وأضل سبيلا

We gave Moussa the Scripture, and We placed with him his brother Harun as support.i 35

ولقد ءاتينا موسى ٱلكتب وجعلنا معه أخاه هرون وزيرا

We said: Go, both of you, to the people who have denied Our signs. 36

فقلنا ٱذهبآ إلى ٱلقوم ٱلذين كذبوا بايتنا

And We destroyed them completely. 36

فدمرنهم تدميرا

And the people of Nuh, when they denied the messengers, We drowned them and made them a sign for the people.i 37

وقوم نوح لما كذبوا ٱلرسل أغرقنهم وجعلنهم للناس ءاية

And We have prepared for the unjust a painful punishment. 37

وأعتدنا للظلمين عذابا أليما

And the Recidivists [Aad], and the Depleters [Thamud], and the companions of the Rass, and many generations between those times, 38

وعادا وثمودا وأصحب ٱلرس وقرونا بين ذلك كثيرا

and to each We multiplied the examples, 39

وكلا ضربنا له ٱلأمثل

and each one, We destroyed completely. 39

وكلا تبرنا تتبيرا

Yet they passed by the city upon which had fallen a dreadful rain: 40

ولقد أتوا على ٱلقرية ٱلتي أمطرت مطر ٱلسوء

should they not have seen it? 40

أفلم يكونوا يرونها

But they did not hope for any Awakening.i 40

بل كانوا لا يرجون نشورا

And when they see you, they take you only as an object of mockery: 41

وإذا رأوك إن يتخذونك إلا هزوا

Is this the one God has sent as a messenger? He nearly led us astray from our deities, had we not remained firmly attached to them! 42

أهذا ٱلذي بعث ٱلله رسولا إن كاد ليضلنا عن ءالهتنا لولآ أن صبرنا عليها

They will know, when they see the punishment, who was most astray from the way. 42

وسوف يعلمون حين يرون ٱلعذاب من أضل سبيلا

Have you seen him who has taken his emotion as his deity? Would you then be his agent? 43

أرءيت من ٱتخذ إلهه هوىه أفأنت تكون عليه وكيلا

Or do you think that most of them hear or reason? 44

أم تحسب أن أكثرهم يسمعون أو يعقلون

They are but like cattle — or even further astray from the way. 44

إن هم إلا كٱلأنعم بل هم أضل سبيلا

Have you not seen your Guardian, how He extends the shadow? 45

ألم تر إلى ربك كيف مد ٱلظل

Had He willed, He would have made it still. 45

ولو شآء لجعله ساكنا

Then We made the sun its indicator; then We drew it back to Us, an easy withdrawal. 46

ثم جعلنا ٱلشمس عليه دليلا ثم قبضنه إلينا قبضا يسيرا

It is He who made for you the night a garment, sleep a rest, and the day a time of awakening.i 47

وهو ٱلذي جعل لكم ٱليل لباسا وٱلنوم سباتا وجعل ٱلنهار نشورا

It is He who sends the winds, scattered, as harbingers before His benevolence,i 48

وهو ٱلذي أرسل ٱلريح بشرا بين يدى رحمته

and We sent down from the sky a purifying water, to bring to life through it a dead land, and to give drink from it to many of the livestock and human beings We created. 49

وأنزلنا من ٱلسمآء مآء طهورا لنحي به بلدة ميتا ونسقيه مما خلقنآ أنعما وأناسي كثيرا

We distributed it among them so that they might remember; but most people want nothing but profound denial. 50

ولقد صرفنه بينهم ليذكروا فأبى أكثر ٱلناس إلا كفورا

Had We willed, We would have sent into every city a warner. 51

ولو شئنا لبعثنا في كل قرية نذيرا

So do not obey those who deny, 52

فلا تطع ٱلكفرين

and strive against them through it with a great striving. 52

وجهدهم به جهادا كبيرا

It is He who made the two seas meet: this one sweet, palatable, and that one salty, bitter. 53

وهو ٱلذي مرج ٱلبحرين هذا عذب فرات وهذا ملح أجاج

and He placed between them a barrier and an impassable boundary. 53

وجعل بينهما برزخا وحجرا محجورا

It is He who, from water, created a human being, and made of him lineage and kinship by marriage. 54

وهو ٱلذي خلق من ٱلمآء بشرا فجعله نسبا وصهرا

Your Guardian is capable of all things. 54

وكان ربك قديرا

And they obey, besides God, that which neither benefits nor harms them; 55

ويعبدون من دون ٱلله ما لا ينفعهم ولا يضرهم

and he who denies makes himself, against his Guardian, an ally [of the forces of error]. 55

وكان ٱلكافر على ربه ظهيرا

We have not sent you except as a herald of good news and a warner. 56

ومآ أرسلنك إلا مبشرا ونذيرا

Say: I ask of you no payment for this, except that whoever wishes take a way to his Guardian. 57

قل مآ أسلكم عليه من أجر إلا من شآء أن يتخذ إلى ربه سبيلا

Take as your agent the Living One who does not die, 58

وتوكل على ٱلحى ٱلذي لا يموت

and glorify Him with praise. 58

وسبح بحمده

He suffices, He, as the Informed Knower of the wrongs of His servants. 58

وكفى به بذنوب عباده خبيرا

He who created the heavens and the earth and what is between them in six days, then established Himself upon the Edifice — 59

ٱلذي خلق ٱلسموت وٱلأرض وما بينهما في ستة أيام ثم ٱستوى على ٱلعرش

the All-Benevolent. 59

ٱلرحمن

So ask about Him an Informed Knower. 59

فسل به خبيرا

And when it is said to them: Prostrate before the All-Benevolent, they say: What is the All-Benevolent? 60

وإذا قيل لهم ٱسجدوا للرحمن قالوا وما ٱلرحمن

Shall we prostrate before what you order us? And it only increases their aversion. 60

أنسجد لما تأمرنا وزادهم نفورا

Blessed is He who placed in the sky constellations, and placed therein a lamp and a shining moon. 61

تبارك ٱلذي جعل في ٱلسمآء بروجا وجعل فيها سرجا وقمرا منيرا

It is He who made the night and the day a succession, for whoever wants to remember or wants to be grateful. 62

وهو ٱلذي جعل ٱليل وٱلنهار خلفة لمن أراد أن يذكر أو أراد شكورا

And the obedient ones of the All-Benevolent are those who walk upon the earth with humility, and who, when the ignorant address them, say: Peace. 63

وعباد ٱلرحمن ٱلذين يمشون على ٱلأرض هونا وإذا خاطبهم ٱلجهلون قالوا سلما

And those who spend the night prostrating and standing for their Guardian, 64

وٱلذين يبيتون لربهم سجدا وقيما

and those who say: Our Guardian, turn away from us the punishment of Jahannam — for its punishment is a persistent torment; 65

وٱلذين يقولون ربنا ٱصرف عنا عذاب جهنم إن عذابها كان غراما

it is an evil abode and an evil dwelling — 66

إنها سآءت مستقرا ومقاما

and those who, when they spend, neither waste nor withhold excessively, standing between the two with just measure, 67

وٱلذين إذآ أنفقوا لم يسرفوا ولم يقتروا وكان بين ذلك قواما

and those who do not invoke, with God, any other deity, and who do not kill the Self that God has made sacred, except by right, and who do not commit adultery — 68

وٱلذين لا يدعون مع ٱلله إلها ءاخر ولا يقتلون ٱلنفس ٱلتي حرم ٱلله إلا بٱلحق ولا يزنون

and whoever does that will meet with grave transgression: the punishment will be doubled for him on the Day of Appearance, and he will abide therein humiliated, except him who repents, believes, and does righteous work — those, God will change their bad deeds into good deeds,i 70

ومن يفعل ذلك يلق أثاما يضعف له ٱلعذاب يوم ٱلقيمة ويخلد فيه مهانا إلا من تاب وءامن وعمل عملا صلحا فأولئك يبدل ٱلله سياتهم حسنت

for God is ever Forgiving, benevolent. 70

وكان ٱلله غفورا رحيما

And whoever repents and acts righteously truly returns to God, a sincere return. 71

ومن تاب وعمل صلحا فإنه يتوب إلى ٱلله متابا

And those who do not bear witness to falsehood, and who, when they pass by frivolity, pass with dignity, 72

وٱلذين لا يشهدون ٱلزور وإذا مروا بٱللغو مروا كراما

and those who, when reminded by the signs of their Guardian, do not collapse upon them as deaf and blind, 73

وٱلذين إذا ذكروا بايت ربهم لم يخروا عليها صما وعميانا

and those who say: Our Guardian, grant us, from our spouses and our descendants, a rest of the gaze, and make us a model for those who guard themselves — 74

وٱلذين يقولون ربنا هب لنا من أزوجنا وذريتنا قرة أعين وٱجعلنا للمتقين إماما

those will be rewarded with the high chamber for their endurance, and will be received therein with a greeting and a peace, abiding therein forever. 76

أولئك يجزون ٱلغرفة بما صبروا ويلقون فيها تحية وسلما خلدين فيها

What an excellent abode and an excellent dwelling! 76

حسنت مستقرا ومقاما

Say: My Guardian would care little for you, were it not for your invocation. 77

قل ما يعبؤا بكم ربي لولا دعآؤكم

You have thus denied, and it will become inescapable. 77

فقد كذبتم فسوف يكون لزاما