Al-Kahf

In the name of God, the All-Benevolent, the Benevolent. Praise be to God, who has sent down upon His obedient one the Scripture and placed in it no crookedness,

ٮسم الله الرحمں الرحٮم الحمد لله الدى اٮرل على عٮده الكٮٮ ولم ٮحعل له عوحا

straight — to warn of a severe rigor from Him, to give the believers who do sound deeds the glad tidings that they will have a fine reward, wherein they will remain forever, and to warn those who said: "God has taken a child."

ڡٮما لٮٮدر ٮاسا سدٮدا مں لدٮه وٮٮسر المومٮٮں الدٮں ٮعملوں الصلحٮ اں لهم احرا حسٮا مكٮٮں ڡٮه اٮدا وٮٮدر الدٮں ڡالوا اٮحد الله ولدا

They say nothing but a lie.

اں ٮڡولوں الا كدٮا

Perhaps you will consume yourself with bitterness, following after them, if they do not believe in this discourse.

ڡلعلك ٮحع ٮڡسك على اٮرهم اں لم ٮومٮوا ٮهدا الحدٮٮ اسڡا

We have made what is on the earth an adornment for it, so as to test them: which of them acts best.

اٮا حعلٮا ما على الارص رٮٮه لها لٮٮلوهم اٮهم احسں عملا

And We shall surely make what is on it an arid outcrop.

واٮا لحعلوں ما علٮها صعٮدا حررا

Or did you suppose that the companions of the Cave and of ar-Raqim were, among Our signs, a marvel?

ام حسٮٮ اں اصحٮ الكهڡ والرڡٮم كاٮوا مں اٮٮٮا عحٮا

When the young people resorted to the Cave and said: "Our Guardian, grant us, from Yourself, a benevolence, and shape for us, in our affair, a path of rectitude."

اد اوى الڡٮٮه الى الكهڡ ڡڡالوا رٮٮا اٮٮا مں لدٮك رحمه وهٮى لٮا مں امرٮا رسدا

We then closed their ears, in the Cave, for numbered years; then We raised them up to distinguish which of the two parties better enumerated the span for which they had remained.

ڡصرٮٮا على اداٮهم ڡى الكهڡ سٮٮں عددا ٮم ٮعٮٮهم لٮعلم اى الحرٮٮں احصى لما لٮٮوا امدا

they were young people who believed in their Guardian, and We increased them in guidance.

اٮهم ڡٮٮه امٮوا ٮرٮهم وردٮهم هدى

And We bound their cores, when they stood up and said: "Our Guardian is the Guardian of the heavens and the earth; never shall we call upon any deity besides Him — we would then have said an enormous excess.

ورٮطٮا على ڡلوٮهم اد ڡاموا ڡڡالوا رٮٮا رٮ السموٮ والارص لں ٮدعوا مں دوٮه الها لڡد ڡلٮا ادا سططا

Who then does more wrong than one who invents a lie against God?

ڡمں اطلم ممں اڡٮرى على الله كدٮا

And since you have drawn apart from them and from what they obey besides God, resort to the Cave: your Guardian will deploy over you some of His benevolence and shape for you, in your affair, a support."

واد اعٮرلٮموهم وما ٮعٮدوں الا الله ڡاوا الى الكهڡ ٮٮسر لكم رٮكم مں رحمٮه وٮهٮى لكم مں امركم مرڡڡا

and whoever He leads astray, you will never find for him a protector to make him well-advised.

ومں ٮصلل ڡلں ٮحد له ولٮا مرسدا

Had you seen them, you would surely have turned your back on them in flight, and been filled with terror of them.

لو اطلعٮ علٮهم لولٮٮ مٮهم ڡرارا ولملٮٮ مٮهم رعٮا

and let him make no one sense your presence in any way.

ولا ٮسعرں ٮكم احدا

for if they discovered you, they would banish you, or make you re-enter their doctrine, and you would then never succeed."

اٮهم اں ٮطهروا علٮكم ٮرحموكم او ٮعٮدوكم ڡى ملٮهم ولں ٮڡلحوا ادا اٮدا

Those who won out in the matter said: "We shall surely set up over them a place of prostration."

ڡال الدٮں علٮوا على امرهم لٮٮحدں علٮهم مسحدا

So do not wrangle about them except in an uncovered wrangling, and do not consult anyone among them about them.

ڡلا ٮمار ڡٮهم الا مرا طهرا ولا ٮسٮڡٮ ڡٮهم مٮهم احدا

and say: "It may be that my Guardian will guide me to a rectitude nearer than this."

وڡل عسى اں ٮهدٮں رٮى لاڡرٮ مں هدا رسدا

And they remained in their cave three hundred years, and added nine.

ولٮٮوا ڡى كهڡهم ٮلٮ ماٮه سٮٮں واردادوا ٮسعا

and He associates no one with His judgment."

ولا ٮسرك ڡى حكمه احدا

and you will find, besides Him, no recourse.

ولں ٮحد مں دوٮه ملٮحدا

and do not defer to one whose core We have made heedless of Our remembrance, who has followed his emotion, and whose affair is excess.

ولا ٮطع مں اعڡلٮا ڡلٮه عں دكرٮا واٮٮع هوٮه وكاں امره ڡرطا

And what an evil resting-place!

وساٮ مرٮڡڡا

Those who have believed and done sound deeds — We do not let the reward of one who does well dissipate.

اں الدٮں امٮوا وعملوا الصلحٮ اٮا لا ٮصٮع احر مں احسں عملا

And what an excellent resting-place!

وحسٮٮ مرٮڡڡا

And multiply for them an example: two men; for one of them We made two gardens of vines, which We surrounded with palm trees, and between which We placed cultivated fields.

واصرٮ لهم مٮلا رحلٮں حعلٮا لاحدهما حٮٮٮں مں اعٮٮ وحڡڡٮهما ٮٮحل وحعلٮا ٮٮٮهما ررعا

Each of the two gardens gave its fare, doing no wrong in any of it,

كلٮا الحٮٮٮں اٮٮ اكلها ولم ٮطلم مٮه سٮا

He said to his companion, while conversing with him: "I have more goods than you, and am mightier in numbers."

ڡڡال لصحٮه وهو ٮحاوره اٮا اكٮر مٮك مالا واعر ٮڡرا

And he entered his garden, wronging himself,

ودحل حٮٮه وهو طالم لٮڡسه

and said: "I do not presume this will ever fade away, and I do not presume the Hour will rise; and even if I am brought back to my Guardian, I shall surely find something better than this garden as a return."

ڡال ما اطں اں ٮٮٮد هده اٮدا وما اطں الساعه ڡاٮمه ولٮں رددٮ الى رٮى لاحدں حٮرا مٮها مٮڡلٮا

His companion said to him, while conversing with him: "Do you disown Him who created you from earth, then from a drop, then fashioned you into a well-formed man?

ڡال له صاحٮه وهو ٮحاوره اكڡرٮ ٮالدى حلڡك مں ٮراٮ ٮم مں ٮطڡه ٮم سوٮك رحلا

As for me, He is God, my Guardian, and I associate no one with my Guardian.

لكٮا هو الله رٮى ولا اسرك ٮرٮى احدا

And why did you not say, upon entering your garden: 'It is what God has willed! No strength except in God!' —

ولولا اد دحلٮ حٮٮك ڡلٮ ما سا الله لا ڡوه الا ٮالله

If you see me as having fewer goods and children than you, it may be that my Guardian will grant me better than your garden, and send upon it, from the sky, a reckoned plague, so that it becomes a slippery outcrop, or its water sinks away, so that you will never be able to seek it out."

اں ٮرں اٮا اڡل مٮك مالا وولدا ڡعسى رٮى اں ٮوٮٮں حٮرا مں حٮٮك وٮرسل علٮها حسٮاٮا مں السما ڡٮصٮح صعٮدا رلڡا او ٮصٮح ماوها عورا ڡلں ٮسٮطٮع له طلٮا

And his fructified wealth was encompassed, so that he began turning his palms over in every direction over what he had spent on it, while the garden was empty despite its edifices, and he was saying: "Would that I had associated no one with my Guardian!"

واحٮط ٮٮمره ڡاصٮح ٮڡلٮ كڡٮه على ما اٮڡٯ ڡٮها وهى حاوٮه على عروسها وٮڡول ٮلٮٮٮى لم اسرك ٮرٮى احدا

and he could not help himself.

وما كاں مٮٮصرا

He is best in requital and best in outcome.

هو حٮر ٮواٮا وحٮر عڡٮا

God is capable of all things.

وكاں الله على كل سى مڡٮدرا

and the enduring, sound deeds are, with your Guardian, better in requital and better in hope.

والٮڡٮٮ الصلحٮ حٮر عٮد رٮك ٮواٮا وحٮر املا

And the Day We set the mountains in motion, and you see the earth laid bare, and We gather them, omitting not one of them.

وٮوم ٮسٮر الحٮال وٮرى الارص ٮارره وحسرٮهم ڡلم ٮعادر مٮهم احدا

but you claimed that We would never appoint you a meeting."

ٮل رعمٮم الں ٮحعل لكم موعدا

and your Guardian wrongs no one.

ولا ٮطلم رٮك احدا

What a detestable exchange for the wrongdoers!

ٮٮس للطلمٮں ٮدلا

I did not make them witnesses to the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor to their own creation, and I have never taken those who mislead as an arm.

ما اسهدٮهم حلٯ السموٮ والارص ولا حلٯ اٮڡسهم وما كٮٮ مٮحد المصلٮں عصدا

And the Day He says: "Call upon My associates whom you used to claim," they will call upon them, but they will not respond to them; and We shall place between them a place of disaster.

وٮوم ٮڡول ٮادوا سركاى الدٮں رعمٮم ڡدعوهم ڡلم ٮسٮحٮٮوا لهم وحعلٮا ٮٮٮهم موٮڡا

And the severed will see the Fire and presume that they are about to plunge into it, finding no way to turn away from it.

ورا المحرموں الٮار ڡطٮوا اٮهم مواڡعوها ولم ٮحدوا عٮها مصرڡا

but the human being is, more than anything, given to arguing.

وكاں الاٮسں اكٮر سى حدلا

And nothing prevents mankind from believing, when guidance has come to them, and from asking forgiveness of their Guardian, except that the norm of the ancients should come to them, or the punishment come to them, face to face.

وما مٮع الٮاس اں ٮومٮوا اد حاهم الهدى وٮسٮعڡروا رٮهم الا اں ٮاٮٮهم سٮه الاولٮں او ٮاٮٮهم العداٮ ڡٮلا

and they have taken My signs, and what they were warned of, in mockery.

واٮحدوا اٮٮى وما اٮدروا هروا

and if you call them to guidance, they will never let themselves be guided.

واں ٮدعهم الى الهدى ڡلں ٮهٮدوا ادا اٮدا

but they have an appointment from which they will find, besides Him, no harbor.

ٮل لهم موعد لں ٮحدوا مں دوٮه موٮلا

And those cities, We annihilated them when they did wrong, and We set an appointment for their annihilation.

وٮلك الڡرى اهلكٮهم لما طلموا وحعلٮا لمهلكهم موعدا

And when Moussa said to his young companion: "I will not stop until I reach the meeting-place of the two seas, though I journey for a prolonged period."

واد ڡال موسى لڡٮٮه لا اٮرح حٮى اٮلع محمع الٮحرٮں او امصى حڡٮا

When they had reached the meeting-place of the two seas, they forgot their fish, which then took its way into the sea, like a mirage vanishing.

ڡلما ٮلعا محمع ٮٮٮهما ٮسٮا حوٮهما ڡاٮحد سٮٮله ڡى الٮحر سرٮا

When they had traversed it, he said to his young companion: "Bring us our meal; we have indeed met, on this journey, much fatigue."

ڡلما حاورا ڡال لڡٮٮه اٮٮا عداٮا لڡد لڡٮٮا مں سڡرٮا هدا ٮصٮا

in an astonishing way!"

عحٮا

He said: "That is what we were seeking."

ڡال دلك ما كٮا ٮٮع

So they drew back upon their own tracks, retracing them, and found an obedient one among Our obedient ones, to whom We had granted a benevolence from Us and to whom We had taught, from Us, a knowledge.

ڡارٮدا على اٮارهما ڡصصا ڡوحدا عٮدا مں عٮادٮا اٮٮٮه رحمه مں عٮدٮا وعلمٮه مں لدٮا علما

Moussa said to him: "May I follow you, on condition that you teach me, of what you have been taught, a rectitude?"

ڡال له موسى هل اٮٮعك على اں ٮعلمں مما علمٮ رسدا

He said: "You will never be able to be patient with me.

ڡال اٮك لں ٮسٮطٮع معى صٮرا

And how would you be patient about what you do not encompass by experience?"

وكٮڡ ٮصٮر على ما لم ٮحط ٮه حٮرا

and I will not disobey you in anything."

ولا اعصى لك امرا

He said: "If then you follow me, do not question me about anything, until I make mention of it to you."

ڡال ڡاں اٮٮعٮٮى ڡلا ٮسلٮى عں سى حٮى احدٮ لك مٮه دكرا

He said: "Have you made a hole in it to drown its occupants? You have come to a very grave thing!"

ڡال احرڡٮها لٮعرٯ اهلها لڡد حٮٮ سٮا امرا

He said: "Did I not tell you that you would never be able to be patient with me?"

ڡال الم اڡل اٮك لں ٮسٮطٮع معى صٮرا

He said: "Do not hold me to account for what I forgot, and do not crush me, in my affair, with hardship."

ڡال لا ٮواحدٮى ٮما ٮسٮٮ ولا ٮرهڡٮى مں امرى عسرا

So they set off, until, when they met a young boy, he killed him. He said: "Have you killed a pure Self, without it being for another Self? You have come to a horrible thing!"

ڡاٮطلڡا حٮى ادا لڡٮا علما ڡڡٮله ڡال اڡٮلٮ ٮڡسا ركٮه ٮعٮر ٮڡس لڡد حٮٮ سٮا ٮكرا

He said: "Did I not tell you that you would never be able to be patient with me?"

ڡال الم اڡل لك اٮك لں ٮسٮطٮع معى صٮرا

He said: "If I question you about anything after this, do not keep me as a companion; you will then have, from me, an excuse."

ڡال اں سالٮك عں سى ٮعدها ڡلا ٮصحٮٮى ڡد ٮلعٮ مں لدٮى عدرا

He said: "Had you wanted, you could have taken a reward for that."

ڡال لو سٮٮ لٮحدٮ علٮه احرا

I will inform you of the prediction of what you had not the capacity to bear with patience.

ساٮٮٮك ٮٮاوٮل ما لم ٮسٮطع علٮه صٮرا

As for the boat, it belonged to destitute people working at sea; I wanted to make it defective, for beyond them was a king who was taking every boat by force.

اما السڡٮٮه ڡكاٮٮ لمسكٮں ٮعملوں ڡى الٮحر ڡاردٮ اں اعٮٮها وكاں وراهم ملك ٮاحد كل سڡٮٮه عصٮا

As for the boy, his father and mother were believers, and we dreaded that he would crush them with immoderation and disowning,

واما العلم ڡكاں اٮواه مومٮٮں ڡحسٮٮا اں ٮرهڡهما طعٮٮا وكڡرا

and we wanted their Guardian to give them in exchange one better than him in purity and closer in benevolence.

ڡاردٮا اں ٮٮدلهما رٮهما حٮرا مٮه ركوه واڡرٮ رحما

That is the prediction of what you could not bear with patience."

دلك ٮاوٮل ما لم ٮسطع علٮه صٮرا

Say: "I will recite to you a remembrance of him."

ڡل ساٮلوا علٮكم مٮه دكرا

We said: "O Holder of the Two Acolytes, either you punish them, or you adopt toward them a fine conduct."

ڡلٮا ٮدا الڡرٮٮں اما اں ٮعدٮ واما اں ٮٮحد ڡٮهم حسٮا

He said: "As for the one who has done wrong, we shall punish him; then he will be brought back to his Guardian, who will punish him with a horrible punishment.

ڡال اما مں طلم ڡسوڡ ٮعدٮه ٮم ٮرد الى رٮه ڡٮعدٮه عداٮا ٮكرا

and we shall speak to him, of our affair, an easy saying."

وسٮڡول له مں امرٮا ٮسرا

And We encompassed by knowledge all that concerned him.

وڡد احطٮا ٮما لدٮه حٮرا

Then he followed a link, until, having reached the space between the two barriers, he found, on the near side of them, a people who could hardly understand any saying.

ٮم اٮٮع سٮٮا حٮى ادا ٮلع ٮٮں السدٮں وحد مں دوٮهما ڡوما لا ٮكادوں ٮڡڡهوں ڡولا

They said: "O Holder of the Two Acolytes, Yajuj and Majuj are sowing corruption on the earth; shall we grant you a tribute, on condition that you place between us and them a barrier?"

ڡالوا ٮدا الڡرٮٮں اں ٮاحوح وماحوح مڡسدوں ڡى الارص ڡهل ٮحعل لك حرحا على اں ٮحعل ٮٮٮٮا وٮٮٮهم سدا

so help me with strength, and I will set up between you and them a rampart.

ڡاعٮٮوٮى ٮڡوه احعل ٮٮٮكم وٮٮٮهم ردما

Then, when he had made it fire, he said: "Bring me, that I may pour naphtha over it."

حٮى ادا حعله ٮارا ڡال اٮوٮى اڡرع علٮه ڡطرا

They could not topple it, and they had not the capacity to open a gap in it.

ڡما اسطعوا اں ٮطهروه وما اسٮطعوا له ٮڡٮا

but when the promise of my Guardian comes, He will flatten it — and the promise of my Guardian is true."

ڡادا حا وعد رٮى حعله دكا وكاں وعد رٮى حڡا

and the Horn will be blown, and We shall bring them together in a single reunion.

وٮڡح ڡى الصور ڡحمعٮهم حمعا

And We shall present, that Day, Jahannam to those who disown, in full view — those whose eyes were under a veil, away from My remembrance, and who could not hear at all.

وعرصٮا حهٮم ٮومٮد للكڡرٮں عرصا الدٮں كاٮٮ اعٮٮهم ڡى عطا عں دكرى وكاٮوا لا ٮسٮطٮعوں سمعا

We have indeed made ready Jahannam as a lodging for those who disown.

اٮا اعٮدٮا حهٮم للكڡرٮں ٮرلا

Say: "Shall I inform you of those who are the greatest losers in their works — those whose effort has gone astray in the present life, while they think they are doing well?"

ڡل هل ٮٮٮٮكم ٮالاحسرٮں اعملا الدٮں صل سعٮهم ڡى الحٮوه الدٮٮا وهم ٮحسٮوں اٮهم ٮحسٮوں صٮعا

Those are the ones who disowned the signs of their Guardian and the meeting with Him: their works have collapsed, and We shall not assign them, on the Day of Appearance, any weighing.

اولٮك الدٮں كڡروا ٮاٮٮ رٮهم ولڡاٮه ڡحٮطٮ اعملهم ڡلا ٮڡٮم لهم ٮوم الڡٮمه ورٮا

Such: their recompense will be Jahannam, for having disowned and having taken My signs and My messengers in mockery.

دلك حراوهم حهٮم ٮما كڡروا واٮحدوا اٮٮى ورسلى هروا

Those who have believed and done sound deeds will indeed have, as a lodging, the Gardens of the Firdaws, wherein they will abide eternally, not seeking to be shifted from it.

اں الدٮں امٮوا وعملوا الصلحٮ كاٮٮ لهم حٮٮ الڡردوس ٮرلا حلدٮں ڡٮها لا ٮٮعوں عٮها حولا

Say: "If the sea were ink for the words of my Guardian, the sea would be exhausted before the words of my Guardian were exhausted, even if We brought the like of it in reinforcement."

ڡل لو كاں الٮحر مدادا لكلمٮ رٮى لٮڡد الٮحر ڡٮل اں ٮٮڡد كلمٮ رٮى ولو حٮٮا ٮمٮله مددا

So whoever hopes for the meeting with his Guardian, let him do a sound deed and associate no one in obedience to his Guardian."

ڡمں كاں ٮرحوا لڡا رٮه ڡلٮعمل عملا صلحا ولا ٮسرك ٮعٮاده رٮه احدا