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Surah Al-Anbiyaa
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بِسْمِ اللّٰهِ الرَّحْمٰنِ الرَّحِیْمِ
In the name of Allah, most benevolent, ever-merciful.
In the Name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate
اِقْتَرَبَ لِلنَّاسِ حِسَابُهُمْ وَ هُمْ فِیْ غَفْلَةٍ مُّعْرِضُوْنَۚ(۱)
NEAR HAS COME the reckoning for men, but they turn away in remissness.
Nigh unto men has drawn their reckoning, while they in heedlessness are yet turning away;
مَا یَاْتِیْهِمْ مِّنْ ذِكْرٍ مِّنْ رَّبِّهِمْ مُّحْدَثٍ اِلَّا اسْتَمَعُوْهُ وَ هُمْ یَلْعَبُوْنَۙ(۲)
Never does a new reminder come to them from their Lord but they listen to it with dalliance.
no Remembrance from their Lord comes to them lately renewed, but they listen to it yet playing,
لَاهِیَةً قُلُوْبُهُمْؕ-وَ اَسَرُّوا النَّجْوَى ﳓ الَّذِیْنَ ظَلَمُوْا ﳓ هَلْ هٰذَاۤ اِلَّا بَشَرٌ مِّثْلُكُمْۚ-اَفَتَاْتُوْنَ السِّحْرَ وَ اَنْتُمْ تُبْصِرُوْنَ(۳)
Their minds are lost in frivolous pastimes; and the evil-doers discuss secretly: "Is he not but only a man like you? Then why are you taken in by magic seeingly?"
diverted their hearts. The evildoers whisper one to another, 'Is this aught but a mortal like to yourselves? What, will you take to sorcery with your eyes open?'
قٰلَ رَبِّیْ یَعْلَمُ الْقَوْلَ فِی السَّمَآءِ وَ الْاَرْضِ٘-وَ هُوَ السَّمِیْعُ الْعَلِیْمُ(۴)
He said: "My Lord knows whatever is spoken in the heavens and the earth. He hears all and knows everything."
He says: 'My Lord knows what is said in the heavens and the earth, and He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.'
بَلْ قَالُوْۤا اَضْغَاثُ اَحْلَامٍۭ بَلِ افْتَرٰىهُ بَلْ هُوَ شَاعِرٌ ۚۖ-فَلْیَاْتِنَا بِاٰیَةٍ كَمَاۤ اُرْسِلَ الْاَوَّلُوْنَ(۵)
Yet they say: "These are only confused dreams," or rather: "He has invented them;" or: "He is only a poet. Let him therefore bring a miracle to us as the earlier (apostles) were sent with."
Nay, but they say: 'A hotchpotch of nightmares! Nay, he has forged it; nay, he is a poet! Now therefore let him bring us a sign, even as the ancient ones were sent as Messengers.'
مَاۤ اٰمَنَتْ قَبْلَهُمْ مِّنْ قَرْیَةٍ اَهْلَكْنٰهَاۚ-اَفَهُمْ یُؤْمِنُوْنَ(۶)
Not one habitation that We destroyed before them had believed. So how can they believe?
Not one city that We destroyed before them believed; what then, will they not believe?
وَ مَاۤ اَرْسَلْنَا قَبْلَكَ اِلَّا رِجَالًا نُّوْحِیْۤ اِلَیْهِمْ فَسْــٴَـلُوْۤا اَهْلَ الذِّكْرِ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ لَا تَعْلَمُوْنَ(۷)
Never did We send a message before you but through a man, whom We inspired. If you do not know, then ask the keepers of the oracles of God.
And We sent none before thee, but men to whom We made revelation -- question the People of the Remembrance, if you do not know --
وَ مَا جَعَلْنٰهُمْ جَسَدًا لَّا یَاْكُلُوْنَ الطَّعَامَ وَ مَا كَانُوْا خٰلِدِیْنَ(۸)
We did not make their bodies immune to hunger, nor were they immortal.
nor did We fashion them as bodies that ate not food, neither were they immortal;
ثُمَّ صَدَقْنٰهُمُ الْوَعْدَ فَاَنْجَیْنٰهُمْ وَ مَنْ نَّشَآءُ وَ اَهْلَكْنَا الْمُسْرِفِیْنَ(۹)
Then We made Our promise good to them and delivered whomsoever We pleased, and destroyed the transgressors.
then We made true the promise We gave them and We delivered them, and whomsoever We would; and We destroyed the prodigal.
لَقَدْ اَنْزَلْنَاۤ اِلَیْكُمْ كِتٰبًا فِیْهِ ذِكْرُكُمْؕ-اَفَلَا تَعْقِلُوْنَ۠(۱۰)
We have sent down to you a Book which has a reminder for you. Do you not understand?
Now We have sent down to you a Book wherein is your Remembrance; will you not understand?
وَ كَمْ قَصَمْنَا مِنْ قَرْیَةٍ كَانَتْ ظَالِمَةً وَّ اَنْشَاْنَا بَعْدَهَا قَوْمًا اٰخَرِیْنَ(۱۱)
How many habitations that were sinful have We demolished utterly, and raised other people after them.
How many a city that was evildoing We have shattered, and set up after it another people!
فَلَمَّاۤ اَحَسُّوْا بَاْسَنَاۤ اِذَا هُمْ مِّنْهَا یَرْكُضُوْنَؕ(۱۲)
Whensoever they sensed Our punishment they fled from them.
Then, when they perceived Our might, behold, they ran headlong out of it.
لَا تَرْكُضُوْا وَ ارْجِعُوْۤا اِلٰى مَاۤ اُتْرِفْتُمْ فِیْهِ وَ مَسٰكِنِكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تُسْــٴَـلُوْنَ(۱۳)
"Do not flee; go back to your halls of pleasure and your habitations, so that you may be interrogated."
'Run not! Return you unto the luxury that you exulted in, and your dwelling-places; haply you shall be questioned.'
قَالُوْا یٰوَیْلَنَاۤ اِنَّا كُنَّا ظٰلِمِیْنَ(۱۴)
"Woe, alas," they said, "we were really sinful."
They said, 'Alas for us! We have been evildoers.'
فَمَا زَالَتْ تِّلْكَ دَعْوٰىهُمْ حَتّٰى جَعَلْنٰهُمْ حَصِیْدًا خٰمِدِیْنَ(۱۵)
And this remained their lament till We mowed them down and made them extinct.
So they ceased not to cry, until We made them stubble, silent and still.
وَ مَا خَلَقْنَا السَّمَآءَ وَ الْاَرْضَ وَ مَا بَیْنَهُمَا لٰعِبِیْنَ(۱۶)
We have not created the heavens and the earth, and all that lies between them, out of fun.
We created not the heaven and the earth, and whatsoever between them is, as playing;
لَوْ اَرَدْنَاۤ اَنْ نَّتَّخِذَ لَهْوًا لَّاتَّخَذْنٰهُ مِنْ لَّدُنَّاۤ ﳓ اِنْ كُنَّا فٰعِلِیْنَ(۱۷)
If We had pleased to make a plaything We could have made it Ourself, if We had cared to do so.
had We desired to take to Us a diversion We would have taken it to Us from Ourselves, had We done aught.
بَلْ نَقْذِفُ بِالْحَقِّ عَلَى الْبَاطِلِ فَیَدْمَغُهٗ فَاِذَا هُوَ زَاهِقٌؕ-وَ لَكُمُ الْوَیْلُ مِمَّا تَصِفُوْنَ(۱۸)
In fact We strike the truth against the false, which shatters it, and it disappears. Woe to you for what you attribute (to Him)!
Nay, but We hurl the truth against falsehood and it prevails over it, and behold, falsehood vanishes away. Then woe to you for that you describe!
وَ لَهٗ مَنْ فِی السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضِؕ-وَ مَنْ عِنْدَهٗ لَا یَسْتَكْبِرُوْنَ عَنْ عِبَادَتِهٖ وَ لَا یَسْتَحْسِرُوْنَۚ(۱۹)
Whosoever is in the heavens and the earth belongs to Him; and those who are near Him do not disdain to worship Him or weary (of His service),
To Him belongs whosoever is in the heavens and the earth; and those who are with Him wax not too proud to do Him service neither grow weary,
یُسَبِّحُوْنَ الَّیْلَ وَ النَّهَارَ لَا یَفْتُرُوْنَ(۲۰)
Nor cease to endeavour praising Him night and day.
glorifying Him by night and in the daytime and never failing.
اَمِ اتَّخَذُوْۤا اٰلِهَةً مِّنَ الْاَرْضِ هُمْ یُنْشِرُوْنَ(۲۱)
Or have they taken gods from the earth who can raise the dead?
Or have they taken gods out of the earth who raise the dead?
لَوْ كَانَ فِیْهِمَاۤ اٰلِهَةٌ اِلَّا اللّٰهُ لَفَسَدَتَاۚ-فَسُبْحٰنَ اللّٰهِ رَبِّ الْعَرْشِ عَمَّا یَصِفُوْنَ(۲۲)
Had there been gods apart from God, both (the heavens and the earth) would have been despoiled. Much too glorious is God, the Lord of the mighty throne, for things they assert!
Why, were there gods in earth and heaven other than God, they would surely go to ruin; so glory be to God, the Lord of the Throne, above that they describe!
لَا یُسْــٴَـلُ عَمَّا یَفْعَلُ وَ هُمْ یُسْــٴَـلُوْنَ(۲۳)
He cannot be questioned about what He does, but they will be questioned.
He shall not be questioned as to what He does, but they shall he questioned.
اَمِ اتَّخَذُوْا مِنْ دُوْنِهٖۤ اٰلِهَةًؕ-قُلْ هَاتُوْا بُرْهَانَكُمْۚ-هٰذَا ذِكْرُ مَنْ مَّعِیَ وَ ذِكْرُ مَنْ قَبْلِیْؕ-بَلْ اَكْثَرُهُمْ لَا یَعْلَمُوْنَۙ-الْحَقَّ فَهُمْ مُّعْرِضُوْنَ(۲۴)
Have they taken gods besides God? Say: "Then bring your proof. Here is the Book of those who are with me, and the Book of those who have gone before me." But most men do not know the truth and turn away.
Or have they taken gods apart from Him? Say: 'Bring your proof! This is the Remembrance of him who is with me, and the Remembrance of those before me. Nay, but the most part of them know not the truth, so therefore they are turning away.
وَ مَاۤ اَرْسَلْنَا مِنْ قَبْلِكَ مِنْ رَّسُوْلٍ اِلَّا نُوْحِیْۤ اِلَیْهِ اَنَّهٗ لَاۤ اِلٰهَ اِلَّاۤ اَنَا فَاعْبُدُوْنِ(۲۵)
We have not sent an apostle before you without instructing him that there is no god but I, so worship Me.
And We sent never a Messenger before thee except that We revealed to him, saying, 'There is no god but I; so serve Me.'
وَ قَالُوا اتَّخَذَ الرَّحْمٰنُ وَلَدًا سُبْحٰنَهٗؕ-بَلْ عِبَادٌ مُّكْرَمُوْنَۙ(۲۶)
And yet they say: "Ar-Rahman has begotten a son." Too exalted is He! In fact, those (they call His sons) were His honoured votaries.
They say:' 'The All-merciful has taken to Him a son.' Glory be to Him! Nay, but they are honoured servants
لَا یَسْبِقُوْنَهٗ بِالْقَوْلِ وَ هُمْ بِاَمْرِهٖ یَعْمَلُوْنَ(۲۷)
They did not precede Him in their speech, and acted on His command.
that outstrip Him not in speech, and perform as He commands.
یَعْلَمُ مَا بَیْنَ اَیْدِیْهِمْ وَ مَا خَلْفَهُمْ وَ لَا یَشْفَعُوْنَۙ-اِلَّا لِمَنِ ارْتَضٰى وَ هُمْ مِّنْ خَشْیَتِهٖ مُشْفِقُوْنَ(۲۸)
He knows what was there before them and what came after them; and they did not intercede for any one but whom He willed, and they were filled with awe of Him.
He knows what is before them and behind them, and they intercede not save for him with whom He is well-pleased, and they tremble in awe of Him.
وَ مَنْ یَّقُلْ مِنْهُمْ اِنِّیْۤ اِلٰهٌ مِّنْ دُوْنِهٖ فَذٰلِكَ نَجْزِیْهِ جَهَنَّمَؕ-كَذٰلِكَ نَجْزِی الظّٰلِمِیْنَ۠(۲۹)
If any one of them said: "I am God besides Him," We should award him Hell; for this is how We requite the evil-doers.
If any of them says, 'I am a god apart from Him', such a one We recompense with Gehenna; even so We recompense the evildoers.
اَوَ لَمْ یَرَ الَّذِیْنَ كَفَرُوْۤا اَنَّ السَّمٰوٰتِ وَ الْاَرْضَ كَانَتَا رَتْقًا فَفَتَقْنٰهُمَاؕ-وَ جَعَلْنَا مِنَ الْمَآءِ كُلَّ شَیْءٍ حَیٍّؕ-اَفَلَا یُؤْمِنُوْنَ(۳۰)
Do not these unbelievers see that the heavens and the earth were an integrated mass, then We split them and made every living thing from water? Will they not believe even then?
Have not the unbelievers then beheld that the heavens and the earth were a mass all sewn up, and then We unstitched them and of water fashioned every living thing? Will they not believe?
وَ جَعَلْنَا فِی الْاَرْضِ رَوَاسِیَ اَنْ تَمِیْدَ بِهِمْ وَ جَعَلْنَا فِیْهَا فِجَاجًا سُبُلًا لَّعَلَّهُمْ یَهْتَدُوْنَ(۳۱)
We placed stabilisers in the earth so that as it revolved with them you lived undisturbed; and We provided passageways between them so that men may find their way;
And We set in the earth firm mountains lest it should shake with them, and We set in it ravines to serve as ways, that haply so they may be guided;
وَ جَعَلْنَا السَّمَآءَ سَقْفًا مَّحْفُوْظًا ۚۖ-وَّ هُمْ عَنْ اٰیٰتِهَا مُعْرِضُوْنَ(۳۲)
And We made the sky a well-protected roof. Still they turn away from His signs!
and We set up the heaven as a roof well-protected; yet still from Our signs they are turning away.
وَ هُوَ الَّذِیْ خَلَقَ الَّیْلَ وَ النَّهَارَ وَ الشَّمْسَ وَ الْقَمَرَؕ-كُلٌّ فِیْ فَلَكٍ یَّسْبَحُوْنَ(۳۳)
It is He who created night and day, the sun and the moon, revolving on its orbit.
It is He who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon, each swimming in a sky.
وَ مَا جَعَلْنَا لِبَشَرٍ مِّنْ قَبْلِكَ الْخُلْدَؕ-اَفَاۡىٕنْ مِّتَّ فَهُمُ الْخٰلِدُوْنَ(۳۴)
We have given no man everlastingness before you. So then if you die, will they live ever after?
We have not assigned to any mortal before thee to live forever; therefore, if thou diest, will they live forever?
كُلُّ نَفْسٍ ذَآىٕقَةُ الْمَوْتِؕ-وَ نَبْلُوْكُمْ بِالشَّرِّ وَ الْخَیْرِ فِتْنَةًؕ-وَ اِلَیْنَا تُرْجَعُوْنَ(۳۵)
Every soul will know the taste of death. We tempt you with evil and with good as a trial; and to Us you will return.
Every soul shall taste of death; and We try you with evil and good for a testing, then unto Us you shall be returned.
وَ اِذَا رَاٰكَ الَّذِیْنَ كَفَرُوْۤا اِنْ یَّتَّخِذُوْنَكَ اِلَّا هُزُوًاؕ-اَهٰذَا الَّذِیْ یَذْكُرُ اٰلِهَتَكُمْۚ-وَ هُمْ بِذِكْرِ الرَّحْمٰنِ هُمْ كٰفِرُوْنَ(۳۶)
But when the unbelievers see you they make fun of you (and say): "Is this the one who mentions your gods (deridingly)?" Yet in Ar-Rahman they disbelieve!
When the unbelievers behold thee, they take thee only for mockery: 'Ha, is this the one who makes mention of your gods?' Yet they in the Remembrance of the All-merciful are unbelievers.
خُلِقَ الْاِنْسَانُ مِنْ عَجَلٍؕ-سَاُورِیْكُمْ اٰیٰتِیْ فَلَا تَسْتَعْجِلُوْنِ(۳۷)
Man is made of inordinate haste. We will show you Our signs, then you will not desire to hasten (the punishment).
Man was created of haste. Assuredly I shall show you My signs; so demand not that I make haste.
وَ یَقُوْلُوْنَ مَتٰى هٰذَا الْوَعْدُ اِنْ كُنْتُمْ صٰدِقِیْنَ(۳۸)
Yet they say: "When will the promised threat come to pass, if you speak the truth?"
They say, 'And when shall the promise come to pass, if you speak truly?'
لَوْ یَعْلَمُ الَّذِیْنَ كَفَرُوْا حِیْنَ لَا یَكُفُّوْنَ عَنْ وُّجُوْهِهِمُ النَّارَ وَ لَا عَنْ ظُهُوْرِهِمْ وَ لَا هُمْ یُنْصَرُوْنَ(۳۹)
If only the unbelievers could apprehend the moment when they would neither be able to ward off the fire from their faces and their backs, nor help reach them!
If the unbelievers but knew when that they shall not ward off the Fire from their faces nor from their backs, neither shall they be helped!
بَلْ تَاْتِیْهِمْ بَغْتَةً فَتَبْهَتُهُمْ فَلَا یَسْتَطِیْعُوْنَ رَدَّهَا وَ لَا هُمْ یُنْظَرُوْنَ(۴۰)
It will come upon them unawares confounding them, and they will not be able to keep it back, nor will they be given respite.
Nay, but it shall come upon them suddenly, dumbfounding them, and they shall not be able to repel it, nor shall they be respited.
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