Juz 9

1. ۞ قَالَ ٱلۡمَلَأُ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ مِن قَوۡمِهِۦ لَنُخۡرِجَنَّكَ يَٰشُعَيۡبُ وَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ مَعَكَ مِن قَرۡيَتِنَآ أَوۡ لَتَعُودُنَّ فِي مِلَّتِنَاۚ قَالَ أَوَلَوۡ كُنَّا كَٰرِهِينَ ٨٨

   Qālal-malaʾul-ladhīnastakbarū min qawmihī lanukhrijannaka yāshuʿaybu wal-ladhīna āmanū maʿaka min qaryatinā aw lataʿūdunna fī millatinā, qāla awalaw kunnā kārihīn.

   Said the eminent ones who were arrogant among his people, "We will surely evict you, O Shuʿayb, and those who have believed with you from our city, or you must return to our religion." He said, "Even if we were unwilling?

2. قَدِ ٱفۡتَرَيۡنَا عَلَى ٱللَّهِ كَذِبًا إِنۡ عُدۡنَا فِي مِلَّتِكُم بَعۡدَ إِذۡ نَجَّىٰنَا ٱللَّهُ مِنۡهَاۚ وَمَا يَكُونُ لَنَآ أَن نَّعُودَ فِيهَآ إِلَّآ أَن يَشَآءَ ٱللَّهُ رَبُّنَاۚ وَسِعَ رَبُّنَا كُلَّ شَيۡءٍ عِلۡمًاۚ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ تَوَكَّلۡنَاۚ رَبَّنَا ٱفۡتَحۡ بَيۡنَنَا وَبَيۡنَ قَوۡمِنَا بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَأَنتَ خَيۡرُ ٱلۡفَٰتِحِينَ ٨٩

   Qadiftaraynā ʿalallāhi kadhiban in ʿudnā fī millatikum baʿda idh najjānallāhu minhā, wa mā yakūnu lanā an naʿūda fīhā illā ay yashāʾallāhu rabbunā, wasiʿa rabbunā kulla shayʾin ʿilmā, ʿalallāhi tawakkalnā, rabbanaftaḥ baynanā wa bayna qawminā bil-ḥaqqi wa anta khayrul-fātiḥīn.

   We would have invented against Allāh a lie if we returned to your religion after Allāh had saved us from it. And it is not for us to return to it except that Allāh, our Lord, should will. Our Lord has encompassed all things in knowledge. Upon Allāh we have relied. Our Lord, decide between us and our people in truth, and You are the best of those who give decision."

3. وَقَالَ ٱلۡمَلَأُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ مِن قَوۡمِهِۦ لَئِنِ ٱتَّبَعۡتُمۡ شُعَيۡبًا إِنَّكُمۡ إِذٗا لَّخَٰسِرُونَ ٩٠

   Wa qālal-malaʾul-ladhīna kafarū min qawmihī laʾinittabaʿtum shuʿayban innakum idhal lakhāsirūn.

   Said the eminent ones who disbelieved among his people, "If you should follow Shuʿayb, indeed, you would then be losers."

4. فَأَخَذَتۡهُمُ ٱلرَّجۡفَةُ فَأَصۡبَحُواْ فِي دَارِهِمۡ جَٰثِمِينَ ٩١

   Fa akhadhathumur-rajfatu fa aṣbaḥū fī dārihim jāthimīn.

   So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.

5. ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ شُعَيۡبٗا كَأَن لَّمۡ يَغۡنَوۡاْ فِيهَاۚ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ شُعَيۡبٗا كَانُواْ هُمُ ٱلۡخَٰسِرِينَ ٩٢

   Al-ladhīna kadhdhabū shuʿayban kaʾal lam yaghnaw fīhā, al-ladhīna kadhdhabū shuʿayban kānū humul-khāsirīn.

   Those who denied Shuʿayb - it was as though they had never resided there. Those who denied Shuʿayb - it was they who were the losers.

6. فَتَوَلَّىٰ عَنۡهُمۡ وَقَالَ يَٰقَوۡمِ لَقَدۡ أَبۡلَغۡتُكُمۡ رِسَٰلَٰتِ رَبِّي وَنَصَحۡتُ لَكُمۡۖ فَكَيۡفَ ءَاسَىٰ عَلَىٰ قَوۡمٖ كَٰفِرِينَ ٩٣

   Fatawallā ʿanhum wa qāla yāqawmi laqad ablaghtukum risālāti rabbī wa naṣaḥtu lakum, fakayfa āsā ʿalā qawmin kāfirīn.

   And he [i.e., Shuʿayb] turned away from them and said, "O my people, I had certainly conveyed to you the messages of my Lord and advised you, so how could I grieve for a disbelieving people?"

7. وَمَآ أَرۡسَلۡنَا فِي قَرۡيَةٖ مِّن نَّبِيٍّ إِلَّآ أَخَذۡنَآ أَهۡلَهَا بِٱلۡبَأۡسَآءِ وَٱلضَّرَّآءِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَضَّرَّعُونَ ٩٤

   Wa mā arsalnā fī qaryatim min nabiyyin illā akhadhnā ahlahā bil-baʾsāʾi waḍ-ḍarrāʾi laʿallahum yaḍḍarraʿūn.

   And We sent to no city a prophet [who was denied] except that We seized its people with poverty and hardship that they might humble themselves [to Allāh].

8. ثُمَّ بَدَّلۡنَا مَكَانَ ٱلسَّيِّئَةِ ٱلۡحَسَنَةَ حَتَّىٰ عَفَواْ وَّقَالُواْ قَدۡ مَسَّ ءَابَآءَنَا ٱلضَّرَّآءُ وَٱلسَّرَّآءُ فَأَخَذۡنَٰهُم بَغۡتَةٗ وَهُمۡ لَا يَشۡعُرُونَ ٩٥

   Thumma baddalnā makānas-sayyiʾatil-ḥasanata ḥattā ʿafaw wa qālū qad massa ābāʾanaḍ-ḍarrāʾu was-sarrāʾu fa akhadhnāhum baghtataw wa hum lā yashʿurūn.

   Then We exchanged in place of the bad [condition], good, until they increased [and prospered] and said, "Our fathers [also] were touched with hardship and ease."¹ So We seized them suddenly while they did not perceive.²

   Footnotes (2)

   1. Instead of being grateful to Allāh for His blessings, they merely attributed them to the changing fortunes of time.
   2. That they had been tried and tested.

9. وَلَوۡ أَنَّ أَهۡلَ ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ ءَامَنُواْ وَٱتَّقَوۡاْ لَفَتَحۡنَا عَلَيۡهِم بَرَكَٰتٖ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَلَٰكِن كَذَّبُواْ فَأَخَذۡنَٰهُم بِمَا كَانُواْ يَكۡسِبُونَ ٩٦

   Wa law anna ahlal-qurā āmanū wattaqaw lafataḥnā ʿalayhim barakātim minas-samāʾi wal-arḍi wa lākin kadhdhabū fa akhadhnāhum bimā kānū yaksibūn.

   And if only the people of the cities had believed and feared Allāh, We would have opened [i.e., bestowed] upon them blessings from the heaven and the earth; but they denied [the messengers], so We seized them for what they were earning.¹

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   1. Of blame for their sin.

10. أَفَأَمِنَ أَهۡلُ ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأۡتِيَهُم بَأۡسُنَا بَيَٰتٗا وَهُمۡ نَآئِمُونَ ٩٧

    Afaʾamina ahlul-qurā ay yaʾtiyahum baʾsunā bayātaw wa hum nāʾimūn.

    Then, did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them at night while they were asleep?

11. أَوَأَمِنَ أَهۡلُ ٱلۡقُرَىٰٓ أَن يَأۡتِيَهُم بَأۡسُنَا ضُحٗى وَهُمۡ يَلۡعَبُونَ ٩٨

    Awaʾamina ahlul-qurā ay yaʾtiyahum baʾsunā ḍuḥaw wa hum yalʿabūn.

    Or did the people of the cities feel secure from Our punishment coming to them in the morning while they were at play?¹

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    1. i.e., occupied with such activities that have no benefit.

12. أَفَأَمِنُواْ مَكۡرَ ٱللَّهِۚ فَلَا يَأۡمَنُ مَكۡرَ ٱللَّهِ إِلَّا ٱلۡقَوۡمُ ٱلۡخَٰسِرُونَ ٩٩

    Afaʾaminū makrallāh, falā yaʾmanu makrallāhi illal-qawmul-khāsirūn.

    Then, did they feel secure from the plan of Allāh? But no one feels secure from the plan of Allāh except the losing people.

13. أَوَلَمۡ يَهۡدِ لِلَّذِينَ يَرِثُونَ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِ أَهۡلِهَآ أَن لَّوۡ نَشَآءُ أَصَبۡنَٰهُم بِذُنُوبِهِمۡۚ وَنَطۡبَعُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِهِمۡ فَهُمۡ لَا يَسۡمَعُونَ ١٠٠

    Awalam yahdi lil-ladhīna yarithūnal-arḍa mim baʿdi ahlihā al law nashāʾu aṣabnāhum bidhunūbihim, wa naṭbaʿu ʿalā qulūbihim fahum lā yasmaʿūn.

    Has it not become clear to those who inherited the earth after its [previous] people that if We willed, We could afflict them for their sins? But We seal over their hearts so they do not hear.¹

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    1. They do not benefit from what they hear.

14. تِلۡكَ ٱلۡقُرَىٰ نَقُصُّ عَلَيۡكَ مِنۡ أَنۢبَآئِهَاۚ وَلَقَدۡ جَآءَتۡهُمۡ رُسُلُهُم بِٱلۡبَيِّنَٰتِ فَمَا كَانُواْ لِيُؤۡمِنُواْ بِمَا كَذَّبُواْ مِن قَبۡلُۚ كَذَٰلِكَ يَطۡبَعُ ٱللَّهُ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ ١٠١

    Tilkal-qurā naquṣṣu ʿalayka min anbāʾihā, wa laqad jāʾathum rusuluhum bil-bayyināti famā kānū liyuʾminū bimā kadhdhabū min qabl, kadhālika yaṭbaʿullāhu ʿalā qulūbil-kāfirīn.

    Those cities - We relate to you, [O Muḥammad], some of their news. And certainly did their messengers come to them with clear proofs, but they were not to believe in that which they had denied before.¹ Thus does Allāh seal over the hearts of the disbelievers.

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    1. i.e., they persistently denied every warning given them.

15. وَمَا وَجَدۡنَا لِأَكۡثَرِهِم مِّنۡ عَهۡدٖۖ وَإِن وَجَدۡنَآ أَكۡثَرَهُمۡ لَفَٰسِقِينَ ١٠٢

    Wa mā wajadnā liʾaktharihim min ʿahd, wa iw wajadnā aktharahum lafāsiqīn.

    And We did not find for most of them any covenant;¹ but indeed, We found most of them defiantly disobedient.

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    1. i.e., they were found to be unfaithful and negligent of Allāh's covenant.

16. ثُمَّ بَعَثۡنَا مِنۢ بَعۡدِهِم مُّوسَىٰ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَآ إِلَىٰ فِرۡعَوۡنَ وَمَلَإِيْهِۦ فَظَلَمُواْ بِهَاۖ فَٱنظُرۡ كَيۡفَ كَانَ عَٰقِبَةُ ٱلۡمُفۡسِدِينَ ١٠٣

    Thumma baʿathnā mim baʿdihim mūsā biʾāyātinā ilā firʿawna wa malaʾihī faẓalamū bihā, fanẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatul-mufsidīn.

    Then We sent after them Moses with Our signs to Pharaoh and his establishment, but they were unjust toward them.¹ So see how was the end of the corrupters.

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    1. i.e., they rejected and opposed the signs.

17. وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ يَٰفِرۡعَوۡنُ إِنِّي رَسُولٞ مِّن رَّبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٠٤

    Wa qāla mūsā yāfirʿawnu innī rasūlum mir rabbil-ʿālamīn.

    And Moses said, "O Pharaoh, I am a messenger from the Lord of the worlds

18. حَقِيقٌ عَلَىٰٓ أَن لَّآ أَقُولَ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ إِلَّا ٱلۡحَقَّۚ قَدۡ جِئۡتُكُم بِبَيِّنَةٖ مِّن رَّبِّكُمۡ فَأَرۡسِلۡ مَعِيَ بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ ١٠٥

    Ḥaqīqun ʿalā al lā aqūla ʿalallāhi illal-ḥaqq, qad jiʾtukum bibayyinatim mir rabbikum fa arsil maʿiya banī isrāʾīl.

    [Who is] obligated not to say about Allāh except the truth. I have come to you with clear evidence from your Lord, so send with me the Children of Israel."¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., free them from oppression and allow them to emigrate.

19. قَالَ إِن كُنتَ جِئۡتَ بِـَٔايَةٖ فَأۡتِ بِهَآ إِن كُنتَ مِنَ ٱلصَّٰدِقِينَ ١٠٦

    Qāla in kunta jiʾta biʾāyatin faʾti bihā in kunta minaṣ-ṣādiqīn.

    [Pharaoh] said, "If you have come with a sign, then bring it forth, if you should be of the truthful."

20. فَأَلۡقَىٰ عَصَاهُ فَإِذَا هِيَ ثُعۡبَانٞ مُّبِينٞ ١٠٧

    Fa alqā ʿaṣāhu fa idhā hiya thuʿbānum mubīn.

    So he [i.e., Moses] threw his staff, and suddenly it was a serpent, manifest.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., genuine and not imagined, as a miracle from Allāh.

21. وَنَزَعَ يَدَهُۥ فَإِذَا هِيَ بَيۡضَآءُ لِلنَّٰظِرِينَ ١٠٨

    Wa nazaʿa yadahū fa idhā hiya bayḍāʾu lin-nāẓirīn.

    And he drew out his hand; thereupon it was white [with radiance] for the observers.

22. قَالَ ٱلۡمَلَأُ مِن قَوۡمِ فِرۡعَوۡنَ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَسَٰحِرٌ عَلِيمٞ ١٠٩

    Qālal-malaʾu min qawmi firʿawna inna hādhā lasāḥirun ʿalīm.

    Said the eminent among the people of Pharaoh, "Indeed, this is a learned magician

23. يُرِيدُ أَن يُخۡرِجَكُم مِّنۡ أَرۡضِكُمۡۖ فَمَاذَا تَأۡمُرُونَ ١١٠

    Yurīdu ay yukhrijakum min arḍikum, famādhā taʾmurūn.

    Who wants to expel you from your land [through magic], so what do you instruct?"

24. قَالُوٓاْ أَرۡجِهۡ وَأَخَاهُ وَأَرۡسِلۡ فِي ٱلۡمَدَآئِنِ حَٰشِرِينَ ١١١

    Qālū arjih wa akhāhu wa arsil fil-madāʾini ḥāshirīn.

    They said,¹ "Postpone [the matter of] him and his brother and send among the cities gatherers

    Footnotes (1)

    1. After mutual consultation and agreement.

25. يَأۡتُوكَ بِكُلِّ سَٰحِرٍ عَلِيمٖ ١١٢

    Yaʾtūka bikulli sāḥirin ʿalīm.

    Who will bring you every learned magician."

26. وَجَآءَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ فِرۡعَوۡنَ قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّ لَنَا لَأَجۡرًا إِن كُنَّا نَحۡنُ ٱلۡغَٰلِبِينَ ١١٣

    Wa jāʾas-saḥaratu firʿawna qālū inna lanā laʾajran in kunnā naḥnul-ghālibīn.

    And the magicians came to Pharaoh. They said, "Indeed for us is a reward if we are the predominant."

27. قَالَ نَعَمۡ وَإِنَّكُمۡ لَمِنَ ٱلۡمُقَرَّبِينَ ١١٤

    Qāla naʿam wa innakum laminal-muqarrabīn.

    He said, "Yes, and, [moreover], you will be among those made near [to me]."

28. قَالُواْ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِمَّآ أَن تُلۡقِيَ وَإِمَّآ أَن نَّكُونَ نَحۡنُ ٱلۡمُلۡقِينَ ١١٥

    Qālū yāmūsā immā an tulqiya wa immā an nakūna naḥnul-mulqīn.

    They said, "O Moses, either you throw [your staff], or we will be the ones to throw [first]."

29. قَالَ أَلۡقُواْۖ فَلَمَّآ أَلۡقَوۡاْ سَحَرُوٓاْ أَعۡيُنَ ٱلنَّاسِ وَٱسۡتَرۡهَبُوهُمۡ وَجَآءُو بِسِحۡرٍ عَظِيمٖ ١١٦

    Qāla alqū, falammā alqaw saḥarū aʿyunan-nāsi wastarhabūhum wa jāʾū bisiḥrin ʿaẓīm.

    He said, "Throw," and when they threw, they bewitched the eyes of the people and struck terror into them, and they presented a great [feat of] magic.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. Their staffs and ropes appeared as writhing snakes.

30. ۞ وَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ أَنۡ أَلۡقِ عَصَاكَۖ فَإِذَا هِيَ تَلۡقَفُ مَا يَأۡفِكُونَ ١١٧

    Wa awḥaynā ilā mūsā an alqi ʿaṣāk, fa idhā hiya talqafu mā yaʾfikūn.

    And We inspired to Moses, "Throw your staff," and at once it devoured what they were falsifying.

31. فَوَقَعَ ٱلۡحَقُّ وَبَطَلَ مَا كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ ١١٨

    Fawaqaʿal-ḥaqqu wa baṭala mā kānū yaʿmalūn.

    So the truth was established, and abolished was what they were doing.

32. فَغُلِبُواْ هُنَالِكَ وَٱنقَلَبُواْ صَٰغِرِينَ ١١٩

    Faghulibū hunālika wanqalabū ṣāghirīn.

    And they [i.e., Pharaoh and his people] were overcome right there and became debased.

33. وَأُلۡقِيَ ٱلسَّحَرَةُ سَٰجِدِينَ ١٢٠

    Wa ulqiyas-saḥaratu sājidīn.

    And the magicians fell down in prostration [to Allāh].

34. قَالُوٓاْ ءَامَنَّا بِرَبِّ ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٢١

    Qālū āmannā birabbil-ʿālamīn.

    They said, "We have believed in the Lord of the worlds,

35. رَبِّ مُوسَىٰ وَهَٰرُونَ ١٢٢

    Rabbi mūsā wa hārūn.

    The Lord of Moses and Aaron."

36. قَالَ فِرۡعَوۡنُ ءَامَنتُم بِهِۦ قَبۡلَ أَنۡ ءَاذَنَ لَكُمۡۖ إِنَّ هَٰذَا لَمَكۡرٞ مَّكَرۡتُمُوهُ فِي ٱلۡمَدِينَةِ لِتُخۡرِجُواْ مِنۡهَآ أَهۡلَهَاۖ فَسَوۡفَ تَعۡلَمُونَ ١٢٣

    Qāla firʿawnu āmantum bihī qabla an ādhana lakum, inna hādhā lamakrum makartumūhu fil-madīnati litukhrijū minhā ahlahā, fasawfa taʿlamūn.

    Said Pharaoh, "You believed in him¹ before I gave you permission. Indeed, this is a conspiracy which you conspired in the city to expel therefrom its people. But you are going to know.

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    1. i.e., in Moses, avoiding the mention of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā).

37. لَأُقَطِّعَنَّ أَيۡدِيَكُمۡ وَأَرۡجُلَكُم مِّنۡ خِلَٰفٖ ثُمَّ لَأُصَلِّبَنَّكُمۡ أَجۡمَعِينَ ١٢٤

    Laʾuqaṭṭiʿanna aydiyakum wa arjulakum min khilāfin thumma laʾuṣallibannakum ajmaʿīn.

    I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides; then I will surely crucify you all."

38. قَالُوٓاْ إِنَّآ إِلَىٰ رَبِّنَا مُنقَلِبُونَ ١٢٥

    Qālū innā ilā rabbinā munqalibūn.

    They said, "Indeed, to our Lord we will return.

39. وَمَا تَنقِمُ مِنَّآ إِلَّآ أَنۡ ءَامَنَّا بِـَٔايَٰتِ رَبِّنَا لَمَّا جَآءَتۡنَاۚ رَبَّنَآ أَفۡرِغۡ عَلَيۡنَا صَبۡرٗا وَتَوَفَّنَا مُسۡلِمِينَ ١٢٦

    Wa mā tanqimu minnā illā an āmannā biʾāyāti rabbinā lammā jāʾatnā, rabbanā afrigh ʿalaynā ṣabraw wa tawaffanā muslimīn.

    And you do not resent us except because we believed in the signs of our Lord when they came to us. Our Lord, pour upon us patience¹ and let us die as Muslims [in submission to You]."

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    1. To endure the torture to which we will be subjected.

40. وَقَالَ ٱلۡمَلَأُ مِن قَوۡمِ فِرۡعَوۡنَ أَتَذَرُ مُوسَىٰ وَقَوۡمَهُۥ لِيُفۡسِدُواْ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَيَذَرَكَ وَءَالِهَتَكَۚ قَالَ سَنُقَتِّلُ أَبۡنَآءَهُمۡ وَنَسۡتَحۡيِۦ نِسَآءَهُمۡ وَإِنَّا فَوۡقَهُمۡ قَٰهِرُونَ ١٢٧

    Wa qālal-malaʾu min qawmi firʿawna atadharu mūsā wa qawmahū liyufsidū fil-arḍi wa yadharaka wa ālihatak, qāla sanuqattilu abnāʾahum wa nastaḥyī nisāʾahum wa innā fawqahum qāhirūn.

    And the eminent among the people of Pharaoh said, "Will you leave Moses and his people to cause corruption in the land and abandon you and your gods?" [Pharaoh] said, "We will kill their sons and keep their women alive; and indeed, we are subjugators over them."

41. قَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِقَوۡمِهِ ٱسۡتَعِينُواْ بِٱللَّهِ وَٱصۡبِرُوٓاْۖ إِنَّ ٱلۡأَرۡضَ لِلَّهِ يُورِثُهَا مَن يَشَآءُ مِنۡ عِبَادِهِۦۖ وَٱلۡعَٰقِبَةُ لِلۡمُتَّقِينَ ١٢٨

    Qāla mūsā liqawmihistaʿīnū billāhi waṣbirū, innal-arḍa lillāhi yūrithuhā may yashāʾu min ʿibādih, wal-ʿāqibatu lil-muttaqīn.

    Said Moses to his people, "Seek help through Allāh and be patient. Indeed, the earth belongs to Allāh. He causes to inherit it whom He wills of His servants. And the [best] outcome is for the righteous."

42. قَالُوٓاْ أُوذِينَا مِن قَبۡلِ أَن تَأۡتِيَنَا وَمِنۢ بَعۡدِ مَا جِئۡتَنَاۚ قَالَ عَسَىٰ رَبُّكُمۡ أَن يُهۡلِكَ عَدُوَّكُمۡ وَيَسۡتَخۡلِفَكُمۡ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ فَيَنظُرَ كَيۡفَ تَعۡمَلُونَ ١٢٩

    Qālū ūdhīnā min qabli an taʾtiyanā wa mim baʿdi mā jiʾtanā, qāla ʿasā rabbukum ay yuhlika ʿaduwwakum wa yastakhlifakum fil-arḍi fayanẓura kayfa taʿmalūn.

    They said, "We have been harmed before you came to us and after you have come to us." He said, "Perhaps your Lord will destroy your enemy and grant you succession in the land and see how you will do."

43. وَلَقَدۡ أَخَذۡنَآ ءَالَ فِرۡعَوۡنَ بِٱلسِّنِينَ وَنَقۡصٖ مِّنَ ٱلثَّمَرَٰتِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَذَّكَّرُونَ ١٣٠

    Wa laqad akhadhnā āla firʿawna bis-sinīna wa naqṣim minath-thamarāti laʿallahum yadhdhakkarūn.

    And We certainly seized¹ the people of Pharaoh with years of famine and a deficiency in fruits that perhaps they would be reminded.

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    1. Imposed on them by way of trial and warning.

44. فَإِذَا جَآءَتۡهُمُ ٱلۡحَسَنَةُ قَالُواْ لَنَا هَٰذِهِۦۖ وَإِن تُصِبۡهُمۡ سَيِّئَةٞ يَطَّيَّرُواْ بِمُوسَىٰ وَمَن مَّعَهُۥٓۗ أَلَآ إِنَّمَا طَٰٓئِرُهُمۡ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكۡثَرَهُمۡ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ ١٣١

    Fa idhā jāʾathumul-ḥasanatu qālū lanā hādhih, wa in tuṣibhum sayyiʾatuy yaṭṭayyarū bimūsā wa mam maʿah, alā innamā ṭāʾiruhum ʿindallāhi wa lākinna aktharahum lā yaʿlamūn.

    But when good [i.e., provision] came to them, they said, "This is ours [by right]." And if a bad [condition] struck them, they saw an evil omen in Moses and those with him. Unquestionably, their fortune is with Allāh, but most of them do not know.

45. وَقَالُواْ مَهۡمَا تَأۡتِنَا بِهِۦ مِنۡ ءَايَةٖ لِّتَسۡحَرَنَا بِهَا فَمَا نَحۡنُ لَكَ بِمُؤۡمِنِينَ ١٣٢

    Wa qālū mahmā taʾtinā bihī min āyatil litasḥaranā bihā famā naḥnu laka bimuʾminīn.

    And they said, "No matter what sign you bring us with which to bewitch us, we will not be believers in you."

46. فَأَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلطُّوفَانَ وَٱلۡجَرَادَ وَٱلۡقُمَّلَ وَٱلضَّفَادِعَ وَٱلدَّمَ ءَايَٰتٖ مُّفَصَّلَٰتٖ فَٱسۡتَكۡبَرُواْ وَكَانُواْ قَوۡمٗا مُّجۡرِمِينَ ١٣٣

    Fa arsalnā ʿalayhimuṭ-ṭūfāna wal-jarāda wal-qummala waḍ-ḍafādiʿa wad-dama āyātim mufaṣṣalātin fastakbarū wa kānū qawmam mujrimīn.

    So We sent upon them the flood and locusts and lice and frogs and blood as distinct signs, but they were arrogant and were a criminal people.

47. وَلَمَّا وَقَعَ عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلرِّجۡزُ قَالُواْ يَٰمُوسَى ٱدۡعُ لَنَا رَبَّكَ بِمَا عَهِدَ عِندَكَۖ لَئِن كَشَفۡتَ عَنَّا ٱلرِّجۡزَ لَنُؤۡمِنَنَّ لَكَ وَلَنُرۡسِلَنَّ مَعَكَ بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ ١٣٤

    Wa lammā waqaʿa ʿalayhimur-rijzu qālū yāmūsadʿu lanā rabbaka bimā ʿahida ʿindak, laʾin kashafta ʿannar-rijza lanuʾminanna laka wa lanursilanna maʿaka banī isrāʾīl.

    And when the punishment descended upon them, they said, "O Moses, invoke for us your Lord by what He has promised you. If you [can] remove the punishment from us, we will surely believe you, and we will send with you the Children of Israel."

48. فَلَمَّا كَشَفۡنَا عَنۡهُمُ ٱلرِّجۡزَ إِلَىٰٓ أَجَلٍ هُم بَٰلِغُوهُ إِذَا هُمۡ يَنكُثُونَ ١٣٥

    Falammā kashafnā ʿanhumur-rijza ilā ajalin hum bālighūhu idhā hum yankuthūn.

    But when We removed the punishment from them until a term which they were to reach,¹ then at once they broke their word.

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    1. i.e., a specified term which would end with their reversion to disobedience and disbelief.

49. فَٱنتَقَمۡنَا مِنۡهُمۡ فَأَغۡرَقۡنَٰهُمۡ فِي ٱلۡيَمِّ بِأَنَّهُمۡ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَكَانُواْ عَنۡهَا غَٰفِلِينَ ١٣٦

    Fantaqamnā minhum fa aghraqnāhum fil-yammi biʾannahum kadhdhabū biʾāyātinā wa kānū ʿanhā ghāfilīn.

    So We took retribution from them, and We drowned them in the sea because they denied Our signs and were heedless of them.

50. وَأَوۡرَثۡنَا ٱلۡقَوۡمَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَانُواْ يُسۡتَضۡعَفُونَ مَشَٰرِقَ ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَغَٰرِبَهَا ٱلَّتِي بَٰرَكۡنَا فِيهَاۖ وَتَمَّتۡ كَلِمَتُ رَبِّكَ ٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰ عَلَىٰ بَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ بِمَا صَبَرُواْۖ وَدَمَّرۡنَا مَا كَانَ يَصۡنَعُ فِرۡعَوۡنُ وَقَوۡمُهُۥ وَمَا كَانُواْ يَعۡرِشُونَ ١٣٧

    Wa awrathnal-qawmal-ladhīna kānū yustaḍʿafūna mashāriqal-arḍi wa maghāribahal-latī bāraknā fīhā, wa tammat kalimatu rabbikal-ḥusnā ʿalā banī isrāʾīla bimā ṣabarū, wa dammarnā mā kāna yaṣnaʿu firʿawnu wa qawmuhū wa mā kānū yaʿrishūn.

    And We caused the people who had been oppressed to inherit the eastern regions of the land and the western ones, which We had blessed. And the good word [i.e., decree] of your Lord was fulfilled for the Children of Israel because of what they had patiently endured. And We destroyed [all] that Pharaoh and his people were producing and what they had been building.

51. وَجَٰوَزۡنَا بِبَنِيٓ إِسۡرَٰٓءِيلَ ٱلۡبَحۡرَ فَأَتَوۡاْ عَلَىٰ قَوۡمٖ يَعۡكُفُونَ عَلَىٰٓ أَصۡنَامٖ لَّهُمۡۚ قَالُواْ يَٰمُوسَى ٱجۡعَل لَّنَآ إِلَٰهٗا كَمَا لَهُمۡ ءَالِهَةٞۚ قَالَ إِنَّكُمۡ قَوۡمٞ تَجۡهَلُونَ ١٣٨

    Wa jāwaznā bibanī isrāʾīlal-baḥra fa ataw ʿalā qawmiy yaʿkufūna ʿalā aṣnāmil lahum, qālū yāmūsajʿal lanā ilāhan kamā lahum ālihah, qāla innakum qawmun tajhalūn.

    And We took the Children of Israel across the sea; then they came upon a people intent in devotion to [some] idols of theirs. They [the Children of Israel] said, "O Moses, make for us a god just as they have gods." He said, "Indeed, you are a people behaving ignorantly.

52. إِنَّ هَٰٓؤُلَآءِ مُتَبَّرٞ مَّا هُمۡ فِيهِ وَبَٰطِلٞ مَّا كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ ١٣٩

    Inna hāʾulāʾi mutabbarum mā hum fīhi wa bāṭilum mā kānū yaʿmalūn.

    Indeed, those [worshippers] - destroyed is that in which they are [engaged], and worthless is whatever they were doing."

53. قَالَ أَغَيۡرَ ٱللَّهِ أَبۡغِيكُمۡ إِلَٰهٗا وَهُوَ فَضَّلَكُمۡ عَلَى ٱلۡعَٰلَمِينَ ١٤٠

    Qāla aghayrallāhi abghīkum ilāhaw wa huwa faḍḍalakum ʿalal-ʿālamīn.

    He said, "Is it other than Allāh I should desire for you as a god¹ while He has preferred you over the worlds?"

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    1. An object of worship.

54. وَإِذۡ أَنجَيۡنَٰكُم مِّنۡ ءَالِ فِرۡعَوۡنَ يَسُومُونَكُمۡ سُوٓءَ ٱلۡعَذَابِ يُقَتِّلُونَ أَبۡنَآءَكُمۡ وَيَسۡتَحۡيُونَ نِسَآءَكُمۡۚ وَفِي ذَٰلِكُم بَلَآءٞ مِّن رَّبِّكُمۡ عَظِيمٞ ١٤١

    Wa idh anjaynākum min āli firʿawna yasūmūnakum sūʾal-ʿadhābi yuqattilūna abnāʾakum wa yastaḥyūna nisāʾakum, wa fī dhālikum balāʾum mir rabbikum ʿaẓīm.

    And [recall, O Children of Israel], when We saved you from the people of Pharaoh, [who were] afflicting you with the worst torment - killing your sons and keeping your women alive. And in that was a great trial from your Lord.

55. ۞ وَوَٰعَدۡنَا مُوسَىٰ ثَلَٰثِينَ لَيۡلَةٗ وَأَتۡمَمۡنَٰهَا بِعَشۡرٖ فَتَمَّ مِيقَٰتُ رَبِّهِۦٓ أَرۡبَعِينَ لَيۡلَةٗۚ وَقَالَ مُوسَىٰ لِأَخِيهِ هَٰرُونَ ٱخۡلُفۡنِي فِي قَوۡمِي وَأَصۡلِحۡ وَلَا تَتَّبِعۡ سَبِيلَ ٱلۡمُفۡسِدِينَ ١٤٢

    Wa wāʿadnā mūsā thalāthīna laylataw wa atmamnāhā biʿashrin fatamma mīqātu rabbihī arbaʿīna laylah, wa qāla mūsā liʾakhīhi hārūnakhlufnī fī qawmī wa aṣliḥ wa lā tattabiʿ sabīlal-mufsidīn.

    And We made an appointment with Moses for thirty nights and perfected them by [the addition of] ten; so the term of his Lord was completed as forty nights. And Moses said to his brother Aaron, "Take my place among my people, do right [by them],¹ and do not follow the way of the corrupters."

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    1. i.e., keep their affairs in order.

56. وَلَمَّا جَآءَ مُوسَىٰ لِمِيقَٰتِنَا وَكَلَّمَهُۥ رَبُّهُۥ قَالَ رَبِّ أَرِنِيٓ أَنظُرۡ إِلَيۡكَۚ قَالَ لَن تَرَىٰنِي وَلَٰكِنِ ٱنظُرۡ إِلَى ٱلۡجَبَلِ فَإِنِ ٱسۡتَقَرَّ مَكَانَهُۥ فَسَوۡفَ تَرَىٰنِيۚ فَلَمَّا تَجَلَّىٰ رَبُّهُۥ لِلۡجَبَلِ جَعَلَهُۥ دَكّٗا وَخَرَّ مُوسَىٰ صَعِقٗاۚ فَلَمَّآ أَفَاقَ قَالَ سُبۡحَٰنَكَ تُبۡتُ إِلَيۡكَ وَأَنَا۠ أَوَّلُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ١٤٣

    Wa lammā jāʾa mūsā limīqātinā wa kallamahū rabbuhū qāla rabbi arinī anẓur ilayk, qāla lan tarānī wa lākininẓur ilal-jabali fa inistaqarra makānahū fasawfa tarānī, falammā tajallā rabbuhū lil-jabali jaʿalahū dakkaw wa kharra mūsā ṣaʿiqā, falammā afāqa qāla subḥānaka tubtu ilayka wa ana awwalul-muʾminīn.

    And when Moses arrived at Our appointed time and his Lord spoke to him, he said, "My Lord, show me [Yourself] that I may look at You." [Allāh] said, "You will not see Me,¹ but look at the mountain; if it should remain in place, then you will see Me." But when his Lord appeared to the mountain, He rendered it level,² and Moses fell unconscious. And when he awoke, he said, "Exalted are You! I have repented to You, and I am the first [among my people] of the believers."³

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    1. That no one can see Allāh during the life of this world.
    2. It crumbled to dust.

57. قَالَ يَٰمُوسَىٰٓ إِنِّي ٱصۡطَفَيۡتُكَ عَلَى ٱلنَّاسِ بِرِسَٰلَٰتِي وَبِكَلَٰمِي فَخُذۡ مَآ ءَاتَيۡتُكَ وَكُن مِّنَ ٱلشَّٰكِرِينَ ١٤٤

    Qāla yāmūsā inniṣṭafaytuka ʿalan-nāsi birisālātī wabikalāmī fakhudh mā ātaytuka wa kum minash-shākirīn.

    [Allāh] said, "O Moses, I have chosen you over the people with My messages and My words [to you]. So take what I have given you and be among the grateful."

58. وَكَتَبۡنَا لَهُۥ فِي ٱلۡأَلۡوَاحِ مِن كُلِّ شَيۡءٖ مَّوۡعِظَةٗ وَتَفۡصِيلٗا لِّكُلِّ شَيۡءٖ فَخُذۡهَا بِقُوَّةٖ وَأۡمُرۡ قَوۡمَكَ يَأۡخُذُواْ بِأَحۡسَنِهَاۚ سَأُوْرِيكُمۡ دَارَ ٱلۡفَٰسِقِينَ ١٤٥

    Wa katabnā lahū fil-alwāḥi min kulli shayʾim mawʿiẓataw wa tafṣīlal likulli shayʾin fakhudhhā biquwwatiw waʾmur qawmaka yaʾkhudhū biʾaḥsanihā, saʾurīkum dāral-fāsiqīn.

    And We wrote for him on the tablets [something] of all things - instruction and explanation for all things, [saying], "Take them with determination and order your people to take the best of it. I will show you the home of the defiantly disobedient."¹

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    1. This is a severe warning from Allāh against rebellion.

59. سَأَصۡرِفُ عَنۡ ءَايَٰتِيَ ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَكَبَّرُونَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ بِغَيۡرِ ٱلۡحَقِّ وَإِن يَرَوۡاْ كُلَّ ءَايَةٖ لَّا يُؤۡمِنُواْ بِهَا وَإِن يَرَوۡاْ سَبِيلَ ٱلرُّشۡدِ لَا يَتَّخِذُوهُ سَبِيلٗا وَإِن يَرَوۡاْ سَبِيلَ ٱلۡغَيِّ يَتَّخِذُوهُ سَبِيلٗاۚ ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمۡ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَكَانُواْ عَنۡهَا غَٰفِلِينَ ١٤٦

    Saʾaṣrifu ʿan āyātiyal-ladhīna yatakabbarūna fil-arḍi bighayril-ḥaqqi wa iy yaraw kulla āyatil lā yuʾminū bihā wa iy yaraw sabīlar-rushdi lā yattakhidhūhu sabīlaw wa iy yaraw sabīlal-ghayyi yattakhidhūhu sabīlā, dhālika biʾannahum kadhdhabū biʾāyātinā wa kānū ʿanhā ghāfilīn.

    I will turn away from My signs those who are arrogant upon the earth without right; and if they should see every sign, they will not believe in it. And if they see the way of consciousness,¹ they will not adopt it as a way; but if they see the way of error, they will adopt it as a way. That is because they have denied Our signs and they were heedless of them.

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    1. i.e., reason and integrity.

60. وَٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَلِقَآءِ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ حَبِطَتۡ أَعۡمَٰلُهُمۡۚ هَلۡ يُجۡزَوۡنَ إِلَّا مَا كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ ١٤٧

    Wal-ladhīna kadhdhabū biʾāyātinā wa liqāʾil-ākhirati ḥabiṭat aʿmāluhum, hal yujzawna illā mā kānū yaʿmalūn.

    Those who denied Our signs and the meeting of the Hereafter - their deeds have become worthless. Are they recompensed except for what they used to do?

61. وَٱتَّخَذَ قَوۡمُ مُوسَىٰ مِنۢ بَعۡدِهِۦ مِنۡ حُلِيِّهِمۡ عِجۡلٗا جَسَدٗا لَّهُۥ خُوَارٌۚ أَلَمۡ يَرَوۡاْ أَنَّهُۥ لَا يُكَلِّمُهُمۡ وَلَا يَهۡدِيهِمۡ سَبِيلًاۘ ٱتَّخَذُوهُ وَكَانُواْ ظَٰلِمِينَ ١٤٨

    Wattakhadha qawmu mūsā mim baʿdihī min ḥuliyyihim ʿijlan jasadal lahū khuwār, alam yaraw annahū lā yukallimuhum wa lā yahdīhim sabīlā, ittakhadhūhu wa kānū ẓālimīn.

    And the people of Moses made, after [his departure], from their ornaments a calf - an image having a lowing sound. Did they not see that it could neither speak to them nor guide them to a way? They took it [for worship], and they were wrongdoers.

62. وَلَمَّا سُقِطَ فِيٓ أَيۡدِيهِمۡ وَرَأَوۡاْ أَنَّهُمۡ قَدۡ ضَلُّواْ قَالُواْ لَئِن لَّمۡ يَرۡحَمۡنَا رَبُّنَا وَيَغۡفِرۡ لَنَا لَنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلۡخَٰسِرِينَ ١٤٩

    Wa lammā suqiṭa fī aydīhim wa raʾaw annahum qad ḍallū qālū laʾil lam yarḥamnā rabbunā wa yaghfir lanā lanakūnanna minal-khāsirīn.

    And when regret overcame them¹ and they saw that they had gone astray, they said, "If our Lord does not have mercy upon us and forgive us, we will surely be among the losers."

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    1. Literally, "When their hands had been descended upon," i.e., bitten by them out of severe regret.

63. وَلَمَّا رَجَعَ مُوسَىٰٓ إِلَىٰ قَوۡمِهِۦ غَضۡبَٰنَ أَسِفٗا قَالَ بِئۡسَمَا خَلَفۡتُمُونِي مِنۢ بَعۡدِيٓۖ أَعَجِلۡتُمۡ أَمۡرَ رَبِّكُمۡۖ وَأَلۡقَى ٱلۡأَلۡوَاحَ وَأَخَذَ بِرَأۡسِ أَخِيهِ يَجُرُّهُۥٓ إِلَيۡهِۚ قَالَ ٱبۡنَ أُمَّ إِنَّ ٱلۡقَوۡمَ ٱسۡتَضۡعَفُونِي وَكَادُواْ يَقۡتُلُونَنِي فَلَا تُشۡمِتۡ بِيَ ٱلۡأَعۡدَآءَ وَلَا تَجۡعَلۡنِي مَعَ ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلظَّٰلِمِينَ ١٥٠

    Wa lammā rajaʿa mūsā ilā qawmihī ghaḍbāna asifan qāla biʾsamā khalaftumūnī mim baʿdī, aʿajiltum amra rabbikum, wa alqal-alwāḥa wa akhadha biraʾsi akhīhi yajurruhū ilayh, qālabna umma innal-qawmastaḍʿafūnī wa kādū yaqtulūnanī falā tushmit biyal-aʿdāʾa wa lā tajʿalnī maʿal-qawmiẓ-ẓālimīn.

    And when Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved, he said, "How wretched is that by which you have replaced me after [my departure]. Were you impatient over the matter of your Lord?" And he threw down the tablets and seized his brother by [the hair of] his head, pulling him toward him. [Aaron] said, "O son of my mother, indeed the people overpowered me and were about to kill me, so let not the enemies rejoice over me¹ and do not place me among the wrongdoing people."

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    1. i.e., over your humiliation of me.

64. قَالَ رَبِّ ٱغۡفِرۡ لِي وَلِأَخِي وَأَدۡخِلۡنَا فِي رَحۡمَتِكَۖ وَأَنتَ أَرۡحَمُ ٱلرَّٰحِمِينَ ١٥١

    Qāla rabbighfir lī waliʾakhī wa adkhilnā fī raḥmatik, wa anta arḥamur-rāḥimīn.

    [Moses] said, "My Lord, forgive me and my brother and admit us into Your mercy, for You are the most merciful of the merciful."

65. إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّخَذُواْ ٱلۡعِجۡلَ سَيَنَالُهُمۡ غَضَبٞ مِّن رَّبِّهِمۡ وَذِلَّةٞ فِي ٱلۡحَيَوٰةِ ٱلدُّنۡيَاۚ وَكَذَٰلِكَ نَجۡزِي ٱلۡمُفۡتَرِينَ ١٥٢

    Innal-ladhīnattakhadhul-ʿijla sayanāluhum ghaḍabum mir rabbihim wa dhillatun fil-ḥayātid-dunyā, wa kadhālika najzil-muftarīn.

    Indeed, those who took the calf [for worship] will obtain anger from their Lord and humiliation in the life of this world, and thus do We recompense the inventors [of falsehood].

66. وَٱلَّذِينَ عَمِلُواْ ٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ ثُمَّ تَابُواْ مِنۢ بَعۡدِهَا وَءَامَنُوٓاْ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِهَا لَغَفُورٞ رَّحِيمٞ ١٥٣

    Wal-ladhīna ʿamilus-sayyiʾāti thumma tābū mim baʿdihā wa āmanū inna rabbaka mim baʿdihā laghafūrur raḥīm.

    But those who committed misdeeds and then repented after them and believed - indeed your Lord, thereafter, is Forgiving and Merciful.

67. وَلَمَّا سَكَتَ عَن مُّوسَى ٱلۡغَضَبُ أَخَذَ ٱلۡأَلۡوَاحَۖ وَفِي نُسۡخَتِهَا هُدٗى وَرَحۡمَةٞ لِّلَّذِينَ هُمۡ لِرَبِّهِمۡ يَرۡهَبُونَ ١٥٤

    Wa lammā sakata ʿam mūsal-ghaḍabu akhadhal-alwāḥ, wa fī nuskhatihā hudaw wa raḥmatul lil-ladhīna hum lirabbihim yarhabūn.

    And when the anger subsided in Moses, he took up the tablets; and in their inscription was guidance and mercy for those who are fearful of their Lord.

68. وَٱخۡتَارَ مُوسَىٰ قَوۡمَهُۥ سَبۡعِينَ رَجُلٗا لِّمِيقَٰتِنَاۖ فَلَمَّآ أَخَذَتۡهُمُ ٱلرَّجۡفَةُ قَالَ رَبِّ لَوۡ شِئۡتَ أَهۡلَكۡتَهُم مِّن قَبۡلُ وَإِيَّٰيَۖ أَتُهۡلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ ٱلسُّفَهَآءُ مِنَّآۖ إِنۡ هِيَ إِلَّا فِتۡنَتُكَ تُضِلُّ بِهَا مَن تَشَآءُ وَتَهۡدِي مَن تَشَآءُۖ أَنتَ وَلِيُّنَا فَٱغۡفِرۡ لَنَا وَٱرۡحَمۡنَاۖ وَأَنتَ خَيۡرُ ٱلۡغَٰفِرِينَ ١٥٥

    Wakhtāra mūsā qawmahū sabʿīna rajulal limīqātinā, falammā akhadhathumur-rajfatu qāla rabbi law shiʾta ahlaktahum min qablu wa iyyāy, atuhlikunā bimā faʿalas-sufahāʾu minnā, in hiya illā fitnatuka tuḍillu bihā man tashāʾu wa tahdī man tashāʾ, anta waliyyunā faghfir lanā warḥamnā, wa anta khayrul-ghāfirīn.

    And Moses chose from his people seventy men for Our appointment.¹ And when the earthquake seized them,² he said, "My Lord, if You had willed, You could have destroyed them before and me [as well]. Would You destroy us for what the foolish among us have done? This is not but Your trial by which You send astray whom You will and guide whom You will. You are our Protector, so forgive us and have mercy upon us; and You are the best of forgivers.

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    1. Whereupon they were to apologize to Allāh for having worshipped the calf.
    2. Upon reaching the appointed place, they said to Moses, "We will not believe until we see Allāh outright." So the mountain convulsed, killing them.

69. ۞ وَٱكۡتُبۡ لَنَا فِي هَٰذِهِ ٱلدُّنۡيَا حَسَنَةٗ وَفِي ٱلۡأٓخِرَةِ إِنَّا هُدۡنَآ إِلَيۡكَۚ قَالَ عَذَابِيٓ أُصِيبُ بِهِۦ مَنۡ أَشَآءُۖ وَرَحۡمَتِي وَسِعَتۡ كُلَّ شَيۡءٖۚ فَسَأَكۡتُبُهَا لِلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَ وَيُؤۡتُونَ ٱلزَّكَوٰةَ وَٱلَّذِينَ هُم بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا يُؤۡمِنُونَ ١٥٦

    Waktub lanā fī hādhihid-dunyā ḥasanataw wa fil-ākhirati innā hudnā ilayk, qāla ʿadhābī uṣību bihī man ashāʾ, wa raḥmatī wasiʿat kulla shayʾ, fasaʾaktubuhā lil-ladhīna yattaqūna wa yuʾtūnaz-zakāta wal-ladhīna hum biʾāyātinā yuʾminūn.

    And decree for us in this world [that which is] good and [also] in the Hereafter; indeed, we have turned back to You." [Allāh] said, "My punishment - I afflict with it whom I will, but My mercy encompasses all things." So I will decree it [especially] for those who fear Me and give zakāh and those who believe in Our verses-

70. ٱلَّذِينَ يَتَّبِعُونَ ٱلرَّسُولَ ٱلنَّبِيَّ ٱلۡأُمِّيَّ ٱلَّذِي يَجِدُونَهُۥ مَكۡتُوبًا عِندَهُمۡ فِي ٱلتَّوۡرَىٰةِ وَٱلۡإِنجِيلِ يَأۡمُرُهُم بِٱلۡمَعۡرُوفِ وَيَنۡهَىٰهُمۡ عَنِ ٱلۡمُنكَرِ وَيُحِلُّ لَهُمُ ٱلطَّيِّبَٰتِ وَيُحَرِّمُ عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡخَبَٰٓئِثَ وَيَضَعُ عَنۡهُمۡ إِصۡرَهُمۡ وَٱلۡأَغۡلَٰلَ ٱلَّتِي كَانَتۡ عَلَيۡهِمۡۚ فَٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ بِهِۦ وَعَزَّرُوهُ وَنَصَرُوهُ وَٱتَّبَعُواْ ٱلنُّورَ ٱلَّذِيٓ أُنزِلَ مَعَهُۥٓ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡمُفۡلِحُونَ ١٥٧

    Al-ladhīna yattabiʿūnar-rasūlan-nabiyyal-ummiyyal-ladhī yajidūnahū maktūban ʿindahum fit-tawrāti wal-injīli yaʾmuruhum bil-maʿrūfi wa yanhāhum ʿanil-munkari wa yuḥillu lahumuṭ-ṭayyibāti wa yuḥarrimu ʿalayhimul-khabāʾitha wa yaḍaʿu ʿanhum iṣrahum wal-aghlālal-latī kānat ʿalayhim, fal-ladhīna āmanū bihī wa ʿazzarūhu wa naṣarūhu wattabaʿun-nūral-ladhī unzila maʿahū ulāʾika humul-mufliḥūn.

    Those who follow the Messenger, the unlettered prophet, whom they find written [i.e., described] in what they have of the Torah and the Gospel, who enjoins upon them what is right and prohibits them from what is wrong and makes lawful for them what is good and forbids them from what is evil and relieves them of their burden¹ and the shackles which were upon them.² So they who have believed in him, honored him, supported him and followed the light which was sent down with him - it is those who will be the successful.

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    1. Difficulties in religious practice.
    2. i.e., extreme measures previously required for repentance, and retribution without recourse to compensation.

71. قُلۡ يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلنَّاسُ إِنِّي رَسُولُ ٱللَّهِ إِلَيۡكُمۡ جَمِيعًا ٱلَّذِي لَهُۥ مُلۡكُ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۖ لَآ إِلَٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ يُحۡيِۦ وَيُمِيتُۖ فَـَٔامِنُواْ بِٱللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ ٱلنَّبِيِّ ٱلۡأُمِّيِّ ٱلَّذِي يُؤۡمِنُ بِٱللَّهِ وَكَلِمَٰتِهِۦ وَٱتَّبِعُوهُ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَهۡتَدُونَ ١٥٨

    Qul yāʾayyuhan-nāsu innī rasūlullāhi ilaykum jamīʿanil-ladhī lahū mulkus-samāwāti wal-arḍ, lā ilāha illā huwa yuḥyī wa yumīt, fa āminū billāhi wa rasūlihin-nabiyyil-ummiyyil-ladhī yuʾminu billāhi wa kalimātihī wattabiʿūhu laʿallakum tahtadūn.

    Say, [O Muḥammad], "O mankind, indeed I am the Messenger of Allāh to you all, [from Him] to whom belongs the dominion of the heavens and the earth. There is no deity except Him; He gives life and causes death." So believe in Allāh and His Messenger, the unlettered prophet, who believes in Allāh and His words, and follow him that you may be guided.

72. وَمِن قَوۡمِ مُوسَىٰٓ أُمَّةٞ يَهۡدُونَ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَبِهِۦ يَعۡدِلُونَ ١٥٩

    Wa min qawmi mūsā ummatuy yahdūna bil-ḥaqqi wabihī yaʿdilūn.

    And among the people of Moses is a community¹ which guides by truth and by it establishes justice.

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    1. Those of them who accepted and followed the final prophet, Muḥammad (ﷺ).

73. وَقَطَّعۡنَٰهُمُ ٱثۡنَتَيۡ عَشۡرَةَ أَسۡبَاطًا أُمَمٗاۚ وَأَوۡحَيۡنَآ إِلَىٰ مُوسَىٰٓ إِذِ ٱسۡتَسۡقَىٰهُ قَوۡمُهُۥٓ أَنِ ٱضۡرِب بِّعَصَاكَ ٱلۡحَجَرَۖ فَٱنۢبَجَسَتۡ مِنۡهُ ٱثۡنَتَا عَشۡرَةَ عَيۡنٗاۖ قَدۡ عَلِمَ كُلُّ أُنَاسٖ مَّشۡرَبَهُمۡۚ وَظَلَّلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡغَمَٰمَ وَأَنزَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمُ ٱلۡمَنَّ وَٱلسَّلۡوَىٰۖ كُلُواْ مِن طَيِّبَٰتِ مَا رَزَقۡنَٰكُمۡۚ وَمَا ظَلَمُونَا وَلَٰكِن كَانُوٓاْ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَظۡلِمُونَ ١٦٠

    Wa qaṭṭaʿnāhumuthnatay ʿashrata asbāṭan umamā, wa awḥaynā ilā mūsā idhistasqāhu qawmuhū aniḍrib biʿaṣākal-ḥajar, fanbajasat minhuthnatā ʿashrata ʿaynā, qad ʿalima kullu unāsim mashrabahum, wa ẓallalnā ʿalayhimul-ghamāma wa anzalnā ʿalayhimul-manna was-salwā, kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum, wa mā ẓalamūnā wa lākin kānū anfusahum yaẓlimūn.

    And We divided them into twelve descendant tribes¹ [as distinct] nations. And We inspired to Moses when his people implored him for water, "Strike with your staff the stone," and there gushed forth from it twelve springs. Every people [i.e., tribe] knew its watering place. And We shaded them with clouds and sent down upon them manna and quails, [saying], "Eat from the good things with which We have provided you." And they wronged Us not, but they were [only] wronging themselves.

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    1. From the twelve sons of Jacob.

74. وَإِذۡ قِيلَ لَهُمُ ٱسۡكُنُواْ هَٰذِهِ ٱلۡقَرۡيَةَ وَكُلُواْ مِنۡهَا حَيۡثُ شِئۡتُمۡ وَقُولُواْ حِطَّةٞ وَٱدۡخُلُواْ ٱلۡبَابَ سُجَّدٗا نَّغۡفِرۡ لَكُمۡ خَطِيٓـَٰٔتِكُمۡۚ سَنَزِيدُ ٱلۡمُحۡسِنِينَ ١٦١

    Wa idh qīla lahumuskunū hādhihil-qaryata wa kulū minhā ḥaythu shiʾtum wa qūlū ḥiṭṭatuw wadkhulul-bāba sujjadan naghfir lakum khaṭīʾātikum, sanazīdul-muḥsinīn.

    And [mention, O Muḥammad], when it was said to them, "Dwell in this city [i.e., Jerusalem] and eat from it wherever you will and say, 'Relieve us of our burdens [i.e., sins],' and enter the gate bowing humbly; We will [then] forgive you your sins. We will increase the doers of good [in goodness and reward]."

75. فَبَدَّلَ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ مِنۡهُمۡ قَوۡلًا غَيۡرَ ٱلَّذِي قِيلَ لَهُمۡ فَأَرۡسَلۡنَا عَلَيۡهِمۡ رِجۡزٗا مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَظۡلِمُونَ ١٦٢

    Fabaddalal-ladhīna ẓalamū minhum qawlan ghayral-ladhī qīla lahum fa arsalnā ʿalayhim rijzam minas-samāʾi bimā kānū yaẓlimūn.

    But those who wronged among them changed [the words] to a statement other than that which had been said to them. So We sent upon them a punishment from the sky for the wrong that they were doing.

76. وَسۡـَٔلۡهُمۡ عَنِ ٱلۡقَرۡيَةِ ٱلَّتِي كَانَتۡ حَاضِرَةَ ٱلۡبَحۡرِ إِذۡ يَعۡدُونَ فِي ٱلسَّبۡتِ إِذۡ تَأۡتِيهِمۡ حِيتَانُهُمۡ يَوۡمَ سَبۡتِهِمۡ شُرَّعٗا وَيَوۡمَ لَا يَسۡبِتُونَ لَا تَأۡتِيهِمۡۚ كَذَٰلِكَ نَبۡلُوهُم بِمَا كَانُواْ يَفۡسُقُونَ ١٦٣

    Wasʾalhum ʿanil-qaryatil-latī kānat ḥāḍiratal-baḥri idh yaʿdūna fis-sabti idh taʾtīhim ḥītānuhum yawma sabtihim shurraʿaw wa yawma lā yasbitūna lā taʾtīhim, kadhālika nablūhum bimā kānū yafsuqūn.

    And ask them about the town that was by the sea - when they transgressed in [the matter of] the sabbath - when their fish came to them openly on their sabbath day, and the day they had no sabbath they did not come to them. Thus did We give them trial because they were defiantly disobedient.

77. وَإِذۡ قَالَتۡ أُمَّةٞ مِّنۡهُمۡ لِمَ تَعِظُونَ قَوۡمًا ٱللَّهُ مُهۡلِكُهُمۡ أَوۡ مُعَذِّبُهُمۡ عَذَابٗا شَدِيدٗاۖ قَالُواْ مَعۡذِرَةً إِلَىٰ رَبِّكُمۡ وَلَعَلَّهُمۡ يَتَّقُونَ ١٦٤

    Wa idh qālat ummatum minhum lima taʿiẓūna qawmanillāhu muhlikuhum aw muʿadhdhibuhum ʿadhāban shadīdā, qālū maʿdhiratan ilā rabbikum wa laʿallahum yattaqūn.

    And when a community among them said, "Why do you advise [or warn] a people whom Allāh is [about] to destroy or to punish with a severe punishment?" they [the advisors] said, "To be absolved before your Lord and perhaps they may fear Him."

78. فَلَمَّا نَسُواْ مَا ذُكِّرُواْ بِهِۦٓ أَنجَيۡنَا ٱلَّذِينَ يَنۡهَوۡنَ عَنِ ٱلسُّوٓءِ وَأَخَذۡنَا ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ بِعَذَابِۭ بَـِٔيسِۭ بِمَا كَانُواْ يَفۡسُقُونَ ١٦٥

    Falammā nasū mā dhukkirū bihī anjaynal-ladhīna yanhawna ʿanis-sūʾi wa akhadhnal-ladhīna ẓalamū biʿadhābim baʾīsim bimā kānū yafsuqūn.

    And when they [i.e., those advised] forgot that by which they had been reminded, We saved those who had forbidden evil and seized those who wronged, with a wretched punishment, because they were defiantly disobeying.

79. فَلَمَّا عَتَوۡاْ عَن مَّا نُهُواْ عَنۡهُ قُلۡنَا لَهُمۡ كُونُواْ قِرَدَةً خَٰسِـِٔينَ ١٦٦

    Falammā ʿataw ʿam mā nuhū ʿanhu qulnā lahum kūnū qiradatan khāsiʾīn.

    So when they were insolent about that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, "Be apes, despised."

80. وَإِذۡ تَأَذَّنَ رَبُّكَ لَيَبۡعَثَنَّ عَلَيۡهِمۡ إِلَىٰ يَوۡمِ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ مَن يَسُومُهُمۡ سُوٓءَ ٱلۡعَذَابِۗ إِنَّ رَبَّكَ لَسَرِيعُ ٱلۡعِقَابِ وَإِنَّهُۥ لَغَفُورٞ رَّحِيمٞ ١٦٧

    Wa idh taʾadhdhana rabbuka layabʿathanna ʿalayhim ilā yawmil-qiyāmati may yasūmuhum sūʾal-ʿadhāb, inna rabbaka lasarīʿul-ʿiqābi wa innahū laghafūrur raḥīm.

    And [mention] when your Lord declared that He would surely [continue to] send upon them until the Day of Resurrection those who would afflict them with the worst torment. Indeed, your Lord is swift in penalty; but indeed, He is Forgiving and Merciful.

81. وَقَطَّعۡنَٰهُمۡ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ أُمَمٗاۖ مِّنۡهُمُ ٱلصَّٰلِحُونَ وَمِنۡهُمۡ دُونَ ذَٰلِكَۖ وَبَلَوۡنَٰهُم بِٱلۡحَسَنَٰتِ وَٱلسَّيِّـَٔاتِ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَرۡجِعُونَ ١٦٨

    Wa qaṭṭaʿnāhum fil-arḍi umamā, minhumuṣ-ṣāliḥūna wa minhum dūna dhālik, wa balawnāhum bil-ḥasanāti was-sayyiʾāti laʿallahum yarjiʿūn.

    And We divided them throughout the earth into nations. Of them some were righteous, and of them some were otherwise. And We tested them with good [times] and bad that perhaps they would return [to obedience].

82. فَخَلَفَ مِنۢ بَعۡدِهِمۡ خَلۡفٞ وَرِثُواْ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَ يَأۡخُذُونَ عَرَضَ هَٰذَا ٱلۡأَدۡنَىٰ وَيَقُولُونَ سَيُغۡفَرُ لَنَا وَإِن يَأۡتِهِمۡ عَرَضٞ مِّثۡلُهُۥ يَأۡخُذُوهُۚ أَلَمۡ يُؤۡخَذۡ عَلَيۡهِم مِّيثَٰقُ ٱلۡكِتَٰبِ أَن لَّا يَقُولُواْ عَلَى ٱللَّهِ إِلَّا ٱلۡحَقَّ وَدَرَسُواْ مَا فِيهِۗ وَٱلدَّارُ ٱلۡأٓخِرَةُ خَيۡرٞ لِّلَّذِينَ يَتَّقُونَۚ أَفَلَا تَعۡقِلُونَ ١٦٩

    Fakhalafa mim baʿdihim khalfuw warithul-kitāba yaʾkhudhūna ʿaraḍa hādhal-adnā wa yaqūlūna sayughfaru lanā wa iy yaʾtihim ʿaraḍum mithluhū yaʾkhudhūh, alam yuʾkhadh ʿalayhim mīthāqul-kitābi al lā yaqūlū ʿalallāhi illal-ḥaqqa wa darasū mā fīh, wad-dārul-ākhiratu khayrul lil-ladhīna yattaqūn, afalā taʿqilūn.

    And there followed them successors who inherited the Scripture [while] taking the commodities¹ of this lower life and saying, "It will be forgiven for us." And if an offer like it² comes to them, they will [again] take it. Was not the covenant of the Scripture [i.e., the Torah] taken from them that they would not say about Allāh except the truth, and they studied what was in it? And the home of the Hereafter is better for those who fear Allāh, so will you not use reason?

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    1. i.e., unlawful gains and pleasures.
    2. i.e., a similar temptation.

83. وَٱلَّذِينَ يُمَسِّكُونَ بِٱلۡكِتَٰبِ وَأَقَامُواْ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ إِنَّا لَا نُضِيعُ أَجۡرَ ٱلۡمُصۡلِحِينَ ١٧٠

    Wal-ladhīna yumassikūna bil-kitābi wa aqāmuṣ-ṣalāta innā lā nuḍīʿu ajral-muṣliḥīn.

    But those who hold fast to the Book [i.e., the Qur’ān] and establish prayer - indeed, We will not allow to be lost the reward of the reformers.

84. ۞ وَإِذۡ نَتَقۡنَا ٱلۡجَبَلَ فَوۡقَهُمۡ كَأَنَّهُۥ ظُلَّةٞ وَظَنُّوٓاْ أَنَّهُۥ وَاقِعُۢ بِهِمۡ خُذُواْ مَآ ءَاتَيۡنَٰكُم بِقُوَّةٖ وَٱذۡكُرُواْ مَا فِيهِ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَتَّقُونَ ١٧١

    Wa idh nataqnal-jabala fawqahum kaʾannahū ẓullatuw wa ẓannū annahū wāqiʿum bihim khudhū mā ātaynākum biquwwatiw wadhkurū mā fīhi laʿallakum tattaqūn.

    And [mention] when We raised the mountain above them as if it was a dark cloud and they were certain that it would fall upon them,¹ [and Allāh said], "Take what We have given you with determination and remember what is in it that you might fear Allāh."

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    1. For their rebellion and disobedience.

85. وَإِذۡ أَخَذَ رَبُّكَ مِنۢ بَنِيٓ ءَادَمَ مِن ظُهُورِهِمۡ ذُرِّيَّتَهُمۡ وَأَشۡهَدَهُمۡ عَلَىٰٓ أَنفُسِهِمۡ أَلَسۡتُ بِرَبِّكُمۡۖ قَالُواْ بَلَىٰ شَهِدۡنَآۚ أَن تَقُولُواْ يَوۡمَ ٱلۡقِيَٰمَةِ إِنَّا كُنَّا عَنۡ هَٰذَا غَٰفِلِينَ ١٧٢

    Wa idh akhadha rabbuka mim banī ādama min ẓuhūrihim dhurriyyatahum wa ashhadahum ʿalā anfusihim alastu birabbikum, qālū balā shahidnā, an taqūlū yawmal-qiyāmati innā kunnā ʿan hādhā ghāfilīn.

    And [mention] when your Lord took from the children of Adam - from their loins - their descendants and made them testify of themselves, [saying to them], "Am I not your Lord?" They said, "Yes, we have testified." [This] - lest you should say on the Day of Resurrection, "Indeed, we were of this unaware."

86. أَوۡ تَقُولُوٓاْ إِنَّمَآ أَشۡرَكَ ءَابَآؤُنَا مِن قَبۡلُ وَكُنَّا ذُرِّيَّةٗ مِّنۢ بَعۡدِهِمۡۖ أَفَتُهۡلِكُنَا بِمَا فَعَلَ ٱلۡمُبۡطِلُونَ ١٧٣

    Aw taqūlū innamā ashraka ābāʾunā min qablu wa kunnā dhurriyyatam mim baʿdihim, afatuhlikunā bimā faʿalal-mubṭilūn.

    Or [lest] you say, "It was only that our fathers associated [others in worship] with Allāh before, and we were but descendants after them. Then would You destroy us for what the falsifiers have done?"

87. وَكَذَٰلِكَ نُفَصِّلُ ٱلۡأٓيَٰتِ وَلَعَلَّهُمۡ يَرۡجِعُونَ ١٧٤

    Wa kadhālika nufaṣṣilul-āyāti wa laʿallahum yarjiʿūn.

    And thus do We [explain in] detail the verses, and perhaps they will return.¹

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    1. To the way of Allāh (subḥānahu wa taʿālā), from their diversions and deviations.

88. وَٱتۡلُ عَلَيۡهِمۡ نَبَأَ ٱلَّذِيٓ ءَاتَيۡنَٰهُ ءَايَٰتِنَا فَٱنسَلَخَ مِنۡهَا فَأَتۡبَعَهُ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنُ فَكَانَ مِنَ ٱلۡغَاوِينَ ١٧٥

    Watlu ʿalayhim nabaʾal-ladhī ātaynāhu āyātinā fansalakha minhā fa atbaʿahush-shayṭānu fakāna minal-ghāwīn.

    And recite to them, [O Muḥammad], the news of him¹ to whom We gave [knowledge of] Our signs, but he detached himself from them; so Satan pursued him, and he became of the deviators.²

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    1. A man from the Children of Israel at the time of Moses.
    2. Those who deliberately persist in error to the point of destruction.

89. وَلَوۡ شِئۡنَا لَرَفَعۡنَٰهُ بِهَا وَلَٰكِنَّهُۥٓ أَخۡلَدَ إِلَى ٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَٱتَّبَعَ هَوَىٰهُۚ فَمَثَلُهُۥ كَمَثَلِ ٱلۡكَلۡبِ إِن تَحۡمِلۡ عَلَيۡهِ يَلۡهَثۡ أَوۡ تَتۡرُكۡهُ يَلۡهَثۚ ذَّٰلِكَ مَثَلُ ٱلۡقَوۡمِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَاۚ فَٱقۡصُصِ ٱلۡقَصَصَ لَعَلَّهُمۡ يَتَفَكَّرُونَ ١٧٦

    Wa law shiʾnā larafaʿnāhu bihā wa lākinnahū akhlada ilal-arḍi wattabaʿa hawāh, famathaluhū kamathalil-kalbi in taḥmil ʿalayhi yalhath aw tatrukhu yalhath, dhālika mathalul-qawmil-ladhīna kadhdhabū biʾāyātinā, faqṣuṣil-qaṣaṣa laʿallahum yatafakkarūn.

    And if We had willed, We could have elevated him thereby,¹ but he adhered [instead] to the earth² and followed his own desire. So his example is like that of the dog: if you chase him, he pants, or if you leave him, he [still] pants. That is the example of the people who denied Our signs.³ So relate the stories that perhaps they will give thought.

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    1. i.e., through the revelations, signs or evidences of which he had been given knowledge.
    2. i.e., its worldly pleasures.
    3. Whether or not they have been exposed to Allāh's signs or warnings, it is all the same: they will not believe.

90. سَآءَ مَثَلًا ٱلۡقَوۡمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا وَأَنفُسَهُمۡ كَانُواْ يَظۡلِمُونَ ١٧٧

    Sāʾa mathalanil-qawmul-ladhīna kadhdhabū biʾāyātinā wa anfusahum kānū yaẓlimūn.

    How evil an example [is that of] the people who denied Our signs and used to wrong themselves.

91. مَن يَهۡدِ ٱللَّهُ فَهُوَ ٱلۡمُهۡتَدِيۖ وَمَن يُضۡلِلۡ فَأُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡخَٰسِرُونَ ١٧٨

    May yahdillāhu fahuwal-muhtadī, wa may yuḍlil fa ulāʾika humul-khāsirūn.

    Whoever Allāh guides - he is the [rightly] guided; and whoever He sends astray¹ - it is those who are the losers.

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    1. As a result of persistence in evil and rejection of truth.

92. وَلَقَدۡ ذَرَأۡنَا لِجَهَنَّمَ كَثِيرٗا مِّنَ ٱلۡجِنِّ وَٱلۡإِنسِۖ لَهُمۡ قُلُوبٞ لَّا يَفۡقَهُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمۡ أَعۡيُنٞ لَّا يُبۡصِرُونَ بِهَا وَلَهُمۡ ءَاذَانٞ لَّا يَسۡمَعُونَ بِهَآۚ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ كَٱلۡأَنۡعَٰمِ بَلۡ هُمۡ أَضَلُّۚ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡغَٰفِلُونَ ١٧٩

    Wa laqad dharaʾnā lijahannama kathīram minal-jinni wal-ins, lahum qulūbul lā yafqahūna bihā wa lahum aʿyunul lā yubṣirūna bihā wa lahum ādhānul lā yasmaʿūna bihā, ulāʾika kal-anʿāmi bal hum aḍall, ulāʾika humul-ghāfilūn.

    And We have certainly created for Hell many of the jinn and mankind. They have hearts with which they do not understand, they have eyes with which they do not see, and they have ears with which they do not hear. Those are like livestock; rather, they are more astray.¹ It is they who are the heedless.

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    1. The reference is to their inability (i.e., refusal) to think and reason, while blindly following (as they are accustomed).

93. وَلِلَّهِ ٱلۡأَسۡمَآءُ ٱلۡحُسۡنَىٰ فَٱدۡعُوهُ بِهَاۖ وَذَرُواْ ٱلَّذِينَ يُلۡحِدُونَ فِيٓ أَسۡمَٰٓئِهِۦۚ سَيُجۡزَوۡنَ مَا كَانُواْ يَعۡمَلُونَ ١٨٠

    Walillāhil-asmāʾul-ḥusnā fadʿūhu bihā, wadharul-ladhīna yulḥidūna fī asmāʾih, sayujzawna mā kānū yaʿmalūn.

    And to Allāh belong the best names, so invoke Him by them. And leave [the company of] those who practice deviation concerning His names.¹ They will be recompensed for what they have been doing.

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    1. i.e., use them improperly or deny them.

94. وَمِمَّنۡ خَلَقۡنَآ أُمَّةٞ يَهۡدُونَ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَبِهِۦ يَعۡدِلُونَ ١٨١

    Wa mimman khalaqnā ummatuy yahdūna bil-ḥaqqi wabihī yaʿdilūn.

    And among those We created is a community¹ which guides by truth and thereby establishes justice.

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    1. The followers of Prophet Muḥammad (ﷺ).

95. وَٱلَّذِينَ كَذَّبُواْ بِـَٔايَٰتِنَا سَنَسۡتَدۡرِجُهُم مِّنۡ حَيۡثُ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ ١٨٢

    Wal-ladhīna kadhdhabū biʾāyātinā sanastadrijuhum min ḥaythu lā yaʿlamūn.

    But those who deny Our signs - We will progressively lead them [to destruction]¹ from where they do not know.

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    1. Allāh will test them with one favor after another in spite of their disobedience, which only increases them in arrogance and sin.

96. وَأُمۡلِي لَهُمۡۚ إِنَّ كَيۡدِي مَتِينٌ ١٨٣

    Wa umlī lahum, inna kaydī matīn.

    And I will give them time. Indeed, My plan is firm.

97. أَوَلَمۡ يَتَفَكَّرُواْۗ مَا بِصَاحِبِهِم مِّن جِنَّةٍۚ إِنۡ هُوَ إِلَّا نَذِيرٞ مُّبِينٌ ١٨٤

    Awalam yatafakkarū, mā biṣāḥibihim min jinnah, in huwa illā nadhīrum mubīn.

    Then do they not give thought? There is in their companion [i.e., Muḥammad (ﷺ)] no madness. He is not but a clear warner.

98. أَوَلَمۡ يَنظُرُواْ فِي مَلَكُوتِ ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِ وَمَا خَلَقَ ٱللَّهُ مِن شَيۡءٖ وَأَنۡ عَسَىٰٓ أَن يَكُونَ قَدِ ٱقۡتَرَبَ أَجَلُهُمۡۖ فَبِأَيِّ حَدِيثِۭ بَعۡدَهُۥ يُؤۡمِنُونَ ١٨٥

    Awalam yanẓurū fī malakūtis-samāwāti wal-arḍi wa mā khalaqallāhu min shayʾiw wa an ʿasā ay yakūna qadiqtaraba ajaluhum, fabiʾayyi ḥadīthim baʿdahū yuʾminūn.

    Do they not look into the realm of the heavens and the earth and everything that Allāh has created and [think] that perhaps their appointed time has come near? So in what statement [i.e., message] hereafter will they believe?

99. مَن يُضۡلِلِ ٱللَّهُ فَلَا هَادِيَ لَهُۥۚ وَيَذَرُهُمۡ فِي طُغۡيَٰنِهِمۡ يَعۡمَهُونَ ١٨٦

    May yuḍlilillāhu falā hādiya lah, wa yadharuhum fī ṭughyānihim yaʿmahūn.

    Whoever Allāh sends astray - there is no guide for him. And He leaves them in their transgression, wandering blindly.

100. يَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلسَّاعَةِ أَيَّانَ مُرۡسَىٰهَاۖ قُلۡ إِنَّمَا عِلۡمُهَا عِندَ رَبِّيۖ لَا يُجَلِّيهَا لِوَقۡتِهَآ إِلَّا هُوَۚ ثَقُلَتۡ فِي ٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِ وَٱلۡأَرۡضِۚ لَا تَأۡتِيكُمۡ إِلَّا بَغۡتَةٗۗ يَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ كَأَنَّكَ حَفِيٌّ عَنۡهَاۖ قُلۡ إِنَّمَا عِلۡمُهَا عِندَ ٱللَّهِ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكۡثَرَ ٱلنَّاسِ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ ١٨٧

     Yasʾalūnaka ʿanis-sāʿati ayyāna mursāhā, qul innamā ʿilmuhā ʿinda rabbī, lā yujallīhā liwaqtihā illā huw, thaqulat fis-samāwāti wal-arḍ, lā taʾtīkum illā baghtah, yasʾalūnaka kaʾannaka ḥafiyyun ʿanhā, qul innamā ʿilmuhā ʿindallāhi wa lākinna aktharan-nāsi lā yaʿlamūn.

     They ask you, [O Muḥammad], about the Hour: when is its arrival?¹ Say, "Its knowledge is only with my Lord. None will reveal its time except Him. It lays heavily² upon the heavens and the earth. It will not come upon you except unexpectedly." They ask you as if you are familiar with it. Say, "Its knowledge is only with Allāh, but most of the people do not know."

     Footnotes (2)

     1. Literally, "resting" or "establishment."
     2. i.e., it is a source of concern, worry or fear.

101. قُل لَّآ أَمۡلِكُ لِنَفۡسِي نَفۡعٗا وَلَا ضَرًّا إِلَّا مَا شَآءَ ٱللَّهُۚ وَلَوۡ كُنتُ أَعۡلَمُ ٱلۡغَيۡبَ لَٱسۡتَكۡثَرۡتُ مِنَ ٱلۡخَيۡرِ وَمَا مَسَّنِيَ ٱلسُّوٓءُۚ إِنۡ أَنَا۠ إِلَّا نَذِيرٞ وَبَشِيرٞ لِّقَوۡمٖ يُؤۡمِنُونَ ١٨٨

     Qul lā amliku linafsī nafʿaw wa lā ḍarran illā mā shāʾallāh, wa law kuntu aʿlamul-ghayba lastakthartu minal-khayri wa mā massaniyas-sūʾ, in ana illā nadhīruw wa bashīrul liqawmiy yuʾminūn.

     Say, "I hold not for myself [the power of] benefit or harm, except what Allāh has willed. And if I knew the unseen, I could have acquired much wealth, and no harm would have touched me. I am not except a warner and a bringer of good tidings to a people who believe."

102. ۞ هُوَ ٱلَّذِي خَلَقَكُم مِّن نَّفۡسٖ وَٰحِدَةٖ وَجَعَلَ مِنۡهَا زَوۡجَهَا لِيَسۡكُنَ إِلَيۡهَاۖ فَلَمَّا تَغَشَّىٰهَا حَمَلَتۡ حَمۡلًا خَفِيفٗا فَمَرَّتۡ بِهِۦۖ فَلَمَّآ أَثۡقَلَت دَّعَوَا ٱللَّهَ رَبَّهُمَا لَئِنۡ ءَاتَيۡتَنَا صَٰلِحٗا لَّنَكُونَنَّ مِنَ ٱلشَّٰكِرِينَ ١٨٩

     Huwal-ladhī khalaqakum min nafsiw wāḥidatiw wa jaʿala minhā zawjahā liyaskuna ilayhā, falammā taghashshāhā ḥamalat ḥamlan khafīfan famarrat bih, falammā athqalat daʿawallāha rabbahumā laʾin ātaytanā ṣāliḥal lanakūnanna minash-shākirīn.

     It is He who created you from one soul and created from it its mate that he¹ might dwell in security with her. And when he [i.e., man] covers her,² she carries a light burden [i.e., a pregnancy] and continues therein. And when it becomes heavy, they both invoke Allāh, their Lord, "If You should give us a good³ [child], we will surely be among the grateful."

     Footnotes (3)

     1. i.e., man or every descendent of Adam.
     2. An allusion to sexual intercourse.
     3. Physically sound or righteous.

103. فَلَمَّآ ءَاتَىٰهُمَا صَٰلِحٗا جَعَلَا لَهُۥ شُرَكَآءَ فِيمَآ ءَاتَىٰهُمَاۚ فَتَعَٰلَى ٱللَّهُ عَمَّا يُشۡرِكُونَ ١٩٠

     Falammā ātāhumā ṣāliḥan jaʿalā lahū shurakāʾa fīmā ātāhumā, fataʿālallāhu ʿammā yushrikūn.

     But when He gives them a good [child], they¹ ascribe partners to Him concerning that which He has given them. Exalted is Allāh above what they associate with Him.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. The ungrateful man and woman or the polytheistic man and woman.

104. أَيُشۡرِكُونَ مَا لَا يَخۡلُقُ شَيۡـٔٗا وَهُمۡ يُخۡلَقُونَ ١٩١

     Ayushrikūna mā lā yakhluqu shayʾaw wa hum yukhlaqūn.

     Do they associate with Him those who create nothing and they are [themselves] created?

105. وَلَا يَسۡتَطِيعُونَ لَهُمۡ نَصۡرٗا وَلَآ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَنصُرُونَ ١٩٢

     Wa lā yastaṭīʿūna lahum naṣraw wa lā anfusahum yanṣurūn.

     And they [i.e., the false deities] are unable to [give] them help, nor can they help themselves.

106. وَإِن تَدۡعُوهُمۡ إِلَى ٱلۡهُدَىٰ لَا يَتَّبِعُوكُمۡۚ سَوَآءٌ عَلَيۡكُمۡ أَدَعَوۡتُمُوهُمۡ أَمۡ أَنتُمۡ صَٰمِتُونَ ١٩٣

     Wa in tadʿūhum ilal-hudā lā yattabiʿūkum, sawāʾun ʿalaykum adaʿawtumūhum am antum ṣāmitūn.

     And if you [believers] invite them to guidance, they will not follow you. It is all the same for you whether you invite them or you are silent.

107. إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ تَدۡعُونَ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ عِبَادٌ أَمۡثَالُكُمۡۖ فَٱدۡعُوهُمۡ فَلۡيَسۡتَجِيبُواْ لَكُمۡ إِن كُنتُمۡ صَٰدِقِينَ ١٩٤

     Innal-ladhīna tadʿūna min dūnillāhi ʿibādun amthālukum, fadʿūhum falyastajībū lakum in kuntum ṣādiqīn.

     Indeed, those you [polytheists] call upon besides Allāh are servants [i.e., creations] like you. So call upon them and let them respond to you, if you should be truthful.

108. أَلَهُمۡ أَرۡجُلٞ يَمۡشُونَ بِهَآۖ أَمۡ لَهُمۡ أَيۡدٖ يَبۡطِشُونَ بِهَآۖ أَمۡ لَهُمۡ أَعۡيُنٞ يُبۡصِرُونَ بِهَآۖ أَمۡ لَهُمۡ ءَاذَانٞ يَسۡمَعُونَ بِهَاۗ قُلِ ٱدۡعُواْ شُرَكَآءَكُمۡ ثُمَّ كِيدُونِ فَلَا تُنظِرُونِ ١٩٥

     Alahum arjuluy yamshūna bihā, am lahum aydiy yabṭishūna bihā, am lahum aʿyunuy yubṣirūna bihā, am lahum ādhānuy yasmaʿūna bihā, qulidʿū shurakāʾakum thumma kīdūni falā tunẓirūn.

     Do they have feet by which they walk? Or do they have hands by which they strike? Or do they have eyes by which they see? Or do they have ears by which they hear? Say, [O Muḥammad], "Call your 'partners' and then conspire against me and give me no respite.

109. إِنَّ وَلِـِّۧيَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِي نَزَّلَ ٱلۡكِتَٰبَۖ وَهُوَ يَتَوَلَّى ٱلصَّٰلِحِينَ ١٩٦

     Inna waliyyiyallāhul-ladhī nazzalal-kitāb, wa huwa yatawallaṣ-ṣāliḥīn.

     Indeed, my protector is Allāh, who has sent down the Book; and He is an ally to the righteous.

110. وَٱلَّذِينَ تَدۡعُونَ مِن دُونِهِۦ لَا يَسۡتَطِيعُونَ نَصۡرَكُمۡ وَلَآ أَنفُسَهُمۡ يَنصُرُونَ ١٩٧

     Wal-ladhīna tadʿūna min dūnihī lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣrakum wa lā anfusahum yanṣurūn.

     And those you call upon besides Him are unable to help you, nor can they help themselves."

111. وَإِن تَدۡعُوهُمۡ إِلَى ٱلۡهُدَىٰ لَا يَسۡمَعُواْۖ وَتَرَىٰهُمۡ يَنظُرُونَ إِلَيۡكَ وَهُمۡ لَا يُبۡصِرُونَ ١٩٨

     Wa in tadʿūhum ilal-hudā lā yasmaʿū, wa tarāhum yanẓurūna ilayka wa hum lā yubṣirūn.

     And if you invite them to guidance, they do not hear; and you see them looking at you while they do not see.

112. خُذِ ٱلۡعَفۡوَ وَأۡمُرۡ بِٱلۡعُرۡفِ وَأَعۡرِضۡ عَنِ ٱلۡجَٰهِلِينَ ١٩٩

     Khudhil-ʿafwa waʾmur bil-ʿurfi wa aʿriḍ ʿanil-jāhilīn.

     Take what is given freely,¹ enjoin what is good, and turn away from the ignorant.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. From the dispositions of men or from their wealth. In other words, be easy in dealing with them and avoid causing them difficulty.

113. وَإِمَّا يَنزَغَنَّكَ مِنَ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ نَزۡغٞ فَٱسۡتَعِذۡ بِٱللَّهِۚ إِنَّهُۥ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٌ ٢٠٠

     Wa immā yanzaghannaka minash-shayṭāni nazghun fastaʿidh billāh, innahū samīʿun ʿalīm.

     And if an evil suggestion comes to you from Satan, then seek refuge in Allāh. Indeed, He is Hearing and Knowing.

114. إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ٱتَّقَوۡاْ إِذَا مَسَّهُمۡ طَٰٓئِفٞ مِّنَ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ تَذَكَّرُواْ فَإِذَا هُم مُّبۡصِرُونَ ٢٠١

     Innal-ladhīnattaqaw idhā massahum ṭāʾifum minash-shayṭāni tadhakkarū fa idhā hum mubṣirūn.

     Indeed, those who fear Allāh - when an impulse touches them from Satan, they remember [Him] and at once they have insight.

115. وَإِخۡوَٰنُهُمۡ يَمُدُّونَهُمۡ فِي ٱلۡغَيِّ ثُمَّ لَا يُقۡصِرُونَ ٢٠٢

     Wa ikhwānuhum yamuddūnahum fil-ghayyi thumma lā yuqṣirūn.

     But their brothers¹ - they [i.e., the devils] increase them in error; then they do not stop short.

     Footnotes (1)

     1. Those among mankind who listen to the devils and obey their orders.

116. وَإِذَا لَمۡ تَأۡتِهِم بِـَٔايَةٖ قَالُواْ لَوۡلَا ٱجۡتَبَيۡتَهَاۚ قُلۡ إِنَّمَآ أَتَّبِعُ مَا يُوحَىٰٓ إِلَيَّ مِن رَّبِّيۚ هَٰذَا بَصَآئِرُ مِن رَّبِّكُمۡ وَهُدٗى وَرَحۡمَةٞ لِّقَوۡمٖ يُؤۡمِنُونَ ٢٠٣

     Wa idhā lam taʾtihim biʾāyatin qālū lawlajtabaytahā, qul innamā attabiʿu mā yūḥā ilayya mir rabbī, hādhā baṣāʾiru mir rabbikum wa hudaw wa raḥmatul liqawmiy yuʾminūn.

     And when you, [O Muḥammad], do not bring them a sign [i.e., miracle], they say, "Why have you not contrived it?" Say, "I only follow what is revealed to me from my Lord. This [Qur’ān] is enlightenment from your Lord and guidance and mercy for a people who believe."

117. وَإِذَا قُرِئَ ٱلۡقُرۡءَانُ فَٱسۡتَمِعُواْ لَهُۥ وَأَنصِتُواْ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تُرۡحَمُونَ ٢٠٤

     Wa idhā quriʾal-qurʾānu fastamiʿū lahū wa anṣitū laʿallakum turḥamūn.

     So when the Qur’ān is recited, then listen to it and pay attention that you may receive mercy.

118. وَٱذۡكُر رَّبَّكَ فِي نَفۡسِكَ تَضَرُّعٗا وَخِيفَةٗ وَدُونَ ٱلۡجَهۡرِ مِنَ ٱلۡقَوۡلِ بِٱلۡغُدُوِّ وَٱلۡأٓصَالِ وَلَا تَكُن مِّنَ ٱلۡغَٰفِلِينَ ٢٠٥

     Wadhkur rabbaka fī nafsika taḍarruʿaw wa khīfataw wa dūnal-jahri minal-qawli bil-ghuduwwi wal-āṣāli wa lā takum minal-ghāfilīn.

     And remember your Lord within yourself in humility and in fear without being apparent in speech - in the mornings and the evenings. And do not be among the heedless.

119. إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ عِندَ رَبِّكَ لَا يَسۡتَكۡبِرُونَ عَنۡ عِبَادَتِهِۦ وَيُسَبِّحُونَهُۥ وَلَهُۥ يَسۡجُدُونَۤ۩ ٢٠٦

     Innal-ladhīna ʿinda rabbika lā yastakbirūna ʿan ʿibādatihī wa yusabbiḥūnahū wa lahū yasjudūn.

     Indeed, those who are near your Lord [i.e., the angels] are not prevented by arrogance from His worship, and they exalt Him, and to Him they prostrate.

﷽بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ

1. يَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلۡأَنفَالِۖ قُلِ ٱلۡأَنفَالُ لِلَّهِ وَٱلرَّسُولِۖ فَٱتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَأَصۡلِحُواْ ذَاتَ بَيۡنِكُمۡۖ وَأَطِيعُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥٓ إِن كُنتُم مُّؤۡمِنِينَ ١

   Yasʾalūnaka ʿanil-anfāl, qulil-anfālu lillāhi war-rasūl, fattaqullāha wa aṣliḥū dhāta baynikum, wa aṭīʿullāha wa rasūlahū in kuntum muʾminīn.

   They ask you, [O Muḥammad], about the bounties [of war]. Say, "The [decision concerning] bounties is for Allāh and the Messenger." So fear Allāh and amend that which is between you and obey Allāh and His Messenger, if you should be believers.

2. إِنَّمَا ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ ٱلَّذِينَ إِذَا ذُكِرَ ٱللَّهُ وَجِلَتۡ قُلُوبُهُمۡ وَإِذَا تُلِيَتۡ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَٰتُهُۥ زَادَتۡهُمۡ إِيمَٰنٗا وَعَلَىٰ رَبِّهِمۡ يَتَوَكَّلُونَ ٢

   Innamal-muʾminūnal-ladhīna idhā dhukirallāhu wajilat qulūbuhum wa idhā tuliyat ʿalayhim āyātuhū zādathum īmānaw wa ʿalā rabbihim yatawakkalūn.

   The believers are only those who, when Allāh is mentioned, their hearts become fearful, and when His verses are recited to them, it increases them in faith; and upon their Lord they rely -

3. ٱلَّذِينَ يُقِيمُونَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقۡنَٰهُمۡ يُنفِقُونَ ٣

   Al-ladhīna yuqīmūnaṣ-ṣalāta wa mimmā razaqnāhum yunfiqūn.

   The ones who establish prayer, and from what We have provided them, they spend.

4. أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنُونَ حَقّٗاۚ لَّهُمۡ دَرَجَٰتٌ عِندَ رَبِّهِمۡ وَمَغۡفِرَةٞ وَرِزۡقٞ كَرِيمٞ ٤

   Ulāʾika humul-muʾminūna ḥaqqā, lahum darajātun ʿinda rabbihim wa maghfiratuw wa rizqun karīm.

   Those are the believers, truly. For them are degrees [of high position] with their Lord and forgiveness and noble provision.

5. كَمَآ أَخۡرَجَكَ رَبُّكَ مِنۢ بَيۡتِكَ بِٱلۡحَقِّ وَإِنَّ فَرِيقٗا مِّنَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ لَكَٰرِهُونَ ٥

   Kamā akhrajaka rabbuka mim baytika bil-ḥaqqi wa inna farīqam minal-muʾminīna lakārihūn.

   [It¹ is] just as when your Lord brought you out of your home [for the battle of Badr] in truth, while indeed, a party among the believers were unwilling,

   Footnotes (1)

   1. Referring to a dispute which occurred among the Muslims over distribution of war booty.

6. يُجَٰدِلُونَكَ فِي ٱلۡحَقِّ بَعۡدَ مَا تَبَيَّنَ كَأَنَّمَا يُسَاقُونَ إِلَى ٱلۡمَوۡتِ وَهُمۡ يَنظُرُونَ ٦

   Yujādilūnaka fil-ḥaqqi baʿda mā tabayyana kaʾannamā yusāqūna ilal-mawti wa hum yanẓurūn.

   Arguing with you concerning the truth after it had become clear, as if they were being driven toward death while they were looking on.

7. وَإِذۡ يَعِدُكُمُ ٱللَّهُ إِحۡدَى ٱلطَّآئِفَتَيۡنِ أَنَّهَا لَكُمۡ وَتَوَدُّونَ أَنَّ غَيۡرَ ذَاتِ ٱلشَّوۡكَةِ تَكُونُ لَكُمۡ وَيُرِيدُ ٱللَّهُ أَن يُحِقَّ ٱلۡحَقَّ بِكَلِمَٰتِهِۦ وَيَقۡطَعَ دَابِرَ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ ٧

   Wa idh yaʿidukumullāhu iḥdaṭ-ṭāʾifatayni annahā lakum wa tawaddūna anna ghayra dhātish-shawkati takūnu lakum wa yurīdullāhu ay yuḥiqqal-ḥaqqa bikalimātihī wa yaqṭaʿa dābiral-kāfirīn.

   [Remember, O believers], when Allāh promised you one of the two groups¹ - that it would be yours - and you wished that the unarmed one would be yours. But Allāh intended to establish the truth by His words and to eliminate the disbelievers

   Footnotes (1)

   1. i.e., either the caravan of Quraysh or their army.

8. لِيُحِقَّ ٱلۡحَقَّ وَيُبۡطِلَ ٱلۡبَٰطِلَ وَلَوۡ كَرِهَ ٱلۡمُجۡرِمُونَ ٨

   Liyuḥiqqal-ḥaqqa wa yubṭilal-bāṭila wa law karihal-mujrimūn.

   That He should establish the truth and abolish falsehood, even if the criminals disliked it.

9. إِذۡ تَسۡتَغِيثُونَ رَبَّكُمۡ فَٱسۡتَجَابَ لَكُمۡ أَنِّي مُمِدُّكُم بِأَلۡفٖ مِّنَ ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ مُرۡدِفِينَ ٩

   Idh tastaghīthūna rabbakum fastajāba lakum annī mumiddukum biʾalfim minal-malāʾikati murdifīn.

   [Remember] when you were asking help of your Lord, and He answered you, "Indeed, I will reinforce you with a thousand from the angels, following one another."

10. وَمَا جَعَلَهُ ٱللَّهُ إِلَّا بُشۡرَىٰ وَلِتَطۡمَئِنَّ بِهِۦ قُلُوبُكُمۡۚ وَمَا ٱلنَّصۡرُ إِلَّا مِنۡ عِندِ ٱللَّهِۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ عَزِيزٌ حَكِيمٌ ١٠

    Wa mā jaʿalahullāhu illā bushrā walitaṭmaʾinna bihī qulūbukum, wa man-naṣru illā min ʿindillāh, innallāha ʿazīzun ḥakīm.

    And Allāh made it not but good tidings and so that your hearts would be assured thereby. And victory is not but from Allāh. Indeed, Allāh is Exalted in Might and Wise.

11. إِذۡ يُغَشِّيكُمُ ٱلنُّعَاسَ أَمَنَةٗ مِّنۡهُ وَيُنَزِّلُ عَلَيۡكُم مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ مَآءٗ لِّيُطَهِّرَكُم بِهِۦ وَيُذۡهِبَ عَنكُمۡ رِجۡزَ ٱلشَّيۡطَٰنِ وَلِيَرۡبِطَ عَلَىٰ قُلُوبِكُمۡ وَيُثَبِّتَ بِهِ ٱلۡأَقۡدَامَ ١١

    Idh yughashshīkumun-nuʿāsa amanatam minhu wa yunazzilu ʿalaykum minas-samāʾi māʾal liyuṭahhirakum bihī wa yudhhiba ʿankum rijzash-shayṭāni waliyarbiṭa ʿalā qulūbikum wa yuthabbita bihil-aqdām.

    [Remember] when He overwhelmed you with drowsiness [giving] security from Him and sent down upon you from the sky, rain by which to purify you and remove from you the evil [suggestions] of Satan and to make steadfast your hearts and plant firmly thereby your feet.

12. إِذۡ يُوحِي رَبُّكَ إِلَى ٱلۡمَلَٰٓئِكَةِ أَنِّي مَعَكُمۡ فَثَبِّتُواْ ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْۚ سَأُلۡقِي فِي قُلُوبِ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ ٱلرُّعۡبَ فَٱضۡرِبُواْ فَوۡقَ ٱلۡأَعۡنَاقِ وَٱضۡرِبُواْ مِنۡهُمۡ كُلَّ بَنَانٖ ١٢

    Idh yūḥī rabbuka ilal-malāʾikati annī maʿakum fathabbitul-ladhīna āmanū, saʾulqī fī qulūbil-ladhīna kafarur-ruʿba faḍribū fawqal-aʿnāqi waḍribū minhum kulla banān.

    [Remember] when your Lord inspired to the angels, "I am with you, so strengthen those who have believed. I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieved, so strike [them] upon the necks and strike from them every fingertip."¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. By which they grasp and manipulate their weapons. Also interpreted as "all extremities," i.e., their hands and feet.

13. ذَٰلِكَ بِأَنَّهُمۡ شَآقُّواْ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥۚ وَمَن يُشَاقِقِ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ شَدِيدُ ٱلۡعِقَابِ ١٣

    Dhālika biʾannahum shāqqullāha wa rasūlah, wa may yushāqiqillāha wa rasūlahū fa innallāha shadīdul-ʿiqāb.

    That is because they opposed Allāh and His Messenger. And whoever opposes Allāh and His Messenger - indeed, Allāh is severe in penalty.

14. ذَٰلِكُمۡ فَذُوقُوهُ وَأَنَّ لِلۡكَٰفِرِينَ عَذَابَ ٱلنَّارِ ١٤

    Dhālikum fadhūqūhu wa anna lil-kāfirīna ʿadhāban-nār.

    "That [is yours], so taste it." And indeed for the disbelievers is the punishment of the Fire.

15. يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِذَا لَقِيتُمُ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ زَحۡفٗا فَلَا تُوَلُّوهُمُ ٱلۡأَدۡبَارَ ١٥

    Yāʾayyuhal-ladhīna āmanū idhā laqītumul-ladhīna kafarū zaḥfan falā tuwallūhumul-adbār.

    O you who have believed, when you meet those who disbelieve advancing [in battle], do not turn to them your backs [in flight].

16. وَمَن يُوَلِّهِمۡ يَوۡمَئِذٖ دُبُرَهُۥٓ إِلَّا مُتَحَرِّفٗا لِّقِتَالٍ أَوۡ مُتَحَيِّزًا إِلَىٰ فِئَةٖ فَقَدۡ بَآءَ بِغَضَبٖ مِّنَ ٱللَّهِ وَمَأۡوَىٰهُ جَهَنَّمُۖ وَبِئۡسَ ٱلۡمَصِيرُ ١٦

    Wa may yuwallihim yawmaʾidhin duburahū illā mutaḥarrifal liqitālin aw mutaḥayyizan ilā fiʾatin faqad bāʾa bighaḍabim minallāhi wa maʾwāhu jahannam, wa biʾsal-maṣīr.

    And whoever turns his back to them on such a day, unless swerving [as a strategy] for war or joining [another] company, has certainly returned with anger [upon him] from Allāh, and his refuge is Hell - and wretched is the destination.

17. فَلَمۡ تَقۡتُلُوهُمۡ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ قَتَلَهُمۡۚ وَمَا رَمَيۡتَ إِذۡ رَمَيۡتَ وَلَٰكِنَّ ٱللَّهَ رَمَىٰ وَلِيُبۡلِيَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ مِنۡهُ بَلَآءً حَسَنًاۚ إِنَّ ٱللَّهَ سَمِيعٌ عَلِيمٞ ١٧

    Falam taqtulūhum wa lākinnallāha qatalahum, wa mā ramayta idh ramayta wa lākinnallāha ramā waliyubliyal-muʾminīna minhu balāʾan ḥasanā, innallāha samīʿun ʿalīm.

    And you did not kill them, but it was Allāh who killed them.¹ And you threw not, [O Muḥammad], when you threw, but it was Allāh who threw² that He might test the believers with a good test.³ Indeed, Allāh is Hearing and Knowing.

    Footnotes (3)

    1. i.e., Your strength was insufficient to overcome them, but Allāh supported you and gave you victory.
    2. When the Prophet (ﷺ) threw a handful of dust into the faces of the disbelievers, Allāh caused it to fill the eyes and nose of every soldier, preventing their advance.
    3. So that they would appreciate Allāh's favor to them.

18. ذَٰلِكُمۡ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مُوهِنُ كَيۡدِ ٱلۡكَٰفِرِينَ ١٨

    Dhālikum wa annallāha mūhinu kaydil-kāfirīn.

    That [is so], and [also] that Allāh will weaken the plot of the disbelievers.

19. إِن تَسۡتَفۡتِحُواْ فَقَدۡ جَآءَكُمُ ٱلۡفَتۡحُۖ وَإِن تَنتَهُواْ فَهُوَ خَيۡرٞ لَّكُمۡۖ وَإِن تَعُودُواْ نَعُدۡ وَلَن تُغۡنِيَ عَنكُمۡ فِئَتُكُمۡ شَيۡـٔٗا وَلَوۡ كَثُرَتۡ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مَعَ ٱلۡمُؤۡمِنِينَ ١٩

    In tastaftiḥū faqad jāʾakumul-fatḥ, wa in tantahū fahuwa khayrul lakum, wa in taʿūdū naʿud wa lan tughniya ʿankum fiʾatukum shayʾaw wa law kathurat wa annallāha maʿal-muʾminīn.

    If you [disbelievers] seek the decision [i.e., victory] - the decision [i.e., defeat] has come to you. And if you desist [from hostilities], it is best for you; but if you return [to war], We will return, and never will you be availed by your [large] company at all, even if it should increase; and [that is] because Allāh is with the believers.

20. يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ أَطِيعُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَرَسُولَهُۥ وَلَا تَوَلَّوۡاْ عَنۡهُ وَأَنتُمۡ تَسۡمَعُونَ ٢٠

    Yāʾayyuhal-ladhīna āmanū aṭīʿullāha wa rasūlahū wa lā tawallaw ʿanhu wa antum tasmaʿūn.

    O you who have believed, obey Allāh and His Messenger and do not turn from him while you hear [his order].

21. وَلَا تَكُونُواْ كَٱلَّذِينَ قَالُواْ سَمِعۡنَا وَهُمۡ لَا يَسۡمَعُونَ ٢١

    Wa lā takūnū kal-ladhīna qālū samiʿnā wa hum lā yasmaʿūn.

    And do not be like those who say, "We have heard," while they do not hear.

22. ۞ إِنَّ شَرَّ ٱلدَّوَآبِّ عِندَ ٱللَّهِ ٱلصُّمُّ ٱلۡبُكۡمُ ٱلَّذِينَ لَا يَعۡقِلُونَ ٢٢

    Inna sharrad-dawābbi ʿindallāhiṣ-ṣummul-bukmul-ladhīna lā yaʿqilūn.

    Indeed, the worst of living creatures in the sight of Allāh are the deaf and dumb who do not use reason [i.e., the disbelievers].

23. وَلَوۡ عَلِمَ ٱللَّهُ فِيهِمۡ خَيۡرٗا لَّأَسۡمَعَهُمۡۖ وَلَوۡ أَسۡمَعَهُمۡ لَتَوَلَّواْ وَّهُم مُّعۡرِضُونَ ٢٣

    Wa law ʿalimallāhu fīhim khayral laʾasmaʿahum, wa law asmaʿahum latawallaw wa hum muʿriḍūn.

    Had Allāh known any good in them, He would have made them hear. And if He had made them hear, they would [still] have turned away, while they were refusing.

24. يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ ٱسۡتَجِيبُواْ لِلَّهِ وَلِلرَّسُولِ إِذَا دَعَاكُمۡ لِمَا يُحۡيِيكُمۡۖ وَٱعۡلَمُوٓاْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ يَحُولُ بَيۡنَ ٱلۡمَرۡءِ وَقَلۡبِهِۦ وَأَنَّهُۥٓ إِلَيۡهِ تُحۡشَرُونَ ٢٤

    Yāʾayyuhal-ladhīna āmanustajībū lillāhi walir-rasūli idhā daʿākum limā yuḥyīkum, waʿlamū annallāha yaḥūlu baynal-marʾi wa qalbihī wa annahū ilayhi tuḥsharūn.

    O you who have believed, respond to Allāh and to the Messenger when he calls you to that which gives you life. And know that Allāh intervenes between a man and his heart and that to Him you will be gathered.

25. وَٱتَّقُواْ فِتۡنَةٗ لَّا تُصِيبَنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ ظَلَمُواْ مِنكُمۡ خَآصَّةٗۖ وَٱعۡلَمُوٓاْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ شَدِيدُ ٱلۡعِقَابِ ٢٥

    Wattaqū fitnatal lā tuṣībannal-ladhīna ẓalamū minkum khāṣṣah, waʿlamū annallāha shadīdul-ʿiqāb.

    And fear a trial¹ which will not strike those who have wronged among you exclusively, and know that Allāh is severe in penalty.

    Footnotes (1)

    1. i.e., an affliction or punishment during life upon this earth. When corruption spreads among a people, its consequences will affect everyone.

26. وَٱذۡكُرُوٓاْ إِذۡ أَنتُمۡ قَلِيلٞ مُّسۡتَضۡعَفُونَ فِي ٱلۡأَرۡضِ تَخَافُونَ أَن يَتَخَطَّفَكُمُ ٱلنَّاسُ فَـَٔاوَىٰكُمۡ وَأَيَّدَكُم بِنَصۡرِهِۦ وَرَزَقَكُم مِّنَ ٱلطَّيِّبَٰتِ لَعَلَّكُمۡ تَشۡكُرُونَ ٢٦

    Wadhkurū idh antum qalīlum mustaḍʿafūna fil-arḍi takhāfūna ay yatakhaṭṭafakumun-nāsu fa āwākum wa ayyadakum binaṣrihī wa razaqakum minaṭ-ṭayyibāti laʿallakum tashkurūn.

    And remember when you were few and oppressed in the land, fearing that people might abduct you, but He sheltered you, supported you with His victory, and provided you with good things - that you might be grateful.

27. يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُواْ لَا تَخُونُواْ ٱللَّهَ وَٱلرَّسُولَ وَتَخُونُوٓاْ أَمَٰنَٰتِكُمۡ وَأَنتُمۡ تَعۡلَمُونَ ٢٧

    Yāʾayyuhal-ladhīna āmanū lā takhūnullāha war-rasūla wa takhūnū amānātikum wa antum taʿlamūn.

    O you who have believed, do not betray Allāh and the Messenger or betray your trusts while you know [the consequence].

28. وَٱعۡلَمُوٓاْ أَنَّمَآ أَمۡوَٰلُكُمۡ وَأَوۡلَٰدُكُمۡ فِتۡنَةٞ وَأَنَّ ٱللَّهَ عِندَهُۥٓ أَجۡرٌ عَظِيمٞ ٢٨

    Waʿlamū annamā amwālukum wa awlādukum fitnatuw wa annallāha ʿindahū ajrun ʿaẓīm.

    And know that your properties and your children are but a trial and that Allāh has with Him a great reward.

29. يَٰٓأَيُّهَا ٱلَّذِينَ ءَامَنُوٓاْ إِن تَتَّقُواْ ٱللَّهَ يَجۡعَل لَّكُمۡ فُرۡقَانٗا وَيُكَفِّرۡ عَنكُمۡ سَيِّـَٔاتِكُمۡ وَيَغۡفِرۡ لَكُمۡۗ وَٱللَّهُ ذُو ٱلۡفَضۡلِ ٱلۡعَظِيمِ ٢٩

    Yāʾayyuhal-ladhīna āmanū in tattaqullāha yajʿal lakum furqānaw wa yukaffir ʿankum sayyiʾātikum wa yaghfir lakum, wallāhu dhul-faḍlil-ʿaẓīm.

    O you who have believed, if you fear Allāh, He will grant you a criterion¹ and will remove from you your misdeeds and forgive you. And Allāh is the possessor of great bounty.

    Footnotes (1)

    1. By which to judge between truth and falsehood. Also interpreted as a "way out" of difficulties.

30. وَإِذۡ يَمۡكُرُ بِكَ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ لِيُثۡبِتُوكَ أَوۡ يَقۡتُلُوكَ أَوۡ يُخۡرِجُوكَۚ وَيَمۡكُرُونَ وَيَمۡكُرُ ٱللَّهُۖ وَٱللَّهُ خَيۡرُ ٱلۡمَٰكِرِينَ ٣٠

    Wa idh yamkuru bikal-ladhīna kafarū liyuthbitūka aw yaqtulūka aw yukhrijūk, wa yamkurūna wa yamkurullāh, wallāhu khayrul-mākirīn.

    And [remember, O Muḥammad], when those who disbelieved plotted against you to restrain you or kill you or evict you [from Makkah]. But they plan, and Allāh plans. And Allāh is the best of planners.

31. وَإِذَا تُتۡلَىٰ عَلَيۡهِمۡ ءَايَٰتُنَا قَالُواْ قَدۡ سَمِعۡنَا لَوۡ نَشَآءُ لَقُلۡنَا مِثۡلَ هَٰذَآ إِنۡ هَٰذَآ إِلَّآ أَسَٰطِيرُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ ٣١

    Wa idhā tutlā ʿalayhim āyātunā qālū qad samiʿnā law nashāʾu laqulnā mithla hādhā in hādhā illā asāṭīrul-awwalīn.

    And when Our verses are recited to them, they say, "We have heard. If we willed, we could say [something] like this. This is not but legends of the former peoples."

32. وَإِذۡ قَالُواْ ٱللَّهُمَّ إِن كَانَ هَٰذَا هُوَ ٱلۡحَقَّ مِنۡ عِندِكَ فَأَمۡطِرۡ عَلَيۡنَا حِجَارَةٗ مِّنَ ٱلسَّمَآءِ أَوِ ٱئۡتِنَا بِعَذَابٍ أَلِيمٖ ٣٢

    Wa idh qālullāhumma in kāna hādhā huwal-ḥaqqa min ʿindika fa amṭir ʿalaynā ḥijāratam minas-samāʾi awiʾtinā biʿadhābin alīm.

    And [remember] when they said, "O Allāh, if this should be the truth from You, then rain down upon us stones from the sky or bring us a painful punishment."

33. وَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ لِيُعَذِّبَهُمۡ وَأَنتَ فِيهِمۡۚ وَمَا كَانَ ٱللَّهُ مُعَذِّبَهُمۡ وَهُمۡ يَسۡتَغۡفِرُونَ ٣٣

    Wa mā kānallāhu liyuʿadhdhibahum wa anta fīhim, wa mā kānallāhu muʿadhdhibahum wa hum yastaghfirūn.

    But Allāh would not punish them while you, [O Muḥammad], are among them, and Allāh would not punish them while they seek forgiveness.

34. وَمَا لَهُمۡ أَلَّا يُعَذِّبَهُمُ ٱللَّهُ وَهُمۡ يَصُدُّونَ عَنِ ٱلۡمَسۡجِدِ ٱلۡحَرَامِ وَمَا كَانُوٓاْ أَوۡلِيَآءَهُۥٓۚ إِنۡ أَوۡلِيَآؤُهُۥٓ إِلَّا ٱلۡمُتَّقُونَ وَلَٰكِنَّ أَكۡثَرَهُمۡ لَا يَعۡلَمُونَ ٣٤

    Wa mā lahum allā yuʿadhdhibahumullāhu wa hum yaṣuddūna ʿanil-masjidil-ḥarāmi wa mā kānū awliyāʾah, in awliyāʾuhū illal-muttaqūna wa lākinna aktharahum lā yaʿlamūn.

    But why should Allāh not punish them while they obstruct [people] from al-Masjid al-Ḥarām and they were not [fit to be] its guardians? Its [true] guardians are not but the righteous, but most of them do not know.

35. وَمَا كَانَ صَلَاتُهُمۡ عِندَ ٱلۡبَيۡتِ إِلَّا مُكَآءٗ وَتَصۡدِيَةٗۚ فَذُوقُواْ ٱلۡعَذَابَ بِمَا كُنتُمۡ تَكۡفُرُونَ ٣٥

    Wa mā kāna ṣalātuhum ʿindal-bayti illā mukāʾaw wa taṣdiyah, fadhūqul-ʿadhāba bimā kuntum takfurūn.

    And their prayer at the House [i.e., the Kaʿbah] was not except whistling and handclapping. So taste the punishment for what you disbelieved [i.e., practiced of deviations].

36. إِنَّ ٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُواْ يُنفِقُونَ أَمۡوَٰلَهُمۡ لِيَصُدُّواْ عَن سَبِيلِ ٱللَّهِۚ فَسَيُنفِقُونَهَا ثُمَّ تَكُونُ عَلَيۡهِمۡ حَسۡرَةٗ ثُمَّ يُغۡلَبُونَۗ وَٱلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓاْ إِلَىٰ جَهَنَّمَ يُحۡشَرُونَ ٣٦

    Innal-ladhīna kafarū yunfiqūna amwālahum liyaṣuddū ʿan sabīlillāh, fasayunfiqūnahā thumma takūnu ʿalayhim ḥasratan thumma yughlabūn, wal-ladhīna kafarū ilā jahannama yuḥsharūn.

    Indeed, those who disbelieve spend their wealth to avert [people] from the way of Allāh. So they will spend it; then it will be for them a [source of] regret; then they will be overcome. And those who have disbelieved - unto Hell they will be gathered.

37. لِيَمِيزَ ٱللَّهُ ٱلۡخَبِيثَ مِنَ ٱلطَّيِّبِ وَيَجۡعَلَ ٱلۡخَبِيثَ بَعۡضَهُۥ عَلَىٰ بَعۡضٖ فَيَرۡكُمَهُۥ جَمِيعٗا فَيَجۡعَلَهُۥ فِي جَهَنَّمَۚ أُوْلَٰٓئِكَ هُمُ ٱلۡخَٰسِرُونَ ٣٧

    Liyamīzallāhul-khabītha minaṭ-ṭayyibi wa yajʿalal-khabītha baʿḍahū ʿalā baʿḍin fayarkumahū jamīʿan fayajʿalahū fī jahannam, ulāʾika humul-khāsirūn.

    [It is] so that Allāh may distinguish the wicked from the good and place the wicked some of them upon others and heap them all together and put them into Hell. It is those who are the losers.

38. قُل لِّلَّذِينَ كَفَرُوٓاْ إِن يَنتَهُواْ يُغۡفَرۡ لَهُم مَّا قَدۡ سَلَفَ وَإِن يَعُودُواْ فَقَدۡ مَضَتۡ سُنَّتُ ٱلۡأَوَّلِينَ ٣٨

    Qul lil-ladhīna kafarū iy yantahū yughfar lahum mā qad salafa wa iy yaʿūdū faqad maḍat sunnatul-awwalīn.

    Say to those who have disbelieved [that] if they cease, what has previously occurred will be forgiven for them. But if they return [to hostility] - then the precedent of the former [rebellious] peoples has already taken place.¹

    Footnotes (1)

    1. This is a warning that punishment is always the result of rebellion against Allāh and His messengers.

39. وَقَٰتِلُوهُمۡ حَتَّىٰ لَا تَكُونَ فِتۡنَةٞ وَيَكُونَ ٱلدِّينُ كُلُّهُۥ لِلَّهِۚ فَإِنِ ٱنتَهَوۡاْ فَإِنَّ ٱللَّهَ بِمَا يَعۡمَلُونَ بَصِيرٞ ٣٩

    Wa qātilūhum ḥattā lā takūna fitnatuw wa yakūnad-dīnu kulluhū lillāh, fa inintahaw fa innallāha bimā yaʿmalūna baṣīr.

    And fight against them until there is no fitnah¹ and [until] the religion [i.e., worship], all of it, is for Allāh.² And if they cease - then indeed, Allāh is Seeing of what they do.

    Footnotes (2)

    1. Persecution. See footnote to 2:191.
    2. i.e., until polytheism is no longer dominant.

40. وَإِن تَوَلَّوۡاْ فَٱعۡلَمُوٓاْ أَنَّ ٱللَّهَ مَوۡلَىٰكُمۡۚ نِعۡمَ ٱلۡمَوۡلَىٰ وَنِعۡمَ ٱلنَّصِيرُ ٤٠

    Wa in tawallaw faʿlamū annallāha mawlākum, niʿmal-mawlā wa niʿman-naṣīr.

    But if they turn away - then know that Allāh is your protector. Excellent is the protector, and excellent is the helper.