Surah Āli `Imrān (Family of Imran) in English

1. ويكلم الناس في المهد وكهلا ومن الصالحين

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   He will speak to the people in the cradle and in adulthood, and will be one of the righteous.’

   wa-yukallimu n-nāsa fī l-mahdi wa-kahlan wa-mina ṣ-ṣāliḥīna

2. قالت رب أنى يكون لي ولد ولم يمسسني بشر قال كذلك الله يخلق ما يشاء إذا قضى أمرا فإنما يقول له كن فيكون

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   She said, ‘My Lord, how shall I have a child seeing that no human has ever touched me?’ He said, ‘So it is that Allah creates whatever He wishes. When He decides on a matter He just says to it ‘‘Be!’’ and it is.

   qālat rabbi ʾannā yakūnu lī waladun wa-lam yamsasnī basharun qāla ka-dhāliki llāhu yakhluqu mā yashāʾu ʾidhā qaḍā ʾamran fa-ʾinnamā yaqūlu lahū kun fa-yakūnu

3. ويعلمه الكتاب والحكمة والتوراة والإنجيل

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   He will teach him the Book and wisdom, the Torah and the Evangel,

   wa-yuʿallimuhu l-kitāba wa-l-ḥikmata wa-t-tawrāta wa-l-ʾinjīla

4. ورسولا إلى بني إسرائيل أني قد جئتكم بآية من ربكم أني أخلق لكم من الطين كهيئة الطير فأنفخ فيه فيكون طيرا بإذن الله وأبرئ الأكمه والأبرص وأحيي الموتى بإذن الله وأنبئكم بما تأكلون وما تدخرون في بيوتكم إن في ذلك لآية لكم إن كنتم مؤمنين

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   and [he will be] an apostle to the Children of Israel, [and he will declare,] “I have certainly brought you a sign from your Lord: I will create for you the form of a bird out of clay, then I will breathe into it, and it will become a bird by Allah’s leave. I heal the blind and the leper and I revive the dead by Allah’s leave. I will tell you what you have eaten and what you have stored in your houses. There is indeed a sign in that for you, should you be faithful.

   wa-rasūlan ʾilā banī ʾisrāʾīla ʾannī qad jiʾtukum bi-ʾāyatin min rabbikum ʾannī ʾakhluqu lakum mina ṭ-ṭīni ka-hayʾati ṭ-ṭayri fa-ʾanfukhu fīhi fa-yakūnu ṭayran bi-ʾidhni llāhi wa-ʾubriʾu l-ʾakmaha wa-l-ʾabraṣa wa-ʾuḥyi l-mawtā bi-ʾidhni llāhi wa-ʾunabbiʾukum bi-mā taʾkulūna wa-mā taddakhirūna fī buyūtikum ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyatan lakum ʾin kuntum muʾminīna

5. ومصدقا لما بين يدي من التوراة ولأحل لكم بعض الذي حرم عليكم وجئتكم بآية من ربكم فاتقوا الله وأطيعون

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   And [I come] to confirm [the truth of] that which is before me of the Torah, and to make lawful for you some of the things that were forbidden you. I have brought you a sign from your Lord; so be wary of Allah and obey me.

   wa-muṣaddiqan li-mā bayna yadayya mina t-tawrāti wa-li-ʾuḥilla lakum baʿḍa lladhī ḥurrima ʿalaykum wa-jiʾtukum bi-ʾāyatin min rabbikum fa-ttaqū llāha wa-ʾaṭīʿūni

6. إن الله ربي وربكم فاعبدوه هذا صراط مستقيم

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   Indeed Allah is my Lord and your Lord; so worship Him. This is a straight path.” ’

   ʾinna llāha rabbī wa-rabbukum fa-ʿbudūhu hādhā ṣirāṭun mustaqīmun

7. فلما أحس عيسى منهم الكفر قال من أنصاري إلى الله قال الحواريون نحن أنصار الله آمنا بالله واشهد بأنا مسلمون

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   When Jesus sensed their faithlessness, he said, ‘Who will be my helpers [on the path] toward Allah?’ The Disciples said, ‘We will be helpers of Allah. We have faith in Allah, and you be witness that we have submitted [to Him].

   fa-lammā ʾaḥassa ʿīsā minhumu l-kufra qāla man ʾanṣārī ʾilā llāhi qāla l-ḥawāriyyūna naḥnu ʾanṣāru llāhi ʾāmannā bi-llāhi wa-shhad bi-ʾannā muslimūna