Surah Al-'Aĥqāf (The Wind-Curved Sandhills) in English

1. وإذا حشر الناس كانوا لهم أعداء وكانوا بعبادتهم كافرين

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   When mankind are mustered [on Judgement’s Day] they will be their enemies, and they will disavow their worship.

   wa-ʾidhā ḥushira n-nāsu kānū lahum ʾaʿdāʾan wa-kānū bi-ʿibādatihim kāfirīna

2. وإذا تتلى عليهم آياتنا بينات قال الذين كفروا للحق لما جاءهم هذا سحر مبين

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   When Our manifest signs are recited to them, the faithless say of the truth when it comes to them: ‘This is plain magic.’

   wa-ʾidhā tutlā ʿalayhim ʾāyātunā bayyinātin qāla lladhīna kafarū li-l-ḥaqqi lammā jāʾahum hādhā ṣiḥrun mubīnun

3. أم يقولون افتراه قل إن افتريته فلا تملكون لي من الله شيئا هو أعلم بما تفيضون فيه كفى به شهيدا بيني وبينكم وهو الغفور الرحيم

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   Or they say, ‘He has fabricated it.’ Say, ‘Should I have fabricated it, you would not avail me anything against Allah. He best knows what you gossip concerning it. He suffices as a witness between me and you, and He is the All-forgiving, the All-merciful.’

   ʾam yaqūlūna ftarāhu qul ʾini ftaraytuhū fa-lā tamlikūna lī mina llāhi shayʾan huwa ʾaʿlamu bi-mā tufīḍūna fīhi kafā bihī shahīdan baynī wa-baynakum wa-huwa l-ghafūru r-raḥīmu

4. قل ما كنت بدعا من الرسل وما أدري ما يفعل بي ولا بكم إن أتبع إلا ما يوحى إلي وما أنا إلا نذير مبين

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   Say, ‘I am not a novelty among the apostles, nor do I know what will be done with me, or with you. I just follow whatever is revealed to me, and I am just a manifest warner.’

   qul mā kuntu bidʿan mina r-rusuli wa-mā ʾadrī mā yufʿalu bī wa-lā bikum ʾin ʾattabiʿu ʾillā mā yūḥā ʾilayya wa-mā ʾana ʾillā nadhīrun mubīnun

5. قل أرأيتم إن كان من عند الله وكفرتم به وشهد شاهد من بني إسرائيل على مثله فآمن واستكبرتم إن الله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين

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   Say, ‘Tell me, if it is from Allah and you disbelieve in it, and a witness from the Children of Israel has testified to its like and believed [in it], while you are disdainful [of it]?’ Indeed Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.

   qul ʾa-raʾaytum ʾin kāna min ʿindi llāhi wa-kafartum bihī wa-shahida shāhidun min banī ʾisrāʾīla ʿalā mithlihī fa-ʾāmana wa-stakbartum ʾinna llāha lā yahdī l-qawma ẓ-ẓālimīna

6. وقال الذين كفروا للذين آمنوا لو كان خيرا ما سبقونا إليه وإذ لم يهتدوا به فسيقولون هذا إفك قديم

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   The faithless say about the faithful, ‘Had it been [anything] good, they would not have taken the lead over us toward [accepting] it.’ And since they could not find the way to it, they will say, ‘It is an ancient lie.’

   wa-qāla lladhīna kafarū li-lladhīna ʾāmanū law kāna khayran mā sabaqūnā ʾilayhi wa-ʾidh lam yahtadū bihī fa-sa-yaqūlūna hādhā ʾifkun qadīmun

7. ومن قبله كتاب موسى إماما ورحمة وهذا كتاب مصدق لسانا عربيا لينذر الذين ظلموا وبشرى للمحسنين

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   Yet before it the Book of Moses was a guide and mercy, and this is a Book in the Arabic language, which confirms it, [sent] to warn the wrongdoers, and is a [bearer of] good news for the virtuous.

   wa-min qablihī kitābu mūsā ʾimāman wa-raḥmatan wa-hādhā kitābun muṣaddiqun lisānan ʿarabiyyan li-yundhira lladhīna ẓalamū wa-bushrā li-l-muḥsinīna

8. إن الذين قالوا ربنا الله ثم استقاموا فلا خوف عليهم ولا هم يحزنون

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   Those who say, ‘Our Lord is Allah,’ and then remain steadfast, they will have no fear, nor will they grieve.

   ʾinna lladhīna qālū rabbunā llāhu thumma staqāmū fa-lā khawfun ʿalayhim wa-lā hum yaḥzanūna

9. أولئك أصحاب الجنة خالدين فيها جزاء بما كانوا يعملون

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   They shall be the inhabitants of paradise, remaining in it [forever]—a reward for what they used to do.

   ʾulāʾika ʾaṣḥābu l-jannati khālidīna fīhā jazāʾan bi-mā kānū yaʿmalūna