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

1. ووصينا الإنسان بوالديه إحسانا حملته أمه كرها ووضعته كرها وحمله وفصاله ثلاثون شهرا حتى إذا بلغ أشده وبلغ أربعين سنة قال رب أوزعني أن أشكر نعمتك التي أنعمت علي وعلى والدي وأن أعمل صالحا ترضاه وأصلح لي في ذريتي إني تبت إليك وإني من المسلمين

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   We have enjoined man to be kind to his parents. His mother has carried him in travail, and bore him in travail, and his gestation and weaning take thirty months. When he comes of age and reaches forty years, he says, ‘My Lord! Inspire me to give thanks for Your blessing with which You have blessed me and my parents, and that I may do righteous deeds which please You, and invest my descendants with righteousness. Indeed I have turned to you in penitence, and I am one of the Muslims.’

   wa-waṣṣaynā l-ʾinsāna bi-wālidayhi ʾiḥsānan ḥamalathu ʾummuhū kurhan wa-waḍaʿathu kurhan wa-ḥamluhū wa-fiṣāluhū thalāthūna shahran ḥattā ʾidhā balagha ʾashuddahū wa-balagha ʾarbaʿīna sanatan qāla rabbi ʾawziʿnī ʾan ʾashkura niʿmataka llatī ʾanʿamta ʿalayya wa-ʿalā wālidayya wa-ʾan ʾaʿmala ṣāliḥan tarḍāhu wa-ʾaṣliḥ lī fī dhurriyyatī ʾinnī tubtu ʾilayka wa-ʾinnī mina l-muslimīna

2. أولئك الذين نتقبل عنهم أحسن ما عملوا ونتجاوز عن سيئاتهم في أصحاب الجنة وعد الصدق الذي كانوا يوعدون

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   Such are the ones from whom We accept the best of what they do, and overlook their misdeeds, [who will be] among the inhabitants of paradise—a true promise which they had been given.

   ʾulāʾika lladhīna nataqabbalu ʿanhum ʾaḥsana mā ʿamilū wa-natajāwazu ʿan sayyiʾātihim fī ʾaṣḥābi l-jannati waʿda ṣ-ṣidqi lladhī kānū yūʿadūna

3. والذي قال لوالديه أف لكما أتعدانني أن أخرج وقد خلت القرون من قبلي وهما يستغيثان الله ويلك آمن إن وعد الله حق فيقول ما هذا إلا أساطير الأولين

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   As for him who says to his parents, ‘Fie on you! Do you promise me that I shall be raised [from the dead] when generations have passed away before me?’ And they invoke Allah’s help [and say]: ‘Woe to you! Believe! Indeed Allah’s promise is true.’ But he says, ‘These are nothing but myths of the ancients.’

   wa-lladhī qāla li-wālidayhi ʾuffin lakumā ʾa-taʿidāninī ʾan ʾukhraja wa-qad khalati l-qurūnu min qablī wa-humā yastaghīthāni llāha waylaka ʾāmin ʾinna waʿda llāhi ḥaqqun fa-yaqūlu mā hādhā ʾillā ʾasāṭīru l-ʾawwalīna

4. أولئك الذين حق عليهم القول في أمم قد خلت من قبلهم من الجن والإنس إنهم كانوا خاسرين

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   Such are the ones against whom the word has become due, along with the nations of jinn and humans that have passed away before them. They were the losers.

   ʾulāʾika lladhīna ḥaqqa ʿalayhimu l-qawlu fī ʾumamin qad khalat min qablihim mina l-jinni wa-l-ʾinsi ʾinnahum kānū khāsirīna

5. ولكل درجات مما عملوا وليوفيهم أعمالهم وهم لا يظلمون

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   For everyone there are degrees [of merit] pertaining to what he has done: He will recompense them fully for their works, and they will not be wronged.

   wa-li-kullin darajātun mimmā ʿamilū wa-li-yuwaffiyahum ʾaʿmālahum wa-hum lā yuẓlamūna

6. ويوم يعرض الذين كفروا على النار أذهبتم طيباتكم في حياتكم الدنيا واستمتعتم بها فاليوم تجزون عذاب الهون بما كنتم تستكبرون في الأرض بغير الحق وبما كنتم تفسقون

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   The day when the faithless are exposed to the Fire, [they will be told,] ‘You have exhausted your good things in the life of the world and enjoyed them. So today you will be requited with a humiliating punishment for your acting arrogantly in the earth unduly, and because you used to transgress.’

   wa-yawma yuʿraḍu lladhīna kafarū ʿalā n-nāri ʾadhhabtum ṭayyibātikum fī ḥayātikumu d-dunyā wa-stamtaʿtum bihā fa-l-yawma tujzawna ʿadhāba l-hūni bi-mā kuntum tastakbirūna fī l-ʾarḍi bi-ghayri l-ḥaqqi wa-bi-mā kuntum tafsuqūna