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

1. وإذ صرفنا إليك نفرا من الجن يستمعون القرآن فلما حضروه قالوا أنصتوا فلما قضي ولوا إلى قومهم منذرين

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   When We dispatched toward you a team of jinn listening to the Quran, when they were in its presence, they said, ‘Be silent!’ When it was finished, they went back to their people as warners.

   wa-ʾidh ṣarafnā ʾilayka nafaran mina l-jinni yastamiʿūna l-qurʾāna fa-lammā ḥaḍarūhu qālū ʾanṣitū fa-lammā quḍiya wallaw ʾilā qawmihim mundhirīna

2. قالوا يا قومنا إنا سمعنا كتابا أنزل من بعد موسى مصدقا لما بين يديه يهدي إلى الحق وإلى طريق مستقيم

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   They said, ‘O our people! Indeed, we have heard a Book, which has been sent down after Moses, confirming what was before it. It guides to the truth and to a straight path.

   qālū yā-qawmanā ʾinnā samiʿnā kitāban ʾunzila min baʿdi mūsā muṣaddiqan li-mā bayna yadayhi yahdī ʾilā l-ḥaqqi wa-ʾilā ṭarīqin mustaqīmin

3. يا قومنا أجيبوا داعي الله وآمنوا به يغفر لكم من ذنوبكم ويجركم من عذاب أليم

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   O our people! Respond to Allah’s summoner and have faith in Him. He will forgive you some of your sins and shelter you from a painful punishment.’

   yā-qawmanā ʾajībū dāʿiya llāhi wa-ʾāminū bihī yaghfir lakum min dhunūbikum wa-yujirkum min ʿadhābin ʾalīmin

4. ومن لا يجب داعي الله فليس بمعجز في الأرض وليس له من دونه أولياء أولئك في ضلال مبين

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   Those who do not respond to Allah’s summoner cannot frustrate [Allah] on the earth, and they will not find any protectors besides Him. They are in manifest error.

   wa-man lā yujib dāʿiya llāhi fa-laysa bi-muʿjizin fī l-ʾarḍi wa-laysa lahū min dūnihī ʾawliyāʾu ʾulāʾika fī ḍalālin mubīnin

5. أولم يروا أن الله الذي خلق السماوات والأرض ولم يعي بخلقهن بقادر على أن يحيي الموتى بلى إنه على كل شيء قدير

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   Do they not see that Allah, who created the heavens and the earth and [who] was not exhausted by their creation, is able to revive the dead? Yes, indeed He has power over all things.

   ʾa-wa-lam yaraw ʾanna llāha lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-lam yaʿya bi-khalqihinna bi-qādirin ʿalā ʾan yuḥyiya l-mawtā balā ʾinnahū ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun

6. ويوم يعرض الذين كفروا على النار أليس هذا بالحق قالوا بلى وربنا قال فذوقوا العذاب بما كنتم تكفرون

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   The day when the faithless are exposed to the Fire, [He will say,] ‘Is this not a fact?’ They will say, ‘Yes, by our Lord!’ He will say, ‘So taste the punishment because of what you used to disbelieve.’

   wa-yawma yuʿraḍu lladhīna kafarū ʿalā n-nāri ʾa-laysa hādhā bi-l-ḥaqqi qālū balā wa-rabbinā qāla fa-dhūqū l-ʿadhāba bi-mā kuntum takfurūna

7. فاصبر كما صبر أولو العزم من الرسل ولا تستعجل لهم كأنهم يوم يرون ما يوعدون لم يلبثوا إلا ساعة من نهار بلاغ فهل يهلك إلا القوم الفاسقون

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   So be patient just as the resolute among the apostles were patient, and do not seek to hasten [the punishment] for them. The day when they see what they are promised, [it will be] as though they had remained [in the world] only an hour of a day. This is a proclamation. So shall anyone be destroyed except the transgressing lot?

   fa-ṣbir ka-mā ṣabara ʾulū l-ʿazmi mina r-rusuli wa-lā tastaʿjil lahum ka-ʾannahum yawma yarawna mā yūʿadūna lam yalbathū ʾillā sāʿatan min nahārin balāghun fa-hal yuhlaku ʾillā l-qawmu l-fāsiqūna