Surah Al-'An`ām (The Cattle) in English

1. قل أي شيء أكبر شهادة قل الله شهيد بيني وبينكم وأوحي إلي هذا القرآن لأنذركم به ومن بلغ أئنكم لتشهدون أن مع الله آلهة أخرى قل لا أشهد قل إنما هو إله واحد وإنني بريء مما تشركون

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   Say, ‘What thing is greatest as witness?’ Say, ‘Allah! [He is] witness between me and you, and this Quran has been revealed to me that I may warn thereby you and whomever it may reach.’ ‘Do you indeed bear witness that there are other gods besides Allah?’ Say, ‘I do not bear witness [to any such thing].’ Say, ‘Indeed He is the One God, and I indeed disown what you associate [with Him].’

   qul ʾayyu shayʾin ʾakbaru shahādatan quli llāhu shahīdun baynī wa-baynakum wa-ʾūḥiya ʾilayya hādhā l-qurʾānu li-ʾundhirakum bihī wa-man balagha ʾa-ʾinnakum la-tashhadūna ʾanna maʿa llāhi ʾālihatan ʾukhrā qul lā ʾashhadu qul ʾinnamā huwa ʾilāhun wāḥidun wa-ʾinnanī barīʾun mimmā tushrikūna

2. الذين آتيناهم الكتاب يعرفونه كما يعرفون أبناءهم الذين خسروا أنفسهم فهم لا يؤمنون

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   Those whom We have given the Book recognize him just as they recognize their sons. Those who have ruined their souls will not have faith.

   alladhīna ʾātaynāhumu l-kitāba yaʿrifūnahū ka-mā yaʿrifūna ʾabnāʾahumu alladhīna khasirū ʾanfusahum fa-hum lā yuʾminūna

3. ومن أظلم ممن افترى على الله كذبا أو كذب بآياته إنه لا يفلح الظالمون

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   Who is a greater wrongdoer than him who fabricates a lie against Allah, or denies His signs? Indeed the wrongdoers will not be felicitous.

   wa-man ʾaẓlamu mimmani ftarā ʿalā llāhi kadhiban ʾaw kadhdhaba bi-ʾāyātihī ʾinnahū lā yufliḥu ẓ-ẓālimūna

4. ويوم نحشرهم جميعا ثم نقول للذين أشركوا أين شركاؤكم الذين كنتم تزعمون

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   On the day when We gather them all together, We shall say to those who ascribed partners [to Allah] ‘Where are your partners that you used to claim?’

   wa-yawma naḥshuruhum jamīʿan thumma naqūlu li-lladhīna ʾashrakū ʾayna shurakāʾukumu lladhīna kuntum tazʿumūna

5. ثم لم تكن فتنتهم إلا أن قالوا والله ربنا ما كنا مشركين

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   Then their only excuse will be to say, ‘By Allah, our Lord, we were not polytheists.’

   thumma lam takun fitnatuhum ʾillā ʾan qālū wa-llāhi rabbinā mā kunnā mushrikīna

6. انظر كيف كذبوا على أنفسهم وضل عنهم ما كانوا يفترون

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   Look, how they forswear themselves, and what they used to fabricate has forsaken them!

   unẓur kayfa kadhabū ʿalā ʾanfusihim wa-ḍalla ʿanhum mā kānū yaftarūna

7. ومنهم من يستمع إليك وجعلنا على قلوبهم أكنة أن يفقهوه وفي آذانهم وقرا وإن يروا كل آية لا يؤمنوا بها حتى إذا جاءوك يجادلونك يقول الذين كفروا إن هذا إلا أساطير الأولين

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   There are some of them who prick up their ears at you, but We have cast veils on their hearts lest they should understand it, and a deafness into their ears; and though they should see every sign, they will not believe in it. When they come to you, to dispute with you, the faithless say, ‘These are nothing but myths of the ancients.’

   wa-minhum man yastamiʿu ʾilayka wa-jaʿalnā ʿalā qulūbihim ʾakinnatan ʾan yafqahūhu wa-fī ʾādhānihim waqran wa-ʾin yaraw kulla ʾāyatin lā yuʾminū bihā ḥattā ʾidhā jāʾūka yujādilūnaka yaqūlu lladhīna kafarū ʾin hādhā ʾillā ʾasāṭīru l-ʾawwalīna

8. وهم ينهون عنه وينأون عنه وإن يهلكون إلا أنفسهم وما يشعرون

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   They dissuade [others] from [following] him, and [themselves] avoid him; yet they destroy no one except themselves, but they are not aware.

   wa-hum yanhawna ʿanhu wa-yanʾawna ʿanhu wa-ʾin yuhlikūna ʾillā ʾanfusahum wa-mā yashʿurūna

9. ولو ترى إذ وقفوا على النار فقالوا يا ليتنا نرد ولا نكذب بآيات ربنا ونكون من المؤمنين

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   Were you to see when they are brought to a halt by the Fire, whereupon they will say, ‘If only we were sent back [into the world]! Then we will not deny the signs of our Lord, and we will be among the faithful!’

   wa-law tarā ʾidh wuqifū ʿalā n-nāri fa-qālū yā-laytanā nuraddu wa-lā nukadhdhiba bi-ʾāyāti rabbinā wa-nakūna mina l-muʾminīna