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

1. بل بدا لهم ما كانوا يخفون من قبل ولو ردوا لعادوا لما نهوا عنه وإنهم لكاذبون

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   Indeed, what they used to hide before has now become evident to them. But were they to be sent back they would revert to what they were forbidden, and they are indeed liars.

   bal badā lahum mā kānū yukhfūna min qablu wa-law ruddū la-ʿādū li-mā nuhū ʿanhu wa-ʾinnahum la-kādhibūna

2. وقالوا إن هي إلا حياتنا الدنيا وما نحن بمبعوثين

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   They say, ‘There is nothing but our life of this world, and we shall not be resurrected.’

   wa-qālū ʾin hiya ʾillā ḥayātunā d-dunyā wa-mā naḥnu bi-mabʿūthīna

3. ولو ترى إذ وقفوا على ربهم قال أليس هذا بالحق قالوا بلى وربنا قال فذوقوا العذاب بما كنتم تكفرون

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   Were you to see when they are brought to a halt before their Lord. 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 deny.’

   wa-law tarā ʾidh wuqifū ʿalā rabbihim qāla ʾa-laysa hādhā bi-l-ḥaqqi qālū balā wa-rabbinā qāla fa-dhūqū l-ʿadhāba bi-mā kuntum takfurūna

4. قد خسر الذين كذبوا بلقاء الله حتى إذا جاءتهم الساعة بغتة قالوا يا حسرتنا على ما فرطنا فيها وهم يحملون أوزارهم على ظهورهم ألا ساء ما يزرون

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   They are certainly losers who deny the encounter with Allah. When the Hour overtakes them suddenly, they will say, ‘Alas for us, for what we neglected in it!’ And they will bear their burdens on their backs. Look! Evil is what they bear!

   qad khasira lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-liqāʾi llāhi ḥattā ʾidhā jāʾathumu s-sāʿatu baghtatan qālū yā-ḥasratanā ʿalā mā farraṭnā fīhā wa-hum yaḥmilūna ʾawzārahum ʿalā ẓuhūrihim ʾa-lā sāʾa mā yazirūna

5. وما الحياة الدنيا إلا لعب ولهو وللدار الآخرة خير للذين يتقون أفلا تعقلون

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   The life of the world is nothing but play and diversion, and the abode of the Hereafter is surely better for those who are Godwary. Do you not exercise your reason?

   wa-mā l-ḥayātu d-dunyā ʾillā laʿibun wa-lahwun wa-la-d-dāru l-ʾākhiratu khayrun li-lladhīna yattaqūna ʾa-fa-lā taʿqilūna

6. قد نعلم إنه ليحزنك الذي يقولون فإنهم لا يكذبونك ولكن الظالمين بآيات الله يجحدون

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   We certainly know that what they say grieves you. Yet it is not you that they deny, but it is Allah’s signs that the wrongdoers impugn.

   qad naʿlamu ʾinnahū la-yaḥzunuka lladhī yaqūlūna fa-ʾinnahum lā yukadhdhibūnaka wa-lākinna ẓ-ẓālimīna bi-ʾāyāti llāhi yajḥadūna

7. ولقد كذبت رسل من قبلك فصبروا على ما كذبوا وأوذوا حتى أتاهم نصرنا ولا مبدل لكلمات الله ولقد جاءك من نبإ المرسلين

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   Apostles were certainly denied before you, yet they patiently bore being denied and tormented until Our help came to them. Nothing can change the words of Allah, and there have certainly come to you some of the accounts of the apostles.

   wa-la-qad kudhdhibat rusulun min qablika fa-ṣabarū ʿalā mā kudhdhibū wa-ʾūdhū ḥattā ʾatāhum naṣrunā wa-lā mubaddila li-kalimāti llāhi wa-la-qad jāʾaka min nabaʾi l-mursalīna

8. وإن كان كبر عليك إعراضهم فإن استطعت أن تبتغي نفقا في الأرض أو سلما في السماء فتأتيهم بآية ولو شاء الله لجمعهم على الهدى فلا تكونن من الجاهلين

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   And should their aversion be hard on you, find, if you can, a tunnel into the ground, or a ladder into sky, that you may bring them a sign. Had Allah wished, He would have brought them together on guidance. So do not be one of the ignorant.

   wa-ʾin kāna kabura ʿalayka ʾiʿrāḍuhum fa-ʾini staṭaʿta ʾan tabtaghiya nafaqan fī l-ʾarḍi ʾaw sullaman fī s-samāʾi fa-taʾtiyahum bi-ʾāyatin wa-law shāʾa llāhu la-jamaʿahum ʿalā l-hudā fa-lā takūnanna mina l-jāhilīna