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

1. إنما يستجيب الذين يسمعون والموتى يبعثهم الله ثم إليه يرجعون

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   Only those who listen will respond [to you]. As for the dead, Allah will resurrect them, then they will be brought back to Him.

   ʾinnamā yastajību lladhīna yasmaʿūna wa-l-mawtā yabʿathuhumu llāhu thumma ʾilayhi yurjaʿūna

2. وقالوا لولا نزل عليه آية من ربه قل إن الله قادر على أن ينزل آية ولكن أكثرهم لا يعلمون

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   They say, ‘Why has not a sign been sent down to him from his Lord?’ Say, ‘Allah is indeed able to send down a sign,’ but most of them do not know.

   wa-qālū law-lā nuzzila ʿalayhi ʾāyatun min rabbihī qul ʾinna llāha qādirun ʿalā ʾan yunazzila ʾāyatan wa-lākinna ʾaktharahum lā yaʿlamūna

3. وما من دابة في الأرض ولا طائر يطير بجناحيه إلا أمم أمثالكم ما فرطنا في الكتاب من شيء ثم إلى ربهم يحشرون

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   There is no animal on land, nor a bird that flies with its wings, but they are communities like yourselves. We have not omitted anything from the Book. Then they will be mustered toward their Lord.

   wa-mā min dābbatin fī l-ʾarḍi wa-lā ṭāʾirin yaṭīru bi-janāḥayhi ʾillā ʾumamun ʾamthālukum mā farraṭnā fī l-kitābi min shayʾin thumma ʾilā rabbihim yuḥsharūna

4. والذين كذبوا بآياتنا صم وبكم في الظلمات من يشإ الله يضلله ومن يشأ يجعله على صراط مستقيم

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   Those who deny Our signs are deaf and dumb, in a manifold darkness. Allah leads astray whomever He wishes, and whomever He wishes He puts him on a straight path.

   wa-lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā ṣummun wa-bukmun fī ẓ-ẓulumāti man yashaʾi llāhu yuḍlilhu wa-man yashaʾ yajʿalhu ʿalā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin

5. قل أرأيتكم إن أتاكم عذاب الله أو أتتكم الساعة أغير الله تدعون إن كنتم صادقين

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   Say, ‘Tell me, should Allah’s punishment overtake you, or should the Hour overtake you, will you supplicate anyone other than Allah, should you be truthful?

   qul ʾa-raʾaytakum ʾin ʾatākum ʿadhābu llāhi ʾaw ʾatatkumu s-sāʿatu ʾa-ghayra llāhi tadʿūna ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

6. بل إياه تدعون فيكشف ما تدعون إليه إن شاء وتنسون ما تشركون

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   No, Him you will supplicate, and He will remove that for which you supplicated Him, if He wishes, and you will forget what you ascribe [to Him] as [His] partners.’

   bal ʾiyyāhu tadʿūna fa-yakshifu mā tadʿūna ʾilayhi ʾin shāʾa wa-tansawna mā tushrikūna

7. ولقد أرسلنا إلى أمم من قبلك فأخذناهم بالبأساء والضراء لعلهم يتضرعون

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   We have certainly sent [apostles] to nations before you, then We seized them with stress and distress so that they might entreat [Us].

   wa-la-qad ʾarsalnā ʾilā ʾumamin min qablika fa-ʾakhadhnāhum bi-l-baʾsāʾi wa-ḍ-ḍarrāʾi laʿallahum yataḍarraʿūna

8. فلولا إذ جاءهم بأسنا تضرعوا ولكن قست قلوبهم وزين لهم الشيطان ما كانوا يعملون

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   Why did they not entreat when Our punishment overtook them! But their hearts had hardened, and Satan had made what they had been doing seem decorous to them.

   fa-law-lā ʾidh jāʾahum baʾsunā taḍarraʿū wa-lākin qasat qulūbuhum wa-zayyana lahumu sh-shayṭānu mā kānū yaʿmalūna

9. فلما نسوا ما ذكروا به فتحنا عليهم أبواب كل شيء حتى إذا فرحوا بما أوتوا أخذناهم بغتة فإذا هم مبلسون

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   So when they forgot what they had been admonished of, We opened for them the gates of all [good] things. When they became proud of what they were given, We seized them suddenly, whereat, behold, they were despondent.

   fa-lammā nasū mā dhukkirū bihī fataḥnā ʿalayhim ʾabwāba kulli shayʾin ḥattā ʾidhā fariḥū bi-mā ʾūtū ʾakhadhnāhum baghtatan fa-ʾidhā hum mublisūna