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

1. وكذلك فتنا بعضهم ببعض ليقولوا أهؤلاء من الله عليهم من بيننا أليس الله بأعلم بالشاكرين

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   Thus do We test them by means of one another so that they should say, ‘Are these the ones whom Allah has favoured from among us?!’ Does not Allah know best the grateful?!

   wa-ka-dhālika fatannā baʿḍahum bi-baʿḍin li-yaqūlū ʾa-hāʾulāʾi manna llāhu ʿalayhim min bayninā ʾa-laysa llāhu bi-ʾaʿlama bi-sh-shākirīna

2. وإذا جاءك الذين يؤمنون بآياتنا فقل سلام عليكم كتب ربكم على نفسه الرحمة أنه من عمل منكم سوءا بجهالة ثم تاب من بعده وأصلح فأنه غفور رحيم

   54

   When those who have faith in Our signs come to you, say, ‘Peace to you! Your Lord has made mercy incumbent upon Himself: whoever of you commits an evil [deed] out of ignorance and then repents after that and reforms, then He is indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.’

   wa-ʾidhā jāʾaka lladhīna yuʾminūna bi-ʾāyātinā fa-qul salāmun ʿalaykum kataba rabbukum ʿalā nafsihi r-raḥmata ʾannahū man ʿamila minkum sūʾan bi-jahālatin thumma tāba min baʿdihī wa-ʾaṣlaḥa fa-ʾannahū ghafūrun raḥīmun

3. وكذلك نفصل الآيات ولتستبين سبيل المجرمين

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   Thus do We elaborate the signs, so that the way of the guilty may be exposed.

   wa-ka-dhālika nufaṣṣilu l-ʾāyāti wa-li-tastabīna sabīlu l-mujrimīna

4. قل إني نهيت أن أعبد الذين تدعون من دون الله قل لا أتبع أهواءكم قد ضللت إذا وما أنا من المهتدين

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   Say, ‘I have been forbidden to worship those whom you invoke besides Allah.’ Say, ‘I do not follow your desires, for then I will have gone astray, and I will not be among the [rightly] guided.’

   qul ʾinnī nuhītu ʾan ʾaʿbuda lladhīna tadʿūna min dūni llāhi qul lā ʾattabiʿu ʾahwāʾakum qad ḍalaltu ʾidhan wa-mā ʾana mina l-muhtadīna

5. قل إني على بينة من ربي وكذبتم به ما عندي ما تستعجلون به إن الحكم إلا لله يقص الحق وهو خير الفاصلين

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   Say, ‘Indeed I stand on a manifest proof from my Lord and you have denied it. What you seek to hasten is not up to me. Judgement belongs only to Allah; He expounds the truth and He is the best of judges.’

   qul ʾinnī ʿalā bayyinatin min rabbī wa-kadhdhabtum bihī mā ʿindī mā tastaʿjilūna bihī ʾini l-ḥukmu ʾillā li-llāhi yaquṣṣu l-ḥaqqa wa-huwa khayru l-fāṣilīna

6. قل لو أن عندي ما تستعجلون به لقضي الأمر بيني وبينكم والله أعلم بالظالمين

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   Say, ‘If what you seek to hasten were with me, the matter would surely have been decided between you and me, and Allah knows best the wrongdoers.’

   qul law ʾanna ʿindī mā tastaʿjilūna bihī la-quḍiya l-ʾamru baynī wa-baynakum wa-llāhu ʾaʿlamu bi-ẓ-ẓālimīna

7. وعنده مفاتح الغيب لا يعلمها إلا هو ويعلم ما في البر والبحر وما تسقط من ورقة إلا يعلمها ولا حبة في ظلمات الأرض ولا رطب ولا يابس إلا في كتاب مبين

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   With Him are the treasures of the Unseen; no one knows them except Him. He knows whatever there is in land and sea. No leaf falls without His knowing it, nor is there a grain in the darkness of the earth, nor anything fresh or withered but it is in a manifest Book.

   wa-ʿindahū mafātiḥu l-ghaybi lā yaʿlamuhā ʾillā huwa wa-yaʿlamu mā fī l-barri wa-l-baḥri wa-mā tasquṭu min waraqatin ʾillā yaʿlamuhā wa-lā ḥabbatin fī ẓulumāti l-ʾarḍi wa-lā raṭbin wa-lā yābisin ʾillā fī kitābin mubīnin