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

1. وما قدروا الله حق قدره إذ قالوا ما أنزل الله على بشر من شيء قل من أنزل الكتاب الذي جاء به موسى نورا وهدى للناس تجعلونه قراطيس تبدونها وتخفون كثيرا وعلمتم ما لم تعلموا أنتم ولا آباؤكم قل الله ثم ذرهم في خوضهم يلعبون

   91

   They did not regard Allah with the regard due to Him when they said, ‘Allah has not sent down anything to any human.’ Say, ‘Who had sent down the Book that was brought by Moses as a light and guidance for the people, which you make into parchments that you display, while you conceal much of it, and [by means of which] you were taught what you did not know, [neither] you nor your fathers?’ Say, ‘Allah!’ Then leave them to play around in their impious gossip.

   wa-mā qadarū llāha ḥaqqa qadrihī ʾidh qālū mā ʾanzala llāhu ʿalā basharin min shayʾin qul man ʾanzala l-kitāba lladhī jāʾa bihī mūsā nūran wa-hudan li-n-nāsi tajʿalūnahū qarāṭīsa tubdūnahā wa-tukhfūna kathīran wa-ʿullimtum mā lam taʿlamū ʾantum wa-lā ʾābāʾukum quli llāhu thumma dharhum fī khawḍihim yalʿabūna

2. وهذا كتاب أنزلناه مبارك مصدق الذي بين يديه ولتنذر أم القرى ومن حولها والذين يؤمنون بالآخرة يؤمنون به وهم على صلاتهم يحافظون

   92

   Blessed is this Book, which We have sent down, confirming what was [revealed] before it, so that you may warn the Mother of Cities and those around it. Those who believe in the Hereafter believe in it, and they are watchful of their prayers.

   wa-hādhā kitābun ʾanzalnāhu mubārakun muṣaddiqu lladhī bayna yadayhi wa-li-tundhira ʾumma l-qurā wa-man ḥawlahā wa-lladhīna yuʾminūna bi-l-ʾākhirati yuʾminūna bihī wa-hum ʿalā ṣalātihim yuḥāfiẓūna

3. ومن أظلم ممن افترى على الله كذبا أو قال أوحي إلي ولم يوح إليه شيء ومن قال سأنزل مثل ما أنزل الله ولو ترى إذ الظالمون في غمرات الموت والملائكة باسطو أيديهم أخرجوا أنفسكم اليوم تجزون عذاب الهون بما كنتم تقولون على الله غير الحق وكنتم عن آياته تستكبرون

   93

   Who is a greater wrongdoer than him who fabricates a lie against Allah, or says, ‘It has been revealed to me,’ while nothing was revealed to him, and he who says, ‘I will bring the like of what Allah has sent down?’ Were you to see when the wrongdoers are in the throes of death, and the angels extend their hands [saying]: ‘Give up your souls! Today you shall be requited with a humiliating punishment because of what you used to attribute to Allah untruly, and for your being disdainful towards His signs.’

   wa-man ʾaẓlamu mimmani ftarā ʿalā llāhi kadhiban ʾaw qāla ʾūḥiya ʾilayya wa-lam yūḥa ʾilayhi shayʾun wa-man qāla sa-ʾunzilu mithla mā ʾanzala llāhu wa-law tarā ʾidhi ẓ-ẓālimūna fī ghamarāti l-mawti wa-l-malāʾikatu bāsiṭū ʾaydīhim ʾakhrijū ʾanfusakumu l-yawma tujzawna ʿadhāba l-hūni bi-mā kuntum taqūlūna ʿalā llāhi ghayra l-ḥaqqi wa-kuntum ʿan ʾāyātihī tastakbirūna

4. ولقد جئتمونا فرادى كما خلقناكم أول مرة وتركتم ما خولناكم وراء ظهوركم وما نرى معكم شفعاءكم الذين زعمتم أنهم فيكم شركاء لقد تقطع بينكم وضل عنكم ما كنتم تزعمون

   94

   ‘Certainly you have come to Us alone, just as We created you the first time, and left behind whatever We had bestowed on you. We do not see your intercessors with you—those whom you claimed to be [Our] partners in [deciding] you[r] [fate]. Certainly all links between you have been cut, and what you used to claim has forsaken you!’

   wa-la-qad jiʾtumūnā furādā ka-mā khalaqnākum ʾawwala marratin wa-taraktum mā khawwalnākum warāʾa ẓuhūrikum wa-mā narā maʿakum shufaʿāʾakumu lladhīna zaʿamtum ʾannahum fīkum shurakāʾu la-qad taqaṭṭaʿa baynakum wa-ḍalla ʿankum mā kuntum tazʿumūna