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

1. وما لكم ألا تأكلوا مما ذكر اسم الله عليه وقد فصل لكم ما حرم عليكم إلا ما اضطررتم إليه وإن كثيرا ليضلون بأهوائهم بغير علم إن ربك هو أعلم بالمعتدين

   119

   Why should you not eat that over which Allah’s Name has been mentioned, while He has already elaborated for you whatever He has forbidden you, excepting what you may be compelled to [eat in an emergency]? Indeed many mislead [others] by their fancies, without any knowledge. Indeed your Lord knows best the transgressors.

   wa-mā lakum ʾallā taʾkulū mimmā dhukira smu llāhi ʿalayhi wa-qad faṣṣala lakum mā ḥarrama ʿalaykum ʾillā mā ḍṭurirtum ʾilayhi wa-ʾinna kathīran la-yuḍillūna bi-ʾahwāʾihim bi-ghayri ʿilmin ʾinna rabbaka huwa ʾaʿlamu bi-l-muʿtadīna

2. وذروا ظاهر الإثم وباطنه إن الذين يكسبون الإثم سيجزون بما كانوا يقترفون

   120

   Renounce outward sins and the inward ones. Indeed those who commit sins shall be requited for what they used to commit.

   wa-dharū ẓāhira l-ʾithmi wa-bāṭinahū ʾinna lladhīna yaksibūna l-ʾithma sa-yujzawna bi-mā kānū yaqtarifūna

3. ولا تأكلوا مما لم يذكر اسم الله عليه وإنه لفسق وإن الشياطين ليوحون إلى أوليائهم ليجادلوكم وإن أطعتموهم إنكم لمشركون

   121

   Do not eat [anything] of that over which Allah’s Name has not been mentioned, and that is indeed transgression. Indeed the satans inspire their friends to dispute with you; and if you obey them, you will indeed be polytheists.

   wa-lā taʾkulū mimmā lam yudhkari smu llāhi ʿalayhi wa-ʾinnahū la-fisqun wa-ʾinna sh-shayāṭīna la-yūḥūna ʾilā ʾawliyāʾihim li-yujādilūkum wa-ʾin ʾaṭaʿtumūhum ʾinnakum la-mushrikūna

4. أومن كان ميتا فأحييناه وجعلنا له نورا يمشي به في الناس كمن مثله في الظلمات ليس بخارج منها كذلك زين للكافرين ما كانوا يعملون

   122

   Is he who was lifeless, then We gave him life and provided him with a light by which he walks among the people, like one who dwells in a manifold darkness which he cannot leave? To the faithless is thus presented as decorous what they have been doing.

   ʾa-wa-man kāna maytan fa-ʾaḥyaynāhu wa-jaʿalnā lahū nūran yamshī bihī fī n-nāsi ka-man mathaluhū fī ẓ-ẓulumāti laysa bi-khārijin minhā ka-dhālika zuyyina li-l-kāfirīna mā kānū yaʿmalūna

5. وكذلك جعلنا في كل قرية أكابر مجرميها ليمكروا فيها وما يمكرون إلا بأنفسهم وما يشعرون

   123

   Thus have We installed in every town its major criminals that they may plot therein. Yet they do not plot except against their own souls, but they are not aware.

   wa-ka-dhālika jaʿalnā fī kulli qaryatin ʾakābira mujrimīhā li-yamkurū fīhā wa-mā yamkurūna ʾillā bi-ʾanfusihim wa-mā yashʿurūna

6. وإذا جاءتهم آية قالوا لن نؤمن حتى نؤتى مثل ما أوتي رسل الله الله أعلم حيث يجعل رسالته سيصيب الذين أجرموا صغار عند الله وعذاب شديد بما كانوا يمكرون

   124

   When a sign comes to them, they say, ‘We will not believe until we are given the like of what was given to Allah’s apostles.’ Allah knows best where to place His apostleship! Soon the guilty will be visited by a degradation and severe punishment from Allah because of the plots they used to devise.

   wa-ʾidhā jāʾathum ʾāyatun qālū lan nuʾmina ḥattā nuʾtā mithla mā ʾūtiya rusulu llāhi allāhu ʾaʿlamu ḥaythu yajʿalu risālatahū sa-yuṣību lladhīna ʾajramū ṣaghārun ʿinda llāhi wa-ʿadhābun shadīdun bi-mā kānū yamkurūna