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

1. فمن يرد الله أن يهديه يشرح صدره للإسلام ومن يرد أن يضله يجعل صدره ضيقا حرجا كأنما يصعد في السماء كذلك يجعل الله الرجس على الذين لا يؤمنون

   125

   Whomever Allah desires to guide, He opens his breast to Islam, and whomever He desires to lead astray, He makes his breast narrow and straitened as if he were climbing to a height. Thus does Allah lay [spiritual] defilement on those who do not have faith.

   fa-man yuridi llāhu ʾan yahdiyahū yashraḥ ṣadrahū li-l-ʾislāmi wa-man yurid ʾan yuḍillahū yajʿal ṣadrahū ḍayyiqan ḥarajan ka-ʾannamā yaṣṣaʿʿadu fī s-samāʾi ka-dhālika yajʿalu llāhu r-rijsa ʿalā lladhīna lā yuʾminūna

2. وهذا صراط ربك مستقيما قد فصلنا الآيات لقوم يذكرون

   126

   This is the straight path of your Lord. We have already elaborated the signs for a people who take admonition.

   wa-hādhā ṣirāṭu rabbika mustaqīman qad faṣṣalnā l-ʾāyāti li-qawmin yadhdhakkarūna

3. لهم دار السلام عند ربهم وهو وليهم بما كانوا يعملون

   127

   For them shall be the abode of peace near their Lord and He will be their guardian because of what they used to do.

   lahum dāru s-salāmi ʿinda rabbihim wa-huwa waliyyuhum bi-mā kānū yaʿmalūna

4. ويوم يحشرهم جميعا يا معشر الجن قد استكثرتم من الإنس وقال أولياؤهم من الإنس ربنا استمتع بعضنا ببعض وبلغنا أجلنا الذي أجلت لنا قال النار مثواكم خالدين فيها إلا ما شاء الله إن ربك حكيم عليم

   128

   On the day He will gather them all together, [He will say], ‘O company of jinn! You claimed many of the humans.’ Their friends from among the humans will say, ‘Our Lord, we used each other, and we completed our term which You had appointed for us.’ He will say, ‘The Fire is your abode, to remain in it [forever], except what Allah may wish.’ Indeed your Lord is all-wise, all-knowing.

   wa-yawma yaḥshuruhum jamīʿan yā-maʿshara l-jinni qadi stakthartum mina l-ʾinsi wa-qāla ʾawliyāʾuhum mina l-ʾinsi rabbanā stamtaʿa baʿḍunā bi-baʿḍin wa-balaghnā ʾajalanā lladhī ʾajjalta lanā qāla n-nāru mathwākum khālidīna fīhā ʾillā mā shāʾa llāhu ʾinna rabbaka ḥakīmun ʿalīmun

5. وكذلك نولي بعض الظالمين بعضا بما كانوا يكسبون

   129

   That is how We make the wrongdoers one another’s friends because of what they used to earn.

   wa-ka-dhālika nuwallī baʿḍa ẓ-ẓālimīna baʿḍan bi-mā kānū yaksibūna

6. يا معشر الجن والإنس ألم يأتكم رسل منكم يقصون عليكم آياتي وينذرونكم لقاء يومكم هذا قالوا شهدنا على أنفسنا وغرتهم الحياة الدنيا وشهدوا على أنفسهم أنهم كانوا كافرين

   130

   ‘O company of jinn and humans! Did there not come to you apostles from yourselves, recounting to you My signs and warning you of the encounter of this Day?’ They will say, ‘We testify against ourselves.’ The life of this world had deceived them, and they will testify against themselves that they had been faithless.

   yā-maʿshara l-jinni wa-l-ʾinsi ʾa-lam yaʾtikum rusulun minkum yaquṣṣūna ʿalaykum ʾāyātī wa-yundhirūnakum liqāʾa yawmikum hādhā qālū shahidnā ʿalā ʾanfusinā wa-gharrathumu l-ḥayātu d-dunyā wa-shahidū ʿalā ʾanfusihim ʾannahum kānū kāfirīna

7. ذلك أن لم يكن ربك مهلك القرى بظلم وأهلها غافلون

   131

   This is because your Lord would never destroy the towns unjustly while their people were unaware.

   dhālika ʾan lam yakun rabbuka muhlika l-qurā bi-ẓulmin wa-ʾahluhā ghāfilūna