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

1. ولكل درجات مما عملوا وما ربك بغافل عما يعملون

   132

   For everyone there are ranks in accordance with what they have done; and your Lord is not oblivious of what they do.

   wa-li-kullin darajātun mimmā ʿamilū wa-mā rabbuka bi-ghāfilin ʿammā yaʿmalūna

2. وربك الغني ذو الرحمة إن يشأ يذهبكم ويستخلف من بعدكم ما يشاء كما أنشأكم من ذرية قوم آخرين

   133

   Your Lord is the All-sufficient dispenser of mercy. If He wishes, He will take you away, and make whomever He wishes succeed you, just as He produced you from the descendants of another people.

   wa-rabbuka l-ghaniyyu dhū r-raḥmati ʾin yashaʾ yudhhibkum wa-yastakhlif min baʿdikum mā yashāʾu ka-mā ʾanshaʾakum min dhurriyyati qawmin ʾākharīna

3. إن ما توعدون لآت وما أنتم بمعجزين

   134

   Indeed what you are promised will surely come, and you will not be able to thwart it.

   ʾinna mā tūʿadūna la-ʾātin wa-mā ʾantum bi-muʿjizīna

4. قل يا قوم اعملوا على مكانتكم إني عامل فسوف تعلمون من تكون له عاقبة الدار إنه لا يفلح الظالمون

   135

   Say, ‘O my people, act according to your ability; I too am acting. Soon you will know in whose favour the outcome of that abode will be. Indeed the wrongdoers will not be felicitous.’

   qul yā-qawmi ʿmalū ʿalā makānatikum ʾinnī ʿāmilun fa-sawfa taʿlamūna man takūnu lahū ʿāqibatu d-dāri ʾinnahū lā yufliḥu ẓ-ẓālimūna

5. وجعلوا لله مما ذرأ من الحرث والأنعام نصيبا فقالوا هذا لله بزعمهم وهذا لشركائنا فما كان لشركائهم فلا يصل إلى الله وما كان لله فهو يصل إلى شركائهم ساء ما يحكمون

   136

   They dedicate a portion to Allah out of what He has created of the crops and cattle, and say, ‘This is for Allah,’ so do they maintain, ‘and this is for our partners.’ But what is for their partners does not reach Allah, and what is for Allah reaches their partners. Evil is the judgement that they make.

   wa-jaʿalū li-llāhi mimmā dharaʾa mina l-ḥarthi wa-l-ʾanʿāmi naṣīban fa-qālū hādhā li-llāhi bi-zaʿmihim wa-hādhā li-shurakāʾinā fa-mā kāna li-shurakāʾihim fa-lā yaṣilu ʾilā llāhi wa-mā kāna li-llāhi fa-huwa yaṣilu ʾilā shurakāʾihim sāʾa mā yaḥkumūna

6. وكذلك زين لكثير من المشركين قتل أولادهم شركاؤهم ليردوهم وليلبسوا عليهم دينهم ولو شاء الله ما فعلوه فذرهم وما يفترون

   137

   That is how to most of the polytheists the slaying of their children is presented as decorous by those whom they ascribe as partners [to Allah], that they may ruin them and confound their religion for them. Had Allah wished, they would not have done it. So leave them with what they fabricate.

   wa-ka-dhālika zayyana li-kathīrin mina l-mushrikīna qatla ʾawlādihim shurakāʾuhum li-yurdūhum wa-li-yalbisū ʿalayhim dīnahum wa-law shāʾa llāhu mā faʿalūhu fa-dharhum wa-mā yaftarūna