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

1. فإن كذبوك فقل ربكم ذو رحمة واسعة ولا يرد بأسه عن القوم المجرمين

   147

   But if they deny you, say, ‘Your Lord is dispenser of an all-embracing mercy, but His punishment will not be averted from the guilty lot.’

   fa-ʾin kadhdhabūka fa-qul rabbukum dhū raḥmatin wāsiʿatin wa-lā yuraddu baʾsuhū ʿani l-qawmi l-mujrimīna

2. سيقول الذين أشركوا لو شاء الله ما أشركنا ولا آباؤنا ولا حرمنا من شيء كذلك كذب الذين من قبلهم حتى ذاقوا بأسنا قل هل عندكم من علم فتخرجوه لنا إن تتبعون إلا الظن وإن أنتم إلا تخرصون

   148

   The polytheists will say, ‘Had Allah wished we would not have ascribed any partner [to Him], nor our fathers, nor would we have forbidden anything.’ Those who were before them had denied likewise until they tasted Our punishment. Say, ‘Do you have any [revealed] knowledge that you can produce before us? You follow nothing but conjectures, and you do nothing but surmise.’

   sa-yaqūlu lladhīna ʾashrakū law shāʾa llāhu mā ʾashraknā wa-lā ʾābāʾunā wa-lā ḥarramnā min shayʾin ka-dhālika kadhdhaba lladhīna min qablihim ḥattā dhāqū baʾsanā qul hal ʿindakum min ʿilmin fa-tukhrijūhu lanā ʾin tattabiʿūna ʾillā ẓ-ẓanna wa-ʾin ʾantum ʾillā takhruṣūna

3. قل فلله الحجة البالغة فلو شاء لهداكم أجمعين

   149

   Say, ‘To Allah belongs the conclusive argument. Had He wished, He would have surely guided you all.’

   qul fa-li-llāhi l-ḥujjatu l-bālighatu fa-law shāʾa la-hadākum ʾajmaʿīna

4. قل هلم شهداءكم الذين يشهدون أن الله حرم هذا فإن شهدوا فلا تشهد معهم ولا تتبع أهواء الذين كذبوا بآياتنا والذين لا يؤمنون بالآخرة وهم بربهم يعدلون

   150

   Say, ‘Bring your witnesses who may testify that Allah has forbidden this.’ So if they testify, do not testify with them, and do not follow the desires of those who deny Our signs, and those who do not believe in the Hereafter and equate [others] with their Lord.

   qul halumma shuhadāʾakumu lladhīna yashhadūna ʾanna llāha ḥarrama hādhā fa-ʾin shahidū fa-lā tashhad maʿahum wa-lā tattabiʿ ʾahwāʾa lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā wa-lladhīna lā yuʾminūna bi-l-ʾākhirati wa-hum bi-rabbihim yaʿdilūna

5. قل تعالوا أتل ما حرم ربكم عليكم ألا تشركوا به شيئا وبالوالدين إحسانا ولا تقتلوا أولادكم من إملاق نحن نرزقكم وإياهم ولا تقربوا الفواحش ما ظهر منها وما بطن ولا تقتلوا النفس التي حرم الله إلا بالحق ذلكم وصاكم به لعلكم تعقلون

   151

   Say, ‘Come, I will recount what your Lord has forbidden you. That you shall not ascribe any partners to Him, and you shall be good to the parents, you shall not kill your children due to penury—We will provide for you and for them—you shall not approach indecencies, the outward among them and the inward ones, and you shall not kill a soul [whose life] Allah has made inviolable, except with due cause. This is what He has enjoined upon you so that you may exercise your reason.

   qul taʿālaw ʾatlu mā ḥarrama rabbukum ʿalaykum ʾallā tushrikū bihī shayʾan wa-bi-l-wālidayni ʾiḥsānan wa-lā taqtulū ʾawlādakum min ʾimlāqin naḥnu narzuqukum wa-ʾiyyāhum wa-lā taqrabū l-fawāḥisha mā ẓahara minhā wa-mā baṭana wa-lā taqtulū n-nafsa llatī ḥarrama llāhu ʾillā bi-l-ḥaqqi dhālikum waṣṣākum bihī laʿallakum taʿqilūna