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

1. هل ينظرون إلا أن تأتيهم الملائكة أو يأتي ربك أو يأتي بعض آيات ربك يوم يأتي بعض آيات ربك لا ينفع نفسا إيمانها لم تكن آمنت من قبل أو كسبت في إيمانها خيرا قل انتظروا إنا منتظرون

   158

   Do they not consider that the angels may come to them, or your Lord may come, or some of your Lord’s signs may come? The day when some of your Lord’s signs do come, faith shall not benefit any soul that had not believed beforehand and had not earned some goodness in its faith. Say, ‘Wait! We too are waiting!’

   hal yanẓurūna ʾillā ʾan taʾtiyahumu l-malāʾikatu ʾaw yaʾtiya rabbuka ʾaw yaʾtiya baʿḍu ʾāyāti rabbika yawma yaʾtī baʿḍu ʾāyāti rabbika lā yanfaʿu nafsan ʾīmānuhā lam takun ʾāmanat min qablu ʾaw kasabat fī ʾīmānihā khayran quli ntaẓirū ʾinnā muntaẓirūna

2. إن الذين فرقوا دينهم وكانوا شيعا لست منهم في شيء إنما أمرهم إلى الله ثم ينبئهم بما كانوا يفعلون

   159

   Indeed those who split up their religion and became sects, you will not have anything to do with them. Their matter rests only with Allah; then He will inform them concerning what they used to do.

   ʾinna lladhīna farraqū dīnahum wa-kānū shiyaʿan lasta minhum fī shayʾin ʾinnamā ʾamruhum ʾilā llāhi thumma yunabbiʾuhum bi-mā kānū yafʿalūna

3. من جاء بالحسنة فله عشر أمثالها ومن جاء بالسيئة فلا يجزى إلا مثلها وهم لا يظلمون

   160

   Whoever brings virtue shall receive [a reward] ten times its like; but whoever brings vice shall not be requited except with its like, and they will not be wronged.

   man jāʾa bi-l-ḥasanati fa-lahū ʿashru ʾamthālihā wa-man jāʾa bi-s-sayyiʾati fa-lā yujzā ʾillā mithlahā wa-hum lā yuẓlamūna

4. قل إنني هداني ربي إلى صراط مستقيم دينا قيما ملة إبراهيم حنيفا وما كان من المشركين

   161

   Say, ‘Indeed my Lord has guided me to a straight path, the upright religion, the creed of Abraham, a Hanif, and he was not one of the polytheists.’

   qul ʾinnanī hadānī rabbī ʾilā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin dīnan qiyaman millata ʾibrāhīma ḥanīfan wa-mā kāna mina l-mushrikīna

5. قل إن صلاتي ونسكي ومحياي ومماتي لله رب العالمين

   162

   Say, ‘Indeed my prayer and my worship, my life and my death are for the sake of Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.

   qul ʾinna ṣalātī wa-nusukī wa-maḥyāya wa-mamātī li-llāhi rabbi l-ʿālamīna

6. لا شريك له وبذلك أمرت وأنا أول المسلمين

   163

   He has no partner, and I have been commanded [to follow] this [creed], and I am the first of those who submit [to Allah].’

   lā sharīka lahū wa-bi-dhālika ʾumirtu wa-ʾana ʾawwalu l-muslimīna

7. قل أغير الله أبغي ربا وهو رب كل شيء ولا تكسب كل نفس إلا عليها ولا تزر وازرة وزر أخرى ثم إلى ربكم مرجعكم فينبئكم بما كنتم فيه تختلفون

   164

   Say, ‘Shall I seek a Lord other than Allah, while He is the Lord of all things?’ No soul does evil except against itself, and no bearer shall bear another’s burden; then to your Lord will be your return, whereat He will inform you concerning that about which you used to differ.

   qul ʾa-ghayra llāhi ʾabghī rabban wa-huwa rabbu kulli shayʾin wa-lā taksibu kullu nafsin ʾillā ʿalayhā wa-lā taziru wāziratun wizra ʾukhrā thumma ʾilā rabbikum marjiʿukum fa-yunabbiʾukum bi-mā kuntum fīhi takhtalifūna

8. وهو الذي جعلكم خلائف الأرض ورفع بعضكم فوق بعض درجات ليبلوكم في ما آتاكم إن ربك سريع العقاب وإنه لغفور رحيم

   165

   It is He who has made you successors on the earth, and raised some of you in rank above others so that He may test you in respect to what He has given you. Indeed your Lord is swift in retribution, and indeed, He is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   wa-huwa lladhī jaʿalakum khalāʾifa l-ʾarḍi wa-rafaʿa baʿḍakum fawqa baʿḍin darajātin li-yabluwakum fī mā ʾātākum ʾinna rabbaka sarīʿu l-ʿiqābi wa-ʾinnahū la-ghafūrun raḥīmun