Surah Al-'Anbyā (The Prophets) in English

1. وما أرسلنا من قبلك من رسول إلا نوحي إليه أنه لا إله إلا أنا فاعبدون

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   We did not send any apostle before you but that We revealed to him that ‘There is no god except Me; so worship Me.’

   wa-mā ʾarsalnā min qablika min rasūlin ʾillā nūḥī ʾilayhi ʾannahū lā ʾilāha ʾillā ʾana fa-ʿbudūni

2. وقالوا اتخذ الرحمن ولدا سبحانه بل عباد مكرمون

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   They say, ‘The All-beneficent has taken offsprings.’ Immaculate is He! Indeed, they are [His] honoured servants.

   wa-qālū ttakhadha r-raḥmānu waladan subḥānahū bal ʿibādun mukramūna

3. لا يسبقونه بالقول وهم بأمره يعملون

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   They do not venture to speak ahead of Him, and they act by His command.

   lā yasbiqūnahū bi-l-qawli wa-hum bi-ʾamrihī yaʿmalūna

4. يعلم ما بين أيديهم وما خلفهم ولا يشفعون إلا لمن ارتضى وهم من خشيته مشفقون

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   He knows that which is before them and that which is behind them, and they do not intercede except for someone He approves of, and they are apprehensive for the fear of Him.

   yaʿlamu mā bayna ʾaydīhim wa-mā khalfahum wa-lā yashfaʿūna ʾillā li-mani rtaḍā wa-hum min khashyatihī mushfiqūna

5. ومن يقل منهم إني إله من دونه فذلك نجزيه جهنم كذلك نجزي الظالمين

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   Should any of them say, ‘I am a god besides Him,’ We will requite him with hell. Thus do We requite the wrongdoers.

   wa-man yaqul minhum ʾinnī ʾilāhun min dūnihī fa-dhālika najzīhi jahannama ka-dhālika najzī ẓ-ẓālimīna

6. أولم ير الذين كفروا أن السماوات والأرض كانتا رتقا ففتقناهما وجعلنا من الماء كل شيء حي أفلا يؤمنون

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   Have the faithless not regarded that the heavens and the earth were interwoven and We unravelled them, and We made every living thing out of water? Will they not then have faith?

   ʾa-wa-lam yara lladhīna kafarū ʾanna s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa kānatā ratqan fa-fataqnāhumā wa-jaʿalnā mina l-māʾi kulla shayʾin ḥayyin ʾa-fa-lā yuʾminūna

7. وجعلنا في الأرض رواسي أن تميد بهم وجعلنا فيها فجاجا سبلا لعلهم يهتدون

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   We set firm mountains in the earth lest it should shake with them, and We made broad ways in them so that they may be guided [to their destinations].

   wa-jaʿalnā fī l-ʾarḍi rawāsiya ʾan tamīda bihim wa-jaʿalnā fīhā fijājan subulan laʿallahum yahtadūna

8. وجعلنا السماء سقفا محفوظا وهم عن آياتها معرضون

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   We made the sky a preserved roof and yet they are disregardful of its signs.

   wa-jaʿalnā s-samāʾa saqfan maḥfūẓan wa-hum ʿan ʾāyātihā muʿriḍūna

9. وهو الذي خلق الليل والنهار والشمس والقمر كل في فلك يسبحون

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   It is He who created the night and the day, the sun and the moon, each swimming in an orbit.

   wa-huwa lladhī khalaqa l-layla wa-n-nahāra wa-sh-shamsa wa-l-qamara kullun fī falakin yasbaḥūna

10. وما جعلنا لبشر من قبلك الخلد أفإن مت فهم الخالدون

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    We did not give immortality to any human before you. If you are fated to die, will they live on forever?

    wa-mā jaʿalnā li-basharin min qablika l-khulda ʾa-fa-ʾin mitta fa-humu l-khālidūna

11. كل نفس ذائقة الموت ونبلوكم بالشر والخير فتنة وإلينا ترجعون

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    Every soul shall taste death, and We will test you with good and ill by way of test, and to Us you will be brought back.

    kullu nafsin dhāʾiqatu l-mawti wa-nablūkum bi-sh-sharri wa-l-khayri fitnatan wa-ʾilaynā turjaʿūna