Surah Al-'Anbyā (The Prophets) in English

1. قل إنما أنذركم بالوحي ولا يسمع الصم الدعاء إذا ما ينذرون

   45

   Say, ‘I indeed warn you by the means of revelation.’ But the deaf do not hear the call when they are warned.

   qul ʾinnamā ʾundhirukum bi-l-waḥyi wa-lā yasmaʿu ṣ-ṣummu d-duʿāʾa ʾidhā mā yundharūna

2. ولئن مستهم نفحة من عذاب ربك ليقولن يا ويلنا إنا كنا ظالمين

   46

   Should a whiff of your Lord’s punishment touch them, they will surely say, ‘Woe to us! We have indeed been wrongdoers!’

   wa-la-ʾin massathum nafḥatun min ʿadhābi rabbika la-yaqūlunna yā-waylanā ʾinnā kunnā ẓālimīna

3. ونضع الموازين القسط ليوم القيامة فلا تظلم نفس شيئا وإن كان مثقال حبة من خردل أتينا بها وكفى بنا حاسبين

   47

   We shall set up just scales on the Day of Resurrection, and no soul will be wronged in the least. Even if it be the weight of a mustard seed We shall produce it and We suffice as reckoners.

   wa-naḍaʿu l-mawāzīna l-qisṭa li-yawmi l-qiyāmati fa-lā tuẓlamu nafsun shayʾan wa-ʾin kāna mithqāla ḥabbatin min khardalin ʾataynā bihā wa-kafā binā ḥāsibīna

4. ولقد آتينا موسى وهارون الفرقان وضياء وذكرا للمتقين

   48

   Certainly We gave Moses and Aaron the Criterion, a light and reminder for the Godwary

   wa-la-qad ʾātaynā mūsā wa-hārūna l-furqāna wa-ḍiyāʾan wa-dhikran li-l-muttaqīna

5. الذين يخشون ربهم بالغيب وهم من الساعة مشفقون

   49

   —those who fear their Lord in secret, and who are apprehensive of the Hour.

   alladhīna yakhshawna rabbahum bi-l-ghaybi wa-hum mina s-sāʿati mushfiqūna

6. وهذا ذكر مبارك أنزلناه أفأنتم له منكرون

   50

   This [too] is a blessed reminder, which We have sent down. Will you then deny it?

   wa-hādhā dhikrun mubārakun ʾanzalnāhu ʾa-fa-ʾantum lahū munkirūna

7. ولقد آتينا إبراهيم رشده من قبل وكنا به عالمين

   51

   Certainly We had given Abraham his probity before, and We knew him

   wa-la-qad ʾātaynā ʾibrāhīma rushdahū min qablu wa-kunnā bihī ʿālimīna

8. إذ قال لأبيه وقومه ما هذه التماثيل التي أنتم لها عاكفون

   52

   when he said to his father and his people, ‘What are these images to which you keep on clinging?’

   ʾidh qāla li-ʾabīhi wa-qawmihī mā hādhihi t-tamāthīlu llatī ʾantum lahā ʿākifūna

9. قالوا وجدنا آباءنا لها عابدين

   53

   They said, ‘We found our fathers worshipping them.’

   qālū wajadnā ʾābāʾanā lahā ʿābidīna

10. قال لقد كنتم أنتم وآباؤكم في ضلال مبين

    54

    He said, ‘Certainly you and your fathers have been in manifest error.’

    qāla la-qad kuntum ʾantum wa-ʾābāʾukum fī ḍalālin mubīnin

11. قالوا أجئتنا بالحق أم أنت من اللاعبين

    55

    They said, ‘Are you telling the truth, or are you [just] kidding?’

    qālū ʾa-jiʾtanā bi-l-ḥaqqi ʾam ʾanta mina l-lāʿibīna

12. قال بل ربكم رب السماوات والأرض الذي فطرهن وأنا على ذلكم من الشاهدين

    56

    He said, ‘Indeed, your Lord is the Lord of the heavens and the earth, who originated them, and I affirm that.

    qāla bal rabbukum rabbu s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi lladhī faṭarahunna wa-ʾana ʿalā dhālikum mina sh-shāhidīna

13. وتالله لأكيدن أصنامكم بعد أن تولوا مدبرين

    57

    By Allah, I will devise a stratagem against your idols after you have gone away.’

    wa-ta-llāhi la-ʾakīdanna ʾaṣnāmakum baʿda ʾan tuwallū mudbirīna