Surah Al-'Anfāl (The Spoils of War) in English

1. إذ تستغيثون ربكم فاستجاب لكم أني ممدكم بألف من الملائكة مردفين

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   When you appealed to your Lord for help, He answered you: ‘I will aid you with a thousand angels in a file.’

   ʾidh tastaghīthūna rabbakum fa-stajāba lakum ʾannī mumiddukum bi-ʾalfin mina l-malāʾikati murdifīna

2. وما جعله الله إلا بشرى ولتطمئن به قلوبكم وما النصر إلا من عند الله إن الله عزيز حكيم

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   Allah did not appoint it but as a good news, and to reassure your hearts. Victory comes only from Allah. Indeed Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.

   wa-mā jaʿalahu llāhu ʾillā bushrā wa-li-taṭmaʾinna bihī qulūbukum wa-mā n-naṣru ʾillā min ʿindi llāhi ʾinna llāha ʿazīzun ḥakīmun

3. إذ يغشيكم النعاس أمنة منه وينزل عليكم من السماء ماء ليطهركم به ويذهب عنكم رجز الشيطان وليربط على قلوبكم ويثبت به الأقدام

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   When He covered you with a trance as a [sense of] security from Him, and He sent down water from the sky to purify you with it, and to repel from you the defilement of Satan, and to fortify your hearts, and to make [your] feet steady with it.

   ʾidh yughashshīkumu n-nuʿāsa ʾamanatan minhu wa-yunazzilu ʿalaykum mina s-samāʾi māʾan li-yuṭahhirakum bihī wa-yudhhiba ʿankum rijza sh-shayṭāni wa-li-yarbiṭa ʿalā qulūbikum wa-yuthabbita bihi l-ʾaqdāma

4. إذ يوحي ربك إلى الملائكة أني معكم فثبتوا الذين آمنوا سألقي في قلوب الذين كفروا الرعب فاضربوا فوق الأعناق واضربوا منهم كل بنان

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   Then your Lord signaled to the angels: ‘I am indeed with you; so steady the faithful. I will cast terror into the hearts of the faithless. So strike their necks, and strike their every limb joint!’

   ʾidh yūḥī rabbuka ʾilā l-malāʾikati ʾannī maʿakum fa-thabbitū lladhīna ʾāmanū sa-ʾulqī fī qulūbi lladhīna kafarū r-ruʿba fa-ḍribū fawqa l-ʾaʿnāqi wa-ḍribū minhum kulla banānin

5. ذلك بأنهم شاقوا الله ورسوله ومن يشاقق الله ورسوله فإن الله شديد العقاب

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   That, because they defied Allah and His Apostle. And whoever defies Allah and His Apostle, Allah is indeed severe in retribution.

   dhālika bi-ʾannahum shāqqū llāha wa-rasūlahū wa-man yushāqiqi llāha wa-rasūlahū fa-ʾinna llāha shadīdu l-ʿiqābi

6. ذلكم فذوقوه وأن للكافرين عذاب النار

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   ‘Taste this, and [know] that for the faithless is the punishment of the Fire.’

   dhālikum fa-dhūqūhu wa-ʾanna li-l-kāfirīna ʿadhāba n-nāri

7. يا أيها الذين آمنوا إذا لقيتم الذين كفروا زحفا فلا تولوهم الأدبار

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   O you who have faith! When you encounter the faithless advancing [for battle], do not turn your backs [to flee] from them.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾidhā laqītumu lladhīna kafarū zaḥfan fa-lā tuwallūhumu l-ʾadbāra

8. ومن يولهم يومئذ دبره إلا متحرفا لقتال أو متحيزا إلى فئة فقد باء بغضب من الله ومأواه جهنم وبئس المصير

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   Whoever turns his back [to flee] from them that day—unless [he is] diverting to fight or retiring towards another troop—shall certainly earn Allah’s wrath, and his refuge shall be hell, an evil destination.

   wa-man yuwallihim yawmaʾidhin duburahū ʾillā mutaḥarrifan li-qitālin ʾaw mutaḥayyizan ʾilā fiʾatin fa-qad bāʾa bi-ghaḍabin mina llāhi wa-maʾwāhu jahannamu wa-biʾsa l-maṣīru