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

1. فلم تقتلوهم ولكن الله قتلهم وما رميت إذ رميت ولكن الله رمى وليبلي المؤمنين منه بلاء حسنا إن الله سميع عليم

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   You did not kill them; rather, it was Allah who killed them; and you did not throw when you threw, rather, it was Allah who threw, that He might test the faithful with a good test from Himself. Indeed Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing.

   fa-lam taqtulūhum wa-lākinna llāha qatalahum wa-mā ramayta ʾidh ramayta wa-lākinna llāha ramā wa-li-yubliya l-muʾminīna minhu balāʾan ḥasanan ʾinna llāha samīʿun ʿalīmun

2. ذلكم وأن الله موهن كيد الكافرين

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   Such is the case, and [know] that Allah undermines the stratagems of the faithless.

   dhālikum wa-ʾanna llāha mūhinu kaydi l-kāfirīna

3. إن تستفتحوا فقد جاءكم الفتح وإن تنتهوا فهو خير لكم وإن تعودوا نعد ولن تغني عنكم فئتكم شيئا ولو كثرت وأن الله مع المؤمنين

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   If you sought a verdict, the verdict has certainly come to you; and if you cease [your belligerence against the Prophet and his followers], it is better for you, but if you resume, We [too] shall return and your troops will never avail you though they should be ever so many, and [know] that Allah is with the faithful.

   ʾin tastaftiḥū fa-qad jāʾakumu l-fatḥu wa-ʾin tantahū fa-huwa khayrun lakum wa-ʾin taʿūdū naʿud wa-lan tughniya ʿankum fiʾatukum shayʾan wa-law kathurat wa-ʾanna llāha maʿa l-muʾminīna

4. يا أيها الذين آمنوا أطيعوا الله ورسوله ولا تولوا عنه وأنتم تسمعون

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   O you who have faith! Obey Allah and His Apostle, and do not turn away from him while you hear [him].

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾaṭīʿū llāha wa-rasūlahū wa-lā tawallaw ʿanhu wa-ʾantum tasmaʿūna

5. ولا تكونوا كالذين قالوا سمعنا وهم لا يسمعون

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   Do not be like those who say, ‘We hear,’ though they do not hear.

   wa-lā takūnū ka-lladhīna qālū samiʿnā wa-hum lā yasmaʿūna

6. إن شر الدواب عند الله الصم البكم الذين لا يعقلون

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   Indeed the worst of beasts in Allah’s sight are the deaf and dumb who do not exercise their reason.

   ʾinna sharra d-dawābbi ʿinda llāhi ṣ-ṣummu l-bukmu lladhīna lā yaʿqilūna

7. ولو علم الله فيهم خيرا لأسمعهم ولو أسمعهم لتولوا وهم معرضون

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   Had Allah known any good in them, He would have surely made them hear, and were He to make them hear, surely they would turn away, being disregardful.

   wa-law ʿalima llāhu fīhim khayran la-ʾasmaʿahum wa-law ʾasmaʿahum la-tawallaw wa-hum muʿriḍūna

8. يا أيها الذين آمنوا استجيبوا لله وللرسول إذا دعاكم لما يحييكم واعلموا أن الله يحول بين المرء وقلبه وأنه إليه تحشرون

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   O you who have faith! Answer Allah and the Apostle when he summons you to that which will give you life. Know that Allah intervenes between a man and his heart and that toward Him you will be mustered.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū stajībū li-llāhi wa-li-r-rasūli ʾidhā daʿākum li-mā yuḥyīkum wa-ʿlamū ʾanna llāha yaḥūlu bayna l-marʾi wa-qalbihī wa-ʾannahū ʾilayhi tuḥsharūna

9. واتقوا فتنة لا تصيبن الذين ظلموا منكم خاصة واعلموا أن الله شديد العقاب

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   And beware of a punishment, which shall not visit the wrongdoers among you exclusively, and know that Allah is severe in retribution.

   wa-ttaqū fitnatan lā tuṣībanna lladhīna ẓalamū minkum khāṣṣatan wa-ʿlamū ʾanna llāha shadīdu l-ʿiqābi