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

1. وما لهم ألا يعذبهم الله وهم يصدون عن المسجد الحرام وما كانوا أولياءه إن أولياؤه إلا المتقون ولكن أكثرهم لا يعلمون

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   What [excuse] have they that Allah should not punish them, when they bar [the faithful] from the Holy Mosque, and they are not its custodians? Its custodians are only the Godwary, but most of them do not know.

   wa-mā lahum ʾallā yuʿadhdhibahumu llāhu wa-hum yaṣuddūna ʿani l-masjidi l-ḥarāmi wa-mā kānū ʾawliyāʾahū ʾin ʾawliyāʾuhū ʾillā l-muttaqūna wa-lākinna ʾaktharahum lā yaʿlamūna

2. وما كان صلاتهم عند البيت إلا مكاء وتصدية فذوقوا العذاب بما كنتم تكفرون

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   Their prayer at the House is nothing but whistling and clapping. So taste the punishment because of what you used to defy.

   wa-mā kāna ṣalātuhum ʿinda l-bayti ʾillā mukāʾan wa-taṣdiyatan fa-dhūqū l-ʿadhāba bi-mā kuntum takfurūna

3. إن الذين كفروا ينفقون أموالهم ليصدوا عن سبيل الله فسينفقونها ثم تكون عليهم حسرة ثم يغلبون والذين كفروا إلى جهنم يحشرون

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   Indeed the faithless spend their wealth to bar from the way of Allah. Soon they will have spent it, then it will be a cause of regret to them, then they will be overcome, and the faithless will be gathered toward Hell,

   ʾinna lladhīna kafarū yunfiqūna ʾamwālahum li-yaṣuddū ʿan sabīli llāhi fa-sa-yunfiqūnahā thūmma takūnu ʿalayhim ḥasratan thumma yughlabūna wa-lladhīna kafarū ʾilā jahannama yuḥsharūna

4. ليميز الله الخبيث من الطيب ويجعل الخبيث بعضه على بعض فيركمه جميعا فيجعله في جهنم أولئك هم الخاسرون

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   so that Allah may separate the bad ones from the good, and place the bad on one another, and pile them up together, and cast them into hell. It is they who are the losers.

   li-yamīza llāhu l-khabītha mina ṭ-ṭayyibi wa-yajʿala l-khabītha baʿḍahū ʿalā baʿḍin fa-yarkumahū jamīʿan fa-yajʿalahū fī jahannama ʾulāʾika humu l-khāsirūna

5. قل للذين كفروا إن ينتهوا يغفر لهم ما قد سلف وإن يعودوا فقد مضت سنت الأولين

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   Say to the faithless, if they cease [their belligerence against the Muslims], what is already past shall be forgiven them. But if they resume [their hostilities], then the precedent of the predecessors has already come to pass.

   qul li-lladhīna kafarū ʾin yantahū yughfar lahum mā qad salafa wa-ʾin yaʿūdū fa-qad maḍat sunnatu l-ʾawwalīna

6. وقاتلوهم حتى لا تكون فتنة ويكون الدين كله لله فإن انتهوا فإن الله بما يعملون بصير

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   Fight them until persecution is no more, and religion becomes exclusively for Allah. So if they desist, Allah indeed watches what they do.

   wa-qātilūhum ḥattā lā takūna fitnatun wa-yakūna d-dīnu kulluhū li-llāhi fa-ʾini ntahaw fa-ʾinna llāha bi-mā yaʿmalūna baṣīrun

7. وإن تولوا فاعلموا أن الله مولاكم نعم المولى ونعم النصير

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   But if they turn away, then know that Allah is your master: an excellent master and an excellent helper!

   wa-ʾin tawallaw fa-ʿlamū ʾanna llāha mawlākum niʿma l-mawlā wa-niʿma n-naṣīru