Surah Al-`Ankabūt (The Spider) in English

1. ويستعجلونك بالعذاب ولولا أجل مسمى لجاءهم العذاب وليأتينهم بغتة وهم لا يشعرون

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   They ask you to hasten the punishment. Yet were it not for a specified time, the punishment would have surely overtaken them. Surely, it will overtake them suddenly while they are unaware.

   wa-yastaʿjilūnaka bi-l-ʿadhābi wa-law-lā ʾajalun musamman la-jāʾahumu l-ʿadhābu wa-la-yaʾtiyannahum baghtatan wa-hum lā yashʿurūna

2. يستعجلونك بالعذاب وإن جهنم لمحيطة بالكافرين

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   They ask you to hasten the punishment, and indeed hell will besiege the faithless

   yastaʿjilūnaka bi-l-ʿadhābi wa-ʾinna jahannama la-muḥīṭatun bi-l-kāfirīna

3. يوم يغشاهم العذاب من فوقهم ومن تحت أرجلهم ويقول ذوقوا ما كنتم تعملون

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   on the day when the punishment envelopes them, from above them and from under their feet, and He will say, ‘Taste what you used to do!’

   yawma yaghshāhumu l-ʿadhābu min fawqihim wa-min taḥti ʾarjulihim wa-yaqūlu dhūqū mā kuntum taʿmalūna

4. يا عبادي الذين آمنوا إن أرضي واسعة فإياي فاعبدون

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   O My servants who have faith! My earth is indeed vast. So worship [only] Me.

   yā-ʿibādiya lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾinna ʾarḍī wāsiʿatun fa-ʾiyyāya fa-ʿbudūni

5. كل نفس ذائقة الموت ثم إلينا ترجعون

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   Every soul shall taste death. Then you shall be brought back to Us.

   kullu nafsin dhāʾiqatu l-mawti thumma ʾilaynā turjaʿūna

6. والذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات لنبوئنهم من الجنة غرفا تجري من تحتها الأنهار خالدين فيها نعم أجر العاملين

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   Those who have faith and do righteous deeds, We will surely settle them in the lofty abodes of paradise, with streams running in them, to remain in them [forever]. How excellent is the reward of the workers!

   wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti la-nubawwiʾannahum mina l-jannati ghurafan tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru khālidīna fīhā niʿma ʾajru l-ʿāmilīna

7. الذين صبروا وعلى ربهم يتوكلون

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   —Those who are patient and who put their trust in their Lord.

   alladhīna ṣabarū wa-ʿalā rabbihim yatawakkalūna

8. وكأين من دابة لا تحمل رزقها الله يرزقها وإياكم وهو السميع العليم

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   How many an animal there is that does not carry its own provision. Allah provides them and you, and He is the All-hearing, the All-knowing.

   wa-ka-ʾayyin min dābbatin lā taḥmilu rizqahā llāhu yarzuquhā wa-ʾiyyākum wa-huwa s-samīʿu l-ʿalīmu

9. ولئن سألتهم من خلق السماوات والأرض وسخر الشمس والقمر ليقولن الله فأنى يؤفكون

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   If you ask them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth, and who has disposed the sun and the moon?’ They will surely say, ‘Allah.’ Then where do they stray?

   wa-la-ʾin saʾaltahum man khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-sakhkhara sh-shamsa wa-l-qamara la-yaqūlunna llāhu fa-ʾannā yuʾfakūna

10. الله يبسط الرزق لمن يشاء من عباده ويقدر له إن الله بكل شيء عليم

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    Allah expands the provision for whomever He wishes of His servants, and tightens it for him. Indeed Allah has knowledge of all things.

    allāhu yabsuṭu r-rizqa li-man yashāʾu min ʿibādihī wa-yaqdiru lahū ʾinna llāha bi-kulli shayʾin ʿalīmun

11. ولئن سألتهم من نزل من السماء ماء فأحيا به الأرض من بعد موتها ليقولن الله قل الحمد لله بل أكثرهم لا يعقلون

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    And if you ask them, ‘Who sends down water from the sky, with which He revives the earth after its death?’ They will surely say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘All praise belongs to Allah!’ But most of them do not exercise their reason.

    wa-la-ʾin saʾaltahum man nazzala mina s-samāʾi māʾan fa-ʾaḥyā bihi l-ʾarḍa min baʿdi mawtihā la-yaqūlunna llāhu quli l-ḥamdu li-llāhi bal ʾaktharuhum lā yaʿqilūna