Surah Al-'A`rāf (The Heights) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. المص

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   Alif, Lam, Mim, Suad.

   a-l-m-ṣ (ʾalif lām mīm ṣād)

2. كتاب أنزل إليك فلا يكن في صدرك حرج منه لتنذر به وذكرى للمؤمنين

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   [This is] a Book that has been sent down to you—so let there be no disquiet in your heart on its account that you may warn thereby—and as an admonition for the faithful.

   kitābun ʾunzila ʾilayka fa-lā yakun fī ṣadrika ḥarajun minhu li-tundhira bihī wa-dhikrā li-l-muʾminīna

3. اتبعوا ما أنزل إليكم من ربكم ولا تتبعوا من دونه أولياء قليلا ما تذكرون

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   Follow what has been sent down to you from your Lord, and do not follow any masters besides Him. Little is the admonition that you take!

   ittabiʿū mā ʾunzila ʾilaykum min rabbikum wa-lā tattabiʿū min dūnihī ʾawliyāʾa qalīlan mā tadhakkarūna

4. وكم من قرية أهلكناها فجاءها بأسنا بياتا أو هم قائلون

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   How many a town We have destroyed! Our punishment came to it at night, or while they were taking a midday nap.

   wa-kam min qaryatin ʾahlaknāhā fa-jāʾahā baʾsunā bayātan ʾaw hum qāʾilūna

5. فما كان دعواهم إذ جاءهم بأسنا إلا أن قالوا إنا كنا ظالمين

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   Then their cry, when Our punishment overtook them, was only that they said, ‘We have indeed been wrongdoers!’

   fa-mā kāna daʿwāhum ʾidh jāʾahum baʾsunā ʾillā ʾan qālū ʾinnā kunnā ẓālimīna

6. فلنسألن الذين أرسل إليهم ولنسألن المرسلين

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   We will surely question those to whom the apostles were sent, and We will surely question the apostles.

   fa-la-nasʾalanna lladhīna ʾursila ʾilayhim wa-la-nasʾalanna l-mursalīna

7. فلنقصن عليهم بعلم وما كنا غائبين

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   Then We will surely recount to them with knowledge, for We had not been absent.

   fa-la-naquṣṣanna ʿalayhim bi-ʿilmin wa-mā kunnā ghāʾibīna

8. والوزن يومئذ الحق فمن ثقلت موازينه فأولئك هم المفلحون

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   The weighing [of deeds] on that Day is a truth. As for those whose deeds weigh heavy in the scales—it is they who are the felicitous.

   wa-l-waznu yawmaʾidhin-i l-ḥaqqu fa-man thaqulat mawāzīnuhū fa-ʾulāʾika humu l-mufliḥūna

9. ومن خفت موازينه فأولئك الذين خسروا أنفسهم بما كانوا بآياتنا يظلمون

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   As for those whose deeds weigh light in the scales—it is they who have ruined their souls, because they used to wrong Our signs.

   wa-man khaffat mawāzīnuhū fa-ʾulāʾika lladhīna khasirū ʾanfusahum bi-mā kānū bi-ʾāyātinā yaẓlimūna

10. ولقد مكناكم في الأرض وجعلنا لكم فيها معايش قليلا ما تشكرون

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    Certainly We have established you on the earth, and made in it [various] means of livelihood for you. Little do you thank.

    wa-la-qad makkannākum fī l-ʾarḍi wa-jaʿalnā lakum fīhā maʿāyisha qalīlan mā tashkurūna

11. ولقد خلقناكم ثم صورناكم ثم قلنا للملائكة اسجدوا لآدم فسجدوا إلا إبليس لم يكن من الساجدين

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    Certainly We created you, then We formed you, then We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam.’ So they [all] prostrated, but not Iblis: he was not among those who prostrated.

    wa-la-qad khalaqnākum thumma ṣawwarnākum thumma qulnā li-l-malāʾikati sjudū li-ʾādama fa-sajadū ʾillā ʾiblīsa lam yakun mina s-sājidīna