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

1. قال ادخلوا في أمم قد خلت من قبلكم من الجن والإنس في النار كلما دخلت أمة لعنت أختها حتى إذا اداركوا فيها جميعا قالت أخراهم لأولاهم ربنا هؤلاء أضلونا فآتهم عذابا ضعفا من النار قال لكل ضعف ولكن لا تعلمون

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   He will say, ‘Enter the Fire, along with the nations of jinn and humans who passed before you!’ Every time that a nation enters [hell], it will curse its sister [nation]. When they all rejoin in it, the last of them will say about the first of them, ‘Our Lord, it was they who led us astray; so give them a double punishment of the Fire.’ He will say, ‘It is double for each [of you], but you do not know.’

   qāla dkhulū fī ʾumamin qad khalat min qablikum mina l-jinni wa-l-ʾinsi fī n-nāri kullamā dakhalat ʾummatun laʿanat ʾukhtahā ḥattā ʾidhā ddārakū fīhā jamīʿan qālat ʾukhrāhum li-ʾūlāhum rabbanā hāʾulāʾi ʾaḍallūnā fa-ʾātihim ʿadhāban ḍiʿfan mina n-nāri qāla li-kullin ḍiʿfun wa-lākin lā taʿlamūna

2. وقالت أولاهم لأخراهم فما كان لكم علينا من فضل فذوقوا العذاب بما كنتم تكسبون

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   And the first of them will say to the last of them, ‘You have no merit over us! So taste the punishment because of what you used to earn.’

   wa-qālat ʾūlāhum li-ʾukhrāhum fa-mā kāna lakum ʿalaynā min faḍlin fa-dhūqū l-ʿadhāba bi-mā kuntum taksibūna

3. إن الذين كذبوا بآياتنا واستكبروا عنها لا تفتح لهم أبواب السماء ولا يدخلون الجنة حتى يلج الجمل في سم الخياط وكذلك نجزي المجرمين

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   Indeed, those who deny Our signs and are disdainful of them—the gates of the heaven will not be opened for them, nor shall they enter paradise until the camel passes through the needle’s eye, and thus do We requite the guilty.

   ʾinna lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā wa-stakbarū ʿanhā lā tufattaḥu lahum ʾabwābu s-samāʾi wa-lā yadkhulūna l-jannata ḥattā yalija l-jamalu fī sammi l-khiyāṭi wa-ka-dhālika najzī l-mujrimīna

4. لهم من جهنم مهاد ومن فوقهم غواش وكذلك نجزي الظالمين

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   They shall have hell for their resting place, and over them shall be sheets [of fire], and thus do We requite the wrongdoers.

   lahum min jahannama mihādun wa-min fawqihim ghawāshin wa-ka-dhālika najzī ẓ-ẓālimīna

5. والذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات لا نكلف نفسا إلا وسعها أولئك أصحاب الجنة هم فيها خالدون

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   As for those who have faith and do righteous deeds—We task no soul except according to its capacity—they shall be the inhabitants of paradise, and they shall remain in it [forever].

   wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti lā nukallifu nafsan ʾillā wusʿahā ʾulāʾika ʾaṣḥābu l-jannati hum fīhā khālidūna

6. ونزعنا ما في صدورهم من غل تجري من تحتهم الأنهار وقالوا الحمد لله الذي هدانا لهذا وما كنا لنهتدي لولا أن هدانا الله لقد جاءت رسل ربنا بالحق ونودوا أن تلكم الجنة أورثتموها بما كنتم تعملون

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   We will remove whatever rancour there is in their breasts, and streams will run for them. They will say, ‘All praise belongs to Allah, who guided us to this. We would have never been guided had not Allah guided us. Our Lord’s apostles had certainly brought the truth.’ And the call would be made to them: ‘This is paradise, which you have been given to inherit because of what you used to do!’

   wa-nazaʿnā mā fī ṣudūrihim min ghillin tajrī min taḥtihimu l-ʾanhāru wa-qālū l-ḥamdu li-llāhi lladhī hadānā li-hādhā wa-mā kunnā li-nahtadiya law-lā ʾan hadānā llāhu la-qad jāʾat rusulu rabbinā bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-nūdū ʾan tilkumu l-jannatu ʾūrithtumūhā bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna