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

1. ونادى أصحاب الجنة أصحاب النار أن قد وجدنا ما وعدنا ربنا حقا فهل وجدتم ما وعد ربكم حقا قالوا نعم فأذن مؤذن بينهم أن لعنة الله على الظالمين

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   The inhabitants of paradise will call out to the inmates of the Fire, ‘We found what our Lord promised us to be true; did you find what your Lord promised you to be true?’ ‘Yes,’ they will say. Then a caller will announce in their midst, ‘May Allah’s curse be on the wrongdoers!’

   wa-nādā ʾaṣḥābu l-jannati ʾaṣḥāba n-nāri ʾan qad wajadnā mā waʿadanā rabbunā ḥaqqan fa-hal wajadtum mā waʿada rabbukum ḥaqqan qālū naʿam fa-ʾadhdhana muʾadhdhinun baynahum ʾan laʿnatu llāhi ʿalā ẓ-ẓālimīna

2. الذين يصدون عن سبيل الله ويبغونها عوجا وهم بالآخرة كافرون

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   —Those who bar [others] from the way of Allah, and seek to make it crooked, and disbelieve in the Hereafter.

   alladhīna yaṣuddūna ʿan sabīli llāhi wa-yabghūnahā ʿiwajan wa-hum bi-l-ʾākhirati kāfirūna

3. وبينهما حجاب وعلى الأعراف رجال يعرفون كلا بسيماهم ونادوا أصحاب الجنة أن سلام عليكم لم يدخلوها وهم يطمعون

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   There will be a veil between them. And on the Elevations will be certain men who recognize each of them by their mark. They will call out to the inhabitants of paradise, ‘Peace be to you!’ (They will not have entered it, though they would be eager to do so.

   wa-baynahumā ḥijābun wa-ʿalā l-ʾaʿrāfi rijālun yaʿrifūna kullan bi-sīmāhum wa-nādaw ʾaṣḥāba l-jannati ʾan salāmun ʿalaykum lam yadkhulūhā wa-hum yaṭmaʿūna

4. وإذا صرفت أبصارهم تلقاء أصحاب النار قالوا ربنا لا تجعلنا مع القوم الظالمين

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   And when their look is turned toward the inmates of the Fire, they will say, ‘Our Lord, do not put us among the wrongdoing lot!’)

   wa-ʾidhā ṣurifat ʾabṣāruhum tilqāʾa ʾaṣhābi n-nāri qālū rabbanā lā tajʿalnā maʿa l-qawmi ẓ-ẓālimīna

5. ونادى أصحاب الأعراف رجالا يعرفونهم بسيماهم قالوا ما أغنى عنكم جمعكم وما كنتم تستكبرون

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   The occupants of the Elevations will call out to certain men whom they recognize by their marks, ‘Your rallying did not avail you, nor what you used to disdain.

   wa-nādā ʾaṣḥābu l-ʾaʿrāfi rijālan yaʿrifūnahum bi-sīmāhum qālū mā ʾaghnā ʿankum jamʿukum wa-mā kuntum tastakbirūna

6. أهؤلاء الذين أقسمتم لا ينالهم الله برحمة ادخلوا الجنة لا خوف عليكم ولا أنتم تحزنون

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   Are these the ones concerning whom you swore that Allah will not extend them any mercy?’ ‘Enter paradise! You shall have no fear, nor shall you grieve.’

   ʾa-hāʾulāʾi lladhīna ʾaqsamtum lā yanāluhumu llāhu bi-raḥmatin ʾudkhulū l-jannata lā khawfun ʿalaykum wa-lā ʾantum taḥzanūna

7. ونادى أصحاب النار أصحاب الجنة أن أفيضوا علينا من الماء أو مما رزقكم الله قالوا إن الله حرمهما على الكافرين

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   The inmates of the Fire will call out to the inhabitants of paradise, ‘Pour on us some water, or something of what Allah has provided you.’ They will say, ‘Allah has indeed forbidden these two to the faithless!’

   wa-nādā ʾaṣḥābu n-nāri ʾaṣḥāba l-jannati ʾan ʾafīḍū ʿalaynā mina l-māʾi ʾaw mimmā razaqakumu llāhu qālū ʾinna llāha ḥarramahumā ʿalā l-kāfirīna

8. الذين اتخذوا دينهم لهوا ولعبا وغرتهم الحياة الدنيا فاليوم ننساهم كما نسوا لقاء يومهم هذا وما كانوا بآياتنا يجحدون

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   Those who took their religion for diversion and play and whom the life of the world had deceived. So today, We will forget them as they forgot the encounter of this day of theirs, and as they used to impugn Our signs.

   alladhīna ttakhadhū dīnahum lahwan wa-laʿiban wa-gharrathumu l-ḥayātu d-dunyā fa-l-yawma nansāhum ka-mā nasū liqāʾa yawmihim hādhā wa-mā kānū bi-ʾāyātinā yajḥadūna