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

1. ولقد جئناهم بكتاب فصلناه على علم هدى ورحمة لقوم يؤمنون

   52

   Certainly We have brought them a Book, which We have elaborated with knowledge, as a guidance and mercy for a people who have faith.

   wa-la-qad jiʾnāhum bi-kitābin faṣṣalnāhu ʿalā ʿilmin hudan wa-raḥmatan li-qawmin yuʾminūna

2. هل ينظرون إلا تأويله يوم يأتي تأويله يقول الذين نسوه من قبل قد جاءت رسل ربنا بالحق فهل لنا من شفعاء فيشفعوا لنا أو نرد فنعمل غير الذي كنا نعمل قد خسروا أنفسهم وضل عنهم ما كانوا يفترون

   53

   Do they not consider [the consequences of] its fulfillment? The day when its fulfillment comes, those who had forgotten it before will say, ‘Our Lord’s apostles had certainly brought the truth. If only we had some intercessors to intercede for us, or we would be returned, so that we may do differently from what we did!’ They have certainly ruined their souls, and what they used to fabricate has forsaken them.

   hal yanẓurūna ʾillā taʾwīlahū yawma yaʾtī taʾwīluhū yaqūlu lladhīna nasūhu min qablu qad jāʾat rusulu rabbinā bi-l-ḥaqqi fa-hal lanā min shufaʿāʾa fa-yashfaʿū lanā ʾaw nuraddu fa-naʿmala ghayra lladhī kunnā naʿmalu qad khasirū ʾanfusahum wa-ḍalla ʿanhum mā kānū yaftarūna

3. إن ربكم الله الذي خلق السماوات والأرض في ستة أيام ثم استوى على العرش يغشي الليل النهار يطلبه حثيثا والشمس والقمر والنجوم مسخرات بأمره ألا له الخلق والأمر تبارك الله رب العالمين

   54

   Indeed your Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and then settled on the Throne. He draws the night’s cover over the day, which pursues it swiftly, and [He created] the sun, the moon, and the stars, [all of them] disposed by His command. Look! All creation and command belong to Him. Blessed is Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.

   ʾinna rabbakumu llāhu lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa fī sittati ʾayyāmin thumma stawā ʿalā l-ʿarshi yughshī l-layla n-nahāra yaṭlubuhū ḥathīthan wa-sh-shamsa wa-l-qamara wa-n-nujūma musakhkharātin bi-ʾamrihī ʾa-lā lahu l-khalqu wa-l-ʾamru tabāraka llāhu rabbu l-ʿālamīna

4. ادعوا ربكم تضرعا وخفية إنه لا يحب المعتدين

   55

   Supplicate your Lord, beseechingly and secretly. Indeed, He does not like the transgressors.

   udʿū rabbakum taḍarruʿan wa-khufyatan ʾinnahū lā yuḥibbu l-muʿtadīna

5. ولا تفسدوا في الأرض بعد إصلاحها وادعوه خوفا وطمعا إن رحمت الله قريب من المحسنين

   56

   And do not cause corruption on the earth after its restoration, and supplicate Him with fear and hope: indeed Allah’s mercy is close to the virtuous.

   wa-lā tufsidū fī l-ʾarḍi baʿda ʾiṣlāḥihā wa-dʿūhu khawfan wa-ṭamaʿan ʾinna raḥmata llāhi qarībun mina l-muḥsinīna

6. وهو الذي يرسل الرياح بشرا بين يدي رحمته حتى إذا أقلت سحابا ثقالا سقناه لبلد ميت فأنزلنا به الماء فأخرجنا به من كل الثمرات كذلك نخرج الموتى لعلكم تذكرون

   57

   It is He who sends forth the winds as harbingers of His mercy. When they bear [rain-] laden clouds, We drive them toward a dead land and send down water on it, and with it We bring forth all kinds of crops. Thus shall We raise the dead; maybe you will take admonition.

   wa-huwa lladhī yursilu r-riyāḥa bushran bayna yaday raḥmatihī ḥattā ʾidhā ʾaqallat saḥāban thiqālan suqnāhu li-baladin mayyitin fa-ʾanzalnā bihi l-māʾa fa-ʾakhrajnā bihī min kulli th-thamarāti ka-dhālika nukhriju l-mawtā laʿallakum tadhakkarūna