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

1. أبلغكم رسالات ربي وأنا لكم ناصح أمين

   68

   I communicate to you the messages of my Lord and I am a trustworthy well-wisher for you.

   ʾuballighukum risālāti rabbī wa-ʾana lakum nāṣiḥun ʾamīnun

2. أوعجبتم أن جاءكم ذكر من ربكم على رجل منكم لينذركم واذكروا إذ جعلكم خلفاء من بعد قوم نوح وزادكم في الخلق بسطة فاذكروا آلاء الله لعلكم تفلحون

   69

   Do you consider it odd that there should come to you a reminder from your Lord through a man from among yourselves, so that he may warn you? Remember when He made you successors after the people of Noah, and increased you vastly in creation. So remember Allah’s bounties so that you may be felicitous.’

   ʾa-wa-ʿajibtum ʾan jāʾakum dhikrun min rabbikum ʿalā rajulin minkum li-yundhirakum wa-dhkurū ʾidh jaʿalakum khulafāʾa min baʿdi qawmi nūḥin wa-zādakum fī l-khalqi basṭatan fa-dhkurū ʾālāʾa llāhi laʿallakum tufliḥūna

3. قالوا أجئتنا لنعبد الله وحده ونذر ما كان يعبد آباؤنا فأتنا بما تعدنا إن كنت من الصادقين

   70

   They said, ‘Have you come to [tell] us that we should worship Allah alone and abandon what our fathers have been worshiping? Then bring us what you threaten us with, should you be truthful.’

   qālū ʾa-jiʾtanā li-naʿbuda llāha waḥdahū wa-nadhara mā kāna yaʿbudu ʾābāʾunā fa-ʾtinā bi-mā taʿidunā ʾin kunta mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna

4. قال قد وقع عليكم من ربكم رجس وغضب أتجادلونني في أسماء سميتموها أنتم وآباؤكم ما نزل الله بها من سلطان فانتظروا إني معكم من المنتظرين

   71

   He said, ‘Punishment and wrath from your Lord has become due against you. Do you dispute with me regarding names, which you have named—you and your fathers—for which Allah has not sent down any authority? So wait! I too am waiting along with you.’

   qāla qad waqaʿa ʿalaykum min rabbikum rijsun wa-ghaḍabun ʾa-tujādilūnanī fī ʾasmāʾin sammaytumūhā ʾantum wa-ʾābāʾukum mā nazzala llāhu bihā min sulṭānin fa-ntaẓirū ʾinnī maʿakum mina l-muntaẓirīna

5. فأنجيناه والذين معه برحمة منا وقطعنا دابر الذين كذبوا بآياتنا وما كانوا مؤمنين

   72

   Then We delivered him and those who were with him by a mercy from Us, and We rooted out those who denied Our signs and were not faithful.

   fa-ʾanjaynāhu wa-lladhīna maʿahū bi-raḥmatin minnā wa-qaṭaʿnā dābira lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā wa-mā kānū muʾminīna

6. وإلى ثمود أخاهم صالحا قال يا قوم اعبدوا الله ما لكم من إله غيره قد جاءتكم بينة من ربكم هذه ناقة الله لكم آية فذروها تأكل في أرض الله ولا تمسوها بسوء فيأخذكم عذاب أليم

   73

   And to [the people of] Thamud [We sent] Salih, their brother. He said, ‘O my people, worship Allah! You have no other god besides Him. There has certainly come to you a manifest proof from your Lord. This she-camel of Allah is a sign for you. Let her alone to graze [freely] in Allah’s land, and do not cause her any harm, for then you shall be seized by a painful punishment.

   wa-ʾilā thamūda ʾakhāhum ṣāliḥan qāla yā-qawmi ʿbudū llāha mā lakum min ʾilāhin ghayruhū qad jāʾatkum bayyinatun min rabbikum hādhihī nāqatu llāhi lakum ʾāyatan fa-dharūhā taʾkul fī ʾarḍi llāhi wa-lā tamassūhā bi-sūʾin fa-yaʾkhudhakum ʿadhābun ʾalīmun