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

1. إن وليي الله الذي نزل الكتاب وهو يتولى الصالحين

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   My guardian is indeed Allah who sent down the Book, and He takes care of the righteous.

   ʾinna waliyyiya llāhu lladhī nazzala l-kitāba wa-huwa yatawallā ṣ-ṣāliḥīna

2. والذين تدعون من دونه لا يستطيعون نصركم ولا أنفسهم ينصرون

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   Those whom you invoke besides Him can neither help you, nor help themselves.

   wa-lladhīna tadʿūna min dūnihī lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣrakum wa-lā ʾanfusahum yanṣurūna

3. وإن تدعوهم إلى الهدى لا يسمعوا وتراهم ينظرون إليك وهم لا يبصرون

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   If you call them to guidance, they will not hear. You see them facing you, but they do not see.’

   wa-ʾin tadʿūhum ʾilā l-hudā lā yasmaʿū wa-tarāhum yanẓurūna ʾilayka wa-hum lā yubṣirūna

4. خذ العفو وأمر بالعرف وأعرض عن الجاهلين

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   Adopt [a policy of] excusing [the faults of people], bid what is right, and turn away from the ignorant.

   khudhi l-ʿafwa wa-ʾmur bi-l-ʿurfi wa-ʾaʿriḍ ʿani l-jāhilīna

5. وإما ينزغنك من الشيطان نزغ فاستعذ بالله إنه سميع عليم

   200

   Should a temptation from Satan disturb you, invoke the protection of Allah; indeed He is all-hearing, all-knowing.

   wa-ʾimmā yanzaghannaka mina sh-shayṭāni nazghun fa-staʿidh bi-llāhi ʾinnahū samīʿun ʿalīmun

6. إن الذين اتقوا إذا مسهم طائف من الشيطان تذكروا فإذا هم مبصرون

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   When those who are Godwary are touched by a visitation of Satan, they remember [Allah] and, behold, they perceive.

   ʾinna lladhīna ttaqaw ʾidhā massahum ṭāʾifun mina sh-shayṭāni tadhakkarū fa-ʾidhā hum mubṣirūna

7. وإخوانهم يمدونهم في الغي ثم لا يقصرون

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   But their brethren, they draw them into error, and then they do not spare [any harm].

   wa-ʾikhwānuhum yamuddūnahum fī l-ghayyi thumma lā yuqṣirūna

8. وإذا لم تأتهم بآية قالوا لولا اجتبيتها قل إنما أتبع ما يوحى إلي من ربي هذا بصائر من ربكم وهدى ورحمة لقوم يؤمنون

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   When you do not bring them a sign, they say, ‘Why do you not improvise one?’ Say, ‘I only follow what is revealed to me from my Lord; these are insights from your Lord, and a guidance and mercy for a people who have faith.’

   wa-ʾidhā lam taʾtihim bi-ʾāyatin qālū law-lā jtabaytahā qul ʾinnamā ʾattabiʿu mā yūḥā ʾilayya min rabbī hādhā baṣāʾiru min rabbikum wa-hudan wa-raḥmatun li-qawmin yuʾminūna

9. وإذا قرئ القرآن فاستمعوا له وأنصتوا لعلكم ترحمون

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   When the Quran is recited, listen to it and be silent, maybe you will receive [Allah’s] mercy.

   wa-ʾidhā quriʾa l-qurʾānu fa-stamiʿū lahū wa-ʾanṣitū laʿallakum turḥamūna

10. واذكر ربك في نفسك تضرعا وخيفة ودون الجهر من القول بالغدو والآصال ولا تكن من الغافلين

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    And remember your Lord within your heart beseechingly and reverentially, without being loud, morning, and evening, and do not be among the heedless.

    wa-dhkur rabbaka fī nafsika taḍarruʿan wa-khīfatan wa-dūna l-jahri mina l-qawli bi-l-ghuduwwi wa-l-ʾāṣāli wa-lā takun mina l-ghāfilīna

11. Recommended prostration

    إن الذين عند ربك لا يستكبرون عن عبادته ويسبحونه وله يسجدون

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    Indeed those who are [stationed] near your Lord do not disdain to worship Him. They glorify Him and prostrate to Him.

    ʾinna lladhīna ʿinda rabbika lā yastakbirūna ʿan ʿibādatihī wa-yusabbiḥūnahū wa-lahū yasjudūna