Surah Al-Furqān (The Criterion) in English

1. واتخذوا من دونه آلهة لا يخلقون شيئا وهم يخلقون ولا يملكون لأنفسهم ضرا ولا نفعا ولا يملكون موتا ولا حياة ولا نشورا

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   Yet they have taken gods besides Him who create nothing and have themselves been created, and who have no control over their own harm or benefit and have no control over [their own] death, life, or resurrection.

   wa-ttakhadhū min dūnihī ʾālihatan lā yakhluqūna shayʾan wa-hum yukhlaqūna wa-lā yamlikūna li-ʾanfusihim ḍarran wa-lā nafʿan wa-lā yamlikūna mawtan wa-lā ḥayātan wa-lā nushūran

2. وقال الذين كفروا إن هذا إلا إفك افتراه وأعانه عليه قوم آخرون فقد جاءوا ظلما وزورا

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   The faithless say, ‘This is nothing but a lie that he has fabricated, and other people have abetted him in it.’ Thus they have certainly come out with wrongdoing and falsehood.

   wa-qāla lladhīna kafarū ʾin hādhā ʾillā ʾifkun-i ftarāhu wa-ʾaʿānahū ʿalayhi qawmun ʾākharūna fa-qad jāʾū ẓulman wa-zūran

3. وقالوا أساطير الأولين اكتتبها فهي تملى عليه بكرة وأصيلا

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   They say, ‘He has taken down myths of the ancients, and they are dictated to him morning and evening.’

   wa-qālū ʾasāṭīru l-ʾawwalīna ktatabahā fa-hiya tumlā ʿalayhi bukratan wa-ʾaṣīlan

4. قل أنزله الذي يعلم السر في السماوات والأرض إنه كان غفورا رحيما

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   Say, ‘It has been sent down by Him who knows the hidden in the heavens and the earth. Indeed He is all-forgiving, all-merciful.’

   qul ʾanzalahu lladhī yaʿlamu s-sirra fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi ʾinnahū kāna ghafūran raḥīman

5. وقالوا مال هذا الرسول يأكل الطعام ويمشي في الأسواق لولا أنزل إليه ملك فيكون معه نذيرا

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   And they say, ‘What sort of apostle is this who eats food and walks in the marketplaces? Why has not an angel been sent down to him so as to be a warner along with him?’

   wa-qālū mā-li hādhā r-rasūli yaʾkulu ṭ-ṭaʿāma wa-yamshī fī l-ʾaswāqi law-lā ʾunzila ʾilayhi malakun fa-yakūna maʿahū nadhīran

6. أو يلقى إليه كنز أو تكون له جنة يأكل منها وقال الظالمون إن تتبعون إلا رجلا مسحورا

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   Or, ‘[Why is not] a treasure thrown to him, or [why does] he [not] have a garden from which he may eat?’ And the wrongdoers say, ‘You are just following a bewitched man.’

   ʾaw yulqā ʾilayhi kanzun ʾaw takūnu lahū jannatun yaʾkulu minhā wa-qāla ẓ-ẓālimūna ʾin tattabiʿūna ʾillā rajulan masḥūran-i

7. انظر كيف ضربوا لك الأمثال فضلوا فلا يستطيعون سبيلا

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   Look, how they coin epithets for you; so they go astray, and cannot find the way.

   unẓur kayfa ḍarabū laka l-ʾamthāla fa-ḍallū fa-lā yastaṭīʿūna sabīlan

8. تبارك الذي إن شاء جعل لك خيرا من ذلك جنات تجري من تحتها الأنهار ويجعل لك قصورا

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   Blessed is He who will grant you better than that if He wishes—gardens with streams running in them, and He will make for you palaces.

   tabāraka lladhī ʾin shāʾa jaʿala laka khayran min dhālika jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru wa-yajʿal laka quṣūran

9. بل كذبوا بالساعة وأعتدنا لمن كذب بالساعة سعيرا

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   Indeed, they deny the Hour, and We have prepared a Blaze for those who deny the Hour.

   bal kadhdhabū bi-s-sāʿati wa-ʾaʿtadnā li-man kadhdhaba bi-s-sāʿati saʿīran