Surah Al-Furqān (The Criterion) in English

1. وقال الذين لا يرجون لقاءنا لولا أنزل علينا الملائكة أو نرى ربنا لقد استكبروا في أنفسهم وعتوا عتوا كبيرا

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   Those who do not expect to encounter Us say, ‘Why have angels not been sent down to us, or why do we not see our Lord?’ Certainly, they are full of arrogance within their souls and have become terribly defiant.

   wa-qāla lladhīna lā yarjūna liqāʾanā law-lā ʾunzila ʿalaynā l-malāʾikatu ʾaw narā rabbanā la-qadi stakbarū fī ʾanfusihim wa-ʿataw ʿutuwwan kabīran

2. يوم يرون الملائكة لا بشرى يومئذ للمجرمين ويقولون حجرا محجورا

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   The day they will see the angels, there will be no good news for the guilty on that day, and they will say, ‘Keep off [from paradise]!’

   yawma yarawna l-malāʾikata lā bushrā yawmaʾidhin li-l-mujrimīna wa-yaqūlūna ḥijran maḥjūran

3. وقدمنا إلى ما عملوا من عمل فجعلناه هباء منثورا

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   Then We shall attend to the works they have done and then turn them into scattered dust.

   wa-qadimnā ʾilā mā ʿamilū min ʿamalin fa-jaʿalnāhu habāʾan manthūran

4. أصحاب الجنة يومئذ خير مستقرا وأحسن مقيلا

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   On that day the inhabitants of paradise will be in the best abode and an excellent resting place.

   ʾaṣḥābu l-jannati yawmaʾidhin khayrun mustaqarran wa-ʾaḥsanu maqīlan

5. ويوم تشقق السماء بالغمام ونزل الملائكة تنزيلا

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   The day when the sky with its clouds will be split open, and the angels will be sent down [in a majestic] descent,

   wa-yawma tashaqqaqu s-samāʾu bi-l-ghamāmi wa-nuzzila l-malāʾikatu tanzīlan-i

6. الملك يومئذ الحق للرحمن وكان يوما على الكافرين عسيرا

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   on that day true sovereignty will belong to the All-beneficent, and it will be a hard day for the faithless.

   al-mulku yawmaʾidhin-i l-ḥaqqu li-r-raḥmāni wa-kāna yawman ʿalā l-kāfirīna ʿasīran

7. ويوم يعض الظالم على يديه يقول يا ليتني اتخذت مع الرسول سبيلا

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   It will be a day when the wrongdoer will bite his hands, saying, ‘I wish I had followed the Apostle’s way!

   wa-yawma yaʿaḍḍu ẓ-ẓālimu ʿalā yadayhi yaqūlu yā-laytanī ttakhadhtu maʿa r-rasūli sabīlan

8. يا ويلتى ليتني لم أتخذ فلانا خليلا

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   Woe to me! I wish I had not taken so and so as a friend!

   yā-waylatā laytanī lam ʾattakhidh fulānan khalīlan

9. لقد أضلني عن الذكر بعد إذ جاءني وكان الشيطان للإنسان خذولا

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   Certainly he led me astray from the Reminder after it had come to me, and Satan is a deserter of man.’

   la-qad ʾaḍallanī ʿani dh-dhikri baʿda ʾidh jāʾanī wa-kāna sh-shayṭānu li-l-ʾinsāni khadhūlan

10. وقال الرسول يا رب إن قومي اتخذوا هذا القرآن مهجورا

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    And the Apostle will say, ‘O my Lord! Indeed my people consigned this Quran to oblivion.’

    wa-qāla r-rasūlu yā-rabbi ʾinna qawmī ttakhadhū hādhā l-qurʾāna mahjūran

11. وكذلك جعلنا لكل نبي عدوا من المجرمين وكفى بربك هاديا ونصيرا

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    That is how for every prophet We assigned an enemy from among the guilty, and your Lord suffices as helper and guide.

    wa-ka-dhālika jaʿalnā li-kulli nabiyyin ʿaduwwan mina l-mujrimīna wa-kafā bi-rabbika hādiyan wa-naṣīran

12. وقال الذين كفروا لولا نزل عليه القرآن جملة واحدة كذلك لنثبت به فؤادك ورتلناه ترتيلا

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    The faithless say, ‘Why has not the Quran been sent down to him all at once?’ So it was, that We may strengthen your heart with it, and We have recited it [to you] in a measured tone.

    wa-qāla lladhīna kafarū law-lā nuzzila ʿalayhi l-qurʾānu jumlatan wāḥidatan ka-dhālika li-nuthabbita bihī fuʾādaka wa-rattalnāhu tartīlan