Surah Al-Furqān (The Criterion) in English

1. ولا يأتونك بمثل إلا جئناك بالحق وأحسن تفسيرا

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   They do not bring you any representation but that We bring you the truth [in reply to them] and the best exposition.

   wa-lā yaʾtūnaka bi-mathalin ʾillā jiʾnāka bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-ʾaḥsana tafsīran-i

2. الذين يحشرون على وجوههم إلى جهنم أولئك شر مكانا وأضل سبيلا

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   Those who will be mustered [fallen] on their faces toward hell, they are the worse situated and further astray from the [right] way.

   alladhīna yuḥsharūna ʿalā wujūhihim ʾilā jahannama ʾulāʾika sharrun makānan wa-ʾaḍallu sabīlan

3. ولقد آتينا موسى الكتاب وجعلنا معه أخاه هارون وزيرا

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   Certainly We gave Moses the Book and We made Aaron, his brother, accompany him as a minister.

   wa-la-qad ʾātaynā mūsā l-kitāba wa-jaʿalnā maʿahū ʾakhāhu hārūna wazīran

4. فقلنا اذهبا إلى القوم الذين كذبوا بآياتنا فدمرناهم تدميرا

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   Then We said, ‘Let the two of you go to the people who have denied Our signs.’ Then We destroyed them utterly.

   fa-qulnā dhhabā ʾilā l-qawmi lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā fa-dammarnāhum tadmīran

5. وقوم نوح لما كذبوا الرسل أغرقناهم وجعلناهم للناس آية وأعتدنا للظالمين عذابا أليما

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   And Noah’s people, We drowned them when they impugned the apostles, and We made them a sign for mankind, and We have prepared for the wrongdoers a painful punishment.

   wa-qawma nūḥin lammā kadhdhabū r-rusula ʾaghraqnāhum wa-jaʿalnāhum li-n-nāsi ʾāyatan wa-ʾaʿtadnā li-ẓ-ẓālimīna ʿadhāban ʾalīman

6. وعادا وثمود وأصحاب الرس وقرونا بين ذلك كثيرا

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   And ‘Ad and Thamud, and the people of Rass, and many generations between them.

   wa-ʿādan wa-thamūda wa-ʾaṣḥāba r-rassi wa-qurūnan bayna dhālika kathīran

7. وكلا ضربنا له الأمثال وكلا تبرنا تتبيرا

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   For each of them We drew examples, and each We destroyed utterly.

   wa-kullan ḍarabnā lahu l-ʾamthāla wa-kullan tabbarnā tatbīran

8. ولقد أتوا على القرية التي أمطرت مطر السوء أفلم يكونوا يرونها بل كانوا لا يرجون نشورا

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   Certainly they must have passed the town on which an evil shower was rained. Have they not seen it? Rather, they did not expect resurrection [to happen].

   wa-la-qad ʾataw ʿalā l-qaryati llatī ʾumṭirat maṭara s-sawʾi ʾa-fa-lam yakūnū yarawnahā bal kānū lā yarjūna nushūran

9. وإذا رأوك إن يتخذونك إلا هزوا أهذا الذي بعث الله رسولا

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   When they see you they just take you in derision: ‘Is this the one whom Allah has sent as an apostle!?

   wa-ʾidhā raʾawka ʾin yattakhidhūnaka ʾillā huzuwan ʾa-hādhā lladhī baʿatha llāhu rasūlan

10. إن كاد ليضلنا عن آلهتنا لولا أن صبرنا عليها وسوف يعلمون حين يرون العذاب من أضل سبيلا

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    Indeed he was about to lead us astray from our gods, had we not stood firm by them.’ Soon they will know, when they sight the punishment, who is further astray from the [right] way.

    ʾin kāda la-yuḍillunā ʿan ʾālihatinā law-lā ʾan ṣabarnā ʿalayhā wa-sawfa yaʿlamūna ḥīna yarawna l-ʿadhāba man ʾaḍallu sabīlan

11. أرأيت من اتخذ إلهه هواه أفأنت تكون عليه وكيلا

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    Have you seen him who has taken his desire to be his god? Is it your duty to watch over him?

    ʾa-raʾayta mani ttakhadha ʾilāhahū hawāhu ʾa-fa-ʾanta takūnu ʿalayhi wakīlan