Surah Al-Furqān (The Criterion) in English

1. أم تحسب أن أكثرهم يسمعون أو يعقلون إن هم إلا كالأنعام بل هم أضل سبيلا

   44

   Do you suppose that most of them listen or exercise their reason? They are just like cattle; indeed, they are further astray from the way.

   ʾam taḥsabu ʾanna ʾaktharahum yasmaʿūna ʾaw yaʿqilūna ʾin hum ʾillā ka-l-ʾanʿāmi bal hum ʾaḍallu sabīlan

2. ألم تر إلى ربك كيف مد الظل ولو شاء لجعله ساكنا ثم جعلنا الشمس عليه دليلا

   45

   Have you not regarded how your Lord spreads the twilight? (Had He wished He would have made it stand still.) Then We made the sun a beacon for it.

   ʾa-lam tara ʾilā rabbika kayfa madda ẓ-ẓilla wa-law shāʾa la-jaʿalahū sākinan thumma jaʿalnā sh-shamsa ʿalayhi dalīlan

3. ثم قبضناه إلينا قبضا يسيرا

   46

   Then We retract it toward Ourselves, with a gentle retracting.

   thumma qabaḍnāhu ʾilaynā qabḍan yasīran

4. وهو الذي جعل لكم الليل لباسا والنوم سباتا وجعل النهار نشورا

   47

   It is He who made for you the night as a covering and sleep for rest and He made the day a recall to life.

   wa-huwa lladhī jaʿala lakumu l-layla libāsan wa-n-nawma subātan wa-jaʿala n-nahāra nushūran

5. وهو الذي أرسل الرياح بشرا بين يدي رحمته وأنزلنا من السماء ماء طهورا

   48

   And it is He who sends the winds as harbingers of His mercy, and We send down from the sky purifying water,

   wa-huwa lladhī ʾarsala r-riyāḥa bushran bayna yaday raḥmatihī wa-ʾanzalnā mina s-samāʾi māʾan ṭahūran

6. لنحيي به بلدة ميتا ونسقيه مما خلقنا أنعاما وأناسي كثيرا

   49

   with which We revive a dead country and provide water to many of the cattle and humans We have created.

   li-nuḥyiya bihī baldatan maytan wa-nusqiyahū mimmā khalaqnā ʾanʿāman wa-ʾanāsiyya kathīran

7. ولقد صرفناه بينهم ليذكروا فأبى أكثر الناس إلا كفورا

   50

   Certainly We distribute it among them so that they may take admonition. But most people are only intent on ingratitude.

   wa-la-qad ṣarrafnāhu baynahum li-yadhdhakkarū fa-ʾabā ʾaktharu n-nāsi ʾillā kufūran

8. ولو شئنا لبعثنا في كل قرية نذيرا

   51

   Had We wished, We would have sent a warner to every town.

   wa-law shiʾnā la-baʿathnā fī kulli qaryatin nadhīran

9. فلا تطع الكافرين وجاهدهم به جهادا كبيرا

   52

   So do not obey the faithless, but wage a great jihad against them with it.

   fa-lā tuṭiʿi l-kāfirīna wa-jāhidhum bihī jihādan kabīran

10. وهو الذي مرج البحرين هذا عذب فرات وهذا ملح أجاج وجعل بينهما برزخا وحجرا محجورا

    53

    It is He who merged the two seas: this one sweet and agreeable, and that one briny and bitter, and between the two He set a barrier and a forbidding hindrance.

    wa-huwa lladhī maraja l-baḥrayni hādhā ʿadhbun furātun wa-hādhā milḥun ʾujājun wa-jaʿala baynahumā barzakhan wa-ḥijran maḥjūran

11. وهو الذي خلق من الماء بشرا فجعله نسبا وصهرا وكان ربك قديرا

    54

    It is He who created the human being from water, then invested him with ties of blood and marriage, and your Lord is all-powerful.

    wa-huwa lladhī khalaqa mina l-māʾi basharan fa-jaʿalahū nasaban wa-ṣihran wa-kāna rabbuka qadīran

12. ويعبدون من دون الله ما لا ينفعهم ولا يضرهم وكان الكافر على ربه ظهيرا

    55

    They worship besides Allah that which neither brings them any benefit nor causes them any harm, and the faithless one is ever an abettor against his Lord.

    wa-yaʿbudūna min dūni llāhi mā lā yanfaʿuhum wa-lā yaḍurruhum wa-kāna l-kāfiru ʿalā rabbihī ẓahīran