Surah Al-Ĥaj (The Pilgrimage) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. يا أيها الناس اتقوا ربكم إن زلزلة الساعة شيء عظيم

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   O mankind! Be wary of your Lord! Indeed the quake of the Hour is a terrible thing.

   yā-ʾayyuhā n-nāsu ttaqū rabbakum ʾinna zalzalata s-sāʿati shayʾun ʿaẓīmun

2. يوم ترونها تذهل كل مرضعة عما أرضعت وتضع كل ذات حمل حملها وترى الناس سكارى وما هم بسكارى ولكن عذاب الله شديد

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   The day that you will see it, every suckling female will be unmindful what she suckled, and every pregnant female will deliver her burden, and you will see the people drunk, yet they will not be drunken, but Allah’s punishment is severe.

   yawma tarawnahā tadhhalu kullu murḍiʿatin ʿammā ʾarḍaʿat wa-taḍaʿu kullu dhāti ḥamlin ḥamlahā wa-tarā n-nāsa sukārā wa-mā hum bi-sukārā wa-lākinna ʿadhāba llāhi shadīdun

3. ومن الناس من يجادل في الله بغير علم ويتبع كل شيطان مريد

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   Among the people are those who dispute about Allah without any knowledge, and follow every froward devil,

   wa-mina n-nāsi man yujādilu fī llāhi bi-ghayri ʿilmin wa-yattabiʿu kulla shayṭānin marīdin

4. كتب عليه أنه من تولاه فأنه يضله ويهديه إلى عذاب السعير

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   about whom it has been decreed that he will mislead those who take him for an ally, and conduct them toward the punishment of the Blaze.

   kutiba ʿalayhi ʾannahū man tawallāhu fa-ʾannahū yuḍilluhū wa-yahdīhi ʾilā ʿadhābi s-saʿīri

5. يا أيها الناس إن كنتم في ريب من البعث فإنا خلقناكم من تراب ثم من نطفة ثم من علقة ثم من مضغة مخلقة وغير مخلقة لنبين لكم ونقر في الأرحام ما نشاء إلى أجل مسمى ثم نخرجكم طفلا ثم لتبلغوا أشدكم ومنكم من يتوفى ومنكم من يرد إلى أرذل العمر لكيلا يعلم من بعد علم شيئا وترى الأرض هامدة فإذا أنزلنا عليها الماء اهتزت وربت وأنبتت من كل زوج بهيج

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   O people! If you are in doubt about the resurrection, [consider that] We created you from dust, then from a drop of [seminal] fluid, then from a clinging mass, then from a fleshy tissue, partly formed and partly unformed, so that We may manifest [Our power] to you. We lodge in the wombs whatever [fetus] We wish for a specified term, then We bring you forth as infants, then [We rear you] so that you may come of age. [Then] there are some of you who are taken away, and there are some of you who are relegated to the nethermost age, such that he knows nothing after [having possessed] some knowledge. And you see the earth torpid, yet when We send down water upon it, it stirs and swells, and grows every delightful kind [of plant].

   yā-ʾayyuhā n-nāsu ʾin kuntum fī raybin mina l-baʿthi fa-ʾinnā khalaqnākum min turābin thumma min nuṭfatin thumma min ʿalaqatin thumma min muḍghatin mukhallaqatin wa-ghayri mukhallaqatin li-nubayyina lakum wa-nuqirru fī l-ʾarḥāmi mā nashāʾu ʾilā ʾajalin musamman thumma nukhrijukum ṭiflan thumma li-tablughū ʾashuddakum wa-minkum man yutawaffā wa-minkum man yuraddu ʾilā ʾardhali l-ʿumuri li-kay-lā yaʿlama min baʿdi ʿilmin shayʾan wa-tarā l-ʾarḍa hāmidatan fa-ʾidhā ʾanzalnā ʿalayhā l-māʾa htazzat wa-rabat wa-ʾanbatat min kulli zawjin bahījin