Surah Al-Ĥaj (The Pilgrimage) in English

1. وكذلك أنزلناه آيات بينات وأن الله يهدي من يريد

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   Thus have We sent it down as manifest signs, and indeed Allah guides whomever He desires.

   wa-ka-dhālika ʾanzalnāhu ʾāyātin bayyinātin wa-ʾanna llāha yahdī man yurīdu

2. إن الذين آمنوا والذين هادوا والصابئين والنصارى والمجوس والذين أشركوا إن الله يفصل بينهم يوم القيامة إن الله على كل شيء شهيد

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   Indeed Allah will indeed judge between the faithful, the Jews, the Sabaeans, the Christians, the Magians and the polytheists on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed Allah is witness to all things.

   ʾinna lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-lladhīna hādū wa-ṣ-ṣābiʾīna wa-n-naṣārā wa-l-majūsa wa-lladhīna ʾashrakū ʾinna llāha yafṣilu baynahum yawma l-qiyāmati ʾinna llāha ʿalā kulli shayʾin shahīdun

3. Recommended prostration

   ألم تر أن الله يسجد له من في السماوات ومن في الأرض والشمس والقمر والنجوم والجبال والشجر والدواب وكثير من الناس وكثير حق عليه العذاب ومن يهن الله فما له من مكرم إن الله يفعل ما يشاء

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   Have you not regarded that whoever is in the heavens and whoever is on the earth prostrates to Allah, as well as the sun, the moon, and the stars, the mountains, the trees, and the animals and many humans? And many have come to deserve the punishment. Whomever Allah humiliates will find no one who may bring him honour. Indeed Allah does whatever He wishes.

   ʾa-lam tara ʾanna llāha yasjudu lahū man fī s-samāwāti wa-man fī l-ʾarḍi wa-sh-shamsu wa-l-qamaru wa-n-nujūmu wa-l-jibālu wa-sh-shajaru wa-d-dawābbu wa-kathīrun mina n-nāsi wa-kathīrun ḥaqqa ʿalayhi l-ʿadhābu wa-man yuhini llāhu fa-mā lahū min mukrimin ʾinna llāha yafʿalu mā yashāʾu

4. هذان خصمان اختصموا في ربهم فالذين كفروا قطعت لهم ثياب من نار يصب من فوق رءوسهم الحميم

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   These two contending groups contend concerning their Lord. As for those who are faithless, cloaks of fire will be cut out for them, and boiling water will be poured over their heads,

   hādhāni khaṣmāni khtaṣamū fī rabbihim fa-lladhīna kafarū quṭṭiʿat lahum thiyābun min nārin yuṣabbu min fawqi ruʾūsihimu l-ḥamīmu

5. يصهر به ما في بطونهم والجلود

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   with which their skins and entrails will fuse,

   yuṣharu bihī mā fī buṭūnihim wa-l-julūdu

6. ولهم مقامع من حديد

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   and there will be clubs of iron for them.

   wa-lahum maqāmiʿu min ḥadīdin

7. كلما أرادوا أن يخرجوا منها من غم أعيدوا فيها وذوقوا عذاب الحريق

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   Whenever they desire to leave it out of anguish, they will be turned back into it [and told]: ‘Taste the punishment of the burning!’

   kullamā ʾarādū ʾan yakhrujū minhā min ghammin ʾuʿīdū fīhā wa-dhūqū ʿadhāba l-ḥarīqi

8. إن الله يدخل الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات جنات تجري من تحتها الأنهار يحلون فيها من أساور من ذهب ولؤلؤا ولباسهم فيها حرير

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   Indeed Allah will admit those who have faith and do righteous deeds into gardens with streams running in them, adorned therein with bracelets of gold and pearl, and their dress therein will be silk.

   ʾinna llāha yudkhilu lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru yuḥallawna fīhā min ʾasāwira min dhahabin wa-luʾluʾan wa-libāsuhum fīhā ḥarīrun