Surah Al-Ĥaj (The Pilgrimage) in English

1. أذن للذين يقاتلون بأنهم ظلموا وإن الله على نصرهم لقدير

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   Those who are fought against are permitted [to fight] because they have been wronged, and Allah is indeed able to help them

   ʾudhina li-lladhīna yuqātalūna bi-ʾannahum ẓulimū wa-ʾinna llāha ʿalā naṣrihim la-qadīrun-i

2. الذين أخرجوا من ديارهم بغير حق إلا أن يقولوا ربنا الله ولولا دفع الله الناس بعضهم ببعض لهدمت صوامع وبيع وصلوات ومساجد يذكر فيها اسم الله كثيرا ولينصرن الله من ينصره إن الله لقوي عزيز

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   —those who were expelled from their homes unjustly, only because they said, ‘Allah is our Lord.’ Had not Allah repulsed the people from one another, ruin would have befallen the monasteries, churches, synagogues and mosques in which Allah’s Name is much invoked. Allah will surely help those who help Him. Indeed Allah is all-strong, all-mighty.

   alladhīna ʾukhrijū min diyārihim bi-ghayri ḥaqqin ʾillā ʾan yaqūlū rabbunā llāhu wa-law-lā dafʿu llāhi n-nāsa baʿḍahum bi-baʿḍin la-huddimat ṣawāmiʿu wa-biyaʿun wa-ṣalawātun wa-masājidu yudhkaru fīhā smu llāhi kathīran wa-la-yanṣuranna llāhu man yanṣuruhū ʾinna llāha la-qawiyyun ʿazīzun-i

3. الذين إن مكناهم في الأرض أقاموا الصلاة وآتوا الزكاة وأمروا بالمعروف ونهوا عن المنكر ولله عاقبة الأمور

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   Those who, if We granted them power in the land, will maintain the prayer, give the zakat, bid what is right and forbid what is wrong. And with Allah rests the outcome of all matters.

   alladhīna ʾin makkannāhum fī l-ʾarḍi ʾaqāmū ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾātawu z-zakāta wa-ʾamarū bi-l-maʿrūfi wa-nahaw ʿani l-munkari wa-li-llāhi ʿāqibatu l-ʾumūri

4. وإن يكذبوك فقد كذبت قبلهم قوم نوح وعاد وثمود

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   If they impugn you, the people of Noah had impugned before them and ‘Ad and Thamud,

   wa-ʾin yukadhdhibūka fa-qad kadhdhabat qablahum qawmu nūḥin wa-ʿādun wa-thamūdu

5. وقوم إبراهيم وقوم لوط

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   [as well as] the people of Abraham and the people of Lot,

   wa-qawmu ʾibrāhīma wa-qawmu lūṭin

6. وأصحاب مدين وكذب موسى فأمليت للكافرين ثم أخذتهم فكيف كان نكير

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   and the inhabitants of Midian, and Moses was also impugned. But I gave the faithless a respite, then I seized them and how was My rebuttal!

   wa-ʾaṣḥābu madyana wa-kudhdhiba mūsā fa-ʾamlaytu li-l-kāfirīna thumma ʾakhadhtuhum fa-kayfa kāna nakīri

7. فكأين من قرية أهلكناها وهي ظالمة فهي خاوية على عروشها وبئر معطلة وقصر مشيد

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   How many towns We have destroyed when they had been wrongdoers! So they lie fallen on their trellises, their wells neglected and their ruined palaces!

   fa-ka-ʾayyin min qaryatin ʾahlaknāhā wa-hiya ẓālimatun fa-hiya khāwiyatun ʿalā ʿurūshihā wa-biʾrin muʿaṭṭalatin wa-qaṣrin mashīdin

8. أفلم يسيروا في الأرض فتكون لهم قلوب يعقلون بها أو آذان يسمعون بها فإنها لا تعمى الأبصار ولكن تعمى القلوب التي في الصدور

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   Have they not travelled through the land so that they may have hearts by which they may exercise their reason, or ears by which they may hear? Indeed, it is not the eyes that turn blind, but it is the hearts in the breasts that turn blind!

   ʾa-fa-lam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fa-takūna lahum qulūbun yaʿqilūna bihā ʾaw ʾādhānun yasmaʿūna bihā fa-ʾinnahā lā taʿmā l-ʾabṣāru wa-lākin taʿmā l-qulūbu llatī fī ṣ-ṣudūri