Surah Al-Ĥaj (The Pilgrimage) in English

1. ويستعجلونك بالعذاب ولن يخلف الله وعده وإن يوما عند ربك كألف سنة مما تعدون

   47

   They ask you to hasten the punishment, though Allah will never break His promise. Indeed a day with your Lord is like a thousand years by your reckoning.

   wa-yastaʿjilūnaka bi-l-ʿadhābi wa-lan yukhlifa llāhu waʿdahū wa-ʾinna yawman ʿinda rabbika ka-ʾalfi sanatin mimmā taʿuddūna

2. وكأين من قرية أمليت لها وهي ظالمة ثم أخذتها وإلي المصير

   48

   To how many a town did I give respite while it was doing wrong! Then I seized it, and toward Me is the destination.

   wa-ka-ʾayyin min qaryatin ʾamlaytu lahā wa-hiya ẓālimatun thumma ʾakhadhtuhā wa-ʾilayya l-maṣīru

3. قل يا أيها الناس إنما أنا لكم نذير مبين

   49

   Say, ‘O mankind! I am only a manifest warner to you!’

   qul yā-ʾayyuhā n-nāsu ʾinnamā ʾana lakum nadhīrun mubīnun

4. فالذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات لهم مغفرة ورزق كريم

   50

   As for those who have faith and do righteous deeds, for them will be forgiveness and a noble provision.

   fa-lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti lahum maghfiratun wa-rizqun karīmun

5. والذين سعوا في آياتنا معاجزين أولئك أصحاب الجحيم

   51

   But as for those who contend with Our signs, seeking to frustrate [their purpose], they shall be the inmates of hell.

   wa-lladhīna saʿaw fī ʾāyātinā muʿājizīna ʾulāʾika ʾaṣḥābu l-jaḥīmi

6. وما أرسلنا من قبلك من رسول ولا نبي إلا إذا تمنى ألقى الشيطان في أمنيته فينسخ الله ما يلقي الشيطان ثم يحكم الله آياته والله عليم حكيم

   52

   We did not send any apostle or prophet before you but that when he recited [the scripture] Satan interjected [something] in his recitation. Thereat Allah nullifies whatever Satan has interjected, and then Allah confirms His signs, and Allah is All-knowing, All-wise.

   wa-mā ʾarsalnā min qablika min rasūlin wa-lā nabiyyin ʾillā ʾidhā tamannā ʾalqā sh-shayṭānu fī ʾumniyyatihī fa-yansakhu llāhu mā yulqī sh-shayṭānu thumma yuḥkimu llāhu ʾāyātihī wa-llāhu ʿalīmun ḥakīmun

7. ليجعل ما يلقي الشيطان فتنة للذين في قلوبهم مرض والقاسية قلوبهم وإن الظالمين لفي شقاق بعيد

   53

   That He may make what Satan has thrown in a test for those in whose hearts is a sickness and those whose hearts have hardened. Indeed the wrongdoers are steeped in extreme defiance.

   li-yajʿala mā yulqī sh-shayṭānu fitnatan li-llādhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun wa-l-qāsiyati qulūbuhum wa-ʾinna ẓ-ẓālimīna la-fī shiqāqin baʿīdin

8. وليعلم الذين أوتوا العلم أنه الحق من ربك فيؤمنوا به فتخبت له قلوبهم وإن الله لهاد الذين آمنوا إلى صراط مستقيم

   54

   [And also for the reason] that those who have been given knowledge may know that it is the truth from your Lord, and so they may have faith in it, and their hearts may be humbled before Him. Indeed Allah guides those who have faith to a straight path.

   wa-li-yaʿlama lladhīna ʾūtū l-ʿilma ʾannahu l-ḥaqqu min rabbika fa-yuʾminū bihī fa-tukhbita lahū qulūbuhum wa-ʾinna llāha la-hādi lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾilā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin

9. ولا يزال الذين كفروا في مرية منه حتى تأتيهم الساعة بغتة أو يأتيهم عذاب يوم عقيم

   55

   Those who are faithless persist in their doubt about it, until either the Hour overtakes them suddenly, or they are overtaken by the punishment of an inauspicious day.

   wa-lā yazālu lladhīna kafarū fī miryatin minhu ḥattā taʾtiyahumu s-sāʿatu baghtatan ʾaw yaʾtiyahum ʿadhābu yawmin ʿaqīmin-i