Surah Al-Ĥijr (The Rocky Tract) in English

1. ولقد جعلنا في السماء بروجا وزيناها للناظرين

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   Certainly We have appointed houses in the sky and adorned them for the onlookers,

   wa-la-qad jaʿalnā fī s-samāʾi burūjan wa-zayyannāhā li-n-nāẓirīna

2. وحفظناها من كل شيطان رجيم

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   and We have guarded them from every outcast Satan,

   wa-ḥafiẓnāhā min kulli shayṭānin rajīmin

3. إلا من استرق السمع فأتبعه شهاب مبين

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   except someone who may eavesdrop, whereat there pursues him a manifest flame.

   ʾillā mani staraqa s-samʿa fa-ʾatbaʿahū shihābun mubīnun

4. والأرض مددناها وألقينا فيها رواسي وأنبتنا فيها من كل شيء موزون

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   And We spread out the earth, and cast in it firm mountains, and We grew in it every kind of balanced thing,

   wa-l-ʾarḍa madadnāhā wa-ʾalqaynā fīhā rawāsiya wa-ʾanbatnā fīhā min kulli shayʾin mawzūnin

5. وجعلنا لكم فيها معايش ومن لستم له برازقين

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   and made in it [various] means of livelihood for you and for those whom you do not provide for.

   wa-jaʿalnā lakum fīhā maʿāyisha wa-man lastum lahū bi-rāziqīna

6. وإن من شيء إلا عندنا خزائنه وما ننزله إلا بقدر معلوم

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   There is not a thing but that its sources are with Us, and We do not send it down except in a known measure.

   wa-ʾin min shayʾin ʾillā ʿindanā khazāʾinuhū wa-mā nunazziluhū ʾillā bi-qadarin maʿlūmin

7. وأرسلنا الرياح لواقح فأنزلنا من السماء ماء فأسقيناكموه وما أنتم له بخازنين

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   And We send the fertilizing winds and send down water from the sky providing it for you to drink and you are not maintainers of its resources.

   wa-ʾarsalnā r-riyāḥa lawāqiḥa fa-ʾanzalnā mina s-samāʾi māʾan fa-ʾasqaynākumūhu wa-mā ʾantum lahū bi-khāzinīna

8. وإنا لنحن نحيي ونميت ونحن الوارثون

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   Indeed it is We who give life and bring death and We are the inheritors.

   wa-ʾinnā la-naḥnu nuḥyī wa-numītu wa-naḥnu l-wārithūna

9. ولقد علمنا المستقدمين منكم ولقد علمنا المستأخرين

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   Certainly We know the predecessors among you and certainly We know the successors,

   wa-la-qad ʿalimnā l-mustaqdimīna minkum wa-la-qad ʿalimnā l-mustaʾkhirīna

10. وإن ربك هو يحشرهم إنه حكيم عليم

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    and indeed it is your Lord who will resurrect them. Indeed, He is all-wise, all-knowing.

    wa-ʾinna rabbaka huwa yaḥshuruhum ʾinnahū ḥakīmun ʿalīmun

11. ولقد خلقنا الإنسان من صلصال من حمإ مسنون

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    Certainly We created man out of a dry clay [drawn] from an aging mud,

    wa-la-qad khalaqnā l-ʾinsāna min ṣalṣālin min ḥamaʾin masnūnin

12. والجان خلقناه من قبل من نار السموم

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    and We created the jinn earlier, out of a piercing fire.

    wa-l-jānna khalaqnāhu min qablu min nāri s-samūmi

13. وإذ قال ربك للملائكة إني خالق بشرا من صلصال من حمإ مسنون

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    When your Lord said to the angels, ‘Indeed I am going to create a human out of a dry clay [drawn] from an aging mud.

    wa-ʾidh qāla rabbuka li-l-malāʾikati ʾinnī khāliqun basharan min ṣalṣālin min ḥamaʾin masnūnin

14. فإذا سويته ونفخت فيه من روحي فقعوا له ساجدين

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    So when I have proportioned him and breathed into him of My spirit, then fall down in prostration before him.’

    fa-ʾidhā sawwaytuhū wa-nafakhtu fīhi min rūḥī fa-qaʿū lahū sājidīna

15. فسجد الملائكة كلهم أجمعون

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    Thereat the angels prostrated, all of them together,

    fa-sajada l-malāʾikatu kulluhum ʾajmaʿūna

16. إلا إبليس أبى أن يكون مع الساجدين

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    but not Iblis: he refused to be among those who prostrated.

    ʾillā ʾiblīsa ʾabā ʾan yakūna maʿa s-sājidīna