Surah Al-Ĥujurāt (The Rooms) in English

1. يا أيها الذين آمنوا اجتنبوا كثيرا من الظن إن بعض الظن إثم ولا تجسسوا ولا يغتب بعضكم بعضا أيحب أحدكم أن يأكل لحم أخيه ميتا فكرهتموه واتقوا الله إن الله تواب رحيم

   12

   O you who have faith! Avoid much suspicion; indeed some suspicions are sins. And do not spy on one another or backbite. Will any of you love to eat the flesh of his dead brother? You would hate it. Be wary of Allah; indeed Allah is all-clement, all-merciful.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū jtanibū kathīran mina ẓ-ẓanni ʾinna baʿḍa ẓ-ẓanni ʾithmun wa-lā tajassasū wa-lā yaghtab baʿḍukum baʿḍan ʾa-yuḥibbu ʾaḥadukum ʾan yaʾkula laḥma ʾakhīhi maytan fa-karihtumūhu wa-ttaqū llāha ʾinna llāha tawwābun raḥīmun

2. يا أيها الناس إنا خلقناكم من ذكر وأنثى وجعلناكم شعوبا وقبائل لتعارفوا إن أكرمكم عند الله أتقاكم إن الله عليم خبير

   13

   O mankind! Indeed, We created you from a male and a female, and made you nations and tribes that you may identify yourselves with one another. Indeed the noblest of you in the sight of Allah is the most Godwary among you. Indeed Allah is all-knowing, all-aware.

   yā-ʾayyuhā n-nāsu ʾinnā khalaqnākum min dhakarin wa-ʾunthā wa-jaʿalnākum shuʿūban wa-qabāʾila li-taʿārafū ʾinna ʾakramakum ʿinda llāhi ʾatqākum ʾinna llāha ʿalīmun khabīrun

3. قالت الأعراب آمنا قل لم تؤمنوا ولكن قولوا أسلمنا ولما يدخل الإيمان في قلوبكم وإن تطيعوا الله ورسوله لا يلتكم من أعمالكم شيئا إن الله غفور رحيم

   14

   The Bedouins say, ‘We have faith.’ Say, ‘You do not have faith yet; rather, say, ‘‘We have embraced Islam,’’ for faith has not yet entered into your hearts. Yet if you obey Allah and His Apostle, He will not stint anything of [the reward of] your works. Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.’

   qālati l-ʾaʿrābu ʾāmannā qul lam tuʾminū wa-lākin qūlū ʾaslamnā wa-lammā yadkhuli l-ʾīmānu fī qulūbikum wa-ʾin tuṭīʿū llāha wa-rasūlahū lā yalitkum min ʾaʿmālikum shayʾan ʾinna llāha ghafūrun raḥīmun

4. إنما المؤمنون الذين آمنوا بالله ورسوله ثم لم يرتابوا وجاهدوا بأموالهم وأنفسهم في سبيل الله أولئك هم الصادقون

   15

   The faithful are only those who have attained faith in Allah and His Apostle and then have never doubted, and who wage jihad with their possessions and their persons in the way of Allah. It is they who are the truthful.

   ʾinnamā l-muʾminūna lladhīna ʾāmanū bi-llāhi wa-rasūlihī thumma lam yartābū wa-jāhadū bi-ʾamwālihim wa-ʾanfusihim fī sabīli llāhi ʾulāʾika humu ṣ-ṣādiqūna

5. قل أتعلمون الله بدينكم والله يعلم ما في السماوات وما في الأرض والله بكل شيء عليم

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   Say, ‘Will you inform Allah about your faith while Allah knows whatever there is in the heavens and whatever there is in the earth, and Allah has knowledge of all things?’

   qul ʾa-tuʿallimūna llāha bi-dīnikum wa-llāhu yaʿlamu mā fī s-samāwāti wa-mā fī l-ʾarḍi wa-llāhu bi-kulli shayʾin ʿalīmun

6. يمنون عليك أن أسلموا قل لا تمنوا علي إسلامكم بل الله يمن عليكم أن هداكم للإيمان إن كنتم صادقين

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   They count it as a favour to you that they have embraced Islam. Say, ‘Do not count your embracing of Islam as a favour to me. No, it is Allah who has done you a favour in that He has guided you to faith, if you are truthful [in your claim].

   yamunnūna ʿalayka ʾan ʾaslamū qul lā tamunnū ʿalayya ʾislāmakum bali llāhu yamunnu ʿalaykum ʾan hadākum li-l-ʾīmāni ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

7. إن الله يعلم غيب السماوات والأرض والله بصير بما تعملون

   18

   Indeed Allah knows the Unseen of the heavens and the earth, and Allah watches what you do.’

   ʾinna llāha yaʿlamu ghayba s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-llāhu baṣīrun bi-mā taʿmalūna