Surah Al-'Isrā (The Night Journey) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. سبحان الذي أسرى بعبده ليلا من المسجد الحرام إلى المسجد الأقصى الذي باركنا حوله لنريه من آياتنا إنه هو السميع البصير

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   Immaculate is He who carried His servant on a journey by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque whose environs We have blessed, that We might show him some of Our signs. Indeed, He is the All-hearing, the All-seeing.

   subḥāna lladhī ʾasrā bi-ʿabdihī laylan mina l-masjidi l-ḥarāmi ʾilā l-masjidi l-ʾaqṣā lladhī bāraknā ḥawlahū li-nuriyahū min ʾāyātinā ʾinnahū huwa s-samīʿu l-baṣīru

2. وآتينا موسى الكتاب وجعلناه هدى لبني إسرائيل ألا تتخذوا من دوني وكيلا

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   We gave Moses the Book, and made it a guide for the Children of Israel—[saying,] ‘Do not take any trustee besides Me’—

   wa-ʾātaynā mūsā l-kitāba wa-jaʿalnāhu hudan li-banī ʾisrāʾīla ʾallā tattakhidhū min dūnī wakīlan

3. ذرية من حملنا مع نوح إنه كان عبدا شكورا

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   descendants of those whom We carried [in the ark] with Noah. Indeed, he was a grateful servant.

   dhurriyyata man ḥamalnā maʿa nūḥin ʾinnahū kāna ʿabdan shakūran

4. وقضينا إلى بني إسرائيل في الكتاب لتفسدن في الأرض مرتين ولتعلن علوا كبيرا

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   We revealed to the Children of Israel in the Book: ‘Twice you will cause corruption on the earth, and you will perpetrate great tyranny.’

   wa-qaḍaynā ʾilā banī ʾisrāʾīla fī l-kitābi la-tufsidunna fī l-ʾarḍi marratayni wa-la-taʿlunna ʿuluwwan kabīran

5. فإذا جاء وعد أولاهما بعثنا عليكم عبادا لنا أولي بأس شديد فجاسوا خلال الديار وكان وعدا مفعولا

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   So when the first occasion of the two [prophecies] came, We aroused against you Our servants possessing great might, and they ransacked [your] habitations, and the promise was bound to be fulfilled.

   fa-ʾidhā jāʾa waʿdu ʾūlāhumā baʿathnā ʿalaykum ʿibādan lanā ʾulī baʾsin shadīdin fa-jāsū khilāla d-diyāri wa-kāna waʿdan mafʿūlan

6. ثم رددنا لكم الكرة عليهم وأمددناكم بأموال وبنين وجعلناكم أكثر نفيرا

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   Then We gave you back the turn [to prevail] over them, and We aided you with children and wealth, and made you greater in number,

   thumma radadnā lakumu l-karrata ʿalayhim wa-ʾamdadnākum bi-ʾamwālin wa-banīna wa-jaʿalnākum ʾakthara nafīran

7. إن أحسنتم أحسنتم لأنفسكم وإن أسأتم فلها فإذا جاء وعد الآخرة ليسوءوا وجوهكم وليدخلوا المسجد كما دخلوه أول مرة وليتبروا ما علوا تتبيرا

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   [saying,] ‘If you do good, you will do good to your [own] souls, and if you do evil, it will be [evil] for them.’ So when the occasion for the other [prophecy] comes, they will make your faces wretched, and enter the Temple just as they entered it the first time, and destroy utterly whatever they come upon.

   ʾin ʾaḥsantum ʾaḥsantum li-ʾanfusikum wa-ʾin ʾasaʾtum fa-lahā fa-ʾidhā jāʾa waʿdu l-ʾākhirati li-yasūʾū wujūhakum wa-li-yadkhulū l-masjida ka-mā dakhalūhu ʾawwala marratin wa-li-yutabbirū mā ʿalaw tatbīran