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

1. وما منعنا أن نرسل بالآيات إلا أن كذب بها الأولون وآتينا ثمود الناقة مبصرة فظلموا بها وما نرسل بالآيات إلا تخويفا

   59

   Nothing keeps Us from sending signs except that the former peoples denied them. We gave Thamud the she-camel as an eye-opener, but they wronged her. We do not send the signs except as warning.

   wa-mā manaʿanā ʾan nursila bi-l-ʾāyāti ʾillā ʾan kadhdhaba bihā l-ʾawwalūna wa-ʾātaynā thamūda n-nāqata mubṣiratan fa-ẓalamū bihā wa-mā nursilu bi-l-ʾāyāti ʾillā takhwīfan

2. وإذ قلنا لك إن ربك أحاط بالناس وما جعلنا الرؤيا التي أريناك إلا فتنة للناس والشجرة الملعونة في القرآن ونخوفهم فما يزيدهم إلا طغيانا كبيرا

   60

   When We said to you, ‘Indeed your Lord encircles those people,’ We did not appoint the vision that We showed you except as a tribulation for the people and the tree cursed in the Quran. We warn them, but it only increases them in their outrageous rebellion.

   wa-ʾidh qulnā laka ʾinna rabbaka ʾaḥāṭa bi-n-nāsi wa-mā jaʿalnā r-ruʾyā llatī ʾaraynāka ʾillā fitnatan li-n-nāsi wa-sh-shajarata l-malʿūnata fī l-qurʾāni wa-nukhawwifuhum fa-mā yazīduhum ʾillā ṭughyānan kabīran

3. وإذ قلنا للملائكة اسجدوا لآدم فسجدوا إلا إبليس قال أأسجد لمن خلقت طينا

   61

   When We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ they [all] prostrated, but not Iblis: he said, ‘Shall I prostrate before someone whom You have created from clay?’

   wa-ʾidh qulnā li-l-malāʾikati sjudū li-ʾādama fa-sajadū ʾillā ʾiblīsa qāla ʾa-ʾasjudu li-man khalaqta ṭīnan

4. قال أرأيتك هذا الذي كرمت علي لئن أخرتن إلى يوم القيامة لأحتنكن ذريته إلا قليلا

   62

   Said he, ‘Do You see this one whom You have honoured above me? If You respite me until the Day of Resurrection, I will surely lay my yoke on his progeny, [all] except a few.’

   qāla ʾa-raʾaytaka hādhā lladhī karramta ʿalayya la-ʾin ʾakhkhartani ʾilā yawmi l-qiyāmati la-ʾaḥtanikanna dhurriyyatahū ʾillā qalīlan

5. قال اذهب فمن تبعك منهم فإن جهنم جزاؤكم جزاء موفورا

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   Said He, ‘Begone! Whoever of them follows you, indeed the hell shall be your requital, an ample reward.

   qāla dhhab fa-man tabiʿaka minhum fa-ʾinna jahannama jazāʾukum jazāʾan mawfūran

6. واستفزز من استطعت منهم بصوتك وأجلب عليهم بخيلك ورجلك وشاركهم في الأموال والأولاد وعدهم وما يعدهم الشيطان إلا غرورا

   64

   Instigate whomever of them you can with your voice; and rally against them your cavalry and your infantry, and share with them in wealth and children, and make promises to them!’ But Satan promises them nothing but delusion.

   wa-stafziz mani staṭaʿta minhum bi-ṣawtika wa-ʾajlib ʿalayhim bi-khaylika wa-rajilika wa-shārikhum fī l-ʾamwāli wa-l-ʾawlādi wa-ʿidhum wa-mā yaʿiduhumu sh-shayṭānu ʾillā ghurūran

7. إن عبادي ليس لك عليهم سلطان وكفى بربك وكيلا

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   ‘As for My servants, you shall have no authority over them.’ And your Lord suffices as trustee.

   ʾinna ʿibādī laysa laka ʿalayhim sulṭānun wa-kafā bi-rabbika wakīlan

8. ربكم الذي يزجي لكم الفلك في البحر لتبتغوا من فضله إنه كان بكم رحيما

   66

   Your Lord is He who drives for you the ships in the sea that you may seek of His bounty. Indeed, He is most merciful to you.

   rabbukumu lladhī yuzjī lakumu l-fulka fī l-baḥri li-tabtaghū min faḍlihī ʾinnahū kāna bikum raḥīman