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

1. وإذا مسكم الضر في البحر ضل من تدعون إلا إياه فلما نجاكم إلى البر أعرضتم وكان الإنسان كفورا

   67

   When distress befalls you at sea, those whom you invoke besides Him are forsaken. But when He delivers you to land, you are disregardful [of Him]. Man is very ungrateful.

   wa-ʾidhā massakumu ḍ-ḍurru fī l-baḥri ḍalla man tadʿūna ʾillā ʾiyyāhu fa-lammā najjākum ʾilā l-barri ʾaʿraḍtum wa-kāna l-ʾinsānu kafūran

2. أفأمنتم أن يخسف بكم جانب البر أو يرسل عليكم حاصبا ثم لا تجدوا لكم وكيلا

   68

   Do you feel secure that He will not make the coastland swallow you, or He will not unleash upon you a rain of stones? Then you will not find any defender for yourselves.

   ʾa-fa-ʾamintum ʾan yakhsifa bikum jāniba l-barri ʾaw yursila ʿalaykum ḥāṣiban thumma lā tajidū lakum wakīlan

3. أم أمنتم أن يعيدكم فيه تارة أخرى فيرسل عليكم قاصفا من الريح فيغرقكم بما كفرتم ثم لا تجدوا لكم علينا به تبيعا

   69

   Do you feel secure that He will not send you back into it another time and unleash against you a shattering gale and drown you because of your unfaith? Then you will not find for yourselves any redresser against Us.

   ʾam ʾamintum ʾan yuʿīdakum fīhi tāratan ʾukhrā fa-yursila ʿalaykum qāṣifan mina r-rīḥi fa-yughriqakum bi-mā kafartum thumma lā tajidū lakum ʿalaynā bihī tabīʿan

4. ولقد كرمنا بني آدم وحملناهم في البر والبحر ورزقناهم من الطيبات وفضلناهم على كثير ممن خلقنا تفضيلا

   70

   Certainly We have honoured the Children of Adam, and carried them over land and sea, and provided them with all the good things, and preferred them with a complete preference over many of those We have created.

   wa-la-qad karramnā banī ʾādama wa-ḥamalnāhum fī l-barri wa-l-baḥri wa-razaqnāhum mina ṭ-ṭayyibāti wa-faḍḍalnāhum ʿalā kathīrin mimman khalaqnā tafḍīlan

5. يوم ندعو كل أناس بإمامهم فمن أوتي كتابه بيمينه فأولئك يقرءون كتابهم ولا يظلمون فتيلا

   71

   The day We shall summon every group of people along with their imam, then whoever is given his book in his right hand—they will read it, and they will not be wronged so much as a single date-thread.

   yawma nadʿū kulla ʾunāsin bi-ʾimāmihim fa-man ʾūtiya kitābahū bi-yamīnihī fa-ʾulāʾika yaqraʾūna kitābahum wa-lā yuẓlamūna fatīlan

6. ومن كان في هذه أعمى فهو في الآخرة أعمى وأضل سبيلا

   72

   But whoever has been blind in this [world], will be blind in the Hereafter, and [even] more astray from the [right] way.

   wa-man kāna fī hādhihī ʾaʿmā fa-huwa fī l-ʾākhirati ʾaʿmā wa-ʾaḍallu sabīlan

7. وإن كادوا ليفتنونك عن الذي أوحينا إليك لتفتري علينا غيره وإذا لاتخذوك خليلا

   73

   They were about to beguile you from what Allah has revealed to you so that you may fabricate something other than that against Us, whereat they would have befriended you.

   wa-ʾin kādū la-yaftinūnaka ʿani lladhī ʾawḥaynā ʾilayka li-taftariya ʿalaynā ghayrahū wa-ʾidhan la-ttakhadhūka khalīlan

8. ولولا أن ثبتناك لقد كدت تركن إليهم شيئا قليلا

   74

   And had We not fortified you, certainly you might have inclined toward them a bit.

   wa-law-lā ʾan thabbatnāka la-qad kidta tarkanu ʾilayhim shayʾan qalīlan

9. إذا لأذقناك ضعف الحياة وضعف الممات ثم لا تجد لك علينا نصيرا

   75

   Then We would have surely made you taste a double [punishment] in this life and a double [punishment] after death, and then you would have not found for yourself any helper against Us.

   ʾidhan la-ʾadhaqnāka ḍiʿfa l-ḥayāti wa-ḍiʿfa l-mamāti thumma lā tajidu laka ʿalaynā naṣīran