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

1. إلا رحمة من ربك إن فضله كان عليك كبيرا

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   except a mercy from your Lord. Indeed His grace has been great upon you.

   ʾillā raḥmatan min rabbika ʾinna faḍlahū kāna ʿalayka kabīran

2. قل لئن اجتمعت الإنس والجن على أن يأتوا بمثل هذا القرآن لا يأتون بمثله ولو كان بعضهم لبعض ظهيرا

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   Say, ‘Should all humans and jinn rally to bring the like of this Quran, they will not bring its like, even if they assisted one another.’

   qul la-ʾini jtamaʿati l-ʾinsu wa-l-jinnu ʿalā ʾan yaʾtū bi-mithli hādhā l-qurʾāni lā yaʾtūna bi-mithlihī wa-law kāna baʿḍuhum li-baʿḍin ẓahīran

3. ولقد صرفنا للناس في هذا القرآن من كل مثل فأبى أكثر الناس إلا كفورا

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   We have certainly interspersed this Quran with every [kind of] parable for the people, but most people are only intent on ingratitude.

   wa-la-qad ṣarrafnā li-n-nāsi fī hādhā l-qurʾāni min kulli mathalin fa-ʾabā ʾaktharu n-nāsi ʾillā kufūran

4. وقالوا لن نؤمن لك حتى تفجر لنا من الأرض ينبوعا

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   They say, ‘We will not believe you until you make a spring gush forth for us from the ground.

   wa-qālū lan nuʾmina laka ḥattā tafjura lanā mina l-ʾarḍi yanbūʿan

5. أو تكون لك جنة من نخيل وعنب فتفجر الأنهار خلالها تفجيرا

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   Or until you have a garden of date palms and vines and you make streams gush through it.

   ʾaw takūna laka jannatun min nakhīlin wa-ʿinabin fa-tufajjira l-ʾanhāra khilālahā tafjīran

6. أو تسقط السماء كما زعمت علينا كسفا أو تأتي بالله والملائكة قبيلا

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   Or until you cause the sky to fall in fragments upon us, just as you have averred. Or until you bring Allah and the angels [right] in front of us.

   ʾaw tusqiṭa s-samāʾa ka-mā zaʿamta ʿalaynā kisafan ʾaw taʾtiya bi-llāhi wa-l-malāʾikati qabīlan

7. أو يكون لك بيت من زخرف أو ترقى في السماء ولن نؤمن لرقيك حتى تنزل علينا كتابا نقرؤه قل سبحان ربي هل كنت إلا بشرا رسولا

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   Or until you have a house of gold, or you ascend into the sky. And we will not believe your ascension until you bring down for us a book that we may read.’ Say, ‘Immaculate is my Lord! Am I anything but a human apostle?!’

   ʾaw yakūna laka baytun min zukhrufin ʾaw tarqā fī s-samāʾi wa-lan nuʾmina li-ruqiyyika ḥattā tunazzila ʿalaynā kitāban naqraʾuhū qul subḥāna rabbī hal kuntu ʾillā basharan rasūlan

8. وما منع الناس أن يؤمنوا إذ جاءهم الهدى إلا أن قالوا أبعث الله بشرا رسولا

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   Nothing has kept these people from believing when guidance came to them, but their saying, ‘Has Allah sent a human as an apostle?!’

   wa-mā manaʿa n-nāsa ʾan yuʾminū ʾidh jāʾahumu l-hudā ʾillā ʾan qālū ʾa-baʿatha llāhu basharan rasūlan

9. قل لو كان في الأرض ملائكة يمشون مطمئنين لنزلنا عليهم من السماء ملكا رسولا

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   Say, ‘Had there been angels in the earth, walking around and residing [in it like humans do], We would have sent down to them an angel from the heaven as apostle.’

   qul law kāna fī l-ʾarḍi malāʾikatun yamshūna muṭmaʾinnīna la-nazzalnā ʿalayhim mina s-samāʾi malakan rasūlan

10. قل كفى بالله شهيدا بيني وبينكم إنه كان بعباده خبيرا بصيرا

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    Say, ‘Allah suffices as witness between me and you. Indeed He is well aware His servants and a keen observer.’

    qul kafā bi-llāhi shahīdan baynī wa-baynakum ʾinnahū kāna bi-ʿibādihī khabīran baṣīran