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

1. ومن يهد الله فهو المهتد ومن يضلل فلن تجد لهم أولياء من دونه ونحشرهم يوم القيامة على وجوههم عميا وبكما وصما مأواهم جهنم كلما خبت زدناهم سعيرا

   97

   Whomever Allah guides is rightly guided, and whomever He leads astray—you will never for find them any guardians besides Him. On the Day of Resurrection, We shall muster them [scrambling] on their faces, blind, dumb, and deaf. Their refuge shall be hell. Whenever it subsides, We shall intensify the blaze for them.

   wa-man yahdī llāhu fa-huwa l-muhtadi wa-man yuḍlil fa-lan tajida lahum ʾawliyāʾa min dūnihī wa-naḥshuruhum yawma l-qiyāmati ʿalā wujūhihim ʿumyan wa-bukman wa-ṣumman maʾwāhum jahannamu kullamā khabat zidnāhum saʿīran

2. ذلك جزاؤهم بأنهم كفروا بآياتنا وقالوا أإذا كنا عظاما ورفاتا أإنا لمبعوثون خلقا جديدا

   98

   That is their requital because they defied Our signs and said, ‘What, when we have become bones and dust, shall we really be raised in a new creation?’

   dhālika jazāʾuhum bi-ʾannahum kafarū bi-ʾāyātinā wa-qālū ʾa-ʾidhā kunnā ʿiẓāman wa-rufātan ʾa-ʾinnā la-mabʿūthūna khalqan jadīdan

3. أولم يروا أن الله الذي خلق السماوات والأرض قادر على أن يخلق مثلهم وجعل لهم أجلا لا ريب فيه فأبى الظالمون إلا كفورا

   99

   Do they not see that Allah, who created the heavens and the earth, is able to create the like of them? He has appointed for them a term, in which there is no doubt; yet the wrongdoers are only intent on ingratitude.

   ʾa-wa-lam yaraw ʾanna llāha lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa qādirun ʿalā ʾan yakhluqa mithlahum wa-jaʿala lahum ʾajalan lā rayba fīhi fa-ʾabā ẓ-ẓālimūna ʾillā kufūran

4. قل لو أنتم تملكون خزائن رحمة ربي إذا لأمسكتم خشية الإنفاق وكان الإنسان قتورا

   100

   Say, ‘Even if you possessed the treasuries of my Lord’s mercy, you would withhold them for the fear of being spent, and man is very niggardly.’

   qul law ʾantum tamlikūna khazāʾina raḥmati rabbī ʾidhan la-ʾamsaktum khashyata l-ʾinfāqi wa-kāna l-ʾinsānu qatūran

5. ولقد آتينا موسى تسع آيات بينات فاسأل بني إسرائيل إذ جاءهم فقال له فرعون إني لأظنك يا موسى مسحورا

   101

   Certainly We gave Moses nine manifest signs. So ask the Children of Israel. When he came to them, Pharaoh said to him, ‘O Moses, indeed I think you are bewitched.’

   wa-la-qad ʾātaynā mūsā tisʿa ʾāyātin bayyinātin fa-sʾal banī ʾisrāʾīla ʾidh jāʾahum fa-qāla lahū firʿawnu ʾinnī la-ʾaẓunnuka yā-mūsā masḥūran

6. قال لقد علمت ما أنزل هؤلاء إلا رب السماوات والأرض بصائر وإني لأظنك يا فرعون مثبورا

   102

   He said, ‘You certainly know that no one has sent these [signs] except the Lord of the heavens and the earth, as eye-openers, and I, O Pharaoh, indeed think you are doomed.’

   qāla la-qad ʿalimta mā ʾanzala hāʾulāʾi ʾillā rabbu s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi baṣāʾira wa-ʾinnī la-ʾaẓunnuka yā-firʿawnu mathbūran

7. فأراد أن يستفزهم من الأرض فأغرقناه ومن معه جميعا

   103

   He desired to exterminate them from the land, so We drowned him and all those who were with him.

   fa-ʾarāda ʾan yastafizzahum mina l-ʾarḍi fa-ʾaghraqnāhu wa-man maʿahū jamīʿan

8. وقلنا من بعده لبني إسرائيل اسكنوا الأرض فإذا جاء وعد الآخرة جئنا بكم لفيفا

   104

   After him We said to the Children of Israel, ‘Take up residence in the land, and when the occasion of the other [promise] comes, We shall gather you in mixed company.’

   wa-qulnā min baʿdihī li-banī ʾisrāʾīla skunū l-ʾarḍa fa-ʾidhā jāʾa waʿdu l-ʾākhirati jiʾnā bikum lafīfan