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

1. وبالحق أنزلناه وبالحق نزل وما أرسلناك إلا مبشرا ونذيرا

   105

   With the truth did We send it down, and with the truth did it descend, and We did not send you except as a bearer of good news and as a warner.

   wa-bi-l-ḥaqqi ʾanzalnāhu wa-bi-l-ḥaqqi nazala wa-mā ʾarsalnāka ʾillā mubashshiran wa-nadhīran

2. وقرآنا فرقناه لتقرأه على الناس على مكث ونزلناه تنزيلا

   106

   We have sent the Quran in [discrete] parts so that you may recite it for the people a little at a time, and We have sent it down piecemeal.

   wa-qurʾānan faraqnāhu li-taqraʾahū ʿalā n-nāsi ʿalā mukthin wa-nazzalnāhu tanzīlan

3. قل آمنوا به أو لا تؤمنوا إن الذين أوتوا العلم من قبله إذا يتلى عليهم يخرون للأذقان سجدا

   107

   Say, ‘Whether you believe in it, or do not believe in it, indeed when it is recited to those who were given knowledge before it, they fall down in prostration on their faces,

   qul ʾāminū bihī ʾaw lā tuʾminū ʾinna lladhīna ʾūtū l-ʿilma min qablihī ʾidhā yutlā ʿalayhim yakhirrūna li-l-ʾadhqāni sujjadan

4. ويقولون سبحان ربنا إن كان وعد ربنا لمفعولا

   108

   and say, ‘‘Immaculate is our Lord! Indeed Our Lord’s promise is bound to be fulfilled.’’

   wa-yaqūlūna subḥāna rabbinā ʾin kāna waʿdu rabbinā la-mafʿūlan

5. Recommended prostration

   ويخرون للأذقان يبكون ويزيدهم خشوعا

   109

   Weeping, they fall down on their faces, and it increases them in humility.’

   wa-yakhirrūna li-l-ʾadhqāni yabkūna wa-yazīduhum khushūʿan

6. قل ادعوا الله أو ادعوا الرحمن أيا ما تدعوا فله الأسماء الحسنى ولا تجهر بصلاتك ولا تخافت بها وابتغ بين ذلك سبيلا

   110

   Say, ‘Invoke ‘‘Allah’’ or invoke ‘‘the All-beneficent.’’ Whichever [of His Names] you may invoke, to Him belong the Best Names.’ Be neither loud in your prayer, nor murmur it, but follow a middle course between these,

   quli dʿū llāha ʾawi dʿū r-raḥmāna ʾayyan mā tadʿū fa-lahu l-ʾasmāʾu l-ḥusnā wa-lā tajhar bi-ṣalātika wa-lā tukhāfit bihā wa-btaghi bayna dhālika sabīlan

7. وقل الحمد لله الذي لم يتخذ ولدا ولم يكن له شريك في الملك ولم يكن له ولي من الذل وكبره تكبيرا

   111

   and say, ‘All praise belongs to Allah, who has neither taken any son, nor has He any partner in sovereignty, nor has He any wali out of weakness,’ and magnify Him with a magnification [worthy of Him].

   wa-quli l-ḥamdu li-llāhi lladhī lam yattakhidh waladan wa-lam yakun lahū sharīkun fī l-mulki wa-lam yakun lahū waliyyun mina dh-dhulli wa-kabbirhu takbīran