Surah Al-Jāthiyah (The Crouching) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. حم

   1

   Ha, Meem.

   ḥ-m (ḥā mīm)

2. تنزيل الكتاب من الله العزيز الحكيم

   2

   The [gradual] sending down of the Book is from Allah, the All-mighty, All-wise.

   tanzīlu l-kitābi mina llāhi l-ʿazīzi l-ḥakīmi

3. إن في السماوات والأرض لآيات للمؤمنين

   3

   In the heavens and the earth there are indeed signs for the faithful,

   ʾinna fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi la-ʾāyātin li-l-muʾminīna

4. وفي خلقكم وما يبث من دابة آيات لقوم يوقنون

   4

   There are signs for people who have certainty in your own creation and in animals, He scatters abroad.

   wa-fī khalqikum wa-mā yabuththu min dābbatin ʾāyātun li-qawmin yūqinūna

5. واختلاف الليل والنهار وما أنزل الله من السماء من رزق فأحيا به الأرض بعد موتها وتصريف الرياح آيات لقوم يعقلون

   5

   There are signs for people who exercise their reason in the alternation of night and day, in the provision that Allah sends down from the sky, with which He revives the earth after its death, and in the changing of the winds.

   wa-khtilāfi l-layli wa-n-nahāri wa-mā ʾanzala llāhu mina s-samāʾi min rizqin fa-ʾaḥyā bihi l-ʾarḍa baʿda mawtihā wa-taṣrīfi r-riyāḥi ʾāyātun li-qawmin yaʿqilūna

6. تلك آيات الله نتلوها عليك بالحق فبأي حديث بعد الله وآياته يؤمنون

   6

   These are the signs of Allah that We recite for you in truth. So what discourse will they believe after Allah and His signs?

   tilka ʾāyātu llāhi natlūhā ʿalayka bi-l-ḥaqqi fa-bi-ʾayyi ḥadīthin baʿda llāhi wa-ʾāyātihī yuʾminūna

7. ويل لكل أفاك أثيم

   7

   Woe to every sinful liar,

   waylun li-kulli ʾaffākin ʾathīmin

8. يسمع آيات الله تتلى عليه ثم يصر مستكبرا كأن لم يسمعها فبشره بعذاب أليم

   8

   who hears the signs of Allah being recited to him, yet persists arrogantly as if he had not heard them. So inform him of a painful punishment.

   yasmaʿu ʾāyāti llāhi tutlā ʿalayhi thumma yuṣirru mustakbiran ka-ʾan lam yasmaʿhā fa-bashshirhu bi-ʿadhābin ʾalīmin

9. وإذا علم من آياتنا شيئا اتخذها هزوا أولئك لهم عذاب مهين

   9

   Should he learn anything about Our signs, he takes them in derision. For such there is a humiliating punishment.

   wa-ʾidhā ʿalima min ʾāyātinā shayʾan-i ttakhadhahā huzuwan ʾulāʾika lahum ʿadhābun muhīnun

10. من ورائهم جهنم ولا يغني عنهم ما كسبوا شيئا ولا ما اتخذوا من دون الله أولياء ولهم عذاب عظيم

    10

    Ahead of them is hell, and neither what they have earned, nor what they had taken as guardians besides Allah will avail them in any way, and there is a great punishment for them.

    min warāʾihim jahannamu wa-lā yughnī ʿanhum mā kasabū shayʾan wa-lā mā ttakhadhū min dūni llāhi ʾawliyāʾa wa-lahum ʿadhābun ʿaẓīmun

11. هذا هدى والذين كفروا بآيات ربهم لهم عذاب من رجز أليم

    11

    This is [true] guidance, and there is a painful punishment due to defilement for those who defy the signs of their Lord.

    hādhā hudan wa-lladhīna kafarū bi-ʾāyāti rabbihim lahum ʿadhābun min rijzin ʾalīmun-i

12. الله الذي سخر لكم البحر لتجري الفلك فيه بأمره ولتبتغوا من فضله ولعلكم تشكرون

    12

    It is Allah who disposed the sea for you[r benefit] so that the ships may sail in it by His command, that you may seek of His bounty and that you may give thanks.

    allāhu lladhī sakhkhara lakumu l-baḥra li-tajriya l-fulku fīhi bi-ʾamrihī wa-li tabtaghū min faḍlihī wa-laʿallakum tashkurūna

13. وسخر لكم ما في السماوات وما في الأرض جميعا منه إن في ذلك لآيات لقوم يتفكرون

    13

    He has disposed for you[r benefit] whatever is in the heavens and whatever is on the earth; all is from Him. There are indeed signs in that for a people who reflect.

    wa-sakhkhara lakum mā fī s-samāwāti wa-mā fī l-ʾarḍi jamīʿan minhu ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyātin li-qawmin yatafakkarūna