Surah Al-Jumu`ah (The Congregation, Friday) in English

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

1. يسبح لله ما في السماوات وما في الأرض الملك القدوس العزيز الحكيم

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   Whatever there is in the heavens and in the earth glorifies Allah, the Sovereign, the All-holy, the All-mighty, the All-wise.

   yusabbiḥu li-llāhi mā fī s-samāwāti wa-mā fī l-ʾarḍi l-maliki l-quddūsi l-ʿazīzi l-ḥakīmi

2. هو الذي بعث في الأميين رسولا منهم يتلو عليهم آياته ويزكيهم ويعلمهم الكتاب والحكمة وإن كانوا من قبل لفي ضلال مبين

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   It is He who sent to the unlettered [people] an apostle from among themselves, to recite to them His signs, to purify them, and to teach them the Book and wisdom, and earlier they had indeed been in manifest error.

   huwa lladhī baʿatha fī l-ʾummiyyīna rasūlan minhum yatlū ʿalayhim ʾāyātihī wa-yuzakkīhim wa-yuʿallimuhumu l-kitāba wa-l-ḥikmata wa-ʾin kānū min qablu la-fī ḍalālin mubīnin

3. وآخرين منهم لما يلحقوا بهم وهو العزيز الحكيم

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   And to others from among them [as well] who have not yet joined them. And He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.

   wa-ʾākharīna minhum lammā yalḥaqū bihim wa-huwa l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu

4. ذلك فضل الله يؤتيه من يشاء والله ذو الفضل العظيم

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   That is Allah’s grace, which He grants to whomever He wishes, and Allah is dispenser of a great grace.

   dhālika faḍlu llāhi yuʾtīhi man yashāʾu wa-llāhu dhū l-faḍli l-ʿaẓīmi

5. مثل الذين حملوا التوراة ثم لم يحملوها كمثل الحمار يحمل أسفارا بئس مثل القوم الذين كذبوا بآيات الله والله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين

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   The example of those who were charged with the Torah, then failed to carry it, is that of an ass carrying books. Evil is the example of the people who deny Allah’s signs, and Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.

   mathalu lladhīna ḥummilū t-tawrāta thumma lam yaḥmilūhā ka-mathali l-ḥimāri yaḥmilu ʾasfāran biʾsa mathalu l-qawmi lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyāti llāhi wa-llāhu lā yahdī l-qawma ẓ-ẓālimīna

6. قل يا أيها الذين هادوا إن زعمتم أنكم أولياء لله من دون الناس فتمنوا الموت إن كنتم صادقين

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   Say, ‘O Jews! If you claim that you are Allah’s favourites, to the exclusion of other people, then long for death, should you be truthful.’

   qul yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna hādū ʾin zaʿamtum ʾannakum ʾawliyāʾu li-llāhi min dūni n-nāsi fa-tamannawu l-mawta ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

7. ولا يتمنونه أبدا بما قدمت أيديهم والله عليم بالظالمين

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   Yet they will never long for it, because of what their hands have sent ahead, and Allah knows best the wrongdoers.

   wa-lā yatamannawnahū ʾabadan bi-mā qaddamat ʾaydīhim wa-llāhu ʿalīmun bi-ẓ-ẓālimīna

8. قل إن الموت الذي تفرون منه فإنه ملاقيكم ثم تردون إلى عالم الغيب والشهادة فينبئكم بما كنتم تعملون

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   Say, ‘The death that you flee will indeed encounter you. Then you will be returned to the Knower of the sensible and the Unseen, and He will inform you about what you used to do.’

   qul ʾinna l-mawta lladhī tafirrūna minhu fa-ʾinnahū mulāqīkum thumma turaddūna ʾilā ʿālimi l-ghaybi wa-sh-shahādati fa-yunabbiʾukum bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna