Surah Al-Kahf (The Cave) in English

1. واصبر نفسك مع الذين يدعون ربهم بالغداة والعشي يريدون وجهه ولا تعد عيناك عنهم تريد زينة الحياة الدنيا ولا تطع من أغفلنا قلبه عن ذكرنا واتبع هواه وكان أمره فرطا

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   Content yourself with the company of those who supplicate their Lord morning and evening, desiring His Face, and do not lose sight of them, desiring the glitter of the life of this world. And do not obey him whose heart We have made oblivious to Our remembrance, and who follows his own desires, and whose conduct is [mere] profligacy.

   wa-ṣbir nafsaka maʿa lladhīna yadʿūna rabbahum bi-l-ghadāti wa-l-ʿashiyyi yurīdūna wajhahū wa-lā taʿdu ʿaynāka ʿanhum turīdu zīnata l-ḥayāti d-dunyā wa-lā tuṭiʿ man ʾaghfalnā qalbahū ʿan dhikrinā wa-ttabaʿa hawāhu wa-kāna ʾamruhū furuṭan

2. وقل الحق من ربكم فمن شاء فليؤمن ومن شاء فليكفر إنا أعتدنا للظالمين نارا أحاط بهم سرادقها وإن يستغيثوا يغاثوا بماء كالمهل يشوي الوجوه بئس الشراب وساءت مرتفقا

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   And say, ‘[This is] the truth from your Lord: let anyone who wishes believe it, and let anyone who wishes disbelieve it.’ Indeed, We have prepared for the wrongdoers a Fire whose curtains will surround them [on all sides]. If they cry out for help, they will be helped with a water like molten copper, which will scald their faces. What an evil drink, and how ill a resting place!

   wa-quli l-ḥaqqu min rabbikum fa-man shāʾa fa-l-yuʾmin wa-man shāʾa fa-l-yakfur ʾinnā ʾaʿtadnā li-ẓ-ẓālimīna nāran ʾaḥāṭa bihim surādiquhā wa-ʾin yastaghīthū yughāthū bi-māʾin ka-l-muhli yashwī l-wujūha biʾsa sh-sharābu wa-sāʾat murtafaqan

3. إن الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات إنا لا نضيع أجر من أحسن عملا

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   As for those who have faith and do righteous deeds—indeed We do not waste the reward of those who are good in deeds.

   ʾinna lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti ʾinnā lā nuḍīʿu ʾajra man ʾaḥsana ʿamalan

4. أولئك لهم جنات عدن تجري من تحتهم الأنهار يحلون فيها من أساور من ذهب ويلبسون ثيابا خضرا من سندس وإستبرق متكئين فيها على الأرائك نعم الثواب وحسنت مرتفقا

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   For such there will be the gardens of Eden with streams running in them. They will be adorned therein with bracelets of gold and wear green garments of silk and brocade, reclining therein on couches. How excellent a reward, and how good a resting place!

   ʾulāʾika lahum jannātu ʿadnin tajrī min taḥtihimu l-ʾanhāru yuḥallawna fīhā min ʾasāwira min dhahabin wa-yalbasūna thiyāban khuḍran min sundusin wa-ʾistabraqin muttakiʾīna fīhā ʿalā l-ʾarāʾiki niʿma th-thawābu wa-ḥasunat murtafaqan

5. واضرب لهم مثلا رجلين جعلنا لأحدهما جنتين من أعناب وحففناهما بنخل وجعلنا بينهما زرعا

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   Draw for them the parable of two men for each of whom We had made two gardens of vines, and We had surrounded them with date palms, and placed crops between them.

   wa-ḍrib lahum mathalan rajulayni jaʿalnā li-ʾaḥadihimā jannatayni min ʾaʿnābin wa-ḥafafnāhumā bi-nakhlin wa-jaʿalnā baynahumā zarʿan

6. كلتا الجنتين آتت أكلها ولم تظلم منه شيئا وفجرنا خلالهما نهرا

   33

   Both gardens yielded their produce without stinting anything of it. And We had set a stream gushing through them.

   kiltā l-jannatayni ʾātat ʾukulahā wa-lam taẓlim minhu shayʾan wa-fajjarnā khilālahumā naharan

7. وكان له ثمر فقال لصاحبه وهو يحاوره أنا أكثر منك مالا وأعز نفرا

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   He had abundant fruits, so he said to his companion, as he conversed with him: ‘I have more wealth than you, and am stronger with respect to numbers.’

   wa-kāna lahū thamarun fa-qāla li-ṣāḥibihī wa-huwa yuḥāwiruhū ʾana ʾaktharu minka mālan wa-ʾaʿazzu nafaran