Surah Al-Kahf (The Cave) in English

1. المال والبنون زينة الحياة الدنيا والباقيات الصالحات خير عند ربك ثوابا وخير أملا

   46

   Wealth and children are an adornment of the life of the world, but lasting righteous deeds are better with your Lord in reward and better in hope.

   al-mālu wa-l-banūna zīnatu l-ḥayāti d-dunyā wa-l-bāqiyātu ṣ-ṣāliḥātu khayrun ʿinda rabbika thawāban wa-khayrun ʾamalan

2. ويوم نسير الجبال وترى الأرض بارزة وحشرناهم فلم نغادر منهم أحدا

   47

   The day We shall set the mountains moving and you will see the earth in full view, We shall muster them, and We will not leave out anyone of them.

   wa-yawma nusayyiru l-jibāla wa-tarā l-ʾarḍa bārizatan wa-ḥasharnāhum fa-lam nughādir minhum ʾaḥadan

3. وعرضوا على ربك صفا لقد جئتمونا كما خلقناكم أول مرة بل زعمتم ألن نجعل لكم موعدا

   48

   They will be presented before your Lord in ranks: ‘Certainly you have come to Us just as We created you the first time. But you maintained that We shall not appoint a tryst for you.’

   wa-ʿuriḍū ʿalā rabbika ṣaffan la-qad jiʾtumūnā ka-mā khalaqnākum ʾawwala marratin bal zaʿamtum ʾal-lan najʿala lakum mawʿidan

4. ووضع الكتاب فترى المجرمين مشفقين مما فيه ويقولون يا ويلتنا مال هذا الكتاب لا يغادر صغيرة ولا كبيرة إلا أحصاها ووجدوا ما عملوا حاضرا ولا يظلم ربك أحدا

   49

   The Book will be set up. Then you will see the guilty apprehensive of what is in it. They will say, ‘Woe to us! What a book is this! It omits nothing, big or small, without enumerating it.’ They will find present whatever they had done, and your Lord does not wrong anyone.

   wa-wuḍiʿa l-kitābu fa-tarā l-mujrimīna mushfiqīna mimmā fīhi wa-yaqūlūna yā-waylatanā mā-li hādhā l-kitābi lā yughādiru ṣaghīratan wa-lā kabīratan ʾillā ʾaḥṣāhā wa-wajadū mā ʿamilū ḥāḍiran wa-lā yaẓlimu rabbuka ʾaḥadan

5. وإذ قلنا للملائكة اسجدوا لآدم فسجدوا إلا إبليس كان من الجن ففسق عن أمر ربه أفتتخذونه وذريته أولياء من دوني وهم لكم عدو بئس للظالمين بدلا

   50

   When We said to the angels, ‘Prostrate before Adam,’ they prostrated, but not Iblis. He was one of the jinn, so he transgressed against his Lord’s command. Will you then take him and his offspring for guardians in My stead, though they are your enemies? How evil a substitute for the wrongdoers!

   wa-ʾidh qulnā li-l-malāʾikati sjudū li-ʾādama fa-sajadū ʾillā ʾiblīsa kāna mina l-jinni fa-fasaqa ʿan ʾamri rabbihī ʾa-fa-tattakhidhūnahū wa-dhurriyyatahū ʾawliyāʾa min dūnī wa-hum lakum ʿaduwwun biʾsa li-ẓ-ẓālimīna badalan

6. ما أشهدتهم خلق السماوات والأرض ولا خلق أنفسهم وما كنت متخذ المضلين عضدا

   51

   I did not make them witness to the creation of the heavens and the earth, nor to their own creation, nor do I take those who mislead others as assistants.

   mā ʾashhadtuhum khalqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-lā khalqa ʾanfusihim wa-mā kuntu muttakhidha l-muḍillīna ʿaḍudan

7. ويوم يقول نادوا شركائي الذين زعمتم فدعوهم فلم يستجيبوا لهم وجعلنا بينهم موبقا

   52

   The day He will say [to the polytheists], ‘Call those whom you maintained to be My partners,’ they will call them, but they will not respond to them, for We shall set an abyss between them.

   wa-yawma yaqūlu nādū shurakāʾiya lladhīna zaʿamtum fa-daʿawhum fa-lam yastajībū lahum wa-jaʿalnā baynahum mawbiqan

8. ورأى المجرمون النار فظنوا أنهم مواقعوها ولم يجدوا عنها مصرفا

   53

   The guilty will sight the Fire and know that they are about to fall in it, for they will find no way to escape it.

   wa-raʾā l-mujrimūna n-nāra fa-ẓannū ʾannahum muwāqiʿūhā wa-lam yajidū ʿanhā maṣrifan