Surah Al-Mujādila (The Pleading Woman) in English

1. يا أيها الذين آمنوا إذا ناجيتم الرسول فقدموا بين يدي نجواكم صدقة ذلك خير لكم وأطهر فإن لم تجدوا فإن الله غفور رحيم

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   O you who have faith! When you converse privately with the Apostle, offer a charity before your private talk. That is better for you and purer. But if you cannot afford [to make the offering], then Allah is indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾidhā nājaytumu r-rasūla fa-qaddimū bayna yaday najwākum ṣadaqatan dhālika khayrun lakum wa-ʾaṭharu fa-ʾin lam tajidū fa-ʾinna llāha ghafūrun raḥīmun

2. أأشفقتم أن تقدموا بين يدي نجواكم صدقات فإذ لم تفعلوا وتاب الله عليكم فأقيموا الصلاة وآتوا الزكاة وأطيعوا الله ورسوله والله خبير بما تعملون

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   Were you dismayed by having to offer charities before your private talks? Since you did not do it, and Allah has excused you [for not be able to comply], now maintain the prayer and pay the zakat, and obey Allah and His Apostle. Allah is well aware of what you do.

   ʾa-ʾashfaqtum ʾan tuqaddimū bayna yaday najwākum ṣadaqātin fa-ʾidh lam tafʿalū wa-tāba llāhu ʿalaykum fa-ʾaqīmū ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾātū z-zakāta wa-ʾaṭīʿū llāha wa-rasūlahū wa-llāhu khabīrun bi-mā taʿmalūna

3. ألم تر إلى الذين تولوا قوما غضب الله عليهم ما هم منكم ولا منهم ويحلفون على الكذب وهم يعلمون

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   Have you not regarded those who befriend a people at whom Allah is wrathful? They neither belong to you, nor to them, and they swear false oaths [that they are with you] and they know.

   ʾa-lam tara ʾilā lladhīna tawallaw qawman ghaḍiba llāhu ʿalayhim mā hum minkum wa-lā minhum wa-yaḥlifūna ʿalā l-kadhibi wa-hum yaʿlamūna

4. أعد الله لهم عذابا شديدا إنهم ساء ما كانوا يعملون

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   Allah has prepared a severe punishment for them. Evil indeed is what they used to do.

   ʾaʿadda llāhu lahum ʿadhāban shadīdan ʾinnahum sāʾa mā kānū yaʿmalūna

5. اتخذوا أيمانهم جنة فصدوا عن سبيل الله فلهم عذاب مهين

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   They make a shield of their oaths and bar [people] from the way of Allah; so there is a humiliating punishment for them.

   ittakhadhū ʾaymānahum junnatan fa-ṣaddū ʿan sabīli llāhi fa-lahum ʿadhābun muhīnun

6. لن تغني عنهم أموالهم ولا أولادهم من الله شيئا أولئك أصحاب النار هم فيها خالدون

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   Their possessions and children will not avail them in any way against Allah. They shall be the inmates of the Fire and they shall remain in it [forever].

   lan tughniya ʿanhum ʾamwāluhum wa-lā ʾawlāduhum mina llāhi shayʾan ʾulāʾika ʾaṣḥābu n-nāri hum fīhā khālidūna

7. يوم يبعثهم الله جميعا فيحلفون له كما يحلفون لكم ويحسبون أنهم على شيء ألا إنهم هم الكاذبون

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   The day when Allah will raise them all together, they will swear to Him, just like they swear to you [now], supposing that they stand on something. Look! They are indeed liars!

   yawma yabʿathuhumu llāhu jamīʿan fa-yaḥlifūna lahū ka-mā yaḥlifūna lakum wa-yaḥsabūna ʾannahum ʿalā shayʾin ʾa-lā ʾinnahum humu l-kādhibūna

8. استحوذ عليهم الشيطان فأنساهم ذكر الله أولئك حزب الشيطان ألا إن حزب الشيطان هم الخاسرون

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   Satan has prevailed upon them, so he has caused them to forget the remembrance of Allah. They are Satan’s confederates. Look! Indeed, it is Satan’s confederates who are the losers!

   istaḥwadha ʿalayhimu sh-shayṭānu fa-ʾansāhum dhikra llāhi ʾulāʾika ḥizbu sh-shayṭāni ʾa-lā ʾinna ḥizba sh-shayṭāni humu l-khāsirūna

9. إن الذين يحادون الله ورسوله أولئك في الأذلين

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   Indeed those who oppose Allah and His Apostle—they will be among the most abased.

   ʾinna lladhīna yuḥāddūna llāha wa-rasūlahū ʾulāʾika fī l-ʾadhallīna

10. كتب الله لأغلبن أنا ورسلي إن الله قوي عزيز

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    Allah has ordained: ‘I shall surely prevail, I and My apostles.’ Indeed Allah is all-strong, all-mighty.

    kataba llāhu la-ʾaghlibanna ʾana wa-rusulī ʾinna llāha qawiyyun ʿazīzun