Surah Al-Mumtaĥanah (She that is to be examined) in English

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

1. يا أيها الذين آمنوا لا تتخذوا عدوي وعدوكم أولياء تلقون إليهم بالمودة وقد كفروا بما جاءكم من الحق يخرجون الرسول وإياكم أن تؤمنوا بالله ربكم إن كنتم خرجتم جهادا في سبيلي وابتغاء مرضاتي تسرون إليهم بالمودة وأنا أعلم بما أخفيتم وما أعلنتم ومن يفعله منكم فقد ضل سواء السبيل

   1

   O you who have faith! Do not take My enemy and your enemy for friends, [secretly] offering them affection, if you have set out for jihad in My way and to seek My pleasure, for they have certainly denied whatever has come to you of the truth, expelling the Apostle and you, because you have faith in Allah, your Lord. You secretly nourish affection for them, while I know well whatever you hide and whatever you disclose, and whoever among you does that has certainly strayed from the right way.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā tattakhidhū ʿaduwwī wa-ʿaduwwakum ʾawliyyāʾa tulqūna ʾilayhim bi-l-mawaddati wa-qad kafarū bi-mā jāʾakum mina l-ḥaqqi yukhrijūna r-rasūla wa-ʾiyyākum ʾan tuʾminū bi-llāhi rabbikum ʾin kuntum kharajtum jihādan fī sabīlī wa-btighāʾa marḍātī tusirrūna ʾilayhim bi-l-mawaddati wa-ʾana ʾaʿlamu bi-mā ʾakhfaytum wa-mā ʾaʿlantum wa-man yafʿalhu minkum fa-qad ḍalla sawāʾa s-sabīli

2. إن يثقفوكم يكونوا لكم أعداء ويبسطوا إليكم أيديهم وألسنتهم بالسوء وودوا لو تكفرون

   2

   If they were to confront you they would be your enemies, and would stretch out against you their hands and [unleash] their tongues with evil [intentions], and they are eager that you [too] should be faithless.

   ʾin yathqafūkum yakūnū lakum ʾaʿdāʾan wa-yabsuṭū ʾilaykum ʾaydiyahum wa-ʾalsinatahum bi-s-sūʾi wa-waddū law takfurūna

3. لن تنفعكم أرحامكم ولا أولادكم يوم القيامة يفصل بينكم والله بما تعملون بصير

   3

   Your relatives and children will not avail you on the Day of Resurrection: He will separate you [from one another], and Allah watches what you do.

   lan tanfaʿakum ʾarḥāmukum wa-lā ʾawlādukum yawma l-qiyāmati yafṣilu baynakum wa-llāhu bi-mā taʿmalūna baṣīrun

4. قد كانت لكم أسوة حسنة في إبراهيم والذين معه إذ قالوا لقومهم إنا برآء منكم ومما تعبدون من دون الله كفرنا بكم وبدا بيننا وبينكم العداوة والبغضاء أبدا حتى تؤمنوا بالله وحده إلا قول إبراهيم لأبيه لأستغفرن لك وما أملك لك من الله من شيء ربنا عليك توكلنا وإليك أنبنا وإليك المصير

   4

   There is certainly a good exemplar for you in Abraham and those who were with him, when they said to their own people, ‘Indeed we repudiate you and whatever you worship besides Allah. We disown you, and enmity and hate have appeared between you and us for ever, unless you come to have faith in Allah alone,’ apart from Abraham’s saying to his father, ‘I will surely plead forgiveness for you, though I cannot avail you anything against Allah.’ ‘Our Lord! In You do we put our trust, and to You do we turn penitently, and toward You is the destination.

   qad kānat lakum ʾuswatun ḥasanatun fī ʾibrāhīma wa-lladhīna maʿahū ʾidh qālū li-qawmihim ʾinnā buraʾāʾu minkum wa-mimmā taʿbudūna min dūni llāhi kafarnā bikum wa-badā baynanā wa-baynakumu l-ʿadāwatu wa-l-baghḍāʾu ʾabadan ḥattā tuʾminū bi-llāhi waḥdahū ʾillā qawla ʾibrāhīma li-ʾabīhi la-ʾastaghfiranna laka wa-mā ʾamliku laka mina llāhi min shayʾin rabbanā ʿalayka tawakkalnā wa-ʾilayka ʾanabnā wa-ʾilayka l-maṣīru

5. ربنا لا تجعلنا فتنة للذين كفروا واغفر لنا ربنا إنك أنت العزيز الحكيم

   5

   Our Lord! Do not make us a test for the faithless, and forgive us. Our Lord! Indeed You are the All-mighty, the All-wise.’

   rabbanā lā tajʿalnā fitnatan li-lladhīna kafarū wa-ghfir lanā rabbanā ʾinnaka ʾanta l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu