Surah Al-Munāfiqūn (The Hypocrites) in English

1. وإذا قيل لهم تعالوا يستغفر لكم رسول الله لووا رءوسهم ورأيتهم يصدون وهم مستكبرون

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   When they are told, ‘Come, that Allah’s Apostle may plead for forgiveness for you,’ they twist their heads, and you see them turn away disdainfully.

   wa-ʾidhā qīla lahum taʿālaw yastaghfir lakum rasūlu llāhi lawwaw ruʾūsahum wa-raʾaytahum yaṣuddūna wa-hum mustakbirūna

2. سواء عليهم أستغفرت لهم أم لم تستغفر لهم لن يغفر الله لهم إن الله لا يهدي القوم الفاسقين

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   It is the same for them whether you plead for forgiveness for them, or do not plead for forgiveness for them: Allah will never forgive them. Indeed Allah does not guide the transgressing lot.

   sawāʾun ʿalayhim ʾa-staghfarta lahum ʾam lam tastaghfir lahum lan yaghfira llāhu lahum ʾinna llāha lā yahdī l-qawma l-fāsiqīna

3. هم الذين يقولون لا تنفقوا على من عند رسول الله حتى ينفضوا ولله خزائن السماوات والأرض ولكن المنافقين لا يفقهون

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   They are the ones who say, ‘Do not spend on those who are with the Apostle of Allah until they scatter off [from around him].’ Yet to Allah belong the treasuries of the heavens and the earth, but the hypocrites do not understand.

   humu lladhīna yaqūlūna lā tunfiqū ʿalā man ʿinda rasūli llāhi ḥattā yanfaḍḍū wa-li-llāhi khazāʾinu s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-lākinna l-munāfiqīna lā yafqahūna

4. يقولون لئن رجعنا إلى المدينة ليخرجن الأعز منها الأذل ولله العزة ولرسوله وللمؤمنين ولكن المنافقين لا يعلمون

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   They say, ‘When we return to the city, the mighty will surely expel the weak from it.’ Yet all might belongs to Allah and His Apostle and the faithful, but the hypocrites do not know.

   yaqūlūna la-ʾin rajaʿnā ʾilā l-madīnati la-yukhrijanna l-ʾaʿazzu minhā l-ʾadhalla wa-li-llāhi l-ʿizzatu wa-li-rasūlihī wa-li-l-muʾminīna wa-lākinna l-munāfiqīna lā yaʿlamūna

5. يا أيها الذين آمنوا لا تلهكم أموالكم ولا أولادكم عن ذكر الله ومن يفعل ذلك فأولئك هم الخاسرون

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   O you who have faith! Do not let your possessions and children distract you from the remembrance of Allah, and whoever does that—it is they who are the losers.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā tulhikum ʾamwālukum wa-lā ʾawlādukum ʿan dhikri llāhi wa-man yafʿal dhālika fa-ʾulāʾika humu l-khāsirūna

6. وأنفقوا من ما رزقناكم من قبل أن يأتي أحدكم الموت فيقول رب لولا أخرتني إلى أجل قريب فأصدق وأكن من الصالحين

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   Spend out of what We have provided you before death comes to any of you, whereat he might say, ‘My Lord, why did You not respite me for a short time so that I could give charity and become one of the righteous!’

   wa-ʾanfiqū min mā razaqnākum min qabli ʾan yaʾtiya ʾaḥadakumu l-mawtu fa-yaqūla rabbi law-lā ʾakhkhartanī ʾilā ʾajalin qarībin fa-ʾaṣṣaddaqa wa-ʾakun mina ṣ-ṣāliḥīna

7. ولن يؤخر الله نفسا إذا جاء أجلها والله خبير بما تعملون

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   But Allah will never respite anyone when his time has come, and Allah is well aware of what you do.

   wa-lan yuʾakhkhira llāhu nafsan ʾidhā jāʾa ʾajaluhā wa-llāhu khabīrun bi-mā taʿmalūna