Surah Al-Qamar (The Moon) in English

1. ونبئهم أن الماء قسمة بينهم كل شرب محتضر

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   Inform them that the water is to be shared between them; each of them showing up at his turn.’

   wa-nabbiʾhum ʾanna l-māʾa qismatun baynahum kullu shirbin muḥtaḍarun

2. فنادوا صاحبهم فتعاطى فعقر

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   But they called their companion, and he took [a knife] and hamstrung [her].

   fa-nādaw ṣāḥibahum fa-taʿāṭā fa-ʿaqara

3. فكيف كان عذابي ونذر

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   So how were My punishment and My warnings?!

   fa-kayfa kāna ʿadhābī wa-nudhuri

4. إنا أرسلنا عليهم صيحة واحدة فكانوا كهشيم المحتظر

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   We sent against them a single Cry, and they became like the dry sticks of a corral builder.

   ʾinnā ʾarsalnā ʿalayhim ṣayḥatan wāḥidatan fa-kānū ka-hashīmi l-muḥtaẓiri

5. ولقد يسرنا القرآن للذكر فهل من مدكر

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   Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

   wa-la-qad yassarnā l-qurʾāna li-dh-dhikri fa-hal min muddakirin

6. كذبت قوم لوط بالنذر

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   And the people of Lot denied the warnings.

   kadhdhabat qawmu lūṭin bi-n-nudhuri

7. إنا أرسلنا عليهم حاصبا إلا آل لوط نجيناهم بسحر

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   We unleashed upon them a rain of stones, excepting the family of Lot, whom We delivered at dawn

   ʾinnā ʾarsalnā ʿalayhim ḥāṣiban ʾillā ʾāla lūṭin najjaynāhum bi-saḥarin

8. نعمة من عندنا كذلك نجزي من شكر

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   as a blessing from Us. Thus do We reward those who give thanks.

   niʿmatan min ʿindinā ka-dhālika najzī man shakara

9. ولقد أنذرهم بطشتنا فتماروا بالنذر

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   He had already warned them of Our punishment, but they disputed the warnings.

   wa-la-qad ʾandharahum baṭshatanā fa-tamāraw bi-n-nudhuri

10. ولقد راودوه عن ضيفه فطمسنا أعينهم فذوقوا عذابي ونذر

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    They even solicited of him his guests, whereat We blotted out their eyes, [saying,] ‘Taste My punishment and My warnings!’

    wa-la-qad rāwadūhu ʿan ḍayfihī fa-ṭamasnā ʾaʿyunahum fa-dhūqū ʿadhābī wa-nudhuri

11. ولقد صبحهم بكرة عذاب مستقر

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    Early at dawn there visited them an abiding punishment:

    wa-la-qad ṣabbaḥahum bukratan ʿadhābun mustaqirrun

12. فذوقوا عذابي ونذر

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    ‘Taste My punishment and warnings!’

    fa-dhūqū ʿadhābī wa-nudhuri

13. ولقد يسرنا القرآن للذكر فهل من مدكر

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    Certainly We have made the Quran simple for the sake of admonishment. So is there anyone who will be admonished?

    wa-la-qad yassarnā l-qurʾāna li-dh-dhikri fa-hal min muddakirin

14. ولقد جاء آل فرعون النذر

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    Certainly the warnings did come to Pharaoh’s clan

    wa-la-qad jāʾa ʾāla firʿawna n-nudhuru

15. كذبوا بآياتنا كلها فأخذناهم أخذ عزيز مقتدر

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    who denied all of Our signs. So We seized them with the seizing of One [who is] all-mighty, Omnipotent.

    kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā kullihā fa-ʾakhadhnāhum ʾakhdha ʿazīzin muqtadirin

16. أكفاركم خير من أولئكم أم لكم براءة في الزبر

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    Are your faithless better than those? Have you [been granted] [some sort of] immunity in the scriptures?

    ʾa-kuffārukum khayrun min ʾulāʾikum ʾam lakum barāʾatun fī z-zuburi

17. أم يقولون نحن جميع منتصر

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    Do they say, ‘We are a confederate league’?

    ʾam yaqūlūna naḥnu jamīʿun muntaṣirun

18. سيهزم الجمع ويولون الدبر

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    The league will be routed and turn its back [to flee].

    sa-yuhzamu l-jamʿu wa-yuwallūna d-dubura

19. بل الساعة موعدهم والساعة أدهى وأمر

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    Indeed, the Hour is their tryst; and the Hour will be most calamitous and bitter.

    bali s-sāʿatu mawʿiduhum wa-s-sāʿatu ʾadhā wa-ʾamarru

20. إن المجرمين في ضلال وسعر

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    Indeed the guilty are steeped in error and madness.

    ʾinna l-mujrimīna fī ḍalālin wa-suʿurin

21. يوم يسحبون في النار على وجوههم ذوقوا مس سقر

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    The day when they are dragged on their faces into the Fire, [it will be said to them,] ‘Taste the touch of hell!’

    yawma yusḥabūna fī n-nāri ʿalā wujūhihim dhūqū massa saqara

22. إنا كل شيء خلقناه بقدر

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    Indeed We have created everything in a measure,

    ʾinnā kulla shayʾin khalaqnāhu bi-qadarin