Surah An-Naĥl (The Bee) in English

1. ثم يوم القيامة يخزيهم ويقول أين شركائي الذين كنتم تشاقون فيهم قال الذين أوتوا العلم إن الخزي اليوم والسوء على الكافرين

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   Then, on the Day of Resurrection, He will disgrace them, and say, ‘Where are My “partners” for whose sake you used to defy [Allah]?’ Those who were given knowledge will say, ‘Indeed today disgrace and distress pursue the faithless.’

   thumma yawma l-qiyāmati yukhzīhim wa-yaqūlu ʾayna shurakāʾiya lladhīna kuntum tushāqqūna fīhim qāla lladhīna ʾūtū l-ʿilma ʾinna l-khizya l-yawma wa-s-sūʾa ʿalā l-kāfirīna

2. الذين تتوفاهم الملائكة ظالمي أنفسهم فألقوا السلم ما كنا نعمل من سوء بلى إن الله عليم بما كنتم تعملون

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   —Those whom the angels take away while they were wronging themselves. Thereat they submit: ‘We were not doing any evil!’ ‘Yes, [the angels say to them,] indeed Allah knows best what you used to do!

   alladhīna tatawaffāhumu l-malāʾikatu ẓālimī ʾanfusihim fa-ʾalqawu s-salama mā kunnā naʿmalu min sūʾin balā ʾinna llāha ʿalīmun bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna

3. فادخلوا أبواب جهنم خالدين فيها فلبئس مثوى المتكبرين

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   Enter the gates of hell to remain in it [forever]. Evil is the [final] abode of the arrogant.’

   fa-dkhulū ʾabwāba jahannama khālidīna fīhā fa-la-biʾsa mathwā l-mutakabbirīna

4. وقيل للذين اتقوا ماذا أنزل ربكم قالوا خيرا للذين أحسنوا في هذه الدنيا حسنة ولدار الآخرة خير ولنعم دار المتقين

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   But those who were Godwary will be asked, ‘What is it that your Lord has sent down?’ They will say, ‘Good.’ For those who do good in this world there will be a good [reward], and the abode of the Hereafter is better, and the abode of the Godwary is surely excellent:

   wa-qīla li-lladhīna ttaqaw mādhā ʾanzala rabbukum qālū khayran li-lladhīna ʾaḥsanū fī hādhihi d-dunyā ḥasanatun wa-la-dāru l-ʾākhirati khayrun wa-la-niʿma dāru l-muttaqīna

5. جنات عدن يدخلونها تجري من تحتها الأنهار لهم فيها ما يشاءون كذلك يجزي الله المتقين

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   the Gardens of Eden, which they will enter, with streams running in them. There they will have whatever they wish, and thus does Allah reward the Godwary

   jannātu ʿadnin yadkhulūnahā tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru lahum fīhā mā yashāʾūna ka-dhālika yajzī llāhu l-muttaqīna

6. الذين تتوفاهم الملائكة طيبين يقولون سلام عليكم ادخلوا الجنة بما كنتم تعملون

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   —those whom the angels take away while they are pure. They say [to them], ‘Peace be to you! Enter paradise because of what you used to do.’

   alladhīna tatawaffāhumu l-malāʾikatu ṭayyibīna yaqūlūna salāmun ʿalaykumu dkhulū l-jannata bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna

7. هل ينظرون إلا أن تأتيهم الملائكة أو يأتي أمر ربك كذلك فعل الذين من قبلهم وما ظلمهم الله ولكن كانوا أنفسهم يظلمون

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   Do they not consider that the angels may come to them, or your Lord’s edict may come? Those who were before them had acted likewise; Allah did not wrong them, but they used to wrong themselves.

   hal yanẓurūna ʾillā ʾan taʾtiyahumu l-malāʾikatu ʾaw yaʾtiya ʾamru rabbika ka-dhālika faʿala lladhīna min qablihim wa-mā ẓalamahumu llāhu wa-lākin kānū ʾanfusahum yaẓlimūna

8. فأصابهم سيئات ما عملوا وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزئون

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   So the evils of what they had earned visited them, and they were besieged by what they used to deride.

   fa-ʾaṣābahum sayyiʾātu mā ʿamilū wa-ḥāqa bihim mā kānū bihī yastahziʾūna