Surah An-Nisā (The Women) in English

1. يا أيها الذين آمنوا كونوا قوامين بالقسط شهداء لله ولو على أنفسكم أو الوالدين والأقربين إن يكن غنيا أو فقيرا فالله أولى بهما فلا تتبعوا الهوى أن تعدلوا وإن تلووا أو تعرضوا فإن الله كان بما تعملون خبيرا

   135

   O you who have faith! Be maintainers of justice and witnesses for the sake of Allah, even if it should be against yourselves or [your] parents and near relatives, and whether it be [someone] rich or poor, for Allah has a greater right over them. So do not follow [your] desires, lest you should be unfair, and if you distort [the testimony] or disregard [it], Allah is indeed well aware of what you do.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū kūnū qawwāmīna bi-l-qisṭi shuhadāʾa li-llāhi wa-law ʿalā ʾanfusikum ʾawi l-wālidayni wa-l-ʾaqrabīna ʾin yakun ghaniyyan ʾaw faqīran fa-llāhu ʾawlā bihimā fa-lā tattabiʿū l-hawā ʾan taʿdilū wa-ʾin talwū ʾaw tuʿriḍū fa-ʾinna llāha kāna bi-mā taʿmalūna khabīran

2. يا أيها الذين آمنوا آمنوا بالله ورسوله والكتاب الذي نزل على رسوله والكتاب الذي أنزل من قبل ومن يكفر بالله وملائكته وكتبه ورسله واليوم الآخر فقد ضل ضلالا بعيدا

   136

   O you who have faith! Have faith in Allah and His Apostle and the Book that He has sent down to His Apostle and the Book He had sent down earlier. Whoever disbelieves in Allah and His angels, His Books and His apostles and the Last Day, has certainly strayed into far error.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾāminū bi-llāhi wa-rasūlihī wa-l-kitābi lladhī nazzala ʿalā rasūlihī wa-l-kitābi lladhī ʾanzala min qablu wa-man yakfur bi-llāhi wa-malāʾikatihī wa-kutubihī wa-rusulihī wa-l-yawmi l-ʾākhiri fa-qad ḍalla ḍalālan baʿīdan

3. إن الذين آمنوا ثم كفروا ثم آمنوا ثم كفروا ثم ازدادوا كفرا لم يكن الله ليغفر لهم ولا ليهديهم سبيلا

   137

   As for those who believe and then disbelieve, then believe [again] and then disbelieve and then increase in disbelief, Allah shall never forgive them, nor shall He guide them to any way.

   ʾinna lladhīna ʾāmanū thumma kafarū thumma ʾāmanū thumma kafarū thumma zdādū kufran lam yakuni llāhu li-yaghfira lahum wa-lā li-yahdiyahum sabīlan

4. بشر المنافقين بأن لهم عذابا أليما

   138

   Inform the hypocrites that there is a painful punishment for them

   bashshiri l-munāfiqīna bi-ʾanna lahum ʿadhāban ʾalīman-i

5. الذين يتخذون الكافرين أولياء من دون المؤمنين أيبتغون عندهم العزة فإن العزة لله جميعا

   139

   —those who take the faithless for allies instead of the faithful. Do they seek honour with them? [If so,] indeed all honour belongs to Allah.

   alladhīna yattakhidhūna l-kāfirīna ʾawliyāʾa min dūni l-muʾminīna ʾa-yabtaghūna ʿindahumu l-ʿizzata fa-ʾinna l-ʿizzata li-llāhi jamīʿan

6. وقد نزل عليكم في الكتاب أن إذا سمعتم آيات الله يكفر بها ويستهزأ بها فلا تقعدوا معهم حتى يخوضوا في حديث غيره إنكم إذا مثلهم إن الله جامع المنافقين والكافرين في جهنم جميعا

   140

   Certainly He has sent down to you in the Book that when you hear Allah’s signs being disbelieved and derided, do not sit with them until they engage in some other discourse, or else you [too] will be like them. Indeed Allah will gather the hypocrites and the faithless in hell all together

   wa-qad nazzala ʿalaykum fī l-kitābi ʾan ʾidhā samiʿtum ʾāyāti llāhi yukfaru bihā wa-yustahzaʾu bihā fa-lā taqʿudū maʿahum ḥattā yakhūḍū fī ḥadīthin ghayrihī ʾinnakum ʾidhan mithluhum ʾinna llāha jāmiʿu l-munāfiqīna wa-l-kāfirīna fī jahannama jamīʿan-i