Surah An-Nisā (The Women) in English

1. لا يحب الله الجهر بالسوء من القول إلا من ظلم وكان الله سميعا عليما

   148

   Allah does not like the disclosure of [anyone’s] evil [conduct] in speech except by someone who has been wronged, and Allah is all-hearing, all-knowing.

   lā yuḥibbu llāhu l-jahra bi-s-sūʾi mina l-qawli ʾillā man ẓulima wa-kāna llāhu samīʿan ʿalīman

2. إن تبدوا خيرا أو تخفوه أو تعفوا عن سوء فإن الله كان عفوا قديرا

   149

   Whether you disclose a good [deed that you do] or hide it, or excuse an evil [deed], Allah is indeed all-excusing, all-powerful.

   ʾin tubdū khayran ʾaw tukhfūhu ʾaw taʿfū ʿan sūʾin fa-ʾinna llāha kāna ʿafuwwan qadīran

3. إن الذين يكفرون بالله ورسله ويريدون أن يفرقوا بين الله ورسله ويقولون نؤمن ببعض ونكفر ببعض ويريدون أن يتخذوا بين ذلك سبيلا

   150

   Those who disbelieve in Allah and His apostles and seek to separate Allah from His apostles, and say, ‘We believe in some and disbelieve in some’ and seek to take a way in between

   ʾinna lladhīna yakfurūna bi-llāhi wa-rusulihī wa-yurīdūna ʾan yufarriqū bayna llāhi wa-rusulihī wa-yaqūlūna nuʾminu bi-baʿḍin wa-nakfuru bi-baʿḍin wa-yurīdūna ʾan yattakhidhū bayna dhālika sabīlan

4. أولئك هم الكافرون حقا وأعتدنا للكافرين عذابا مهينا

   151

   —it is they who are truly faithless, and We have prepared for the faithless a humiliating punishment.

   ʾulāʾika humu l-kāfirūna ḥaqqan wa-ʾaʿtadnā li-l-kāfirīna ʿadhāban muhīnan

5. والذين آمنوا بالله ورسله ولم يفرقوا بين أحد منهم أولئك سوف يؤتيهم أجورهم وكان الله غفورا رحيما

   152

   But those who have faith in Allah and His apostles and make no distinction between any of them—them He will soon give their rewards, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū bi-llāhi wa-rusulihī wa-lam yufarriqū bayna ʾaḥadin minhum ʾulāʾika sawfa yuʾtīhim ʾujūrahum wa-kāna llāhu ghafūran raḥīman

6. يسألك أهل الكتاب أن تنزل عليهم كتابا من السماء فقد سألوا موسى أكبر من ذلك فقالوا أرنا الله جهرة فأخذتهم الصاعقة بظلمهم ثم اتخذوا العجل من بعد ما جاءتهم البينات فعفونا عن ذلك وآتينا موسى سلطانا مبينا

   153

   The People of the Book ask you to bring down for them a Book from the sky. Certainly they asked Moses for [something] greater than that, for they said, ‘Show us Allah visibly,’ whereat a thunderbolt seized them for their wrongdoing. Then they took up the Calf [for worship], after all the manifest proofs that had come to them. Yet We excused that, and We gave Moses a manifest authority.

   yasʾaluka ʾahlu l-kitābi ʾan tunazzila ʿalayhim kitāban mina s-samāʾi fa-qad saʾalū mūsā ʾakbara min dhālika fa-qālū ʾarinā llāha jahratan fa-ʾakhadhathumu ṣ-ṣāʿiqatu bi-ẓulmihim thumma ttakhadhū l-ʿijla min baʿdi mā jāʾathumu l-bayyinātu fa-ʿafawnā ʿan dhālika wa-ʾātaynā mūsā sulṭānan mubīnan

7. ورفعنا فوقهم الطور بميثاقهم وقلنا لهم ادخلوا الباب سجدا وقلنا لهم لا تعدوا في السبت وأخذنا منهم ميثاقا غليظا

   154

   And We raised the Mount above them for the sake of their covenant, and We said to them, ‘Enter the gate prostrating’ and We said to them, ‘Do not violate the Sabbath,’ and We took from them a solemn covenant.

   wa-rafaʿnā fawqahumu ṭ-ṭūra bi-mīthāqihim wa-qulnā lahumu dkhulū l-bāba sujjadan wa-qulnā lahum lā taʿdū fī s-sabti wa-ʾakhadhnā minhum mīthāqan ghalīẓan