Surah An-Nisā (The Women) in English

1. فبما نقضهم ميثاقهم وكفرهم بآيات الله وقتلهم الأنبياء بغير حق وقولهم قلوبنا غلف بل طبع الله عليها بكفرهم فلا يؤمنون إلا قليلا

   155

   Then because of their breaking their covenant, their defiance of Allah’s signs, their killing of the prophets unjustly and for their saying, ‘Our hearts are uncircumcised’… Indeed, Allah has set a seal on them for their unfaith, so they do not have faith except a few.

   fa-bi-mā naqḍihim mīthāqahum wa-kufrihim bi-ʾāyāti llāhi wa-qatlihimu l-ʾanbiyāʾa bi-ghayri ḥaqqin wa-qawlihim qulūbunā ghulfun bal ṭabaʿa llāhu ʿalayhā bi-kufrihim fa-lā yuʾminūna ʾillā qalīlan

2. وبكفرهم وقولهم على مريم بهتانا عظيما

   156

   And for their faithlessness, and their uttering a monstrous calumny against Mary,

   wa-bi-kufrihim wa-qawlihim ʿalā maryama buhtānan ʿaẓīman

3. وقولهم إنا قتلنا المسيح عيسى ابن مريم رسول الله وما قتلوه وما صلبوه ولكن شبه لهم وإن الذين اختلفوا فيه لفي شك منه ما لهم به من علم إلا اتباع الظن وما قتلوه يقينا

   157

   and for their saying, ‘We killed the Messiah, Jesus son of Mary, the apostle of Allah’—though they did not kill him nor did they crucify him, but so it was made to appear to them. Indeed those who differ concerning him are surely in doubt about him: they do not have any knowledge of that beyond following conjectures, and certainly, they did not kill him.

   wa-qawlihim ʾinnā qatalnā l-masīḥa ʿīsā bna maryama rasūla llāhi wa-mā qatalūhu wa-mā ṣalabūhu wa-lākin shubbiha lahum wa-ʾinna lladhīna khtalafū fīhi la-fī shakkin minhu mā lahum bihī min ʿilmin ʾillā ttibāʿa ẓ-ẓanni wa-mā qatalūhu yaqīnan

4. بل رفعه الله إليه وكان الله عزيزا حكيما

   158

   Indeed, Allah raised him up toward Himself, and Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.

   bal rafaʿahu llāhu ʾilayhi wa-kāna llāhu ʿazīzan ḥakīman

5. وإن من أهل الكتاب إلا ليؤمنن به قبل موته ويوم القيامة يكون عليهم شهيدا

   159

   There is none among the People of the Book but will surely believe in him before his death; and on the Day of Resurrection, he will be a witness against them.

   wa-ʾin min ʾahli l-kitābi ʾillā la-yuʾminanna bihī qabla mawtihī wa-yawma l-qiyāmati yakūnu ʿalayhim shahīdan

6. فبظلم من الذين هادوا حرمنا عليهم طيبات أحلت لهم وبصدهم عن سبيل الله كثيرا

   160

   Due to the wrongdoing of the Jews, We prohibited them certain good things that were permitted to them [earlier], and for their barring many [people] from the way of Allah,

   fa-bi-ẓulmin mina lladhīna hādū ḥarramnā ʿalayhim ṭayyibātin ʾuḥillat lahum wa-bi-ṣaddihim ʿan sabīli llāhi kathīran

7. وأخذهم الربا وقد نهوا عنه وأكلهم أموال الناس بالباطل وأعتدنا للكافرين منهم عذابا أليما

   161

   and for their taking usury—though they had been forbidden from it—and for eating up the wealth of the people wrongfully. And We have prepared for the faithless among them a painful punishment.

   wa-ʾakhdhihimu r-ribā wa-qad nuhū ʿanhu wa-ʾaklihim ʾamwāla n-nāsi bi-l-bāṭili wa-ʾaʿtadnā li-l-kāfirīna minhum ʿadhāban ʾalīman

8. لكن الراسخون في العلم منهم والمؤمنون يؤمنون بما أنزل إليك وما أنزل من قبلك والمقيمين الصلاة والمؤتون الزكاة والمؤمنون بالله واليوم الآخر أولئك سنؤتيهم أجرا عظيما

   162

   But as for those who are firmly grounded in knowledge from among them, and the faithful, they believe in what has been sent down to you, and what was sent down before you—those who maintain the prayer, give the zakat, and believe in Allah and the Last Day—them We shall give a great reward.

   lākini r-rāsikhūna fī l-ʿilmi minhum wa-l-muʾminūna yuʾminūna bi-mā ʾunzila ʾilayka wa-mā ʾunzila min qablika wa-l-muqīmīna ṣ-ṣalāta wa-l-muʾtūna z-zakāta wa-l-muʾminūna bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi l-ʾākhiri ʾulāʾika sa-nuʾtīhim ʾajran ʿaẓīman