Surah An-Nisā (The Women) in English

1. والذين ينفقون أموالهم رئاء الناس ولا يؤمنون بالله ولا باليوم الآخر ومن يكن الشيطان له قرينا فساء قرينا

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   And those who spend their wealth to be seen by people, and believe neither in Allah nor in the Last Day. As for him who has Satan for his companion—an evil companion is he!

   wa-lladhīna yunfiqūna ʾamwālahum riʾāʾa n-nāsi wa-lā yuʾminūna bi-llāhi wa-lā bi-l-yawmi l-ʾākhiri wa-man yakuni sh-shayṭānu lahū qarīnan fa-sāʾa qarīnan

2. وماذا عليهم لو آمنوا بالله واليوم الآخر وأنفقوا مما رزقهم الله وكان الله بهم عليما

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   What harm would it have done them had they believed in Allah and the Last Day, and spent out of what Allah has provided them? Allah knows them well.

   wa-mādhā ʿalayhim law ʾāmanū bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi l-ʾākhiri wa-ʾanfaqū mimmā razaqahumu llāhu wa-kāna llāhu bihim ʿalīman

3. إن الله لا يظلم مثقال ذرة وإن تك حسنة يضاعفها ويؤت من لدنه أجرا عظيما

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   Indeed Allah does not wrong [anyone] [even to the extent of] an atom’s weight, and if it be a good deed He doubles it[s reward], and gives from Himself a great reward.

   ʾinna llāha lā yaẓlimu mithqāla dharratin wa-ʾin taku ḥasanatan yuḍāʿifhā wa-yuʾti min ladunhu ʾajran ʿaẓīman

4. فكيف إذا جئنا من كل أمة بشهيد وجئنا بك على هؤلاء شهيدا

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   So how shall it be, when We bring a witness from every nation and We bring you as a witness to them?

   fa-kayfa ʾidhā jiʾnā min kulli ʾummatin bi-shahīdin wa-jiʾnā bika ʿalā hāʾulāʾi shahīdan

5. يومئذ يود الذين كفروا وعصوا الرسول لو تسوى بهم الأرض ولا يكتمون الله حديثا

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   On that day those who were faithless and [who] disobeyed the Apostle will wish the earth were levelled with them, and they will not conceal any matter from Allah.

   yawmaʾidhin yawaddu lladhīna kafarū wa-ʿaṣawu r-rasūla law tusawwā bihimu l-ʾarḍu wa-lā yaktumūna llāha ḥadīthan

6. يا أيها الذين آمنوا لا تقربوا الصلاة وأنتم سكارى حتى تعلموا ما تقولون ولا جنبا إلا عابري سبيل حتى تغتسلوا وإن كنتم مرضى أو على سفر أو جاء أحد منكم من الغائط أو لامستم النساء فلم تجدوا ماء فتيمموا صعيدا طيبا فامسحوا بوجوهكم وأيديكم إن الله كان عفوا غفورا

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   O you who have faith! Do not approach prayer when you are intoxicated, [not] until you know what you are saying, nor [enter mosques] in the state of ritual impurity until you have washed yourselves, except while passing through. But if you are sick or on a journey, or any of you has come from the toilet, or you have touched women, and you cannot find water, then make your ablution on clean ground and wipe a part of your faces and your hands. Indeed Allah is all-excusing, all-forgiving.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā taqrabū ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾantum sukārā ḥattā taʿlamū mā taqūlūna wa-lā junuban ʾillā ʿābirī sabīlin ḥattā taghtasilū wa-ʾin kuntum marḍā ʾaw ʿalā safarin ʾaw jāʾa ʾaḥadun minkum mina l-ghāʾiṭi ʾaw lāmastumu n-nisāʾa fa-lam tajidū māʾan fa-tayammamū ṣaʿīdan ṭayyiban fa-msaḥū bi-wujūhikum wa-ʾaydīkum ʾinna llāha kāna ʿafuwwan ghafūran

7. ألم تر إلى الذين أوتوا نصيبا من الكتاب يشترون الضلالة ويريدون أن تضلوا السبيل

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   Have you not regarded those who were given a share of the Book, who purchase error and desire that you [too] should lose the way?

   ʾa-lam tara ʾilā lladhīna ʾūtū naṣīban mina l-kitābi yashtarūna ḍ-ḍalālata wa-yurīdūna ʾan taḍillū s-sabīla