Surah An-Nisā (The Women) in English

1. لا يستوي القاعدون من المؤمنين غير أولي الضرر والمجاهدون في سبيل الله بأموالهم وأنفسهم فضل الله المجاهدين بأموالهم وأنفسهم على القاعدين درجة وكلا وعد الله الحسنى وفضل الله المجاهدين على القاعدين أجرا عظيما

   95

   Not equal are those of the faithful who sit back—excepting those who suffer from some disability—and those who wage jihad in the way of Allah with their possession and their persons. Allah has graced those who wage jihad with their possessions and their persons by a degree over those who sit back; yet to each Allah has promised the best reward, and Allah has graced those who wage jihad over those who sit back with a great reward:

   lā yastawī l-qāʿidūna mina l-muʾminīna ghayru ʾulī ḍ-ḍarari wa-l-mujāhidūna fī sabīli llāhi bi-ʾamwālihim wa-ʾanfusihim faḍḍala llāhu l-mujāhidīna bi-ʾamwālihim wa-ʾanfusihim ʿalā l-qāʿidīna darajatan wa-kullan waʿada llāhu l-ḥusnā wa-faḍḍala llāhu l-mujāhidīna ʿalā l-qāʿidīna ʾajran ʿaẓīman

2. درجات منه ومغفرة ورحمة وكان الله غفورا رحيما

   96

   ranks from Him, forgiveness, and mercy, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   darajātin minhu wa-maghfiratan wa-raḥmatan wa-kāna llāhu ghafūran raḥīman

3. إن الذين توفاهم الملائكة ظالمي أنفسهم قالوا فيم كنتم قالوا كنا مستضعفين في الأرض قالوا ألم تكن أرض الله واسعة فتهاجروا فيها فأولئك مأواهم جهنم وساءت مصيرا

   97

   Indeed, those whom the angels take away while they are wronging themselves, they ask, ‘What state were you in?’ They reply, ‘We were oppressed in the land.’ They say, ‘Was not Allah’s earth vast enough so that you might migrate in it?’ The refuge of such shall be hell, and it is an evil destination.

   ʾinna lladhīna tawaffāhumu l-malāʾikatu ẓālimī ʾanfusihim qālū fī-ma kuntum qālū kunnā mustaḍʿafīna fī l-ʾarḍi qālū ʾa-lam takun ʾarḍu llāhi wāsiʿatan fa-tuhājirū fīhā fa-ʾulāʾika maʾwāhum jahannamu wa-sāʾat maṣīran

4. إلا المستضعفين من الرجال والنساء والولدان لا يستطيعون حيلة ولا يهتدون سبيلا

   98

   Except the oppressed among men, women and children, who have neither access to any means nor are guided to any way.

   ʾillā l-mustaḍʿafīna mina r-rijāli wa-n-nisāʾi wa-l-wildāni lā yastaṭīʿūna ḥīlatan wa-lā yahtadūna sabīlan

5. فأولئك عسى الله أن يعفو عنهم وكان الله عفوا غفورا

   99

   Maybe Allah will excuse them, for Allah is all-excusing, all-forgiving.

   fa-ʾulāʾika ʿasā llāhu ʾan yaʿfuwa ʿanhum wa-kāna llāhu ʿafuwwan ghafūran

6. ومن يهاجر في سبيل الله يجد في الأرض مراغما كثيرا وسعة ومن يخرج من بيته مهاجرا إلى الله ورسوله ثم يدركه الموت فقد وقع أجره على الله وكان الله غفورا رحيما

   100

   Whoever migrates in the way of Allah will find many havens and plenitude in the earth. And whoever leaves his home migrating toward Allah and His Apostle, and is then overtaken by death, his reward shall certainly fall on Allah, and Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   wa-man yuhājir fī sabīli llāhi yajid fī l-ʾarḍi murāghaman kathīran wa-saʿatan wa-man yakhruj min baytihī muhājiran ʾilā llāhi wa-rasūlihī thumma yudrikhu l-mawtu fa-qad waqaʿa ʾajruhū ʿalā llāhi wa-kāna llāhu ghafūran raḥīman

7. وإذا ضربتم في الأرض فليس عليكم جناح أن تقصروا من الصلاة إن خفتم أن يفتنكم الذين كفروا إن الكافرين كانوا لكم عدوا مبينا

   101

   When you journey in the land, there is no sin upon you in shortening the prayers, if you fear that the faithless may trouble you; indeed the faithless are your manifest enemies.

   wa-ʾidhā ḍarabtum fī l-ʾarḍi fa-laysa ʿalaykum junāḥun ʾan taqṣurū mina ṣ-ṣalāti ʾin khiftum ʾan yaftinakumu lladhīna kafarū ʾinna l-kāfirīna kānū lakum ʿaduwwan mubīnan