Surah An-Nisā (The Women) in English

1. لا خير في كثير من نجواهم إلا من أمر بصدقة أو معروف أو إصلاح بين الناس ومن يفعل ذلك ابتغاء مرضات الله فسوف نؤتيه أجرا عظيما

   114

   There is no good in much of their secret talks, excepting him who enjoins charity or what is right or reconciliation between people, and whoever does that, seeking Allah’s pleasure, soon We shall give him a great reward.

   lā khayra fī kathīrin min najwāhum ʾillā man ʾamara bi-ṣadaqatin ʾaw maʿrūfin ʾaw ʾiṣlāḥin bayna n-nāsi wa-man yafʿal dhālika btighāʾa marḍāti llāhi fa-sawfa nuʾtīhi ʾajran ʿaẓīman

2. ومن يشاقق الرسول من بعد ما تبين له الهدى ويتبع غير سبيل المؤمنين نوله ما تولى ونصله جهنم وساءت مصيرا

   115

   Whoever defies the Apostle, after the guidance has become manifest to him, and follows a way other than that of the faithful, We shall abandon him to his devices and We shall make him enter hell, and it is an evil destination.

   wa-man yushāqiqi r-rasūla min baʿdi mā tabayyana lahu l-hudā wa-yattabiʿ ghayra sabīli l-muʾminīna nuwallihī mā tawallā wa-nuṣlihī jahannama wa-sāʾat maṣīran

3. إن الله لا يغفر أن يشرك به ويغفر ما دون ذلك لمن يشاء ومن يشرك بالله فقد ضل ضلالا بعيدا

   116

   Indeed Allah does not forgive that any partner should be ascribed to Him, but He forgives anything besides that to whomever He wishes. And whoever ascribes partners to Allah has certainly strayed into far error.

   ʾinna llāha lā yaghfiru ʾan yushraka bihī wa-yaghfiru mā dūna dhālika li-man yashāʾu wa-man yushrik bi-llāhi fa-qad ḍalla ḍalālan baʿīdan

4. إن يدعون من دونه إلا إناثا وإن يدعون إلا شيطانا مريدا

   117

   They invoke none but females besides Him, and invoke none but a froward Satan,

   ʾin yadʿūna min dūnihī ʾillā ʾināthan wa-ʾin yadʿūna ʾillā shayṭānan marīdan

5. لعنه الله وقال لأتخذن من عبادك نصيبا مفروضا

   118

   whom Allah has cursed, and who said, ‘I will surely take of Your servants a settled share,

   laʿanahu llāhu wa-qāla la-ʾattakhidhanna min ʿibādika naṣīban mafrūḍan

6. ولأضلنهم ولأمنينهم ولآمرنهم فليبتكن آذان الأنعام ولآمرنهم فليغيرن خلق الله ومن يتخذ الشيطان وليا من دون الله فقد خسر خسرانا مبينا

   119

   and I will lead them astray and give them [false] hopes, and prompt them to slit the ears of cattle, and I will prompt them to alter Allah’s creation.’ Whoever takes Satan as a guardian instead of Allah has certainly incurred a manifest loss.

   wa-la-ʾuḍillannahum wa-la-ʾumanniyannahum wa-la-ʾāmurannahum fa-la-yubattikunna ʾādhāna l-ʾanʿāmi wa-la-ʾāmurannahum fa-la-yughayyirunna khalqa llāhi wa-man yattakhidhi sh-shayṭāna waliyyan min dūni llāhi fa-qad khasira khusrānan mubīnan

7. يعدهم ويمنيهم وما يعدهم الشيطان إلا غرورا

   120

   He makes them promises and gives them [false] hopes, yet Satan does not promise them anything but delusion.

   yaʿiduhum wa-yumannīhim wa-mā yaʿiduhumu sh-shayṭānu ʾillā ghurūran

8. أولئك مأواهم جهنم ولا يجدون عنها محيصا

   121

   The refuge of such shall be hell, and they will not find any escape from it.

   ʾulāʾika maʾwāhum jahannamu wa-lā yajidūna ʿanhā maḥīṣan