Surah An-Nūr (The Light) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. سورة أنزلناها وفرضناها وأنزلنا فيها آيات بينات لعلكم تذكرون

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   [This is] a surah which We have sent down and prescribed, and We have sent down in it manifest signs so that you may take admonition.

   sūratun ʾanzalnāhā wa-faraḍnāhā wa-ʾanzalnā fīhā ʾāyātin bayyinātin laʿallakum tadhakkarūna

2. الزانية والزاني فاجلدوا كل واحد منهما مائة جلدة ولا تأخذكم بهما رأفة في دين الله إن كنتم تؤمنون بالله واليوم الآخر وليشهد عذابهما طائفة من المؤمنين

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   As for the fornicatress and the fornicator, strike each of them a hundred lashes, and let not pity for them overcome you in Allah’s law, if you believe in Allah and the Last Day, and let their punishment be witnessed by a group of the faithful.

   az-zāniyatu wa-z-zānī fa-jlidū kulla wāḥidin minhumā miʾata jaldatin wa-lā taʾkhudhkum bihimā raʾfatun fī dīni llāhi ʾin kuntum tuʾminūna bi-llāhi wa-l-yawmi l-ʾākhiri wa-l-yashhad ʿadhābahumā ṭāʾifatun mina l-muʾminīna

3. الزاني لا ينكح إلا زانية أو مشركة والزانية لا ينكحها إلا زان أو مشرك وحرم ذلك على المؤمنين

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   The fornicator will not marry anyone but a fornicatress or an idolatress, and the fornicatress will be married by none except a fornicator or an idolater, and that is forbidden to the faithful.

   az-zānī lā yankiḥu ʾillā zāniyatan ʾaw mushrikatan wa-z-zāniyatu lā yankiḥuhā ʾillā zānin ʾaw mushrikun wa-ḥurrima dhālika ʿalā l-muʾminīna

4. والذين يرمون المحصنات ثم لم يأتوا بأربعة شهداء فاجلدوهم ثمانين جلدة ولا تقبلوا لهم شهادة أبدا وأولئك هم الفاسقون

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   As for those who accuse chaste women and do not bring four witnesses, strike them eighty lashes, and never accept any testimony from them after that, and they are transgressors,

   wa-lladhīna yarmūna l-muḥṣanāti thumma lam yaʾtū bi-ʾarbaʿati shuhadāʾa fa-jlidūhum thamānīna jaldatan wa-lā taqbalū lahum shahādatan ʾabadan wa-ʾulāʾika humu l-fāsiqūna

5. إلا الذين تابوا من بعد ذلك وأصلحوا فإن الله غفور رحيم

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   excepting those who repent after that and reform, for Allah is indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   ʾillā lladhīna tābū min baʿdi dhālika wa-ʾaṣlaḥū fa-ʾinna llāha ghafūrun raḥīmun

6. والذين يرمون أزواجهم ولم يكن لهم شهداء إلا أنفسهم فشهادة أحدهم أربع شهادات بالله إنه لمن الصادقين

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   As for those who accuse their wives [of adultery], but have no witnesses except themselves, the testimony of such a man shall be a fourfold testimony [sworn] by Allah that he is indeed stating the truth,

   wa-lladhīna yarmūna ʾazwājahum wa-lam yakun lahum shuhadāʾu ʾillā ʾanfusuhum fa-shahādatu ʾaḥadihim ʾarbaʿu shahādātin bi-llāhi ʾinnahū la-mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna

7. والخامسة أن لعنت الله عليه إن كان من الكاذبين

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   and a fifth [oath] that Allah’s wrath shall be upon him if he were lying.

   wa-l-khāmisatu ʾanna laʿnata llāhi ʿalayhi ʾin kāna mina l-kādhibīna

8. ويدرأ عنها العذاب أن تشهد أربع شهادات بالله إنه لمن الكاذبين

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   The punishment shall be averted from her by her testifying with four oaths [sworn] by Allah that he is indeed lying,

   wa-yadraʾu ʿanhā l-ʿadhāba ʾan tashhada ʾarbaʿa shahādātin bi-llāhi ʾinnahū la-mina l-kādhibīna

9. والخامسة أن غضب الله عليها إن كان من الصادقين

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   and a fifth [oath] that Allah’s wrath shall be upon her if he were stating the truth.

   wa-l-khāmisata ʾanna ghaḍaba llāhi ʿalayhā ʾin kāna mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna

10. ولولا فضل الله عليكم ورحمته وأن الله تواب حكيم

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    Were it not for Allah’s grace and His mercy upon you, and that Allah is all-clement, all-wise....

    wa-law-lā faḍlu llāhi ʿalaykum wa-raḥmatuhū wa-ʾanna llāha tawwābun ḥakīmun