Surah An-Nūr (The Light) in English

1. رجال لا تلهيهم تجارة ولا بيع عن ذكر الله وإقام الصلاة وإيتاء الزكاة يخافون يوما تتقلب فيه القلوب والأبصار

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   by men whom neither trade nor bargaining distracts from the remembrance of Allah and the maintenance of prayer and the giving of zakat. They are fearful of a day wherein the hearts and the sights will be transformed,

   rijālun lā tulhīhim tijāratun wa-lā bayʿun ʿan dhikri llāhi wa-ʾiqāmi ṣ-ṣalāti wa-ʾītāʾi z-zakāti yakhāfūna yawman tataqallabu fīhi l-qulūbu wa-l-ʾabṣāru

2. ليجزيهم الله أحسن ما عملوا ويزيدهم من فضله والله يرزق من يشاء بغير حساب

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   so that Allah may reward them by the best of what they have done, and enhance them out of His grace, and Allah provides for whomever He wishes without any reckoning.

   li-yajziyahumu llāhu ʾaḥsana mā ʿamilū wa-yazīdahum min faḍlihī wa-llāhu yarzuqu man yashāʾu bi-ghayri ḥisābin

3. والذين كفروا أعمالهم كسراب بقيعة يحسبه الظمآن ماء حتى إذا جاءه لم يجده شيئا ووجد الله عنده فوفاه حسابه والله سريع الحساب

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   As for the faithless, their works are like a mirage in a plain, which the thirsty man supposes to be water. When he comes to it, he finds it to be nothing; but there he finds Allah, who will pay him his full account, and Allah is swift at reckoning.

   wa-lladhīna kafarū ʾaʿmāluhum ka-sarābin bi-qīʿatin yaḥsabuhu ẓ-ẓamʾānu māʾan ḥattā ʾidhā jāʾahū lam yajidhu shayʾan wa-wajada llāha ʿindahū fa-waffāhu ḥisābahū wa-llāhu sarīʿu l-ḥisābi

4. أو كظلمات في بحر لجي يغشاه موج من فوقه موج من فوقه سحاب ظلمات بعضها فوق بعض إذا أخرج يده لم يكد يراها ومن لم يجعل الله له نورا فما له من نور

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   Or like the manifold darkness in a deep sea, covered by billow upon billow, overcast by clouds; manifold [layers of] darkness, one on top of another: when he brings out his hand, he can hardly see it. One whom Allah has not granted any light has no light.

   ʾaw ka-ẓulumātin fī baḥrin lujjiyyin yaghshāhu mawjun min fawqihī mawjun min fawqihī saḥābun ẓulumātun baʿḍuhā fawqa baʿḍin ʾidhā ʾakhraja yadahū lam yakad yarāhā wa-man lam yajʿali llāhu lahū nūran fa-mā lahū min nūrin

5. ألم تر أن الله يسبح له من في السماوات والأرض والطير صافات كل قد علم صلاته وتسبيحه والله عليم بما يفعلون

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   Have you not regarded that Allah is glorified by everyone in the heavens and the earth, and the birds spreading their wings. Each knows his prayer and glorification, and Allah knows best what they do.

   ʾa-lam tara ʾanna llāha yusabbiḥu lahū man fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-ṭ-ṭayru ṣāffātin kullun qad ʿalima ṣalātahū wa-tasbīḥahū wa-llāhu ʿalīmun bi-mā yafʿalūna

6. ولله ملك السماوات والأرض وإلى الله المصير

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   To Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth, and toward Allah is the destination.

   wa-li-llāhi mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-ʾilā llāhi l-maṣīru

7. ألم تر أن الله يزجي سحابا ثم يؤلف بينه ثم يجعله ركاما فترى الودق يخرج من خلاله وينزل من السماء من جبال فيها من برد فيصيب به من يشاء ويصرفه عن من يشاء يكاد سنا برقه يذهب بالأبصار

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   Have you not regarded that Allah drives the clouds, then He composes them, then He piles them up, whereat you see the rain issuing from its midst? And He sends down hail from the sky, out of the mountains that are in it, and He strikes with it whomever He wishes, and turns it away from whomever He wishes. The brilliance of its lightening almost takes away the sight.

   ʾa-lam tara ʾanna llāha yuzjī saḥāban thumma yuʾallifu baynahū thumma yajʿaluhū rukāman fa-tarā l-wadqa yakhruju min khilālihī wa-yunazzilu mina s-samāʾi min jibālin fīhā min baradin fa-yuṣību bihī man yashāʾu wa-yaṣrifuhū ʿan man yashāʾu yakādu sanā barqihī yadhhabu bi-l-ʾabṣāri