Surah Ar-Raĥmān (The Beneficent) in English

1. يعرف المجرمون بسيماهم فيؤخذ بالنواصي والأقدام

   41

   The guilty will be recognized by their mark; so they will be seized by their forelocks and feet.

   yuʿrafu l-mujrimūna bi-sīmāhum fa-yuʾkhadhu bi-n-nawāṣī wa-l-ʾaqdāmi

2. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

   42

   So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

   fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

3. هذه جهنم التي يكذب بها المجرمون

   43

   ‘This is the hell which the guilty would deny!’

   hādhihī jahannamu llatī yukadhdhibu bihā l-mujrimūna

4. يطوفون بينها وبين حميم آن

   44

   They shall circuit between it and boiling hot water.

   yaṭūfūna baynahā wa-bayna ḥamīmin ʾānin

5. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

   45

   So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

   fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

6. ولمن خاف مقام ربه جنتان

   46

   For him who stands in awe of his Lord will be two gardens.

   wa-li-man khāfa maqāma rabbihī jannatāni

7. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

   47

   So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

   fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

8. ذواتا أفنان

   48

   Both abounding in branches.

   dhawātā ʾafnānin

9. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

   49

   So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

   fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

10. فيهما عينان تجريان

    50

    In both of them will be two flowing springs.

    fīhimā ʿaynāni tajriyāni

11. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

    51

    So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

    fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

12. فيهما من كل فاكهة زوجان

    52

    In both of them will be two kinds of every fruit.

    fīhimā min kulli fākihatin zawjāni

13. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

    53

    So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

    fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

14. متكئين على فرش بطائنها من إستبرق وجنى الجنتين دان

    54

    [They will be] reclining on beds lined with green silk. And the fruit of the two gardens will be near at hand.

    muttakiʾīna ʿalā furushin baṭāʾinuhā min ʾistabraqin wa-janā l-jannatayni dānin

15. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

    55

    So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

    fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

16. فيهن قاصرات الطرف لم يطمثهن إنس قبلهم ولا جان

    56

    In them are maidens of restrained glances, whom no human has touched before, nor jinn.

    fīhinna qāṣirātu ṭ-ṭarfi lam yaṭmithhunna ʾinsun qablahum wa-lā jānnun

17. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

    57

    So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

    fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

18. كأنهن الياقوت والمرجان

    58

    As though they were rubies and corals.

    ka-ʾannahunna l-yāqūtu wa-l-marjānu

19. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

    59

    So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

    fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

20. هل جزاء الإحسان إلا الإحسان

    60

    Is the requital of goodness anything but goodness?

    hal jazāʾu l-ʾiḥsāni ʾillā l-ʾiḥsānu

21. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

    61

    So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

    fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

22. ومن دونهما جنتان

    62

    Beside these two, there will be two [other] gardens.

    wa-min dūnihimā jannatāni

23. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

    63

    So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

    fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

24. مدهامتان

    64

    Dark green.

    mudhāmmatāni

25. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

    65

    So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

    fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni

26. فيهما عينان نضاختان

    66

    In both of them will be two gushing springs.

    fīhimā ʿaynāni naḍḍākhatāni

27. فبأي آلاء ربكما تكذبان

    67

    So which of your Lord’s bounties will you both deny?

    fa-bi-ʾayyi ʾālāʾi rabbikumā tukadhdhibāni