Surah Ar-Rūm (The Romans) in English

1. وإذا مس الناس ضر دعوا ربهم منيبين إليه ثم إذا أذاقهم منه رحمة إذا فريق منهم بربهم يشركون

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   When distress befalls people, they supplicate their Lord, turning to Him in penitence. Then, when He lets them taste His mercy, behold, a part of them ascribe partners to their Lord,

   wa-ʾidhā massa n-nāsa ḍurrun daʿaw rabbahum munībīna ʾilayhi thumma ʾidhā ʾadhāqahum minhu raḥmatan ʾidhā farīqun minhum bi-rabbihim yushrikūna

2. ليكفروا بما آتيناهم فتمتعوا فسوف تعلمون

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   being ungrateful toward what We have given them. So let them enjoy. Soon they will know!

   li-yakfurū bi-mā ʾātaynāhum fa-tamattaʿū fa-sawfa taʿlamūna

3. أم أنزلنا عليهم سلطانا فهو يتكلم بما كانوا به يشركون

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   Have We sent down to them any authority which might assert what they associate with Him?

   ʾam ʾanzalnā ʿalayhim sulṭānan fa-huwa yatakallamu bi-mā kānū bihī yushrikūna

4. وإذا أذقنا الناس رحمة فرحوا بها وإن تصبهم سيئة بما قدمت أيديهم إذا هم يقنطون

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   When We let people taste [Our] mercy, they boast about it; but should an ill visit them because of what their hands have sent ahead, behold, they become despondent!

   wa-ʾidhā ʾadhaqnā n-nāsa raḥmatan fariḥū bihā wa-ʾin tuṣibhum sayyiʾatun bi-mā qaddamat ʾaydīhim ʾidhā hum yaqnaṭūna

5. أولم يروا أن الله يبسط الرزق لمن يشاء ويقدر إن في ذلك لآيات لقوم يؤمنون

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   Do they not see that Allah expands the provision for whomever He wishes, and tightens it? There are indeed signs in that for a people who have faith.

   ʾa-wa-lam yaraw ʾanna llāha yabsuṭu r-rizqa li-man yashāʾu wa-yaqdiru ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyātin li-qawmin yuʾminūna

6. فآت ذا القربى حقه والمسكين وابن السبيل ذلك خير للذين يريدون وجه الله وأولئك هم المفلحون

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   Give the relative his due, and the needy and the traveller [as well]. That is better for those who seek Allah’s pleasure, and it is they who are the felicitous.

   fa-ʾāti dhā l-qurbā ḥaqqahū wa-l-miskīna wa-bna s-sabīli dhālika khayrun li-lladhīna yurīdūna wajha llāhi wa-ʾulāʾika humu l-mufliḥūna

7. وما آتيتم من ربا ليربو في أموال الناس فلا يربو عند الله وما آتيتم من زكاة تريدون وجه الله فأولئك هم المضعفون

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   What you give in usury in order that it may increase people’s wealth does not increase with Allah. But what you pay as zakat seeking Allah’s pleasure—it is they who will be given a manifold increase.

   wa-mā ʾātaytum min riban li-yarbuwa fī ʾamwāli n-nāsi fa-lā yarbū ʿinda llāhi wa-mā ʾātaytum min zakātin turīdūna wajha llāhi fa-ʾulāʾika humu l-muḍʿifūna

8. الله الذي خلقكم ثم رزقكم ثم يميتكم ثم يحييكم هل من شركائكم من يفعل من ذلكم من شيء سبحانه وتعالى عما يشركون

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   It is Allah who created you and then He provided for you, then He makes you die, then He will bring you to life. Is there anyone among your ‘partners’ who does anything of that kind? Immaculate is He and exalted above [having] any partners that they ascribe [to Him]!

   allāhu lladhī khalaqakum thumma razaqakum thumma yumītukum thumma yuḥyīkum hal min shurakāʾikum man yafʿalu min dhālikum min shayʾin subḥānahū wa-taʿālā ʿammā yushrikūna

9. ظهر الفساد في البر والبحر بما كسبت أيدي الناس ليذيقهم بعض الذي عملوا لعلهم يرجعون

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   Corruption has appeared in land and sea because of the doings of the people’s hands, that He may make them taste something of what they have done, so that they may come back.

   ẓahara l-fasādu fī l-barri wa-l-baḥri bi-mā kasabat ʾaydī n-nāsi li-yudhīqahum baʿḍa lladhī ʿamilū laʿallahum yarjiʿūna