Surah Ar-Ra`d (The Thunder) in English

1. أفمن يعلم أنما أنزل إليك من ربك الحق كمن هو أعمى إنما يتذكر أولو الألباب

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   Is someone who knows that what has been sent down to you from your Lord is the truth, like someone who is blind? Only those who possess intellect take admonition

   ʾa-fa-man yaʿlamu ʾannamā ʾunzila ʾilayka min rabbika l-ḥaqqu ka-man huwa ʾaʿmā ʾinnamā yatadhakkaru ʾulū l-ʾalbābi

2. الذين يوفون بعهد الله ولا ينقضون الميثاق

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   —those who fulfill Allah’s covenant and do not break the pledge solemnly made,

   alladhīna yūfūna bi-ʿahdi llāhi wa-lā yanquḍūna l-mīthāqa

3. والذين يصلون ما أمر الله به أن يوصل ويخشون ربهم ويخافون سوء الحساب

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   and those who join what Allah has commanded to be joined, and fear their Lord, and are afraid of an adverse reckoning

   wa-lladhīna yaṣilūna mā ʾamara llāhu bihī ʾan yūṣala wa-yakhshawna rabbahum wa-yakhāfūna sūʾa l-ḥisābi

4. والذين صبروا ابتغاء وجه ربهم وأقاموا الصلاة وأنفقوا مما رزقناهم سرا وعلانية ويدرءون بالحسنة السيئة أولئك لهم عقبى الدار

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   —those who are patient for the sake of their Lord’s pleasure, maintain the prayer, and spend secretly and openly out of what We have provided them, and repel evil [conduct] with good. For such will be the reward of the [ultimate] abode:

   wa-lladhīna ṣabarū btighāʾa wajhi rabbihim wa-ʾaqāmū ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾanfaqū mimmā razaqnāhum sirran wa-ʿalāniyatan wa-yadraʾūna bi-l-ḥasanati s-sayyiʾata ʾulāʾika lahum ʿuqbā d-dāri

5. جنات عدن يدخلونها ومن صلح من آبائهم وأزواجهم وذرياتهم والملائكة يدخلون عليهم من كل باب

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   the Gardens of Eden, which they will enter along with whoever is righteous from among their forebears, their spouses, and their descendants, and the angels will call on them from every door:

   jannātu ʿadnin yadkhulūnahā wa-man ṣalaḥa min ʾābāʾihim wa-ʾazwājihim wa-dhurriyyātihim wa-l-malāʾikatu yadkhulūna ʿalayhim min kulli bābin

6. سلام عليكم بما صبرتم فنعم عقبى الدار

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   ‘Peace be to you, for your patience.’ How excellent is the reward of the [ultimate] abode!

   salāmun ʿalaykum bi-mā ṣabartum fa-niʿma ʿuqbā d-dāri

7. والذين ينقضون عهد الله من بعد ميثاقه ويقطعون ما أمر الله به أن يوصل ويفسدون في الأرض أولئك لهم اللعنة ولهم سوء الدار

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   But as for those who break Allah’s compact after having pledged it solemnly, and sever what Allah has commanded to be joined, and cause corruption in the earth—it is such on whom the curse will lie, and for them will be the ills of the [ultimate] abode.

   wa-lladhīna yanquḍūna ʿahda llāhi min baʿdi mīthāqihī wa-yaqṭaʿūna mā ʾamara llāhu bihī ʾan yūṣala wa-yufsidūna fī l-ʾarḍi ʾulāʾika lahumu l-laʿnatu wa-lahum sūʾu d-dāri

8. الله يبسط الرزق لمن يشاء ويقدر وفرحوا بالحياة الدنيا وما الحياة الدنيا في الآخرة إلا متاع

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   Allah expands the provision for whomever He wishes, and tightens it. They boast of the life of this world, but compared with the Hereafter the life of this world is but a [trifling] enjoyment.

   allāhu yabsuṭu r-rizqa li-man yashāʾu wa-yaqdiru wa-fariḥū bi-l-ḥayāti d-dunyā wa-mā l-ḥayātu d-dunyā fī l-ʾākhirati ʾillā matāʿun

9. ويقول الذين كفروا لولا أنزل عليه آية من ربه قل إن الله يضل من يشاء ويهدي إليه من أناب

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   The faithless say, ‘Why has not some sign been sent down to him from his Lord?’ Say, ‘Indeed Allah leads astray whomever He wishes, and guides to Himself those who turn penitently [to Him]

   wa-yaqūlu lladhīna kafarū law-lā ʾunzila ʿalayhi ʾāyatun min rabbihī qul ʾinna llāha yuḍillu man yashāʾu wa-yahdī ʾilayhi man ʾanāba

10. الذين آمنوا وتطمئن قلوبهم بذكر الله ألا بذكر الله تطمئن القلوب

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    —those who have faith and whose hearts find rest in the remembrance of Allah.’ Behold! The hearts find rest in Allah’s remembrance!

    alladhīna ʾāmanū wa-taṭmaʾinnu qulūbuhum bi-dhikri llāhi ʾa-lā bi-dhikri llāhi taṭmaʾinnu l-qulūbu