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

1. الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات طوبى لهم وحسن مآب

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   Those who have faith and do righteous deeds—happy are they and good is their [ultimate] destination.

   alladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti ṭūbā lahum wa-ḥusnu maʾābin

2. كذلك أرسلناك في أمة قد خلت من قبلها أمم لتتلو عليهم الذي أوحينا إليك وهم يكفرون بالرحمن قل هو ربي لا إله إلا هو عليه توكلت وإليه متاب

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   Thus have We sent you to a nation before which many nations have passed away, that you may recite to them what We have revealed to you. Yet they defy the All-beneficent. Say, ‘He is my Lord; there is no god except Him; in Him I have put my trust, and to Him will be my return.’

   ka-dhālika ʾarsalnāka fī ʾummatin qad khalat min qablihā ʾumamun li-tatluwa ʿalayhimu lladhī ʾawḥaynā ʾilayka wa-hum yakfurūna bi-r-raḥmāni qul huwa rabbī lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa ʿalayhi tawakkaltu wa-ʾilayhi matābi

3. ولو أن قرآنا سيرت به الجبال أو قطعت به الأرض أو كلم به الموتى بل لله الأمر جميعا أفلم ييأس الذين آمنوا أن لو يشاء الله لهدى الناس جميعا ولا يزال الذين كفروا تصيبهم بما صنعوا قارعة أو تحل قريبا من دارهم حتى يأتي وعد الله إن الله لا يخلف الميعاد

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   If only it were a Quran whereby the mountains could be moved, or the earth could be toured, or the dead could be spoken to.... Indeed, all dispensation belongs to Allah. Have not the faithful yet realised that had Allah wished He would have guided mankind all together? The faithless will continue to be visited by catastrophes because of their doings—or they will land near their habitations—until Allah’s promise comes to pass. Indeed Allah does not break His promise.

   wa-law ʾanna qurʾānan suyyirat bihi l-jibālu ʾaw quṭṭiʿat bihi l-ʾarḍu ʾaw kullima bihi l-mawtā bal li-llāhi l-ʾamru jamīʿan ʾa-fa-lam yayʾasi lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾan law yashāʾu llāhu la-hadā n-nāsa jamīʿan wa-lā yazālu lladhīna kafarū tuṣībuhum bi-mā ṣanaʿū qāriʿatun ʾaw taḥullu qarīban min dārihim ḥattā yaʾtiya waʿdu llāhi ʾinna llāha lā yukhlifu l-mīʿāda

4. ولقد استهزئ برسل من قبلك فأمليت للذين كفروا ثم أخذتهم فكيف كان عقاب

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   Apostles were certainly derided before you. But then I gave respite to those who were faithless, then I seized them; so how was My retribution?

   wa-la-qadi stuhziʾa bi-rusulin min qablika fa-ʾamlaytu li-lladhīna kafarū thumma ʾakhadhtuhum fa-kayfa kāna ʿiqābi

5. أفمن هو قائم على كل نفس بما كسبت وجعلوا لله شركاء قل سموهم أم تنبئونه بما لا يعلم في الأرض أم بظاهر من القول بل زين للذين كفروا مكرهم وصدوا عن السبيل ومن يضلل الله فما له من هاد

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   Is He who sustains every soul in spite of what it earns [comparable to the idols]? Yet they ascribe partners to Allah! Say, ‘Name them!’ Will you inform Him concerning something He does not know about on the earth, or concerning [what are] mere words? Indeed, to the faithless, their scheming is presented as decorous, and they have been barred from the [right] way; and whomever Allah leads astray, has no guide.

   ʾa-fa-man huwa qāʾimun ʿalā kulli nafsin bi-mā kasabat wa-jaʿalū li-llāhi shurakāʾa qul sammūhum ʾam tunabbiʾūnahū bi-mā lā yaʿlamu fī l-ʾarḍi ʾam bi-ẓāhirin mina l-qawli bal zuyyina li-lladhīna kafarū makruhum wa-ṣuddū ʿani s-sabīli wa-man yuḍlili llāhu fa-mā lahū min hādin

6. لهم عذاب في الحياة الدنيا ولعذاب الآخرة أشق وما لهم من الله من واق

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   There is a punishment for them in the life of this world, and the punishment of the Hereafter will surely be harder, and they have no defender against Allah.

   lahum ʿadhābun fī l-ḥayāti d-dunyā wa-la-ʿadhābu l-ʾākhirati ʾashaqqu wa-mā lahum mina llāhi min wāqin