Surah As-Sajdah (The Prostration) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. الم

   1

   Alif, Lam, Meem.

   a-l-m (ʾalif lām mīm)

2. تنزيل الكتاب لا ريب فيه من رب العالمين

   2

   The [gradual] sending down of the Book, there is no doubt in it, is from the Lord of all the worlds.

   tanzīlu l-kitābi lā rayba fīhi min rabbi l-ʿālamīna

3. أم يقولون افتراه بل هو الحق من ربك لتنذر قوما ما أتاهم من نذير من قبلك لعلهم يهتدون

   3

   But they say, ‘He has fabricated it.’ No, it is the truth from your Lord, that you may warn a people to whom there did not come any warner before you, so that they may be guided [to the right path].

   ʾam yaqūlūna ftarāhu bal huwa l-ḥaqqu min rabbika li-tundhira qawman mā ʾatāhum min nadhīrin min qablika laʿallahum yahtadūna

4. الله الذي خلق السماوات والأرض وما بينهما في ستة أيام ثم استوى على العرش ما لكم من دونه من ولي ولا شفيع أفلا تتذكرون

   4

   It is Allah who created the heavens and the earth and whatever is between them in six days, then He settled on the Throne. You do not have besides Him any guardian or intercessor. Will you not then take admonition?

   allāhu lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa wa-mā baynahumā fī sittati ʾayyāmin thumma stawā ʿalā l-ʿarshi mā lakum min dūnihī min waliyyin wa-lā shafīʿin ʾa-fa-lā tatadhakkarūna

5. يدبر الأمر من السماء إلى الأرض ثم يعرج إليه في يوم كان مقداره ألف سنة مما تعدون

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   He directs the command from the heaven to the earth; then it ascends toward Him in a day whose span is a thousand years by your reckoning.

   yudabbiru l-ʾamra mina s-samāʾi ʾilā l-ʾarḍi thumma yaʿruju ʾilayhi fī yawmin kāna miqdāruhū ʾalfa sanatin mimmā taʿuddūna

6. ذلك عالم الغيب والشهادة العزيز الرحيم

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   That is the Knower of the sensible and the Unseen, the All-mighty, the All-merciful,

   dhālika ʿālimu l-ghaybi wa-sh-shahādati l-ʿazīzu r-raḥīmu

7. الذي أحسن كل شيء خلقه وبدأ خلق الإنسان من طين

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   who perfected everything that He created and commenced man’s creation from clay.

   alladhī ʾaḥsana kulla shayʾin khalaqahū wa-badaʾa khalqa l-ʾinsāni min ṭīnin

8. ثم جعل نسله من سلالة من ماء مهين

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   Then He made his progeny from an extract of a base fluid.

   thumma jaʿala naslahū min sulālatin min māʾin mahīnin

9. ثم سواه ونفخ فيه من روحه وجعل لكم السمع والأبصار والأفئدة قليلا ما تشكرون

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   Then He proportioned him and breathed into him of His Spirit, and made for you hearing, sight, and hearts. Little do you thank.

   thumma sawwāhu wa-nafakha fīhi min rūḥihī wa-jaʿala lakumu s-samʿa wa-l-ʾabṣāra wa-l-ʾafʾidata qalīlan mā tashkurūna

10. وقالوا أإذا ضللنا في الأرض أإنا لفي خلق جديد بل هم بلقاء ربهم كافرون

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    They say, ‘When we have been lost in the dust, shall we be indeed created anew?’ Indeed, they disbelieve in the encounter with their Lord.

    wa-qālū ʾa-ʾidhā ḍalalnā fī l-ʾarḍi ʾa-ʾinnā la-fī khalqin jadīdin bal hum bi-liqāʾi rabbihim kāfirūna

11. قل يتوفاكم ملك الموت الذي وكل بكم ثم إلى ربكم ترجعون

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    Say, ‘You will be taken away by the angel of death, who has been charged with you. Then you will be brought back to your Lord.’

    qul yatawaffākum malaku l-mawti lladhī wukkila bikum thumma ʾilā rabbikum turjaʿūna