Surah As-Sajdah (The Prostration) in English

1. ولو ترى إذ المجرمون ناكسو رءوسهم عند ربهم ربنا أبصرنا وسمعنا فارجعنا نعمل صالحا إنا موقنون

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   Were you to see when the guilty hang their heads before their Lord [confessing], ‘Our Lord! We have seen and heard. Send us back so that we may act righteously. Indeed we are [now] convinced.’

   wa-law tarā ʾidhi l-mujrimūna nākisū ruʾūsihim ʿinda rabbihim rabbanā ʾabṣarnā wa-samiʿnā fa-rjiʿnā naʿmal ṣāliḥan ʾinnā mūqinūna

2. ولو شئنا لآتينا كل نفس هداها ولكن حق القول مني لأملأن جهنم من الجنة والناس أجمعين

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   Had We wished We would have given every soul its guidance, but My word became due [against the faithless]: ‘Surely I will fill hell with all the [guilty] jinn and humans.’

   wa-law shiʾnā la-ʾātaynā kulla nafsin hudāhā wa-lākin ḥaqqa l-qawlu minnī la-ʾamlaʾanna jahannama mina l-jinnati wa-n-nāsi ʾajmaʿīna

3. فذوقوا بما نسيتم لقاء يومكم هذا إنا نسيناكم وذوقوا عذاب الخلد بما كنتم تعملون

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   So taste [the punishment] for your having forgotten the encounter of this day of yours. We [too] have forgotten you. Taste the everlasting punishment because of what you used to do.

   fa-dhūqū bi-mā nasītum liqāʾa yawmikum hādhā ʾinnā nasīnākum wa-dhūqū ʿadhāba l-khuldi bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna

4. Obligatory prostration

   إنما يؤمن بآياتنا الذين إذا ذكروا بها خروا سجدا وسبحوا بحمد ربهم وهم لا يستكبرون

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   Only those believe in Our signs who, when they are reminded of them, fall down in prostration and celebrate the praise of their Lord, and they are not arrogant.

   ʾinnamā yuʾminu bi-ʾāyātinā lladhīna ʾidhā dhukkirū bihā kharrū sujjadan wa-sabbaḥū bi-ḥamdi rabbihim wa-hum lā yastakbirūna

5. تتجافى جنوبهم عن المضاجع يدعون ربهم خوفا وطمعا ومما رزقناهم ينفقون

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   Their sides vacate their beds to supplicate their Lord in fear and hope, and they spend out of what We have provided them.

   tatajāfā junūbuhum ʿani l-maḍājiʿi yadʿūna rabbahum khawfan wa-ṭamaʿan wa-mimmā razaqnāhum yunfiqūna

6. فلا تعلم نفس ما أخفي لهم من قرة أعين جزاء بما كانوا يعملون

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   No one knows what delights have been kept hidden for them [in the Hereafter] as a reward for what they used to do.

   fa-lā taʿlamu nafsun mā ʾukhfiya lahum min qurrati ʾaʿyunin jazāʾan bi-mā kānū yaʿmalūna

7. أفمن كان مؤمنا كمن كان فاسقا لا يستوون

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   Is someone who is faithful like someone who is a transgressor? They are not equal.

   ʾa-fa-man kāna muʾminan ka-man kāna fāsiqan lā yastawūna

8. أما الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات فلهم جنات المأوى نزلا بما كانوا يعملون

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   As for those who have faith and do righteous deeds, for them will be the gardens of the Abode—a hospitality for what they used to do.

   ʾammā lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti fa-lahum jannātu l-maʾwā nuzulan bi-mā kānū yaʿmalūna

9. وأما الذين فسقوا فمأواهم النار كلما أرادوا أن يخرجوا منها أعيدوا فيها وقيل لهم ذوقوا عذاب النار الذي كنتم به تكذبون

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   As for those who have transgressed, their refuge will be the Fire. Whenever they seek to leave it, they will be turned back into it and told: ‘Taste the punishment of the Fire which you used to deny.’

   wa-ʾammā lladhīna fasaqū fa-maʾwāhumu n-nāru kullamā ʾarādū ʾan yakhrujū minhā ʾuʿīdū fīhā wa-qīla lahum dhūqū ʿadhāba n-nāri lladhī kuntum bihī tukadhdhibūna