Surah As-Sajdah (The Prostration) in English

1. ولنذيقنهم من العذاب الأدنى دون العذاب الأكبر لعلهم يرجعون

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   We shall surely make them taste the nearer punishment prior to the greater punishment, so that they may come back.

   wa-la-nudhīqannahum mina l-ʿadhābi l-ʾadnā dūna l-ʿadhābi l-ʾakbari laʿallahum yarjiʿūna

2. ومن أظلم ممن ذكر بآيات ربه ثم أعرض عنها إنا من المجرمين منتقمون

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   Who is a greater wrongdoer than him who is reminded of his Lord’s signs, whereat he disregards them? Indeed, We shall take vengeance upon the guilty.

   wa-man ʾaẓlamu mimman dhukkira bi-ʾāyāti rabbihī thumma ʾaʿraḍa ʿanhā ʾinnā mina l-mujrimīna muntaqimūna

3. ولقد آتينا موسى الكتاب فلا تكن في مرية من لقائه وجعلناه هدى لبني إسرائيل

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   Certainly We gave Moses the Book, [declaring], ‘Do not be in doubt about the encounter with Him,’ and We made it a [source of] guidance for the Children of Israel.

   wa-la-qad ʾātaynā mūsā l-kitāba fa-lā takun fī miryatin min liqāʾihī wa-jaʿalnāhu hudan li-banī ʾisrāʾīla

4. وجعلنا منهم أئمة يهدون بأمرنا لما صبروا وكانوا بآياتنا يوقنون

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   When they had been patient and had conviction in Our signs, We appointed amongst them imams to guide [the people] by Our command.

   wa-jaʿalnā minhum ʾaʾimmatan yahdūna bi-ʾamrinā lammā ṣabarū wa-kānū bi-ʾāyātinā yūqinūna

5. إن ربك هو يفصل بينهم يوم القيامة فيما كانوا فيه يختلفون

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   Indeed your Lord will judge between them on the Day of Resurrection concerning that about which they used to differ.

   ʾinna rabbaka huwa yafṣilu baynahum yawma l-qiyāmati fī-mā kānū fīhi yakhtalifūna

6. أولم يهد لهم كم أهلكنا من قبلهم من القرون يمشون في مساكنهم إن في ذلك لآيات أفلا يسمعون

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   Does it not dawn upon them how many generations We have destroyed before them, amid [the ruins of] whose dwellings they walk? There are indeed signs in that. Will they not then listen?

   ʾa-wa-lam yahdi lahum kam ʾahlaknā min qablihim mina l-qurūni yamshūna fī masākinihim ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyātin ʾa-fa-lā yasmaʿūna

7. أولم يروا أنا نسوق الماء إلى الأرض الجرز فنخرج به زرعا تأكل منه أنعامهم وأنفسهم أفلا يبصرون

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   Do they not see that We carry water to the parched earth and with it We bring forth crops, from which they eat, themselves and their cattle? Will they not then see?

   ʾa-wa-lam yaraw ʾannā nasūqu l-māʾa ʾilā l-ʾarḍi l-juruzi fa-nukhriju bihī zarʿan taʾkulu minhu ʾanʿāmuhum wa-ʾanfusuhum ʾa-fa-lā yubṣirūna

8. ويقولون متى هذا الفتح إن كنتم صادقين

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   They say, ‘When will this judgement be, if you are truthful?’

   wa-yaqūlūna matā hādhā l-fatḥu ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

9. قل يوم الفتح لا ينفع الذين كفروا إيمانهم ولا هم ينظرون

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   Say, ‘On the day of judgement their [newly found] faith will not avail the faithless, nor will they be granted any respite.’

   qul yawma l-fatḥi lā yanfaʿu lladhīna kafarū ʾīmānuhum wa-lā hum yunẓarūna

10. فأعرض عنهم وانتظر إنهم منتظرون

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    So turn away from them, and wait. They too are waiting.

    fa-ʾaʿriḍ ʿanhum wa-ntaẓir ʾinnahum muntaẓirūna