Surah Ash-Shūraá (The Consultation) in English

1. ذلك الذي يبشر الله عباده الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات قل لا أسألكم عليه أجرا إلا المودة في القربى ومن يقترف حسنة نزد له فيها حسنا إن الله غفور شكور

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   Such is the good news that Allah gives to His servants who have faith and do righteous deeds! Say, ‘I do not ask you any reward for it except the love of [my] relatives.’ Whoever performs a good deed, We shall enhance its goodness for him. Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-appreciative.

   dhālika lladhī yubashshiru llāhu ʿibādahu lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti qul lā ʾasʾalukum ʿalayhi ʾajran ʾillā l-mawaddata fī l-qurbā wa-man yaqtarif ḥasanatan nazid lahū fīhā ḥusnan ʾinna llāha ghafūrun shakūrun

2. أم يقولون افترى على الله كذبا فإن يشإ الله يختم على قلبك ويمح الله الباطل ويحق الحق بكلماته إنه عليم بذات الصدور

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   Do they say, ‘He has fabricated a lie against Allah’? If so, should Allah wish He would set a seal on your heart, and Allah will efface the falsehood and confirm the truth with His words. Indeed He knows well what is in the breasts.

   ʾam yaqūlūna ftarā ʿalā llāhi kadhiban fa-ʾin yashaʾi llāhu yakhtim ʿalā qalbika wa-yamḥu llāhu l-bāṭila wa-yuḥiqqu l-ḥaqqa bi-kalimātihī ʾinnahū ʿalīmun bi-dhāti ṣ-ṣudūri

3. وهو الذي يقبل التوبة عن عباده ويعفو عن السيئات ويعلم ما تفعلون

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   It is He who accepts the repentance of His servants, and excuses their misdeeds and knows what you do.

   wa-huwa lladhī yaqbalu t-tawbata ʿan ʿibādihī wa-yaʿfū ʿani s-sayyiʾāti wa-yaʿlamu mā tafʿalūna

4. ويستجيب الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات ويزيدهم من فضله والكافرون لهم عذاب شديد

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   He answers [the supplications of] those who have faith and do righteous deeds and enhances them out of His grace. But as for the faithless, there is a severe punishment for them.

   wa-yastajību lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti wa-yazīduhum min faḍlihī wa-l-kāfirūna lahum ʿadhābun shadīdun

5. ولو بسط الله الرزق لعباده لبغوا في الأرض ولكن ينزل بقدر ما يشاء إنه بعباده خبير بصير

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   Were Allah to expand the provision for [all] His servants, they would surely create havoc on the earth. But He sends down in a [precise] measure whatever He wishes. Indeed, He is all-aware, all-seeing about His servants.

   wa-law basaṭa llāhu r-rizqa li-ʿibādihī la-baghaw fī l-ʾarḍi wa-lākin yunazzilu bi-qadarin mā yashāʾu ʾinnahū bi-ʿibādihī khabīrun baṣīrun

6. وهو الذي ينزل الغيث من بعد ما قنطوا وينشر رحمته وهو الولي الحميد

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   It is He who sends down the rain after they have been despondent, and unfolds His mercy, and He is the Guardian, the All-laudable.

   wa-huwa lladhī yunazzilu l-ghaytha min baʿdi mā qanaṭū wa-yanshuru raḥmatahū wa-huwa l-waliyyu l-ḥamīdu

7. ومن آياته خلق السماوات والأرض وما بث فيهما من دابة وهو على جمعهم إذا يشاء قدير

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   Among His signs is the creation of the heavens and the earth and whatever creatures He has scattered in them, and He is able to gather them whenever He wishes.

   wa-min ʾāyātihī khalqu s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi wa-mā baththa fīhimā min dābbatin wa-huwa ʿalā jamʿihim ʾidhā yashāʾu qadīrun

8. وما أصابكم من مصيبة فبما كسبت أيديكم ويعفو عن كثير

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   Whatever affliction that may visit you is because of what your hands have earned, and He excuses many [an offense of yours].

   wa-mā ʾaṣābakum min muṣībatin fa-bi-mā kasabat ʾaydīkum wa-yaʿfū ʿan kathīrin

9. وما أنتم بمعجزين في الأرض وما لكم من دون الله من ولي ولا نصير

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   You cannot frustrate [Allah] on the earth, and you do not have besides Allah any guardian or helper.

   wa-mā ʾantum bi-muʿjizīna fī l-ʾarḍi wa-mā lakum min dūni llāhi min waliyyin wa-lā naṣīrin