Surah Ash-Shūraá (The Consultation) in English

1. وتراهم يعرضون عليها خاشعين من الذل ينظرون من طرف خفي وقال الذين آمنوا إن الخاسرين الذين خسروا أنفسهم وأهليهم يوم القيامة ألا إن الظالمين في عذاب مقيم

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   You will see them being exposed to it, humbled by abasement, furtively looking askance. The faithful will say, ‘Indeed the losers are those who have ruined themselves and their families on the Day of Resurrection. Indeed, the wrongdoers will abide in lasting punishment.

   wa-tarāhum yuʿraḍūna ʿalayhā khāshiʿīna mina dh-dhulli yanẓurūna min ṭarfin khafiyyin wa-qāla lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾinna l-khāsirīna lladhīna khasirū ʾanfusahum wa-ʾahlīhim yawma l-qiyāmati ʾa-lā ʾinna ẓ-ẓālimīna fī ʿadhābin muqīmin

2. وما كان لهم من أولياء ينصرونهم من دون الله ومن يضلل الله فما له من سبيل

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   They have no awliya to help them besides Allah. There is no way out for those whom Allah leads astray.’

   wa-mā kāna lahum min ʾawliyāʾa yanṣurūnahum min dūni llāhi wa-man yuḍlili llāhu fa-mā lahū min sabīlin-i

3. استجيبوا لربكم من قبل أن يأتي يوم لا مرد له من الله ما لكم من ملجإ يومئذ وما لكم من نكير

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   Respond to your Lord before there comes a day for which there will be no revoking from Allah. On that day you will have no refuge, nor will you have [any chance for] denial [of your sins].

   istajībū li-rabbikum min qabli ʾan yaʾtiya yawmun lā maradda lahū mina llāhi mā lakum min maljaʾin yawmaʾidhin wa-mā lakum min nakīrin

4. فإن أعرضوا فما أرسلناك عليهم حفيظا إن عليك إلا البلاغ وإنا إذا أذقنا الإنسان منا رحمة فرح بها وإن تصبهم سيئة بما قدمت أيديهم فإن الإنسان كفور

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   But if they disregard [your warnings], [keep in mind that] We have not sent you as their keeper. Your duty is only to communicate. Indeed when We let man taste Our mercy, he boasts about it; but should an ill visit him because of what his hands have sent ahead, then man is very ungrateful.

   fa-ʾin ʾaʿraḍū fa-mā ʾarsalnāka ʿalayhim ḥafīẓan ʾin ʿalayka ʾillā l-balāghu wa-ʾinnā ʾidhā ʾadhaqnā l-ʾinsāna minnā raḥmatan fariḥa bihā wa-ʾin tuṣibhum sayyiʾatun bi-mā qaddamat ʾaydīhim fa-ʾinna l-ʾinsāna kafūrun

5. لله ملك السماوات والأرض يخلق ما يشاء يهب لمن يشاء إناثا ويهب لمن يشاء الذكور

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   To Allah belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth. He creates whatever He wishes; He gives females to whomever He wishes, and males to whomever He wishes,

   li-llāhi mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi yakhluqu mā yashāʾu yahabu li-man yashāʾu ʾināthan wa-yahabu li-man yashāʾu dh-dhukūra

6. أو يزوجهم ذكرانا وإناثا ويجعل من يشاء عقيما إنه عليم قدير

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   or He combines them males and females, and makes sterile whomever He wishes. Indeed, He is all-knowing, all-powerful.

   ʾaw yuzawwijuhum dhukrānan wa-ʾināthan wa-yajʿalu man yashāʾu ʿaqīman ʾinnahū ʿalīmun qadīrun

7. وما كان لبشر أن يكلمه الله إلا وحيا أو من وراء حجاب أو يرسل رسولا فيوحي بإذنه ما يشاء إنه علي حكيم

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   It is not [possible] for any human that Allah should speak to him except through revelation or from behind a veil, or send a messenger who reveals by His permission whatever He wishes. Indeed He is all-exalted, all-wise.

   wa-mā kāna li-basharin ʾan yukallimahu llāhu ʾillā waḥyan ʾaw min warāʾi ḥijābin ʾaw yursila rasūlan fa-yūḥiya bi-ʾidhnihī mā yashāʾu ʾinnahū ʿaliyyun ḥakīmun