Surah At-Tawbah (The Repentance) in English

1. براءة من الله ورسوله إلى الذين عاهدتم من المشركين

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   [This is] a [declaration of] repudiation by Allah and His Apostle [addressed] to the polytheists with whom you had made a treaty:

   barāʾatun mina llāhi wa-rasūlihī ʾilā lladhīna ʿāhadtum mina l-mushrikīna

2. فسيحوا في الأرض أربعة أشهر واعلموا أنكم غير معجزي الله وأن الله مخزي الكافرين

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   Travel [unmolested] in the land for four months, but know that you cannot frustrate Allah, and that Allah shall disgrace the faithless.

   fa-sīḥū fī l-ʾarḍi ʾarbaʿata ʾashhurin wa-ʿlamū ʾannakum ghayru muʿjizī llāhi wa-ʾanna llāha mukhzī l-kāfirīna

3. وأذان من الله ورسوله إلى الناس يوم الحج الأكبر أن الله بريء من المشركين ورسوله فإن تبتم فهو خير لكم وإن توليتم فاعلموا أنكم غير معجزي الله وبشر الذين كفروا بعذاب أليم

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   [This is] an announcement from Allah and His Apostle to all the people on the day of the greater Hajj: that Allah and His Apostle repudiate the polytheists: If you repent that is better for you; but if you turn your backs [on Allah], know that you cannot frustrate Allah, and inform the faithless of a painful punishment

   wa-ʾadhānun mina llāhi wa-rasūlihī ʾilā n-nāsi yawma l-ḥajji l-ʾakbari ʾanna llāha barīʾun mina l-mushrikīna wa-rasūluhū fa-ʾin tubtum fa-huwa khayrun lakum wa-ʾin tawallaytum fa-ʿlamū ʾannakum ghayru muʿjizī llāhi wa-bashshiri lladhīna kafarū bi-ʿadhābin ʾalīmin

4. إلا الذين عاهدتم من المشركين ثم لم ينقصوكم شيئا ولم يظاهروا عليكم أحدا فأتموا إليهم عهدهم إلى مدتهم إن الله يحب المتقين

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   (barring the polytheists with whom you have made a treaty, and who did not violate any [of its terms] with you, nor backed anyone against you. So fulfill the treaty with them until [the end of] its term. Indeed Allah loves the Godwary).

   ʾillā lladhīna ʿāhadtum mina l-mushrikīna thumma lam yanquṣūkum shayʾan wa-lam yuẓāhirū ʿalaykum ʾaḥadan fa-ʾatimmū ʾilayhim ʿahdahum ʾilā muddatihim ʾinna llāha yuḥibbu l-muttaqīna

5. فإذا انسلخ الأشهر الحرم فاقتلوا المشركين حيث وجدتموهم وخذوهم واحصروهم واقعدوا لهم كل مرصد فإن تابوا وأقاموا الصلاة وآتوا الزكاة فخلوا سبيلهم إن الله غفور رحيم

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   Then, when the sacred months have passed, kill the polytheists wherever you find them, capture them and besiege them, and lie in wait for them at every ambush. But if they repent, and maintain the prayer and give the zakat, then let them alone. Indeed Allah is all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   fa-ʾidhā nsalakha l-ʾashhuru l-ḥurumu fa-qtulū l-mushrikīna ḥaythu wajadtumūhum wa-khudhūhum wa-ḥṣurūhum wa-qʿudū lahum kulla marṣadin fa-ʾin tābū wa-ʾaqāmū ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾātawu z-zakāta fa-khallū sabīlahum ʾinna llāha ghafūrun raḥīmun

6. وإن أحد من المشركين استجارك فأجره حتى يسمع كلام الله ثم أبلغه مأمنه ذلك بأنهم قوم لا يعلمون

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   If any of the polytheists seeks asylum from you, grant him asylum until he hears the Word of Allah. Then convey him to his place of safety. That is because they are a people who do not know.

   wa-ʾin ʾaḥadun mina l-mushrikīna stajāraka fa-ʾajirhu ḥattā yasmaʿa kalāma llāhi thumma ʾablighhu maʾmanahū dhālika bi-ʾannahum qawmun lā yaʿlamūna