Surah At-Tawbah (The Repentance) in English

1. كيف يكون للمشركين عهد عند الله وعند رسوله إلا الذين عاهدتم عند المسجد الحرام فما استقاموا لكم فاستقيموا لهم إن الله يحب المتقين

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   How shall the polytheists have any [valid] treaty with Allah and His Apostle?! (Barring those with whom you made a treaty at the Holy Mosque; so long as they are steadfast with you, be steadfast with them. Indeed Allah loves the Godwary.)

   kayfa yakūnu li-l-mushrikīna ʿahdun ʿinda llāhi wa-ʿinda rasūlihī ʾillā lladhīna ʿāhadtum ʿinda l-masjidi l-ḥarāmi fa-mā staqāmū lakum fa-staqīmū lahum ʾinna llāha yuḥibbu l-muttaqīna

2. كيف وإن يظهروا عليكم لا يرقبوا فيكم إلا ولا ذمة يرضونكم بأفواههم وتأبى قلوبهم وأكثرهم فاسقون

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   How? For if, they get the better of you, they will observe toward you neither kinship nor covenant. They please you with their mouths while their hearts spurn you; and most of them are transgressors.

   kayfa wa-ʾin yaẓharū ʿalaykum lā yarqubū fīkum ʾillan wa-lā dhimmatan yurḍūnakum bi-ʾafwāhihim wa-taʾbā qulūbuhum wa-ʾaktharuhum fāsiqūna

3. اشتروا بآيات الله ثمنا قليلا فصدوا عن سبيله إنهم ساء ما كانوا يعملون

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   They have sold the signs of Allah for a paltry gain, and have barred [the people] from His way. Evil indeed is what they have been doing.

   ishtaraw bi-ʾāyāti llāhi thamanan qalīlan fa-ṣaddū ʿan sabīlihī ʾinnahum sāʾa mā kānū yaʿmalūna

4. لا يرقبون في مؤمن إلا ولا ذمة وأولئك هم المعتدون

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   They observe toward a believer neither kinship nor covenant, and it is they who are the transgressors.

   lā yarqubūna fī muʾminin ʾillan wa-lā dhimmatan wa-ʾulāʾika humu l-muʿtadūna

5. فإن تابوا وأقاموا الصلاة وآتوا الزكاة فإخوانكم في الدين ونفصل الآيات لقوم يعلمون

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   Yet if they repent and maintain the prayer and give the zakat, then they are your brethren in faith. We elaborate the signs for a people who have knowledge.

   fa-ʾin tābū wa-ʾaqāmū ṣ-ṣalāta wa-ʾātawu z-zakāta fa-ʾikhwānukum fī d-dīni wa-nufaṣṣilu l-ʾāyāti li-qawmin yaʿlamūna

6. وإن نكثوا أيمانهم من بعد عهدهم وطعنوا في دينكم فقاتلوا أئمة الكفر إنهم لا أيمان لهم لعلهم ينتهون

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   But if they break their pledges after their having made a treaty and revile your religion, then fight the leaders of unfaith—indeed, they have no [commitment to] pledges,—maybe they will desist.

   wa-ʾin nakathū ʾaymānahum min baʿdi ʿahdihim wa-ṭaʿanū fī dīnikum fa-qātilū ʾaʾimmata l-kufri ʾinnahum lā ʾaymāna lahum laʿallahum yantahūna

7. ألا تقاتلون قوما نكثوا أيمانهم وهموا بإخراج الرسول وهم بدءوكم أول مرة أتخشونهم فالله أحق أن تخشوه إن كنتم مؤمنين

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   Will you not make war on a people who broke their pledges and resolved to expel the Apostle, and opened [hostilities] against you initially? Do you fear them? But Allah is worthier of being feared by you, should you be faithful.

   ʾa-lā tuqātilūna qawman nakathū ʾaymānahum wa-hammū bi-ʾikhrāji r-rasūli wa-hum badaʾūkum ʾawwala marratin ʾa-takhshawnahum fa-llāhu ʾaḥaqqu ʾan takhshawhu ʾin kuntum muʾminīna