Surah At-Tawbah (The Repentance) in English

1. يبشرهم ربهم برحمة منه ورضوان وجنات لهم فيها نعيم مقيم

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   Their Lord gives them the good news of His mercy and [His] pleasure, and for them there will be gardens with lasting bliss,

   yubashshiruhum rabbuhum bi-raḥmatin minhu wa-riḍwānin wa-jannātin lahum fīhā naʿīmun muqīmun

2. خالدين فيها أبدا إن الله عنده أجر عظيم

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   to remain in them forever. With Allah indeed is a great reward.

   khālidīna fīhā ʾabadan ʾinna llāha ʿindahū ʾajrun ʿaẓīmun

3. يا أيها الذين آمنوا لا تتخذوا آباءكم وإخوانكم أولياء إن استحبوا الكفر على الإيمان ومن يتولهم منكم فأولئك هم الظالمون

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   O you who have faith! Do not befriend your fathers and brothers if they prefer faithlessness to faith. Those of you who befriend them—it is they who are the wrongdoers.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū lā tattakhidhū ʾābāʾakum wa-ʾikhwānakum ʾawliyāʾa ʾini staḥabbū l-kufra ʿalā l-ʾīmāni wa-man yatawallahum minkum fa-ʾulāʾika humu ẓ-ẓālimūna

4. قل إن كان آباؤكم وأبناؤكم وإخوانكم وأزواجكم وعشيرتكم وأموال اقترفتموها وتجارة تخشون كسادها ومساكن ترضونها أحب إليكم من الله ورسوله وجهاد في سبيله فتربصوا حتى يأتي الله بأمره والله لا يهدي القوم الفاسقين

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   Say, ‘If your fathers and your sons, your brethren, your spouses, and your kinsfolk, the possessions that you have acquired, the business you fear may suffer, and the dwellings you are fond of, are dearer to you than Allah and His Apostle and to waging jihad in His way, then wait until Allah issues His edict, and Allah does not guide the transgressing lot.

   qul ʾin kāna ʾābāʾukum wa-ʾabnāʾukum wa-ʾikhwānukum wa-ʾazwājukum wa-ʿashīratukum wa-ʾamwālun-i qtaraftumūhā wa-tijāratun takhshawna kasādahā wa-masākinu tarḍawnahā ʾaḥabba ʾilaykum mina llāhi wa-rasūlihī wa-jihādin fī sabīlihī fa-tarabbaṣū ḥattā yaʾtiya llāhu bi-ʾamrihī wa-llāhu lā yahdī l-qawma l-fāsiqīna

5. لقد نصركم الله في مواطن كثيرة ويوم حنين إذ أعجبتكم كثرتكم فلم تغن عنكم شيئا وضاقت عليكم الأرض بما رحبت ثم وليتم مدبرين

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   Allah has certainly helped you in many situations, and on the day of Hunayn, when your great number impressed you, but it did not avail you in any way, and the earth became narrow for you in spite of its expanse, whereupon you turned your backs [to flee].

   la-qad naṣarakumu llāhu fī mawāṭina kathīratin wa-yawma ḥunaynin ʾidh ʾaʿjabatkum kathratukum fa-lam tughni ʿankum shayʾan wa-ḍāqat ʿalaykumu l-ʾarḍu bi-mā raḥubat thumma wallaytum mudbirīna

6. ثم أنزل الله سكينته على رسوله وعلى المؤمنين وأنزل جنودا لم تروها وعذب الذين كفروا وذلك جزاء الكافرين

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   Then Allah sent down His composure upon His Apostle and upon the faithful, and He sent down hosts you did not see, and He punished the faithless, and that is the requital of the faithless.

   thumma ʾanzala llāhu sakīnatahū ʿalā rasūlihī wa-ʿalā l-muʾminīna wa-ʾanzala junūdan lam tarawhā wa-ʿadhdhaba lladhīna kafarū wa-dhālika jazāʾu l-kāfirīna