Surah At-Tawbah (The Repentance) in English

1. إنما النسيء زيادة في الكفر يضل به الذين كفروا يحلونه عاما ويحرمونه عاما ليواطئوا عدة ما حرم الله فيحلوا ما حرم الله زين لهم سوء أعمالهم والله لا يهدي القوم الكافرين

   37

   Indeed nasee is an increase in unfaith, whereby the faithless are led [further] astray. They allow it in one year and forbid it another year, so as to fit in with the number, which Allah has made inviolable, thus permitting what Allah has forbidden. Their evil deeds appear to them as decorous, and Allah does not guide the faithless lot.

   ʾinnamā n-nasīʾu ziyādatun fī l-kufri yuḍallu bihi lladhīna kafarū yuḥillūnahū ʿāman wa-yuḥarrimūnahū ʿāman li-yuwāṭiʾū ʿiddata mā ḥarrama llāhu fa-yuḥillū mā ḥarrama llāhu zuyyina lahum sūʾu ʾaʿmālihim wa-llāhu lā yahdī l-qawma l-kāfirīna

2. يا أيها الذين آمنوا ما لكم إذا قيل لكم انفروا في سبيل الله اثاقلتم إلى الأرض أرضيتم بالحياة الدنيا من الآخرة فما متاع الحياة الدنيا في الآخرة إلا قليل

   38

   O you who have faith! What is the matter with you that when you are told: ‘Go forth in the way of Allah,’ you sink heavily to the ground? Are you pleased with the life of this world instead of the Hereafter? But the wares of the life of this world compared with the Hereafter are but insignificant.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū mā lakum ʾidhā qīla lakumu nfirū fī sabīli llāhi ththāqaltum ʾilā l-ʾarḍi ʾa-raḍītum bi-l-ḥayāti d-dunyā mina l-ʾākhirati fa-mā matāʿu l-ḥayāti d-dunyā fī l-ʾākhirati ʾillā qalīlun

3. إلا تنفروا يعذبكم عذابا أليما ويستبدل قوما غيركم ولا تضروه شيئا والله على كل شيء قدير

   39

   If you do not go forth, He will punish you with a painful punishment, and replace you with another people, and you will not hurt Him in the least, and Allah has power over all things.

   ʾillā tanfirū yuʿadhdhibkum ʿadhāban ʾalīman wa-yastabdil qawman ghayrakum wa-lā taḍurrūhu shayʾan wa-llāhu ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun

4. إلا تنصروه فقد نصره الله إذ أخرجه الذين كفروا ثاني اثنين إذ هما في الغار إذ يقول لصاحبه لا تحزن إن الله معنا فأنزل الله سكينته عليه وأيده بجنود لم تروها وجعل كلمة الذين كفروا السفلى وكلمة الله هي العليا والله عزيز حكيم

   40

   If you do not help him, then Allah certainly helped him when the faithless expelled him, as one of two [refugees], when the two of them were in the cave, he said to his companion, ‘Do not grieve; Allah is indeed with us.’ Then Allah sent down His composure upon him, and strengthened him with hosts you did not see, and He made the word of the faithless the lowest; and the word of Allah is the highest; and Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.

   ʾillā tanṣurūhu fa-qad naṣarahu llāhu ʾidh ʾakhrajahu lladhīna kafarū thāniya thnayni ʾidh humā fī l-ghāri ʾidh yaqūlu li-ṣāḥibihī lā taḥzan ʾinna llāha maʿanā fa-ʾanzala llāhu sakīnatahū ʿalayhi wa-ʾayyadahū bi-junūdin lam tarawhā wa-jaʿala kalimata lladhīna kafarū s-suflā wa-kalimatu llāhi hiya l-ʿulyā wa-llāhu ʿazīzun ḥakīmun-i