Surah At-Tawbah (The Repentance) in English

1. كالذين من قبلكم كانوا أشد منكم قوة وأكثر أموالا وأولادا فاستمتعوا بخلاقهم فاستمتعتم بخلاقكم كما استمتع الذين من قبلكم بخلاقهم وخضتم كالذي خاضوا أولئك حبطت أعمالهم في الدنيا والآخرة وأولئك هم الخاسرون

   69

   [Hypocrites! Your case is] similar to those who were before you, who were more powerful than you and more abounding in wealth and children: they enjoyed their share [of worldly existence]; you too enjoy your share, just like those who were before you enjoyed their share, and you have gossiped [impiously] as they gossiped. They are the ones whose works have failed in this world and the Hereafter; and it is they who are the losers.

   ka-lladhīna min qablikum kānū ʾashadda minkum quwwatan wa-ʾakthara ʾamwālan wa-ʾawlādan fa-stamtaʿū bi-khalāqihim fa-stamtaʿtum bi-khalāqikum ka-mā stamtaʿa lladhīna min qablikum bi-khalāqihim wa-khuḍtum ka-lladhī khāḍū ʾulāʾika ḥabiṭat ʾaʿmāluhum fī d-dunyā wa-l-ʾākhirati wa-ʾulāʾika humu l-khāsirūna

2. ألم يأتهم نبأ الذين من قبلهم قوم نوح وعاد وثمود وقوم إبراهيم وأصحاب مدين والمؤتفكات أتتهم رسلهم بالبينات فما كان الله ليظلمهم ولكن كانوا أنفسهم يظلمون

   70

   Has there not come to them the account of those who were before them—the people of Noah, ‘Ad, and Tham£d, and the people of Abraham, the inhabitants of Midian, and the towns that were overturned? Their apostles brought them manifest proofs. So it was not Allah who wronged them, but it was they who used to wrong themselves.

   ʾa-lam yaʾtihim nabaʾu lladhīna min qablihim qawmi nūḥin wa-ʿādin wa-thamūda wa-qawmi ʾibrāhīma wa-ʾaṣḥābi madyana wa-l-muʾtafikāti ʾatathum rusuluhum bi-l-bayyināti fa-mā kāna llāhu li-yaẓlimahum wa-lākin kānū ʾanfusahum yaẓlimūna

3. والمؤمنون والمؤمنات بعضهم أولياء بعض يأمرون بالمعروف وينهون عن المنكر ويقيمون الصلاة ويؤتون الزكاة ويطيعون الله ورسوله أولئك سيرحمهم الله إن الله عزيز حكيم

   71

   But the faithful, men and women, are comrades of one another: they bid what is right and forbid what is wrong and maintain the prayer, give the zakat, and obey Allah and His Apostle. It is they to whom Allah will soon grant His mercy. Indeed Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.

   wa-l-muʾminūna wa-l-muʾminātu baʿḍuhum ʾawliyāʾu baʿḍin yaʾmurūna bi-l-maʿrūfi wa-yanhawna ʿani l-munkari wa-yuqīmūna ṣ-ṣalāta wa-yuʾtūna z-zakāta wa-yuṭīʿūna llāha wa-rasūlahū ʾulāʾika sa-yarḥamuhumu llāhu ʾinna llāha ʿazīzun ḥakīmun

4. وعد الله المؤمنين والمؤمنات جنات تجري من تحتها الأنهار خالدين فيها ومساكن طيبة في جنات عدن ورضوان من الله أكبر ذلك هو الفوز العظيم

   72

   Allah has promised the faithful, men and women, gardens with streams running in them, to remain in them [forever], and good dwellings in the Gardens of Eden. Yet Allah’s pleasure is greater [than all these]; that is the great success.

   waʿada llāhu l-muʾminīna wa-l-muʾmināti jannātin tajrī min taḥtihā l-ʾanhāru khālidīna fīhā wa-masākina ṭayyibatan fī jannāti ʿadnin wa-riḍwānun mina llāhi ʾakbaru dhālika huwa l-fawzu l-ʿaẓīmu