Surah At-Tawbah (The Repentance) in English

1. والذين اتخذوا مسجدا ضرارا وكفرا وتفريقا بين المؤمنين وإرصادا لمن حارب الله ورسوله من قبل وليحلفن إن أردنا إلا الحسنى والله يشهد إنهم لكاذبون

   107

   As for those who took to a mosque for sabotage and for defiance, and to cause division among the faithful, and for the purpose of ambush [used] by those who have fought Allah and His Apostle before—they will surely swear, ‘We desired nothing but good,’ and Allah bears witness that they are indeed liars.

   wa-lladhīna ttakhadhū masjidan ḍirāran wa-kufran wa-tafrīqan bayna l-muʾminīna wa-ʾirṣādan li-man ḥāraba llāha wa-rasūlahū min qablu wa-la-yaḥlifunna ʾin ʾaradnā ʾillā l-ḥusnā wa-llāhu yashhadu ʾinnahum la-kādhibūna

2. لا تقم فيه أبدا لمسجد أسس على التقوى من أول يوم أحق أن تقوم فيه فيه رجال يحبون أن يتطهروا والله يحب المطهرين

   108

   Do not stand in it ever! A mosque founded on Godwariness from the [very] first day is worthier that you stand in it [for prayer]. Therein are men who love to keep pure, and Allah loves those who keep pure.

   lā taqum fīhi ʾabadan la-masjidun ʾussisa ʿalā t-taqwā min ʾawwali yawmin ʾaḥaqqu ʾan taqūma fīhi fīhi rijālun yuḥibbūna ʾan yataṭahharū wa-llāhu yuḥibbu l-muṭṭahhirīna

3. أفمن أسس بنيانه على تقوى من الله ورضوان خير أم من أسس بنيانه على شفا جرف هار فانهار به في نار جهنم والله لا يهدي القوم الظالمين

   109

   Is he who founds his building on Godwariness and [the pursuit of Allah’s] pleasure better-off or he who founds his building on the brink of a collapsing bank which collapses with him into the fire of hell? Allah does not guide the wrongdoing lot.

   ʾa-fa-man ʾassasa bunyānahū ʿalā taqwā mina llāhi wa-riḍwānin khayrun ʾam man ʾassasa bunyānahū ʿalā shafā jurufin hārin fa-nhāra bihī fī nāri jahanamma wa-llāhu lā yahdī l-qawma ẓ-ẓālimīna

4. لا يزال بنيانهم الذي بنوا ريبة في قلوبهم إلا أن تقطع قلوبهم والله عليم حكيم

   110

   The building they have built will never cease to be [a source of] disquiet in their hearts until their hearts are cut into pieces, and Allah is all-knowing, all-wise.

   lā yazālu bunyānuhumu lladhī banaw rībatan fī qulūbihim ʾillā ʾan taqaṭṭaʿa qulūbuhum wa-llāhu ʿalīmun ḥakīmun

5. إن الله اشترى من المؤمنين أنفسهم وأموالهم بأن لهم الجنة يقاتلون في سبيل الله فيقتلون ويقتلون وعدا عليه حقا في التوراة والإنجيل والقرآن ومن أوفى بعهده من الله فاستبشروا ببيعكم الذي بايعتم به وذلك هو الفوز العظيم

   111

   Indeed Allah has bought from the faithful their souls and their possessions for paradise to be theirs: they fight in the way of Allah, kill, and are killed. A promise binding upon Him in the Torah and the Evangel and the Quran. And who is truer to his promise than Allah? So rejoice in the bargain you have made with Him, and that is the great success.

   ʾinna llāha shtarā mina l-muʾminīna ʾanfusahum wa-ʾamwālahum bi-ʾanna lahumu l-jannata yuqātilūna fī sabīli llāhi fa-yaqtulūna wa-yuqtalūna waʿdan ʿalayhi ḥaqqan fī t-tawrāti wa-l-ʾinjīli wa-l-qurʾāni wa-man ʾawfā bi-ʿahdihī mina llāhi fa-stabshirū bi-bayʿikumu lladhī bāyaʿtum bihī wa-dhālika huwa l-fawzu l-ʿaẓīmu