Surah Aţ-Ţūr (The Mount) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. والطور

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   By the Mount [Sinai],

   wa-ṭ-ṭūri

2. وكتاب مسطور

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   by the Book inscribed

   wa-kitābin masṭūrin

3. في رق منشور

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   on an unrolled parchment;

   fī raqqin manshūrin

4. والبيت المعمور

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   by the House greatly frequented;

   wa-l-bayti l-maʿmūri

5. والسقف المرفوع

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   by the vault raised high,

   wa-s-saqfi l-marfūʿi

6. والبحر المسجور

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   by the surging sea:

   wa-l-baḥri l-masjūri

7. إن عذاب ربك لواقع

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   indeed your Lord’s punishment will surely befall.

   ʾinna ʿadhāba rabbika la-wāqiʿun

8. ما له من دافع

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   There is none who can avert it.

   mā lahū min dāfiʿin

9. يوم تمور السماء مورا

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   On the day when the sky whirls violently,

   yawma tamūru s-samāʾu mawran

10. وتسير الجبال سيرا

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    and the mountains move with an awful motion:

    wa-tasīru l-jibālu sayran

11. فويل يومئذ للمكذبين

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    woe to the deniers on that day

    fa-waylun yawmaʾidhin li-l-mukadhdhibīna

12. الذين هم في خوض يلعبون

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    —those who play around in vain talk,

    alladhīna hum fī khawḍin yalʿabūna

13. يوم يدعون إلى نار جهنم دعا

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    the day when they will be shoved forcibly toward the fire of hell, [and told:]

    yawma yudaʿʿūna ʾilā n-nāri jahannama daʿʿan

14. هذه النار التي كنتم بها تكذبون

    14

    ‘This is the Fire which you used to deny!

    hādhihi n-nāru llatī kuntum bihā tukadhdhibūna