Surah Aţ-Ţūr (The Mount) in English

1. أفسحر هذا أم أنتم لا تبصرون

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   Is this, then, [also] magic, or is it you who do not perceive?

   ʾa-fa-siḥrun hādhā ʾam ʾantum lā tubṣirūna

2. اصلوها فاصبروا أو لا تصبروا سواء عليكم إنما تجزون ما كنتم تعملون

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   Enter it, and it will be the same for you whether you are patient or impatient. You are only being requited for what you used to do.’

   iṣlawhā fa-ṣbirū ʾaw lā taṣbirū sawāʾun ʿalaykum ʾinnamā tujzawna mā kuntum taʿmalūna

3. إن المتقين في جنات ونعيم

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   Indeed the Godwary will be amid gardens and bliss,

   ʾinna l-muttaqīna fī jannātin wa-naʿīmin

4. فاكهين بما آتاهم ربهم ووقاهم ربهم عذاب الجحيم

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   rejoicing because of what their Lord has given them, and that their Lord has saved them from the punishment of hell.

   fākihīna bi-mā ʾātāhum rabbuhum wa-waqāhum rabbuhum ʿadhāba l-jaḥīmi

5. كلوا واشربوا هنيئا بما كنتم تعملون

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   [They will be told:] ‘Enjoy your food and drink, [as a reward] for what you used to do.’

   kulū wa-shrabū hanīʾan bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna

6. متكئين على سرر مصفوفة وزوجناهم بحور عين

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   They will be reclining on arrayed couches, and We will wed them to big-eyed houris.

   muttakiʾīna ʿalā sururin maṣfūfatin wa-zawwajnāhum bi-ḥūrin ʿīnin

7. والذين آمنوا واتبعتهم ذريتهم بإيمان ألحقنا بهم ذريتهم وما ألتناهم من عملهم من شيء كل امرئ بما كسب رهين

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   The faithful and their descendants who followed them in faith—We will make their descendants join them, and We will not stint anything from [the reward of] their deeds. Every person is hostage to what he has earned.

   wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ttabaʿathum dhurriyyatuhum bi-ʾīmānin ʾalḥaqnā bihim dhurriyyatahum wa-mā ʾalatnāhum min ʿamalihim min shayʾin kullu mriʾin bi-mā kasaba rahīnun

8. وأمددناهم بفاكهة ولحم مما يشتهون

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   We will provide them with fruits and meat, such as they desire.

   wa-ʾamdadnāhum bi-fākihatin wa-laḥmin mimmā yashtahūna

9. يتنازعون فيها كأسا لا لغو فيها ولا تأثيم

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   There they will pass from hand to hand a cup wherein there will be neither any vain talk nor sinful speech.

   yatanāzaʿūna fīhā kaʾsan lā laghwun fīhā wa-lā taʾthīmun

10. ويطوف عليهم غلمان لهم كأنهم لؤلؤ مكنون

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    They will be waited upon by their youths, as if they were guarded pearls.

    wa-yaṭūfu ʿalayhim ghilmānun lahum ka-ʾannahum luʾluʾun maknūnun

11. وأقبل بعضهم على بعض يتساءلون

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    They will turn to one another, questioning each other.

    wa-ʾaqbala baʿḍuhum ʿalā baʿḍin yatasāʾalūna

12. قالوا إنا كنا قبل في أهلنا مشفقين

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    They will say, ‘Indeed, aforetime, we used to be apprehensive about our families.

    qālū ʾinnā kunnā qablu fī ʾahlinā mushfiqīna

13. فمن الله علينا ووقانا عذاب السموم

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    But Allah showed us favour and He saved us from the punishment of the [infernal] miasma.

    fa-manna llāhu ʿalaynā wa-waqānā ʿadhāba s-samūmi

14. إنا كنا من قبل ندعوه إنه هو البر الرحيم

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    We used to supplicate Him aforetime. Indeed He is the All-benign, the All-merciful.’

    ʾinnā kunnā min qablu nadʿūhu ʾinnahū huwa l-barru r-raḥīmu

15. فذكر فما أنت بنعمت ربك بكاهن ولا مجنون

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    So admonish. By your Lord’s blessing, you are not a soothsayer, nor mad.

    fa-dhakkir fa-mā ʾanta bi-niʿmati rabbika bi-kāhinin wa-lā majnūnin

16. أم يقولون شاعر نتربص به ريب المنون

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    Do they say, ‘[He is] a poet, for whom we await a fatal accident’?

    ʾam yaqūlūna shāʿirun natarabbaṣu bihī rayba l-manūni

17. قل تربصوا فإني معكم من المتربصين

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    Say, ‘Wait! I too am waiting along with you.’

    qul tarabbaṣū fa-ʾinnī maʿakum mina l-mutarabbiṣīna