Surah Aţ-Ţūr (The Mount) in English

1. أم تأمرهم أحلامهم بهذا أم هم قوم طاغون

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   Is it their intellect which prompts them to [say] this, or are they a rebellious lot?

   ʾam taʿmuruhum ʾaḥlāmuhum bi-hādhā ʾam hum qawmun ṭāghūna

2. أم يقولون تقوله بل لا يؤمنون

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   Do they say, ‘He has improvised it [himself]?’ Rather, they have no faith!

   ʾam yaqūlūna taqawwalahū bal lā yuʾminūna

3. فليأتوا بحديث مثله إن كانوا صادقين

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   Let them bring a discourse like it, if they are truthful.

   fa-l-yaʾtū bi-ḥadīthin mithlihī ʾin kānū ṣādiqīna

4. أم خلقوا من غير شيء أم هم الخالقون

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   Were they created from nothing? Or are they [their own] creators?

   ʾam khuliqū min ghayri shayʾin ʾam humu l-khāliqūna

5. أم خلقوا السماوات والأرض بل لا يوقنون

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   Did they create the heavens and the earth? Rather, they have no certainty!

   ʾam khalaqū s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa bal lā yūqinūna

6. أم عندهم خزائن ربك أم هم المصيطرون

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   Do they possess the treasuries of your Lord? Or do they control [them]?

   ʾam ʿindahum khazāʾinu rabbika ʾam humu l-muṣayṭirūna

7. أم لهم سلم يستمعون فيه فليأت مستمعهم بسلطان مبين

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   Do they have a ladder [leading up to heaven] whereby they eavesdrop? If so, let their eavesdropper produce a manifest authority.

   ʾam lahum sullamun yastamiʿūna fīhi fa-l-yaʾti mustamiʿuhum bi-sulṭānin mubīnin

8. أم له البنات ولكم البنون

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   Does He have daughters while you have sons?

   ʾam lahu l-banātu wa-lakumu l-banūna

9. أم تسألهم أجرا فهم من مغرم مثقلون

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   Do you ask them for a reward, so that they are [wary of] being weighed down with debt?

   ʾam tasʾaluhum ʾajran fa-hum min maghramin muthqalūna

10. أم عندهم الغيب فهم يكتبون

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    Do they have [access to] the Unseen, which they write down?

    ʾam ʿindahumu l-ghaybu fa-hum yaktubūna

11. أم يريدون كيدا فالذين كفروا هم المكيدون

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    Do they seek to outmaneuver [Allah]? But it is the faithless who are the outmaneuvered ones!

    ʾam yurīdūna kaydan fa-lladhīna kafarū humu l-makīdūna

12. أم لهم إله غير الله سبحان الله عما يشركون

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    Do they have any god other than Allah? Clear is Allah of any partners that they may ascribe [to Him]!

    ʾam lahum ʾilāhun ghayru llāhi subḥāna llāhi ʿammā yushrikūna

13. وإن يروا كسفا من السماء ساقطا يقولوا سحاب مركوم

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    Were they to see a fragment falling from the sky, they would say, ‘A cumulous cloud.’

    wa-ʾin yaraw kisfan mina s-samāʾi sāqiṭan yaqūlū saḥābun markūmun

14. فذرهم حتى يلاقوا يومهم الذي فيه يصعقون

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    So leave them until they encounter the day when they will be thunderstruck,

    fa-dharhum ḥattā yulāqū yawmahumu lladhī fīhi yuṣʿaqūna

15. يوم لا يغني عنهم كيدهم شيئا ولا هم ينصرون

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    the day when their guile will not avail them in any way, nor will they be helped.

    yawma lā yughnī ʿanhum kayduhum shayʾan wa-lā hum yunṣarūna

16. وإن للذين ظلموا عذابا دون ذلك ولكن أكثرهم لا يعلمون

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    Indeed there is a punishment besides that for those who do wrong, but most of them do not know.

    wa-ʾinna li-lladhīna ẓalamū ʿadhāban dūna dhālika wa-lākinna ʾaktharahum lā yaʿlamūna

17. واصبر لحكم ربك فإنك بأعيننا وسبح بحمد ربك حين تقوم

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    So submit patiently to the judgement of your Lord, for indeed you fare before Our eyes. And celebrate the praise of your Lord when you rise [at dawn],

    wa-ṣbir li-ḥukmi rabbika fa-ʾinnaka bi-ʾaʿyuninā wa-sabbiḥ bi-ḥamdi rabbika ḥīna taqūmu

18. ومن الليل فسبحه وإدبار النجوم

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    and also glorify Him during the night and at the receding of the stars.

    wa-mina l-layli fa-sabbiḥhu wa-ʾidbāra n-nujūmi