Surah Az-Zumar (The Troops) in English

1. خلقكم من نفس واحدة ثم جعل منها زوجها وأنزل لكم من الأنعام ثمانية أزواج يخلقكم في بطون أمهاتكم خلقا من بعد خلق في ظلمات ثلاث ذلكم الله ربكم له الملك لا إله إلا هو فأنى تصرفون

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   He created you from a single soul, then made from it its mate, and He has sent down for you eight mates of the cattle. He creates you in the wombs of your mothers, creation after creation, in a threefold darkness. That is Allah, your Lord! To Him belongs all sovereignty. There is no god except Him. Then where are you being led away?

   khalaqakum min nafsin wāḥidatin thumma jaʿala minhā zawjahā wa-ʾanzala lakum mina l-ʾanʿāmi thamāniyata ʾazwājin yakhluqukum fī buṭūni ʾummahātikum khalqan min baʿdi khalqin fī ẓulumātin thalāthin dhālikumu llāhu rabbukum lahu l-mulku lā ʾilāha ʾillā huwa fa-ʾannā tuṣrafūna

2. إن تكفروا فإن الله غني عنكم ولا يرضى لعباده الكفر وإن تشكروا يرضه لكم ولا تزر وازرة وزر أخرى ثم إلى ربكم مرجعكم فينبئكم بما كنتم تعملون إنه عليم بذات الصدور

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   If you are ungrateful, Allah has indeed no need of you, though He does not approve ingratitude for His servants; and if you give thanks, He approves that for you. No bearer shall bear another’s burden; then your return will be to your Lord, whereat He will inform you concerning what you used to do. Indeed, He knows best what is in the breasts.

   ʾin takfurū fa-ʾinna llāha ghaniyyun ʿankum wa-lā yarḍā li-ʿibādihi l-kufra wa-ʾin tashkurū yarḍahu lakum wa-lā taziru wāziratun wizra ʾukhrā thumma ʾilā rabbikum marjiʿukum fa-yunabbiʾukum bi-mā kuntum taʿmalūna ʾinnahū ʿalīmun bi-dhāti ṣ-ṣudūri

3. وإذا مس الإنسان ضر دعا ربه منيبا إليه ثم إذا خوله نعمة منه نسي ما كان يدعو إليه من قبل وجعل لله أندادا ليضل عن سبيله قل تمتع بكفرك قليلا إنك من أصحاب النار

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   When distress befalls man, he supplicates his Lord, turning to Him penitently. Then, when He grants him a blessing from Himself, he forgets that for which he had supplicated Him earlier and sets up equals to Allah, that he may lead [people] astray from His way. Say, ‘Revel in your ingratitude for a while. Indeed you are among the inmates of the Fire.’

   wa-ʾidhā massa l-ʾinsāna ḍurrun daʿā rabbahū munīban ʾilayhi thumma ʾidhā khawwalahū niʿmatan minhu nasiya mā kāna yadʿū ʾilayhi min qablu wa-jaʿala li-llāhi ʾandādan li-yuḍilla ʿan sabīlihī qul tamattaʿ bi-kufrika qalīlan ʾinnaka min ʾaṣḥābi n-nāri

4. أمن هو قانت آناء الليل ساجدا وقائما يحذر الآخرة ويرجو رحمة ربه قل هل يستوي الذين يعلمون والذين لا يعلمون إنما يتذكر أولو الألباب

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   Is he who supplicates in the watches of the night, prostrating and standing, apprehensive of the Hereafter and expecting the mercy of his Lord...? Say, ‘Are those who know equal to those who do not know?’ Only those who possess intellect take admonition.

   ʾam-man huwa qānitun ʾānāʾa l-layli sājidan wa-qāʾiman yaḥdharu l-ʾākhirata wa-yarjū raḥmata rabbihī qul hal yastawī lladhīna yaʿlamūna wa-lladhīna lā yaʿlamūna ʾinnamā yatadhakkaru ʾulū l-ʾalbābi

5. قل يا عباد الذين آمنوا اتقوا ربكم للذين أحسنوا في هذه الدنيا حسنة وأرض الله واسعة إنما يوفى الصابرون أجرهم بغير حساب

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   Say, ‘[Allah declares:] “O My servants who have faith! Be wary of your Lord. For those who do good in this world there will be a good [reward], and Allah’s earth is vast. Indeed the patient will be paid in full their reward without any reckoning.” ’

   qul yā-ʿibādi lladhīna ʾāmanū ttaqū rabbakum li-lladhīna ʾaḥsanū fī hādhihi d-dunyā ḥasanatun wa-ʾarḍu llāhi wāsiʿatun ʾinnamā yuwaffā ṣ-ṣābirūna ʾajrahum bi-ghayri ḥisābin