Surah Az-Zumar (The Troops) in English

1. أفمن شرح الله صدره للإسلام فهو على نور من ربه فويل للقاسية قلوبهم من ذكر الله أولئك في ضلال مبين

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   Is someone whose breast Allah has opened to Islam so that he follows a light from His Lord…? So woe to those whose hearts have been hardened to the remembrance of Allah. They are in manifest error.

   ʾa-fa-man sharaḥa llāhu ṣadrahū li-l-ʾislāmi fa-huwa ʿalā nūrin min rabbihī fa-waylun li-l-qāsiyati qulūbuhum min dhikri llāhi ʾulāʾika fī ḍalālin mubīnin-i

2. الله نزل أحسن الحديث كتابا متشابها مثاني تقشعر منه جلود الذين يخشون ربهم ثم تلين جلودهم وقلوبهم إلى ذكر الله ذلك هدى الله يهدي به من يشاء ومن يضلل الله فما له من هاد

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   Allah has sent down the best of discourses, a scripture [composed] of similar motifs, whereat shiver the skins of those who fear their Lord, then their skins and hearts relax at Allah’s remembrance. That is Allah’s guidance, by which He guides whomever He wishes; and whomever Allah leads astray, has no guide.

   allāhu nazzala ʾaḥsana l-ḥadīthi kitāban mutashābihan mathāniya taqshaʿirru minhu julūdu lladhīna yakhshawna rabbahum thumma talīnu julūduhum wa-qulūbuhum ʾilā dhikri llāhi dhālika hudā llāhi yahdī bihī man yashāʾu wa-man yuḍlili llāhu fa-mā lahū min hādin

3. أفمن يتقي بوجهه سوء العذاب يوم القيامة وقيل للظالمين ذوقوا ما كنتم تكسبون

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   What! Is someone who fends off with his face the terrible punishment [meted out to him] on the Day of Resurrection…? And the wrongdoers will be told, ‘Taste what you used to earn.’

   ʾa-fa-man yattaqī bi-wajhihī sūʾa l-ʿadhābi yawma l-qiyāmati wa-qīla li-ẓ-ẓālimīna dhūqū mā kuntum taksibūna

4. كذب الذين من قبلهم فأتاهم العذاب من حيث لا يشعرون

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   Those who were before them impugned [the apostles], whereat the punishment overtook them whence they were not aware.

   kadhdhaba lladhīna min qablihim fa-ʾatāhumu l-ʿadhābu min ḥaythu lā yashʿurūna

5. فأذاقهم الله الخزي في الحياة الدنيا ولعذاب الآخرة أكبر لو كانوا يعلمون

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   So Allah made them taste disgrace in the life of the world, and the punishment of the Hereafter will surely be greater, if they knew.

   fa-ʾadhāqahumu llāhu l-khizya fī l-ḥayāti d-dunyā wa-la-ʿadhābu l-ʾākhirati ʾakbaru law kānū yaʿlamūna

6. ولقد ضربنا للناس في هذا القرآن من كل مثل لعلهم يتذكرون

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   We have drawn for mankind in this Quran every [kind of] example, so that they may take admonition:

   wa-la-qad ḍarabnā li-n-nāsi fī hādhā l-qurʾāni min kulli mathalin laʿallahum yatadhakkarūna

7. قرآنا عربيا غير ذي عوج لعلهم يتقون

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   an Arabic Quran, without any deviousness, so that they may be Godwary.

   qurʾānan ʿarabiyyan ghayra dhī ʿiwajin laʿallahum yattaqūna

8. ضرب الله مثلا رجلا فيه شركاء متشاكسون ورجلا سلما لرجل هل يستويان مثلا الحمد لله بل أكثرهم لا يعلمون

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   Allah draws an example: a man jointly owned by several contending masters, and a man belonging entirely to one man: are the two equal in comparison? All praise belongs to Allah! But most of them do not know.

   ḍaraba llāhu mathalan rajulan fīhi shurakāʾu mutashākisūna wa-rajulan salaman li-rajulin hal yastawiyāni mathalan-i l-ḥamdu li-llāhi bal ʾaktharuhum lā yaʿlamūna

9. إنك ميت وإنهم ميتون

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   You will die, and they [too] will die.

   ʾinnaka mayyitun wa-ʾinnahum mayyitūna

10. ثم إنكم يوم القيامة عند ربكم تختصمون

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    Then on the Day of Resurrection you will contend before your Lord.

    thumma ʾinnakum yawma l-qiyāmati ʿinda rabbikum takhtaṣimūna