Surah Az-Zumar (The Troops) in English

1. إنا أنزلنا عليك الكتاب للناس بالحق فمن اهتدى فلنفسه ومن ضل فإنما يضل عليها وما أنت عليهم بوكيل

   41

   Indeed We have sent down the Book to you with the truth for [the deliverance of] mankind. So whoever is guided is guided for his own sake, and whoever goes astray, goes astray to his own detriment, and it is not your duty to watch over them.

   ʾinnā ʾanzalnā ʿalayka l-kitāba li-n-nāsi bi-l-ḥaqqi fa-mani htadā fa-li-nafsihī wa-man ḍalla fa-ʾinnamā yaḍillu ʿalayhā wa-mā ʾanta ʿalayhim bi-wakīlin-i

2. الله يتوفى الأنفس حين موتها والتي لم تمت في منامها فيمسك التي قضى عليها الموت ويرسل الأخرى إلى أجل مسمى إن في ذلك لآيات لقوم يتفكرون

   42

   Allah takes the souls at the time of their death, and those who have not died, in their sleep. Then He retains those for whom He has ordained death and releases the others until a specified time. There are indeed signs in that for a people who reflect.

   allāhu yatawaffā l-ʾanfusa ḥīna mawtihā wa-llatī lam tamut fī manāmihā fa-yumsiku llatī qaḍā ʿalayhā l-mawta wa-yursilu l-ʾukhrā ʾilā ʾajalin musamman ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyātin li-qawmin yatafakkarūna

3. أم اتخذوا من دون الله شفعاء قل أولو كانوا لا يملكون شيئا ولا يعقلون

   43

   Have they taken intercessors besides Allah? Say, ‘What! Even though they do not control anything, and cannot reason?!’

   ʾami ttakhadhū min dūni llāhī shufaʿāʾa qul ʾa-wa-law kānū lā yamlikūna shayʾan wa-lā yaʿqilūna

4. قل لله الشفاعة جميعا له ملك السماوات والأرض ثم إليه ترجعون

   44

   Say, ‘All intercession rests with Allah. To Him belongs the kingdom of the heavens and the earth; then you will be brought back to Him.’

   qul li-llāhi sh-shafāʿatu jamīʿan lahū mulku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi thumma ʾilayhi turjaʿūna

5. وإذا ذكر الله وحده اشمأزت قلوب الذين لا يؤمنون بالآخرة وإذا ذكر الذين من دونه إذا هم يستبشرون

   45

   When Allah is mentioned alone, [thereat] shrink away the hearts of those who do not believe in the Hereafter, but when others are mentioned besides Him, behold, they rejoice!

   wa-ʾidhā dhukira llāhu waḥdahu shmaʾazzat qulūbu lladhīna lā yuʾminūna bi-l-ʾākhirati wa-ʾidhā dhukira lladhīna min dūnihī ʾidhā hum yastabshirūna

6. قل اللهم فاطر السماوات والأرض عالم الغيب والشهادة أنت تحكم بين عبادك في ما كانوا فيه يختلفون

   46

   Say, ‘O Allah! Originator of the heavens and the earth, Knower of the sensible and the Unseen, You will judge between Your servants concerning that about which they used to differ.’

   quli llāhumma fāṭira s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi ʿālima l-ghaybi wa-sh-shahādati ʾanta taḥkumu bayna ʿibādika fī mā kānū fīhi yakhtalifūna

7. ولو أن للذين ظلموا ما في الأرض جميعا ومثله معه لافتدوا به من سوء العذاب يوم القيامة وبدا لهم من الله ما لم يكونوا يحتسبون

   47

   Even if the wrongdoers possessed all that is on the earth, and as much of it besides, they would offer it on the Day of Resurrection to redeem themselves with it from a terrible punishment, and there will appear to them from Allah what they had never reckoned.

   wa-law ʾanna li-lladhīna ẓalamū mā fī l-ʾarḍi jamīʿan wa-mithlahū maʿahū la-ftadaw bihī min sūʾi l-ʿadhābi yawma l-qiyāmati wa-badā lahum mina llāhi mā lam yakūnū yaḥtasibūna