Surah Fāţir (Originator) in English

1. هو الذي جعلكم خلائف في الأرض فمن كفر فعليه كفره ولا يزيد الكافرين كفرهم عند ربهم إلا مقتا ولا يزيد الكافرين كفرهم إلا خسارا

   39

   It is He who made you successors on the earth. So whoever is faithless, his unfaith is to his own detriment. The unfaith of the faithless does not increase them with their Lord [in anything] except disfavour, and their unfaith increases the faithless in nothing except loss.

   huwa lladhī jaʿalakum khalāʾifa fī l-ʾarḍi fa-man kafara fa-ʿalayhi kufruhū wa-lā yazīdu l-kāfirīna kufruhum ʿinda rabbihim ʾillā maqtan wa-lā yazīdu l-kāfirīna kufruhum ʾillā khasāran

2. قل أرأيتم شركاءكم الذين تدعون من دون الله أروني ماذا خلقوا من الأرض أم لهم شرك في السماوات أم آتيناهم كتابا فهم على بينت منه بل إن يعد الظالمون بعضهم بعضا إلا غرورا

   40

   Say, ‘Tell me about your ‘partners’ whom you invoke besides Allah? Show me what [part] of the earth have they created. Have they any share in the heavens?’ Have We given them a scripture so that they stand on a manifest proof from it? No, the wrongdoers do not promise one another [anything] except delusion.

   qul ʾa-raʾaytum shurakāʾakumu lladhīna tadʿūna min dūni llāhi ʾarūnī mādhā khalaqū mina l-ʾarḍi ʾam lahum shirkun fī s-samāwāti ʾam ʾātaynāhum kitāban fa-hum ʿalā bayyinatin minhu bal ʾin yaʿidu ẓ-ẓālimūna baʿḍuhum baʿḍan ʾillā ghurūran

3. إن الله يمسك السماوات والأرض أن تزولا ولئن زالتا إن أمسكهما من أحد من بعده إنه كان حليما غفورا

   41

   Indeed Allah sustains the heavens and the earth lest they should fall apart, and if they were to fall apart, there is none who can sustain them except Him. Indeed He is all-forbearing, all-forgiving.

   ʾinna llāha yumsiku s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa ʾan tazūlā wa-la-ʾin zālatā ʾin ʾamsakahumā min ʾaḥadin min baʿdihī ʾinnahū kāna ḥalīman ghafūran

4. وأقسموا بالله جهد أيمانهم لئن جاءهم نذير ليكونن أهدى من إحدى الأمم فلما جاءهم نذير ما زادهم إلا نفورا

   42

   They had sworn by Allah with solemn oaths that if a warner were to come to them, they would be better guided than any of the nations. But when a warner came to them, it only increased their distance [from the truth],

   wa-ʾaqsamū bi-llāhi jahda ʾaymānihim la-ʾin jāʾahum nadhīrun la-yakūnunna ʾahdā min ʾiḥdā l-ʾumami fa-lammā jāʾahum nadhīrun mā zādahum ʾillā nufūran-i

5. استكبارا في الأرض ومكر السيئ ولا يحيق المكر السيئ إلا بأهله فهل ينظرون إلا سنت الأولين فلن تجد لسنت الله تبديلا ولن تجد لسنت الله تحويلا

   43

   due to their domineering [conduct] in the land and their devising of evil schemes; and evil schemes beset only their authors. So do they await anything except the precedent of the ancients? Yet you will never find any change in Allah’s precedent, and you will never find any revision in Allah’s precedent.

   istikbāran fī l-ʾarḍi wa-makra s-sayyiʾi wa-lā yaḥīqu l-makru s-sayyiʾu ʾillā bi-ʾahlihī fa-hal yanẓurūna ʾillā sunnata l-ʾawwalīna fa-lan tajida li-sunnati llāhi tabdīlan wa-lan tajida li-sunnati llāhi taḥwīlan

6. أولم يسيروا في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين من قبلهم وكانوا أشد منهم قوة وما كان الله ليعجزه من شيء في السماوات ولا في الأرض إنه كان عليما قديرا

   44

   Have they not travelled over the land so that they may observe how was the fate of those who were before them? They were more powerful than them, and Allah is not to be frustrated by anything in the heavens or on the earth. Indeed, He is all-knowing, all-powerful.

   ʾa-wa-lam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fa-yanẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu lladhīna min qablihim wa-kānū ʾashadda minhum quwwatan wa-mā kāna llāhu li-yuʿjizahū min shayʾin fī s-samāwāti wa-lā fī l-ʾarḍi ʾinnahū kāna ʿalīman qadīran