Surah Fuşşilat (Explained in Detail) in English

1. فقضاهن سبع سماوات في يومين وأوحى في كل سماء أمرها وزينا السماء الدنيا بمصابيح وحفظا ذلك تقدير العزيز العليم

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   Then He set them up as seven heavens in two days, and revealed [to the angels] in each heaven its ordinance. We have adorned the lowest heaven with lamps, and guarded them. That is the ordaining of the All-mighty, the All-knowing.

   fa-qaḍāhunna sabʿa samāwātin fī yawmayni wa-ʾawḥā fī kulli samāʾin ʾamrahā wa-zayyannā s-samāʾa d-dunyā bi-maṣābīḥa wa-ḥifẓan dhālika taqdīru l-ʿazīzi l-ʿalīmi

2. فإن أعرضوا فقل أنذرتكم صاعقة مثل صاعقة عاد وثمود

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   But if they turn away, say, ‘I warn you of a thunderbolt, like the thunderbolt of ‘Ad and Thamud.’

   fa-ʾin ʾaʿraḍū fa-qul ʾandhartukum ṣāʿiqatan mithla ṣāʿiqati ʿādin wa-thamūda

3. إذ جاءتهم الرسل من بين أيديهم ومن خلفهم ألا تعبدوا إلا الله قالوا لو شاء ربنا لأنزل ملائكة فإنا بما أرسلتم به كافرون

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   When the apostles came to them, before them and in their own time, saying, ‘Worship no one except Allah!’ They said, ‘Had our Lord wished, He would have sent down angels [to us]. We indeed disbelieve in what you have been sent with.’

   ʾidh jāʾathumu r-rusulu min bayni ʾaydīhim wa-min khalfihim ʾallā taʿbudū ʾillā llāha qālū law shāʾa rabbunā la-ʾanzala malāʾikatan fa-ʾinnā bi-mā ʾursiltum bihī kāfirūna

4. فأما عاد فاستكبروا في الأرض بغير الحق وقالوا من أشد منا قوة أولم يروا أن الله الذي خلقهم هو أشد منهم قوة وكانوا بآياتنا يجحدون

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   As for [the people of] ‘Ad, they acted arrogantly in the earth unduly, and they said, ‘Who is more powerful than us?’ Did they not see that Allah, who created them, is more powerful than them? They used to impugn Our signs;

   fa-ʾammā ʿādun fa-stakbarū fī l-ʾarḍi bi-ghayri l-ḥaqqi wa-qālū man ʾashaddu minnā quwwatan ʾa-wa-lam yaraw ʾanna llāha lladhī khalaqahum huwa ʾashaddu minhum quwwatan wa-kānū bi-ʾāyātinā yajḥadūna

5. فأرسلنا عليهم ريحا صرصرا في أيام نحسات لنذيقهم عذاب الخزي في الحياة الدنيا ولعذاب الآخرة أخزى وهم لا ينصرون

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   so We unleashed upon them an icy gale during ill-fated days, in order that We might make them taste a humiliating punishment in the life of the world. Yet the punishment of the Hereafter will be surely more disgraceful, and they will not be helped.

   fa-ʾarsalnā ʿalayhim rīḥan ṣarṣaran fī ʾayyāmin naḥisātin li-nudhīqahum ʿadhāba l-khizyi fī l-ḥayāti d-dunyā wa-la-ʿadhābu l-ʾākhirati ʾakhzā wa-hum lā yunṣarūna

6. وأما ثمود فهديناهم فاستحبوا العمى على الهدى فأخذتهم صاعقة العذاب الهون بما كانوا يكسبون

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   As for [the people of] Thamud, We guided them, but they preferred blindness to guidance. So the bolt of a humiliating punishment seized them because of what they used to earn.

   wa-ʾammā thamūdu fa-hadaynāhum fa-staḥabbū l-ʿamā ʿalā l-hudā fa-ʾakhadhathum ṣāʿiqatu l-ʿadhābi l-hūni bi-mā kānū yaksibūna

7. ونجينا الذين آمنوا وكانوا يتقون

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   And We delivered those who had faith and were Godwary.

   wa-najjaynā lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-kānū yattaqūna

8. ويوم يحشر أعداء الله إلى النار فهم يوزعون

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   The day the enemies of Allah are marched out toward the Fire, while they are in check,

   wa-yawma yuḥsharu ʾaʿdāʾu llāhi ʾilā n-nāri fa-hum yūzaʿūna

9. حتى إذا ما جاءوها شهد عليهم سمعهم وأبصارهم وجلودهم بما كانوا يعملون

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   when they come to it, their hearing, their eyes and their skins will bear witness against them concerning what they used to do.

   ḥattā ʾidhā mā jāʾūhā shahida ʿalayhim samʿuhum wa-ʾabṣāruhum wa-julūduhum bi-mā kānū yaʿmalūna