Surah Fuşşilat (Explained in Detail) in English

1. ومن آياته أنك ترى الأرض خاشعة فإذا أنزلنا عليها الماء اهتزت وربت إن الذي أحياها لمحيي الموتى إنه على كل شيء قدير

   39

   Among His signs, is that you see the earth desolate; but when We send down water upon it, it stirs and swells. Indeed, He who revives it will also revive the dead. Indeed, He has power over all things.

   wa-min ʾāyātihī ʾannaka tarā l-ʾarḍa khāshiʿatan fa-ʾidhā ʾanzalnā ʿalayhā l-māʾa htazzat wa-rabat ʾinna lladhī ʾaḥyāhā la-muḥyi l-mawtā ʾinnahū ʿalā kulli shayʾin qadīrun

2. إن الذين يلحدون في آياتنا لا يخفون علينا أفمن يلقى في النار خير أم من يأتي آمنا يوم القيامة اعملوا ما شئتم إنه بما تعملون بصير

   40

   Those who abuse Our signs are not hidden from Us. Is someone who is cast in the Fire better off, or someone who arrives safely on the Day of Resurrection? Act as you wish; indeed He watches what you do.

   ʾinna lladhīna yulḥidūna fī ʾāyātinā lā yakhfawna ʿalaynā ʾa-fa-man yulqā fī n-nāri khayrun ʾam man yaʾtī ʾāminan yawma l-qiyāmati ʿmalū mā shiʾtum ʾinnahū bi-mā taʿmalūna baṣīrun

3. إن الذين كفروا بالذكر لما جاءهم وإنه لكتاب عزيز

   41

   Those who reject the Reminder when it comes to them... Indeed, it is an august Book:

   ʾinna lladhīna kafarū bi-dh-dhikri lammā jāʾahum wa-ʾinnahū la-kitābun ʿazīzun

4. لا يأتيه الباطل من بين يديه ولا من خلفه تنزيل من حكيم حميد

   42

   falsehood cannot approach it, at present or in future, a [revelation gradually] sent down from One all-wise, all-laudable.

   lā yaʾtīhi l-bāṭilu min bayni yadayhi wa-lā min khalfihī tanzīlun min ḥakīmin ḥamīdin

5. ما يقال لك إلا ما قد قيل للرسل من قبلك إن ربك لذو مغفرة وذو عقاب أليم

   43

   Nothing is said to you except what has already been said to the apostles before you. Indeed your Lord is One who forgives and also metes out a painful retribution.

   mā yuqālu laka ʾillā mā qad qīla li-r-rusuli min qablika ʾinna rabbaka la-dhū maghfiratin wa-dhū ʿiqābin ʾalīmin

6. ولو جعلناه قرآنا أعجميا لقالوا لولا فصلت آياته أأعجمي وعربي قل هو للذين آمنوا هدى وشفاء والذين لا يؤمنون في آذانهم وقر وهو عليهم عمى أولئك ينادون من مكان بعيد

   44

   Had We made it a non-Arabic Quran, they would have said, ‘Why have not its signs been articulated?’ ‘What! A non-Arabian [scripture] and an Arabian [prophet]!?’ Say, ‘It is guidance and healing for those who have faith. As for those who are faithless, there is a deafness in their ears and it is lost to their sight: [to them it is as if] they were called from a distant place.’

   wa-law jaʿalnāhu qurʾānan ʾaʿjamiyyan la-qālū law-lā fuṣṣilat ʾāyātuhū ʾa-aʿjamiyyun wa-ʿarabiyyun qul huwa li-lladhīna ʾāmanū hudan wa-shifāʾun wa-lladhīna lā yuʾminūna fī ʾādhānihim waqrun wa-huwa ʿalayhim ʿaman ʾulāʾika yunādawna min makānin baʿīdin

7. ولقد آتينا موسى الكتاب فاختلف فيه ولولا كلمة سبقت من ربك لقضي بينهم وإنهم لفي شك منه مريب

   45

   Certainly We gave Moses the Book, but differences arose about it; and were it not for a prior decree of your Lord, judgement would have been made between them, for they are in grave doubt concerning it.

   wa-la-qad ʾātaynā mūsā l-kitāba fa-khtulifa fīhi wa-law-lā kalimatun sabaqat min rabbika la-quḍiya baynahum wa-ʾinnahum la-fī shakkin minhu murībin

8. من عمل صالحا فلنفسه ومن أساء فعليها وما ربك بظلام للعبيد

   46

   Whoever acts righteously, it is for [the benefit of] his own soul, and whoever does evil, it is to its detriment, and your Lord is not tyrannical to His servants.

   man ʿamila ṣāliḥan fa-li-nafsihī wa-man ʾasāʾa fa-ʿalayhā wa-mā rabbuka bi-ẓallāmin li-l-ʿabīdi