Surah Ghāfir (The Forgiver) in English

1. اليوم تجزى كل نفس بما كسبت لا ظلم اليوم إن الله سريع الحساب

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   ‘Today every soul shall be requited for what it has earned. There will be no injustice today. Indeed Allah is swift at reckoning.’

   al-yawma tujzā kullu nafsin bi-mā kasabat lā ẓulma l-yawma ʾinna llāha sarīʿu l-ḥisābi

2. وأنذرهم يوم الآزفة إذ القلوب لدى الحناجر كاظمين ما للظالمين من حميم ولا شفيع يطاع

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   Warn them of the Approaching Day, when the hearts will be at the throats, choking with suppressed agony, [and] the wrongdoers will have no sympathizer, nor any intercessor who might be heard.

   wa-ʾandhirhum yawma l-ʾāzifati ʾidhi l-qulūbu ladā l-ḥanājiri kāẓimīna mā li-ẓ-ẓālimīna min ḥamīmin wa-lā shafīʿin yuṭāʿu

3. يعلم خائنة الأعين وما تخفي الصدور

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   He knows the treachery of the eyes, and what the breasts hide.

   yaʿlamu khāʾinata l-ʾaʿyuni wa-mā tukhfī ṣ-ṣudūru

4. والله يقضي بالحق والذين يدعون من دونه لا يقضون بشيء إن الله هو السميع البصير

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   Allah judges with justice, while those whom they invoke besides Him do not judge by anything. Indeed it is Allah who is the All-hearing, the All-seeing.

   wa-llāhu yaqḍī bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-lladhīna yadʿūna min dūnihī lā yaqḍūna bi-shayʾin ʾinna llāha huwa s-samīʿu l-baṣīru

5. أولم يسيروا في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين كانوا من قبلهم كانوا هم أشد منهم قوة وآثارا في الأرض فأخذهم الله بذنوبهم وما كان لهم من الله من واق

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   Have they not travelled through the land so that they may observe how was the fate of those who were before them? They were greater than them in might and with respect to the effects [they left] in the land. But then Allah seized them for their sins, and they had no defender against Allah [’s punishment].

   ʾa-wa-lam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fa-yanẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu lladhīna kānū min qablihim kānū hum ʾashadda minhum quwwatan wa-ʾāthāran fī l-ʾarḍi fa-ʾakhadhahumu llāhu bi-dhunūbihim wa-mā kāna lahum mina llāhi min wāqin

6. ذلك بأنهم كانت تأتيهم رسلهم بالبينات فكفروا فأخذهم الله إنه قوي شديد العقاب

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   That was because their apostles used to bring them manifest proofs, but they defied [them]. So Allah seized them. Indeed He is all-strong, severe in retribution.

   dhālika bi-ʾannahum kānat taʾtīhim rusuluhum bi-l-bayyināti fa-kafarū fa-ʾakhadhahumu llāhu ʾinnahū qawiyyun shadīdu l-ʿiqābi

7. ولقد أرسلنا موسى بآياتنا وسلطان مبين

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   Certainly We sent Moses with Our signs and a manifest authority

   wa-la-qad ʾarsalnā mūsā bi-ʾāyātinā wa-sulṭānin mubīnin

8. إلى فرعون وهامان وقارون فقالوا ساحر كذاب

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   to Pharaoh, Haman and Korah, but they said, ‘A magician and a mendacious liar.’

   ʾilā firʿawna wa-hāmāna wa-qārūna fa-qālū sāḥirun kadhdhābun

9. فلما جاءهم بالحق من عندنا قالوا اقتلوا أبناء الذين آمنوا معه واستحيوا نساءهم وما كيد الكافرين إلا في ضلال

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   So when he brought them the truth from Us, they said, ‘Kill the sons of the faithful who are with him, and spare their women.’ But the stratagems of the faithless only go awry.

   fa-lammā jāʾahum bi-l-ḥaqqi min ʿindinā qālū qtulū ʾabnāʾa lladhīna ʾāmanū maʿahū wa-staḥyū nisāʾahum wa-mā kaydu l-kāfirīna ʾillā fī ḍalālin