Surah Ghāfir (The Forgiver) in English

1. ولقد جاءكم يوسف من قبل بالبينات فما زلتم في شك مما جاءكم به حتى إذا هلك قلتم لن يبعث الله من بعده رسولا كذلك يضل الله من هو مسرف مرتاب

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   Certainly Joseph brought you manifest proofs earlier, but you continued to remain in doubt concerning what he had brought you. When he died, you said, ‘‘Allah will never send any apostle after him.’’ That is how Allah leads astray those who are unrestrained and skeptical.

   wa-la-qad jāʾakum yūsufu min qablu bi-l-bayyināti fa-mā ziltum fī shakkin mimmā jāʾakum bihī ḥattā ʾidhā halaka qultum lan yabʿatha llāhu min baʿdihī rasūlan ka-dhālika yuḍillu llāhu man huwa musrifun murtābun-i

2. الذين يجادلون في آيات الله بغير سلطان أتاهم كبر مقتا عند الله وعند الذين آمنوا كذلك يطبع الله على كل قلب متكبر جبار

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   Those who dispute the signs of Allah without any authority that may have come to them—[that is] greatly outrageous to Allah and to those who have faith. That is how Allah seals the heart of every arrogant tyrant.’

   alladhīna yujādilūna fī ʾāyāti llāhi bi-ghayri sulṭānin ʾatāhum kabura maqtan ʿinda llāhi wa-ʿinda lladhīna ʾāmanū ka-dhālika yaṭbaʿu llāhu ʿalā kulli qalbi mutakabbirin jabbārin

3. وقال فرعون يا هامان ابن لي صرحا لعلي أبلغ الأسباب

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   Pharaoh said, ‘O Haman! Build me a tower so that I may reach the routes

   wa-qāla firʿawnu yā-hāmānu bni lī ṣarḥan laʿallī ʾablughu l-ʾasbāba

4. أسباب السماوات فأطلع إلى إله موسى وإني لأظنه كاذبا وكذلك زين لفرعون سوء عمله وصد عن السبيل وما كيد فرعون إلا في تباب

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   —the routes of the heavens—and take a look at the God of Moses, and indeed I consider him a liar.’ The evil of his conduct was thus presented as decorous to Pharaoh, and he was kept from the way [of Allah]. Pharaoh’s stratagems only led him into ruin.

   ʾasbāba s-samāwāti fa-ʾaṭṭaliʿa ʾilā ʾilāhi mūsā wa-ʾinnī la-ʾaẓunnuhū kādhiban wa-ka-dhālika zuyyina li-firʿawna sūʾu ʿamalihī wa-ṣudda ʿani s-sabīli wa-mā kaydu firʿawna ʾillā fī tabābin

5. وقال الذي آمن يا قوم اتبعون أهدكم سبيل الرشاد

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   And he who had faith said, ‘O my people! Follow me; I will guide you to the way of rectitude.

   wa-qāla lladhī ʾāmana yā-qawmi ttabiʿūni ʾahdikum sabīla r-rashādi

6. يا قوم إنما هذه الحياة الدنيا متاع وإن الآخرة هي دار القرار

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   O my people! This life of the world is only a [passing] enjoyment, and indeed the Hereafter is the abiding home.

   yā-qawmi ʾinnamā hādhihi l-ḥayātu d-dunyā matāʿun wa-ʾinna l-ʾākhirata hiya dāru l-qarāri

7. من عمل سيئة فلا يجزى إلا مثلها ومن عمل صالحا من ذكر أو أنثى وهو مؤمن فأولئك يدخلون الجنة يرزقون فيها بغير حساب

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   Whoever commits a misdeed shall not be requited except with its like, but whoever acts righteously, whether male or female, should he be faithful—such shall enter paradise, and they will be provided therein without any reckoning.

   man ʿamila sayyiʾatan fa-lā yujzā ʾillā mithlahā wa-man ʿamila ṣāliḥan min dhakarin ʾaw ʾunthā wa-huwa muʾminun fa-ʾulāʾika yadkhulūna l-jannata yurzaqūna fīhā bi-ghayri ḥisābin