Surah Ghāfir (The Forgiver) in English

1. ولقد أرسلنا رسلا من قبلك منهم من قصصنا عليك ومنهم من لم نقصص عليك وما كان لرسول أن يأتي بآية إلا بإذن الله فإذا جاء أمر الله قضي بالحق وخسر هنالك المبطلون

   78

   Certainly We have sent apostles before you. Of them are those We have recounted to you, and of them are those We have not recounted to you. An apostle may not bring any sign except by Allah’s permission. Hence, when Allah’s edict comes, judgment is made with justice, and it is thence that the falsifiers become losers.

   wa-la-qad ʾarsalnā rusulan min qablika minhum man qaṣaṣnā ʿalayka wa-minhum man lam naqṣuṣ ʿalayka wa-mā kāna li-rasūlin ʾan yaʾtiya bi-ʾāyatin ʾillā bi-ʾidhni llāhi fa-ʾidhā jāʾa ʾamru llāhi quḍiya bi-l-ḥaqqi wa-khasira hunālika l-mubṭilūna

2. الله الذي جعل لكم الأنعام لتركبوا منها ومنها تأكلون

   79

   It is Allah who created the cattle for you that you may ride some of them, and some of them you eat;

   allāhu lladhī jaʿala lakumu l-ʾanʿāma li-tarkabū minhā wa-minhā taʾkulūna

3. ولكم فيها منافع ولتبلغوا عليها حاجة في صدوركم وعليها وعلى الفلك تحملون

   80

   and there are [numerous] uses in them for you, and that over them you may satisfy any need that is in your breasts, and you are carried on them and on ships.

   wa-lakum fīhā manāfiʿu wa-li-tablughū ʿalayhā ḥājatan fī ṣudūrikum wa-ʿalayhā wa-ʿalā l-fulki tuḥmalūna

4. ويريكم آياته فأي آيات الله تنكرون

   81

   He shows you His signs. So which of the signs of Allah do you deny?

   wa-yurīkum ʾāyātihī fa-ʾayya ʾāyāti llāhi tunkirūna

5. أفلم يسيروا في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين من قبلهم كانوا أكثر منهم وأشد قوة وآثارا في الأرض فما أغنى عنهم ما كانوا يكسبون

   82

   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 numerous than them and were greater [than them] in power and with respect to the effects [they left] in the land. But what they used to earn did not avail them.

   ʾa-fa-lam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fa-yanẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu lladhīna min qablihim kānū ʾakthara minhum wa-ʾashadda quwwatan wa-ʾāthāran fī l-ʾarḍi fa-mā ʾaghnā ʿanhum mā kānū yaksibūna

6. فلما جاءتهم رسلهم بالبينات فرحوا بما عندهم من العلم وحاق بهم ما كانوا به يستهزئون

   83

   When their apostles brought them manifest proofs, they boasted about the knowledge they possessed, but they were besieged by what they used to deride.

   fa-lammā jāʾathum rusuluhum bi-l-bayyināti fariḥū bi-mā ʿindahum mina l-ʿilmi wa-ḥāqa bihim mā kānū bihī yastahziʾūna

7. فلما رأوا بأسنا قالوا آمنا بالله وحده وكفرنا بما كنا به مشركين

   84

   Then, when they sighted Our punishment, they said, ‘We believe in Allah alone, and disavow what we used to take as His partners.’

   fa-lammā raʾaw baʾsanā qālū ʾāmannā bi-llāhi waḥdahū wa-kafarnā bi-mā kunnā bihī mushrikīna

8. فلم يك ينفعهم إيمانهم لما رأوا بأسنا سنت الله التي قد خلت في عباده وخسر هنالك الكافرون

   85

   But their faith was of no benefit to them when they sighted Our punishment—Allah’s precedent, which has passed among His servants, and it is thence that the faithless will be losers.

   fa-lam yaku yanfaʿuhum ʾīmānuhum lammā raʾaw baʾsanā sunnata llāhi llatī qad khalat fī ʿibādihī wa-khasira hunālika l-kāfirūna