Surah Hūd (Hud) in English

1. ويا قوم لا أسألكم عليه مالا إن أجري إلا على الله وما أنا بطارد الذين آمنوا إنهم ملاقو ربهم ولكني أراكم قوما تجهلون

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   O my people! I do not ask you any material reward for it. My reward lies only with Allah. But I will not drive away those who have faith: they will indeed encounter their Lord. But I see that you are an ignorant lot.

   wa-yā-qawmi lā ʾasʾalukum ʿalayhi mālan ʾin ʾajriya ʾillā ʿalā llāhi wa-mā ʾana bi-ṭāridi lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾinnahum mulāqū rabbihim wa-lākinnī ʾarākum qawman tajhalūna

2. ويا قوم من ينصرني من الله إن طردتهم أفلا تذكرون

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   O my people! Who would come to my help against Allah were I to drive them away? Will you not then take admonition?

   wa-yā-qawmi man yanṣurunī mina llāhi ʾin ṭaradtuhum ʾa-fa-lā tadhakkarūna

3. ولا أقول لكم عندي خزائن الله ولا أعلم الغيب ولا أقول إني ملك ولا أقول للذين تزدري أعينكم لن يؤتيهم الله خيرا الله أعلم بما في أنفسهم إني إذا لمن الظالمين

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   I do not say to you that I possess the treasuries of Allah, neither do I know the Unseen. I do not claim to be an angel, neither do I say of those who are despicable in your eyes that Allah will not grant them any good—Allah knows best what is in their hearts—for then I would indeed be a wrongdoer.’

   wa-lā ʾaqūlu lakum ʿindī khazāʾinu llāhi wa-lā ʾaʿlamu l-ghayba wa-lā ʾaqūlu ʾinnī malakun wa-lā ʾaqūlu li-lladhīna tazdarī ʾaʿyunukum lan yuʾtiyahumu llāhu khayran-i llāhu ʾaʿlamu bi-mā fī ʾanfusihim ʾinnī ʾidhan la-mina ẓ-ẓālimīna

4. قالوا يا نوح قد جادلتنا فأكثرت جدالنا فأتنا بما تعدنا إن كنت من الصادقين

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   They said, ‘O Noah, you have disputed with us already, and you have disputed with us exceedingly. Now bring us what you threaten us with, should you be truthful.

   qālū yā-nūḥu qad jādaltanā fa-ʾaktharta jidālanā fa-ʾtinā bi-mā taʿidunā ʾin kunta mina ṣ-ṣādiqīna

5. قال إنما يأتيكم به الله إن شاء وما أنتم بمعجزين

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   He said, ‘Allah will indeed bring it on you if He wishes, and you cannot frustrate [Him].

   qāla ʾinnamā yaʾtīkum bihi llāhu ʾin shāʾa wa-mā ʾantum bi-muʿjizīna

6. ولا ينفعكم نصحي إن أردت أن أنصح لكم إن كان الله يريد أن يغويكم هو ربكم وإليه ترجعون

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   My exhorting will not benefit you, much as I may seek to exhort you, if Allah desires to consign you to perversity. He is your Lord, and to Him you shall be brought back.’

   wa-lā yanfaʿukum nuṣḥī ʾin ʾaradtu ʾan ʾanṣaḥa lakum ʾin kāna llāhu yurīdu ʾan yughwiyakum huwa rabbukum wa-ʾilayhi turjaʿūna

7. أم يقولون افتراه قل إن افتريته فعلي إجرامي وأنا بريء مما تجرمون

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   Do they say, ‘He has fabricated it?’ Say, ‘Should I have fabricated it, then my guilt will be upon me, and I am absolved of your guilty conduct.’

   ʾam yaqūlūna ftarāhu qul ʾini ftaraytuhū fa-ʿalayya ʾijrāmī wa-ʾana barīʾun mimmā tujrimūna

8. وأوحي إلى نوح أنه لن يؤمن من قومك إلا من قد آمن فلا تبتئس بما كانوا يفعلون

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   It was revealed to Noah: ‘None of your people will believe except those who already have faith; so do not sorrow for what they used to do.

   wa-ʾūḥiya ʾilā nūḥin ʾannahū lan yuʾmina min qawmika ʾillā man qad ʾāmana fa-lā tabtaʾis bi-mā kānū yafʿalūna

9. واصنع الفلك بأعيننا ووحينا ولا تخاطبني في الذين ظلموا إنهم مغرقون

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   Build the ark before Our eyes and by Our revelation, and do not plead with Me for those who are wrongdoers: they shall indeed be drowned.’

   wa-ṣnaʿi l-fulka bi-ʾaʿyuninā wa-waḥyinā wa-lā tukhāṭibnī fī lladhīna ẓalamū ʾinnahum mughraqūna