Surah Hūd (Hud) in English

1. يقدم قومه يوم القيامة فأوردهم النار وبئس الورد المورود

   98

   On the Day of Resurrection he will lead his people and conduct them into the Fire: an evil goal for the incoming!

   yaqdumu qawmahū yawma l-qiyāmati fa-ʾawradahumu n-nāra wa-biʾsa l-wirdu l-mawrūdu

2. وأتبعوا في هذه لعنة ويوم القيامة بئس الرفد المرفود

   99

   They are pursued by a curse in this [world], as well as on the Day of Resurrection; evil is the award conferred [upon them]!

   wa-ʾutbiʿū fī hādhihī laʿnatan wa-yawma l-qiyāmati biʾsa r-rifdu l-marfūdu

3. ذلك من أنباء القرى نقصه عليك منها قائم وحصيد

   100

   These are from the accounts of the townships, which We recount to you. Of them, there are some that still stand, and some that have been mown down.

   dhālika min ʾanbāʾi l-qurā naquṣṣuhū ʿalayka minhā qāʾimun wa-ḥaṣīdun

4. وما ظلمناهم ولكن ظلموا أنفسهم فما أغنت عنهم آلهتهم التي يدعون من دون الله من شيء لما جاء أمر ربك وما زادوهم غير تتبيب

   101

   We did not wrong them, but they wronged themselves. When your Lord’s edict came, their gods whom they would invoke besides Allah were of no avail to them in any wise, and they did not increase them in anything but ruin.

   wa-mā ẓalamnāhum wa-lākin ẓalamū ʾanfusahum fa-mā ʾaghnat ʿanhum ʾālihatuhumu llatī yadʿūna min dūni llāhi min shayʾin lammā jāʾa ʾamru rabbika wa-mā zādūhum ghayra tatbībin

5. وكذلك أخذ ربك إذا أخذ القرى وهي ظالمة إن أخذه أليم شديد

   102

   Such is the seizing of your Lord when He seizes the townships that are wrongdoing. Indeed His seizing is painful and severe.

   wa-ka-dhālika ʾakhdhu rabbika ʾidhā ʾakhadha l-qurā wa-hiya ẓālimatun ʾinna ʾakhdhahū ʾalīmun shadīdun

6. إن في ذلك لآية لمن خاف عذاب الآخرة ذلك يوم مجموع له الناس وذلك يوم مشهود

   103

   There is indeed a sign in that for those who fear the punishment of the Hereafter. That is a day on which all mankind will be gathered, and it is a day witnessed [by all creatures].

   ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyatan li-man khāfa ʿadhāba l-ʾākhirati dhālika yawmun majmūʿun lahu n-nāsu wa-dhālika yawmun mashhūdun

7. وما نؤخره إلا لأجل معدود

   104

   And We do not defer it but for a determinate term.

   wa-mā nuʾakhkhiruhū ʾillā li-ʾajalin maʿdūdin

8. يوم يأت لا تكلم نفس إلا بإذنه فمنهم شقي وسعيد

   105

   The day it comes, no one shall speak except by His leave. [On that day,] some of them will be wretched and [some] felicitous.

   yawma yaʾti lā takallamu nafsun ʾillā bi-ʾidhnihī fa-minhum shaqiyyun wa-saʿīdun

9. فأما الذين شقوا ففي النار لهم فيها زفير وشهيق

   106

   As for the wretched, they shall be in the Fire: their lot therein will be groaning and wailing.

   fa-ʾammā lladhīna shaqū fa-fī n-nāri lahum fīhā zafīrun wa-shahīqun

10. خالدين فيها ما دامت السماوات والأرض إلا ما شاء ربك إن ربك فعال لما يريد

    107

    They shall remain in it for as long as the heavens and the earth endure—except what your Lord may wish; indeed your Lord does whatever He desires.

    khālidīna fīhā mā dāmati s-samāwātu wa-l-ʾarḍu ʾillā mā shāʾa rabbuka ʾinna rabbaka faʿʿālun li-mā yurīdu

11. وأما الذين سعدوا ففي الجنة خالدين فيها ما دامت السماوات والأرض إلا ما شاء ربك عطاء غير مجذوذ

    108

    As for the felicitous, they will be in paradise. They will remain in it for as long as the heavens and the earth endure—except what your Lord may wish—an endless bounty.

    wa-ʾammā lladhīna suʿidū fa-fī l-jannati khālidīna fīhā mā dāmati s-samāwātu wa-l-ʾarḍu ʾillā mā shāʾa rabbuka ʿaṭāʾan ghayra majdhūdhin