Surah Ibrāhīm (Abraham) in English

1. وإذ قال موسى لقومه اذكروا نعمة الله عليكم إذ أنجاكم من آل فرعون يسومونكم سوء العذاب ويذبحون أبناءكم ويستحيون نساءكم وفي ذلكم بلاء من ربكم عظيم

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   When Moses said to his people, ‘Remember Allah’s blessing upon you when He delivered you from Pharaoh’s clan who inflicted a terrible torment on you, and slaughtered your sons and spared your women, and in that there was a great test from your Lord.

   wa-ʾidh qāla mūsā li-qawmihi dhkurū niʿmata llāhi ʿalaykum ʾidh ʾanjākum min ʾāli firʿawna yasūmūnakum sūʾa l-ʿadhābi wa-yudhabbiḥūna ʾabnāʾakum wa-yastaḥyūna nisāʾakum wa-fī dhālikum balāʾun min rabbikum ʿaẓīmun

2. وإذ تأذن ربكم لئن شكرتم لأزيدنكم ولئن كفرتم إن عذابي لشديد

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   And when your Lord proclaimed, “If you are grateful, I will surely enhance you [in blessing], but if you are ungrateful, My punishment is indeed severe.” ’

   wa-ʾidh taʾadhdhana rabbukum la-ʾin shakartum la-ʾazīdannakum wa-la-ʾin kafartum ʾinna ʿadhābī la-shadīdun

3. وقال موسى إن تكفروا أنتم ومن في الأرض جميعا فإن الله لغني حميد

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   And Moses said, ‘Should you be faithless,—you and everyone on the earth, all together—indeed Allah is all-sufficient, all-laudable.’

   wa-qāla mūsā ʾin takfurū ʾantum wa-man fī l-ʾarḍi jamīʿan fa-ʾinna llāha la-ghaniyyun ḥamīdun

4. ألم يأتكم نبأ الذين من قبلكم قوم نوح وعاد وثمود والذين من بعدهم لا يعلمهم إلا الله جاءتهم رسلهم بالبينات فردوا أيديهم في أفواههم وقالوا إنا كفرنا بما أرسلتم به وإنا لفي شك مما تدعوننا إليه مريب

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   Has there not come to you the account of those who were before you—the people of Noah, ‘Ad and Thamud, and those who were after them, whom no one knows [well] except Allah? Their apostles brought them manifest proofs, but they did not respond to them, and said, ‘We disbelieve in what you have been sent with. Indeed we have grave doubts concerning that to which you invite us.’

   ʾa-lam yaʾtikum nabaʾu lladhīna min qablikum qawmi nūḥin wa-ʿādin wa-thamūda wa-lladhīna min baʿdihim lā yaʿlamuhum ʾillā llāhu jāʾathum rusuluhum bi-l-bayyināti fa-raddū ʾaydiyahum fī ʾafwāhihim wa-qālū ʾinnā kafarnā bi-mā ʾursiltum bihī wa-ʾinnā la-fī shakkin mimmā tadʿūnanā ʾilayhi murībin

5. قالت رسلهم أفي الله شك فاطر السماوات والأرض يدعوكم ليغفر لكم من ذنوبكم ويؤخركم إلى أجل مسمى قالوا إن أنتم إلا بشر مثلنا تريدون أن تصدونا عما كان يعبد آباؤنا فأتونا بسلطان مبين

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   Their apostles said, ‘Is there any doubt about Allah, the originator of the heavens and the earth?! He calls you to forgive you a part of your sins, and grants you respite until a specified time.’ They said, ‘You are nothing but humans like us who desire to bar us from what our fathers used to worship. So bring us a manifest authority.’

   qālat rusuluhum ʾa-fī llāhi shakkun fāṭiri s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi yadʿūkum li-yaghfira lakum min dhunūbikum wa-yuʾakhkhirakum ʾilā ʾajalin musamman qālū ʾin ʾantum ʾillā basharun mithlunā turīdūna ʾan taṣuddūnā ʿammā kāna yaʿbudu ʾābāʾunā fa-ʾtūnā bi-sulṭānin mubīnin