Surah Ibrāhīm (Abraham) in English

1. وآتاكم من كل ما سألتموه وإن تعدوا نعمت الله لا تحصوها إن الإنسان لظلوم كفار

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   and He gave you all that you had asked Him. If you enumerate Allah’s blessings, you will not be able to count them. Indeed man is most unfair and ungrateful!

   wa-ʾatākum min kulli mā saʾaltumūhu wa-ʾin taʿuddū niʿmata llāhi lā tuḥṣūhā ʾinna l-ʾinsāna la-ẓalūmun kaffārun

2. وإذ قال إبراهيم رب اجعل هذا البلد آمنا واجنبني وبني أن نعبد الأصنام

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   When Abraham said, ‘My Lord! Make this city a sanctuary, and save me and my children from worshiping idols.

   wa-ʾidh qāla ʾibrāhīmu rabbi jʿal hādhā l-balada ʾāminan wa-jnubnī wa-baniyya ʾan naʿbuda l-ʾaṣnāma

3. رب إنهن أضللن كثيرا من الناس فمن تبعني فإنه مني ومن عصاني فإنك غفور رحيم

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   My Lord! Indeed they have misled many people. So whoever follows me indeed belongs to me, and as for those who disobey me, well, You are indeed all-forgiving, all-merciful.

   rabbi ʾinnahunna ʾaḍlalna kathīran mina n-nāsi fa-man tabiʿanī fa-ʾinnahū minnī wa-man ʿaṣānī fa-ʾinnaka ghafūrun raḥīmun

4. ربنا إني أسكنت من ذريتي بواد غير ذي زرع عند بيتك المحرم ربنا ليقيموا الصلاة فاجعل أفئدة من الناس تهوي إليهم وارزقهم من الثمرات لعلهم يشكرون

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   Our Lord! I have settled part of my descendants in a barren valley, by Your sacred House, our Lord, that they may maintain the prayer. So make the hearts of a part of the people fond of them, and provide them with fruits, so that they may give thanks.

   rabbanā ʾinnī ʾaskantu min dhurriyyatī bi-wādin ghayri dhī zarʿin ʿinda baytika l-muḥarrami rabbanā li-yuqīmū ṣ-ṣalāta fa-jʿal ʾafʾidatan mina n-nāsi tahwī ʾilayhim wa-rzuqhum mina th-thamarāti laʿallahum yashkurūna

5. ربنا إنك تعلم ما نخفي وما نعلن وما يخفى على الله من شيء في الأرض ولا في السماء

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   Our Lord! Indeed You know whatever we hide and whatever we disclose, and nothing is hidden from Allah on the earth or in the sky.

   rabbanā ʾinnaka taʿlamu mā nukhfī wa-mā nuʿlinu wa-mā yakhfā ʿalā llāhi min shayʾin fī l-ʾarḍi wa-lā fī s-samāʾi

6. الحمد لله الذي وهب لي على الكبر إسماعيل وإسحاق إن ربي لسميع الدعاء

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   All praise belongs to Allah, who gave me Ishmael and Isaac despite [my] old age. Indeed my Lord hears all supplications.

   al-ḥamdu li-llāhi lladhī wahaba lī ʿalā l-kibari ʾismāʿīla wa-ʾisḥāqa ʾinna rabbī la-samīʿu d-duʿāʾi

7. رب اجعلني مقيم الصلاة ومن ذريتي ربنا وتقبل دعاء

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   My Lord! Make me a maintainer of prayer, and my descendants [as well]. Our Lord, accept my supplication.

   rabbi jʿalnī muqīma ṣ-ṣalāti wa-min dhurriyyatī rabbanā wa-taqabbal duʿāʾi

8. ربنا اغفر لي ولوالدي وللمؤمنين يوم يقوم الحساب

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   Our Lord! Forgive me and my parents, and all the faithful, on the day when the reckoning is held.’

   rabbanā ghfir lī wa-li-wālidayya wa-li-l-muʾminīna yawma yaqūmu l-ḥisābu

9. ولا تحسبن الله غافلا عما يعمل الظالمون إنما يؤخرهم ليوم تشخص فيه الأبصار

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   Do not suppose that Allah is oblivious of what the wrongdoers are doing. He is only granting them respite until the day when the eyes will be glazed.

   wa-lā taḥsabanna llāha ghāfilan ʿammā yaʿmalu ẓ-ẓālimūna ʾinnamā yuʾakhkhiruhum li-yawmin tashkhaṣu fīhi l-ʾabṣāru