Surah Luqmān (Luqman) in English

In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful.

1. الم

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   Alif, Lam, Meem.

   a-l-m (ʾalif lām mīm)

2. تلك آيات الكتاب الحكيم

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   These are the signs of the wise Book,

   tilka ʾāyātu l-kitābi l-ḥakīmi

3. هدى ورحمة للمحسنين

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   a guidance and mercy for the virtuous,

   hudan wa-raḥmatan li-l-muḥsinīna

4. الذين يقيمون الصلاة ويؤتون الزكاة وهم بالآخرة هم يوقنون

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   who maintain the prayer, pay the zakat, and are certain of the Hereafter.

   alladhīna yuqīmūna ṣ-ṣalāta wa-yuʾtūna z-zakāta wa-hum bi-l-ʾākhirati hum yūqinūna

5. أولئك على هدى من ربهم وأولئك هم المفلحون

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   Those follow their Lord’s guidance, and it is they who are the felicitous.

   ʾulāʾika ʿalā hudan min rabbihim wa-ʾulāʾika humu l-mufliḥūna

6. ومن الناس من يشتري لهو الحديث ليضل عن سبيل الله بغير علم ويتخذها هزوا أولئك لهم عذاب مهين

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   Among the people is he who buys diversionary talk that he may lead [people] astray from Allah’s way without any knowledge, and he takes it in derision. For such there is a humiliating punishment.

   wa-mina n-nāsi man yashtarī lahwa l-ḥadīthi li-yuḍilla ʿan sabīli llāhi bi-ghayri ʿilmin wa-yattakhidhahā huzuwan ʾulāʾika lahum ʿadhābun muhīnun

7. وإذا تتلى عليه آياتنا ولى مستكبرا كأن لم يسمعها كأن في أذنيه وقرا فبشره بعذاب أليم

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   When Our signs are recited to him he turns away disdainfully, as if he had not heard them [at all], as if there were a deafness in his ears. So inform him of a painful punishment.

   wa-ʾidhā tutlā ʿalayhi ʾāyātunā wallā mustakbiran ka-ʾan lam yasmaʿhā ka-ʾanna fī ʾudhunayhi waqran fa-bashshirhu bi-ʿadhābin ʾalīmin

8. إن الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات لهم جنات النعيم

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   As for those who have faith and do righteous deeds, for them will be gardens of bliss,

   ʾinna lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti lahum jannātu n-naʿīmi

9. خالدين فيها وعد الله حقا وهو العزيز الحكيم

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   to remain in them [forever]—a true promise of Allah, and He is the All-mighty, the All-wise.

   khālidīna fīhā waʿda llāhi ḥaqqan wa-huwa l-ʿazīzu l-ḥakīmu

10. خلق السماوات بغير عمد ترونها وألقى في الأرض رواسي أن تميد بكم وبث فيها من كل دابة وأنزلنا من السماء ماء فأنبتنا فيها من كل زوج كريم

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    He created the heavens without any pillars that you may see, and cast firm mountains in the earth lest it should shake with you, and He has scattered in it every kind of animal. And We sent down water from the sky and caused every splendid kind [of plant] to grow in it.

    khalaqa s-samāwāti bi-ghayri ʿamadin tarawnahā wa-ʾalqā fī l-ʾarḍi rawāsiya ʾan tamīda bikum wa-baththa fīhā min kulli dābbatin wa-ʾanzalnā mina s-samāʾi māʾan fa-ʾanbatnā fīhā min kulli zawjin karīmin

11. هذا خلق الله فأروني ماذا خلق الذين من دونه بل الظالمون في ضلال مبين

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    This is the creation of Allah. Now show Me what others besides Him have created. Indeed, the wrongdoers are in manifest error!

    hādhā khalqu llāhi fa-ʾarūnī mādhā khalaqa lladhīna min dūnihī bali ẓ-ẓālimūna fī ḍalālin mubīnin