Surah Luqmān (Luqman) in English

1. ألم تروا أن الله سخر لكم ما في السماوات وما في الأرض وأسبغ عليكم نعمه ظاهرة وباطنة ومن الناس من يجادل في الله بغير علم ولا هدى ولا كتاب منير

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   Do you not see that Allah has disposed for you whatever there is in the heavens and whatever there is in the earth and He has showered upon you His blessings, the outward, and the inward? Yet among the people are those who dispute concerning Allah without any knowledge or guidance or an illuminating scripture.

   ʾa-lam taraw ʾanna llāha sakhkhara lakum mā fī s-samāwāti wa-mā fī l-ʾarḍi wa-ʾasbagha ʿalaykum niʿamahū ẓāhiratan wa-bāṭinatan wa-mina n-nāsi man yujādilu fī llāhi bi-ghayri ʿilmin wa-lā hudan wa-lā kitābin munīrin

2. وإذا قيل لهم اتبعوا ما أنزل الله قالوا بل نتبع ما وجدنا عليه آباءنا أولو كان الشيطان يدعوهم إلى عذاب السعير

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   When they are told, ‘Follow what Allah has sent down,’ they say, ‘No, we will follow what we found our fathers following.’ What! Even if Satan be calling them to the punishment of the Blaze?

   wa-ʾidhā qīla lahumu ttabiʿū mā ʾanzala llāhu qālū bal nattabiʿu mā wajadnā ʿalayhi ʾābāʾanā ʾa-wa-law kāna sh-shayṭānu yadʿūhum ʾilā ʿadhābi s-saʿīri

3. ومن يسلم وجهه إلى الله وهو محسن فقد استمسك بالعروة الوثقى وإلى الله عاقبة الأمور

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   Whoever surrenders his heart to Allah and is virtuous, has certainly held fast to the firmest handle, and with Allah lies the outcome of all matters.

   wa-man yuslim wajhahū ʾilā llāhi wa-huwa muḥsinun fa-qadi stamsaka bi-l-ʿurwati l-wuthqā wa-ʾilā llāhi ʿāqibatu l-ʾumūri

4. ومن كفر فلا يحزنك كفره إلينا مرجعهم فننبئهم بما عملوا إن الله عليم بذات الصدور

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   As for those who are faithless, let their faithlessness not grieve you. To Us will be their return, and We will inform them about what they have done. Indeed Allah knows best what is in the breasts.

   wa-man kafara fa-lā yaḥzunka kufruhū ʾilaynā marjiʿuhum fa-nunabbiʾuhum bi-mā ʿamilū ʾinna llāha ʿalīmun bi-dhāti ṣ-ṣudūri

5. نمتعهم قليلا ثم نضطرهم إلى عذاب غليظ

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   We will provide for them for a short time, then We will shove them toward a harsh punishment.

   numattiʿuhum qalīlan thumma naḍṭarruhum ʾilā ʿadhābin ghalīẓin

6. ولئن سألتهم من خلق السماوات والأرض ليقولن الله قل الحمد لله بل أكثرهم لا يعلمون

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   If you ask them, ‘Who created the heavens and the earth?’ they will surely say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘All praise belongs to Allah!’ But most of them do not know.

   wa-la-ʾin saʾaltahum man khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa la-yaqūlunna llāhu quli l-ḥamdu li-llāhi bal ʾaktharuhum lā yaʿlamūna

7. لله ما في السماوات والأرض إن الله هو الغني الحميد

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   To Allah belongs whatever is in the heavens and the earth. Indeed Allah is the All-sufficient, the All-laudable.

   li-llāhi mā fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi ʾinna llāha huwa l-ghaniyyu l-ḥamīdu

8. ولو أنما في الأرض من شجرة أقلام والبحر يمده من بعده سبعة أبحر ما نفدت كلمات الله إن الله عزيز حكيم

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   If all the trees on the earth were pens, and the sea replenished with seven more seas [were ink], the words of Allah would not be spent. Indeed Allah is all-mighty, all-wise.

   wa-law ʾannamā fī l-ʾarḍi min shajaratin ʾaqlāmun wa-l-baḥru yamudduhū min baʿdihī sabʿatu ʾabḥurin mā nafidat kalimātu llāhi ʾinna llāha ʿazīzun ḥakīmun

9. ما خلقكم ولا بعثكم إلا كنفس واحدة إن الله سميع بصير

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   Your creation and your resurrection are not but as of a single soul. Indeed Allah is all-hearing, all-seeing.

   mā khalqukum wa-lā baʿthukum ʾillā ka-nafsin wāḥidatin ʾinna llāha samīʿun baṣīrun