Surah Maryam (Mary) in English

1. فكلي واشربي وقري عينا فإما ترين من البشر أحدا فقولي إني نذرت للرحمن صوما فلن أكلم اليوم إنسيا

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   Eat, drink, and be comforted. Then if you see any human, say, ‘‘Indeed I have vowed a fast to the All-beneficent, so I will not speak to any human today.’’ ’

   fa-kulī wa-shrabī wa-qarrī ʿaynan fa-ʾimmā tarayinna mina l-bashari ʾaḥadan fa-qūlī ʾinnī nadhartu li-r-raḥmāni ṣawman fa-lan ʾukallima l-yawma ʾinsiyyan

2. فأتت به قومها تحمله قالوا يا مريم لقد جئت شيئا فريا

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   Then carrying him she brought him to her people. They said, ‘O Mary, you have certainly come up with an odd thing!

   fa-ʾatat bihī qawmahā taḥmiluhū qālū yā-maryamu la-qad jiʾti shayʾan fariyyan

3. يا أخت هارون ما كان أبوك امرأ سوء وما كانت أمك بغيا

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   O sister of Aaron[’s lineage]! Your father was not an evil man, nor was your mother unchaste.’

   yā-ʾukhta hārūna mā kāna ʾabūki mraʾa sawʾin wa-mā kānat ʾummuki baghiyyan

4. فأشارت إليه قالوا كيف نكلم من كان في المهد صبيا

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   Thereat she pointed to him. They said, ‘How can we speak to one who is yet a baby in the cradle?’

   fa-ʾashārat ʾilayhi qālū kayfa nukallimu man kāna fī l-mahdi ṣabiyyan

5. قال إني عبد الله آتاني الكتاب وجعلني نبيا

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   He said, ‘Indeed I am a servant of Allah! He has given me the Book and made me a prophet.

   qāla ʾinnī ʿabdu llāhi ʾātāniya l-kitāba wa-jaʿalanī nabiyyan

6. وجعلني مباركا أين ما كنت وأوصاني بالصلاة والزكاة ما دمت حيا

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   He has made me blessed, wherever I may be, and He has enjoined me to [maintain] the prayer and to [pay] the zakat as long as I live,

   wa-jaʿalanī mubārakan ʾayna mā kuntu wa-ʾawṣānī bi-ṣ-ṣalāti wa-z-zakāti mā dumtu ḥayyan

7. وبرا بوالدتي ولم يجعلني جبارا شقيا

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   and to be good to my mother, and He has not made me self-willed and wretched.

   wa-barran bi-wālidatī wa-lam yajʿalnī jabbāran shaqiyyan

8. والسلام علي يوم ولدت ويوم أموت ويوم أبعث حيا

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   Peace to me the day I was born, and the day I die, and the day I am raised alive.’

   wa-s-salāmu ʿalayya yawma wulidtu wa-yawma ʾamūtu wa-yawma ʾubʿathu ḥayyan

9. ذلك عيسى ابن مريم قول الحق الذي فيه يمترون

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   That is Jesus, son of Mary, a Word of the Real concerning whom they are in doubt.

   dhālika ʿīsā bnu maryama qawla l-ḥaqqi lladhī fīhi yamtarūna

10. ما كان لله أن يتخذ من ولد سبحانه إذا قضى أمرا فإنما يقول له كن فيكون

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    It is not for Allah to take a son. Immaculate is He! When He decides on a matter, He just says to it, ‘Be!’ and it is.

    mā kāna li-llāhi ʾan yattakhidha min waladin subḥānahū ʾidhā qaḍā ʾamran fa-ʾinnamā yaqūlu lahū kun fa-yakūnu

11. وإن الله ربي وربكم فاعبدوه هذا صراط مستقيم

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    [And Jesus said,] ‘Indeed Allah is my Lord and your Lord. So worship Him. This is a straight path.’

    wa-ʾinna llāha rabbī wa-rabbukum fa-ʿbudūhu hādhā ṣirāṭun mustaqīmun

12. فاختلف الأحزاب من بينهم فويل للذين كفروا من مشهد يوم عظيم

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    But the factions differed among themselves. So woe to the faithless at the scene of a tremendous day.

    fa-khtalafa l-ʾaḥzābu min baynihim fa-waylun li-lladhīna kafarū min mashhadi yawmin ʿaẓīmin

13. أسمع بهم وأبصر يوم يأتوننا لكن الظالمون اليوم في ضلال مبين

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    How well they will hear and how well they will see on the day when they come to Us! But today the wrongdoers are in manifest error.

    ʾasmiʿ bihim wa-ʾabṣir yawma yaʾtūnanā lākini ẓ-ẓālimūna l-yawma fī ḍalālin mubīnin