Surah Muĥammad (Muhammad) in English

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

1. الذين كفروا وصدوا عن سبيل الله أضل أعمالهم

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   Those who are [themselves] faithless and bar [others] from the way of Allah—He has rendered their works fruitless.

   alladhīna kafarū wa-ṣaddū ʿan sabīli llāhi ʾaḍalla ʾaʿmālahum

2. والذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات وآمنوا بما نزل على محمد وهو الحق من ربهم كفر عنهم سيئاتهم وأصلح بالهم

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   But those who have faith and do righteous deeds and believe in what has been sent down to Muhammad—and it is the truth from their Lord—He shall absolve them of their misdeeds and set right their affairs.

   wa-lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti wa-ʾāmanū bi-mā nuzzila ʿalā muḥammadin wa-huwa l-ḥaqqu min rabbihim kaffara ʿanhum sayyiʾātihim wa-ʾaṣlaḥa bālahum

3. ذلك بأن الذين كفروا اتبعوا الباطل وأن الذين آمنوا اتبعوا الحق من ربهم كذلك يضرب الله للناس أمثالهم

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   That is because the faithless follow falsehood, and the faithful follow the truth from their Lord. That is how Allah draws comparisons for mankind.

   dhālika bi-ʾanna lladhīna kafarū ttabaʿū l-bāṭila wa-ʾanna lladhīna ʾāmanū ttabaʿū l-ḥaqqa min rabbihim ka-dhālika yaḍribu llāhu li-n-nāsi ʾamthālahum

4. فإذا لقيتم الذين كفروا فضرب الرقاب حتى إذا أثخنتموهم فشدوا الوثاق فإما منا بعد وإما فداء حتى تضع الحرب أوزارها ذلك ولو يشاء الله لانتصر منهم ولكن ليبلو بعضكم ببعض والذين قتلوا في سبيل الله فلن يضل أعمالهم

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   When you meet the faithless in battle, strike their necks. When you have thoroughly decimated them, bind the captives firmly. Thereafter either oblige them [by setting them free] or take ransom, until the war lays down its burdens. That [is Allah’s ordinance]. Had Allah wished He could have taken vengeance on them, but that He may test some of you by means of others. As for those who were slain in the way of Allah, He will not let their works go fruitless.

   fa-ʾidhā laqītumu lladhīna kafarū fa-ḍarba r-riqābi ḥattā ʾidhā ʾathkhantumūhum fa-shuddū l-wathāqa fa-ʾimmā mannan baʿdu wa-ʾimmā fidāʾan ḥattā taḍaʿa l-ḥarbu ʾawzārahā dhālika wa-law yashāʾu llāhu la-ntaṣara minhum wa-lākin li-yabluwa baʿḍakum bi-baʿḍin wa-lladhīna qutilū fī sabīli llāhi fa-lan yuḍilla ʾaʿmālahum

5. سيهديهم ويصلح بالهم

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   He will guide them and set right their affairs,

   sa-yahdīhim wa-yuṣliḥu bālahum

6. ويدخلهم الجنة عرفها لهم

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   and admit them into paradise, with which He has acquainted them.

   wa-yudkhiluhumu l-jannata ʿarrafahā lahum

7. يا أيها الذين آمنوا إن تنصروا الله ينصركم ويثبت أقدامكم

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   O you who have faith! If you help Allah, He will help you and make your feet steady.

   yā-ʾayyuhā lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾin tanṣurū llāha yanṣurkum wa-yuthabbit ʾaqdāmakum

8. والذين كفروا فتعسا لهم وأضل أعمالهم

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   As for the faithless, their lot will be to fall [into ruin], and He will render their works fruitless.

   wa-lladhīna kafarū fa-taʿsan lahum wa-ʾaḍalla ʾaʿmālahum

9. ذلك بأنهم كرهوا ما أنزل الله فأحبط أعمالهم

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   That is because they loathed what Allah has sent down, so He made their works fail.

   dhālika bi-ʾannahum karihū mā ʾanzala llāhu fa-ʾaḥbaṭa ʾaʿmālahum

10. أفلم يسيروا في الأرض فينظروا كيف كان عاقبة الذين من قبلهم دمر الله عليهم وللكافرين أمثالها

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    Have they not travelled through the land so that they may observe how was the fate of those who were before them? Allah destroyed them, and a similar [fate] awaits these faithless.

    ʾa-fa-lam yasīrū fī l-ʾarḍi fa-yanẓurū kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu lladhīna min qablihim dammara llāhu ʿalayhim wa-li-l-kāfirīna ʾamthāluhā

11. ذلك بأن الله مولى الذين آمنوا وأن الكافرين لا مولى لهم

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    That is because Allah is the protector of the faithful, and because the faithless have no protector.

    dhālika bi-ʾanna llāha mawlā lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʾanna l-kāfirīna lā mawlā lahum