Surah Muĥammad (Muhammad) in English

1. ويقول الذين آمنوا لولا نزلت سورة فإذا أنزلت سورة محكمة وذكر فيها القتال رأيت الذين في قلوبهم مرض ينظرون إليك نظر المغشي عليه من الموت فأولى لهم

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   The faithful say, ‘If only a surah were sent down!’ But when a conclusive surah is sent down and war is mentioned in it, you see those in whose hearts is a sickness looking upon you with the look of someone fainting at death. So woe to them!

   wa-yaqūlu lladhīna ʾāmanū law-lā nuzzilat sūratun fa-ʾidhā ʾunzilat sūratun muḥkamatun wa-dhukira fīhā l-qitālu raʾayta lladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun yanẓurūna ʾilayka naẓara l-maghshiyyi ʿalayhi mina l-mawti fa-ʾawlā lahum

2. طاعة وقول معروف فإذا عزم الأمر فلو صدقوا الله لكان خيرا لهم

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   Obedience and upright speech.... So when the matter has been resolved upon [concerning going to war], if they remain true to Allah that will surely be better for them.

   ṭāʿatun wa-qawlun maʿrūfun fa-ʾidhā ʿazama l-ʾamru fa-law ṣadaqū llāha la-kāna khayran lahum

3. فهل عسيتم إن توليتم أن تفسدوا في الأرض وتقطعوا أرحامكم

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   May it not be that if you were to wield authority you would cause corruption in the land and ill-treat your blood relations?

   fa-hal ʿasaytum ʾin tawallaytum ʾan tufsidū fī l-ʾarḍi wa-tuqaṭṭiʿū ʾarḥāmakum

4. أولئك الذين لعنهم الله فأصمهم وأعمى أبصارهم

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   They are the ones whom Allah has cursed, so He made them deaf, and blinded their sight.

   ʾulāʾika lladhīna laʿanahumu llāhu fa-ʾaṣammahum wa-ʾaʿmā ʾabṣārahum

5. أفلا يتدبرون القرآن أم على قلوب أقفالها

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   Do they not contemplate the Quran, or are there locks on the hearts?

   ʾa-fa-lā yatadabbarūna l-qurʾāna ʾam ʿalā qulūbin ʾaqfāluhā

6. إن الذين ارتدوا على أدبارهم من بعد ما تبين لهم الهدى الشيطان سول لهم وأملى لهم

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   Indeed those who turned their backs after the guidance had become clear to them, it was Satan who had seduced them, and he had given them [far-flung] hopes.

   ʾinna lladhīna rtaddū ʿalā ʾadbārihim min baʿdi mā tabayyana lahumu l-hudā sh-shayṭānu sawwala lahum wa-ʾamlā lahum

7. ذلك بأنهم قالوا للذين كرهوا ما نزل الله سنطيعكم في بعض الأمر والله يعلم إسرارهم

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   That is because they said to those who loathed what Allah had sent down: ‘We shall obey you in some matters,’ and Allah knows their secret dealings.

   dhālika bi-ʾannahum qālū li-lladhīna karihū mā nazzala llāhu sa-nuṭīʿukum fī baʿḍi l-ʾamri wa-llāhu yaʿlamu ʾisrārahum

8. فكيف إذا توفتهم الملائكة يضربون وجوههم وأدبارهم

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   But how will it be [with them] when the angels take them away, striking their faces and their backs?!

   fa-kayfa ʾidhā tawaffathumu l-malāʾikatu yaḍribūna wujūhahum wa-ʾadbārahum

9. ذلك بأنهم اتبعوا ما أسخط الله وكرهوا رضوانه فأحبط أعمالهم

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   That, because they pursued what displeased Allah, and loathed His pleasure. So He has made their works fail.

   dhālika bi-ʾannahumu ttabaʿū mā ʾaskhaṭa llāha wa-karihū riḍwānahū fa-ʾaḥbaṭa ʾaʿmālahum

10. أم حسب الذين في قلوبهم مرض أن لن يخرج الله أضغانهم

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    Do those in whose hearts is a sickness suppose that Allah will not expose their spite?

    ʾam ḥasiba lladhīna fī qulūbihim maraḍun ʾan lan yukhrija llāhu ʾaḍghānahum