Surah Qāf (The Letter "Qaf") in English

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

1. ق والقرآن المجيد

   1

   Qaf. By the glorious Quran.

   q (qāf) wa-l-qurʾāni l-majīdi

2. بل عجبوا أن جاءهم منذر منهم فقال الكافرون هذا شيء عجيب

   2

   Indeed they consider it odd that a warner from among themselves should have come to them. So the faithless say, ‘This is an odd thing.’

   bal ʿajibū ʾan jāʾahum mundhirun minhum fa-qāla l-kāfirūna hādhā shayʾun ʿajībun

3. أإذا متنا وكنا ترابا ذلك رجع بعيد

   3

   ‘What! When we are dead and have become dust, [shall we be raised again]? That is a far-fetched return!’

   ʾa-ʾidhā mitnā wa-kunnā turāban dhālika rajʿun baʿīdun

4. قد علمنا ما تنقص الأرض منهم وعندنا كتاب حفيظ

   4

   We know what the earth diminishes from them, and with Us is a preserving Book.

   qad ʿalimnā mā tanquṣu l-ʾarḍu minhum wa-ʿindanā kitābun ḥafīẓun

5. بل كذبوا بالحق لما جاءهم فهم في أمر مريج

   5

   Indeed, they denied the truth when it came to them; so they are now in a perplexed state of affairs.

   bal kadhdhabū bi-l-ḥaqqi lammā jāʾahum fa-hum fī ʾamrin marījin

6. أفلم ينظروا إلى السماء فوقهم كيف بنيناها وزيناها وما لها من فروج

   6

   Have they not, then, observed the heaven above them, how We have built it and adorned it, and that there are no cracks in it?

   ʾa-fa-lam yanẓurū ʾilā s-samāʾi fawqahum kayfa banaynāhā wa-zayyannāhā wa-mā lahā min furūjin

7. والأرض مددناها وألقينا فيها رواسي وأنبتنا فيها من كل زوج بهيج

   7

   And We spread out the earth, and cast in it firm mountains, and caused every delightful kind [of vegetation] to grow in it.

   wa-l-ʾarḍa madadnāhā wa-ʾalqaynā fīhā rawāsiya wa-ʾanbatnā fīhā min kulli zawjin bahījin

8. تبصرة وذكرى لكل عبد منيب

   8

   [In this there is] an insight and admonition for every penitent servant.

   tabṣiratan wa-dhikrā li-kulli ʿabdin munībin

9. ونزلنا من السماء ماء مباركا فأنبتنا به جنات وحب الحصيد

   9

   We send down from the sky salubrious water, with which We grow gardens and the grain which is harvested,

   wa-nazzalnā mina s-samāʾi māʾan mubārakan fa-ʾanbatnā bihī jannātin wa-ḥabba l-ḥaṣīdi

10. والنخل باسقات لها طلع نضيد

    10

    and tall date palms with regularly set spathes,

    wa-n-nakhla bāsiqātin lahā ṭalʿun naḍīdun

11. رزقا للعباد وأحيينا به بلدة ميتا كذلك الخروج

    11

    as a provision for Our servants, and with it We revive a dead country. Likewise will be the rising [from the dead].

    rizqan li-l-ʿibādi wa-ʾaḥyaynā bihī baldatan maytan ka-dhālika l-khurūju

12. كذبت قبلهم قوم نوح وأصحاب الرس وثمود

    12

    The people of Noah denied before them, and [so did] the people of Rass and Thamud,

    kadhdhabat qablahum qawmu nūḥin wa-ʾaṣḥābu r-rassi wa-thamūdu

13. وعاد وفرعون وإخوان لوط

    13

    and ‘Ad, Pharaoh, and the brethren of Lot,

    wa-ʿādun wa-firʿawnu wa-ʾikhwānu lūṭin

14. وأصحاب الأيكة وقوم تبع كل كذب الرسل فحق وعيد

    14

    and the inhabitants of Aykah and the people of Tubbac. Each [of them] impugned the apostles, and so My threat became due [against them].

    wa-ʾaṣhābu l-ʾaykati wa-qawmu tubbaʿin kullun kadhdhaba r-rusula fa-ḥaqqa waʿīdi

15. أفعيينا بالخلق الأول بل هم في لبس من خلق جديد

    15

    Have We been exhausted by the first creation? No, they are in doubt about a new creation.

    ʾa-fa-ʿayīnā bi-l-khalqi l-ʾawwali bal hum fī labsin min khalqin jadīdin