Surah Saba (Sheba) in English

1. ويوم يحشرهم جميعا ثم يقول للملائكة أهؤلاء إياكم كانوا يعبدون

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   On the day He will muster them all together, He will say to the angels, ‘Was it you that these used to worship?’

   wa-yawma yaḥshuruhum jamīʿan thumma yaqūlu li-l-malāʾikati ʾa-hāʾulāʾi ʾiyyākum kānū yaʿbudūna

2. قالوا سبحانك أنت ولينا من دونهم بل كانوا يعبدون الجن أكثرهم بهم مؤمنون

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   They will say, ‘Immaculate are You! You are our wali, not they! No, they used to worship the jinn; most of them had faith in them.’

   qālū subḥānaka ʾanta waliyyunā min dūnihim bal kānū yaʿbudūna l-jinna ʾaktharuhum bihim muʾminūna

3. فاليوم لا يملك بعضكم لبعض نفعا ولا ضرا ونقول للذين ظلموا ذوقوا عذاب النار التي كنتم بها تكذبون

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   ‘Today you have no power to benefit or harm one another,’ and We shall say to those who did wrong, ‘Taste the punishment of the Fire which you used to deny.’

   fa-l-yawma lā yamliku baʿḍukum li-baʿḍin nafʿan wa-lā ḍarran wa-naqūlu li-lladhīna ẓalamū dhūqū ʿadhāba n-nāri llatī kuntum bihā tukadhdhibūna

4. وإذا تتلى عليهم آياتنا بينات قالوا ما هذا إلا رجل يريد أن يصدكم عما كان يعبد آباؤكم وقالوا ما هذا إلا إفك مفترى وقال الذين كفروا للحق لما جاءهم إن هذا إلا سحر مبين

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   When Our manifest signs are recited to them, they say, ‘This is just a man who desires to keep you from what your fathers used to worship.’ And they say, ‘This is nothing but a fabricated lie.’ The faithless say of the truth when it comes to them: ‘This is nothing but plain magic,’

   wa-ʾidhā tutlā ʿalayhim ʾāyātunā bayyinātin qālū mā hādhā ʾillā rajulun yurīdu ʾan yaṣuddakum ʿammā kāna yaʿbudu ʾābāʾukum wa-qālū mā hādhā ʾillā ʾifkun muftaran wa-qāla lladhīna kafarū li-l-ḥaqqi lammā jāʾahum ʾin hādhā ʾillā siḥrun mubīnun

5. وما آتيناهم من كتب يدرسونها وما أرسلنا إليهم قبلك من نذير

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   though We did not give them any scriptures that they might have studied, nor did We send them any warner before you.

   wa-mā ʾātaynāhum min kutubin yadrusūnahā wa-mā ʾarsalnā ʾilayhim qablaka min nadhīrin

6. وكذب الذين من قبلهم وما بلغوا معشار ما آتيناهم فكذبوا رسلي فكيف كان نكير

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   Those who were before them had also denied—and these have not attained one-tenth of what We had given them—they impugned My apostles, so how was My rebuttal!

   wa-kadhdhaba lladhīna min qablihim wa-mā balaghū miʿshāra mā ʾātaynāhum fa-kadhdhabū rusulī fa-kayfa kāna nakīri

7. قل إنما أعظكم بواحدة أن تقوموا لله مثنى وفرادى ثم تتفكروا ما بصاحبكم من جنة إن هو إلا نذير لكم بين يدي عذاب شديد

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   Say, ‘I give you just a single advice: that you rise up for Allah’s sake, in pairs or singly, and then reflect: there is no madness in your companion; he is just a warner to you before [the befalling of] a severe punishment.’

   qul ʾinnamā ʾaʿiẓukum bi-wāḥidatin ʾan taqūmū li-llāhi mathnā wa-furādā thumma tatafakkarū mā bi-ṣāḥibikum min jinnatin ʾin huwa ʾillā nadhīrun lakum bayna yaday ʿadhābin shadīdin

8. قل ما سألتكم من أجر فهو لكم إن أجري إلا على الله وهو على كل شيء شهيد

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   Say, ‘Whatever reward I may have asked you is for your own good. My [true] reward lies only with Allah, and He is witness to all things.’

   qul mā saʾaltukum min ʾajrin fa-huwa lakum ʾin ʾajriya ʾillā ʿalā llāhi wa-huwa ʿalā kulli shayʾin shahīdun

9. قل إن ربي يقذف بالحق علام الغيوب

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   Say, ‘Indeed my Lord hurls the truth. [He is] the knower of all that is Unseen.’

   qul ʾinna rabbī yaqdhifu bi-l-ḥaqqi ʿallāmu l-ghuyūbi