Surah Saba (Sheba) in English

1. قل جاء الحق وما يبدئ الباطل وما يعيد

   49

   Say, ‘The truth has come, and falsehood neither originates nor restores [anything].’

   qul jāʾa l-ḥaqqu wa-mā yubdiʾu l-bāṭilu wa-mā yuʿīdu

2. قل إن ضللت فإنما أضل على نفسي وإن اهتديت فبما يوحي إلي ربي إنه سميع قريب

   50

   Say, ‘If I go astray, my going astray is only to my own harm, and if I am rightly guided that is because of what my Lord has revealed to me. Indeed He is all-hearing and nearmost.’

   qul ʾin ḍalaltu fa-ʾinnamā ʾaḍillu ʿalā nafsī wa-ʾini htadaytu fa-bi-mā yūḥī ʾilayya rabbī ʾinnahū samīʿun qarībun

3. ولو ترى إذ فزعوا فلا فوت وأخذوا من مكان قريب

   51

   Were you to see them when they will be stricken with terror, without any escape, and are seized from a close quarter.

   wa-law tarā ʾidh faziʿū fa-lā fawta wa-ʾukhidhū min makānin qarībin

4. وقالوا آمنا به وأنى لهم التناوش من مكان بعيد

   52

   They will say, ‘We believe in it [now]!’ But how can they attain it from a far-off place,

   wa-qālū ʾāmannā bihī wa-ʾannā lahumu t-tanāwushu min makānin baʿīdin

5. وقد كفروا به من قبل ويقذفون بالغيب من مكان بعيد

   53

   when they denied it in the past—shooting at something invisible from a far-off place—

   wa-qad kafarū bihī min qablu wa-yaqdhifūna bi-l-ghaybi min makānin baʿīdin

6. وحيل بينهم وبين ما يشتهون كما فعل بأشياعهم من قبل إنهم كانوا في شك مريب

   54

   and a barrier is set between them and what they desire, as was done aforetime with their likes, who had remained in grave doubt?

   wa-ḥīla baynahum wa-bayna mā yashtahūna ka-mā fuʿila bi-ʾashyāʿihim min qablu ʾinnahum kānū fī shakkin murībin