Surah Ţāhā (Ta-Ha) in English

1. قال كذلك أتتك آياتنا فنسيتها وكذلك اليوم تنسى

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   He will say: ‘So it is. Our signs came to you, but you forgot them, and so you will be forgotten today.’

   qāla ka-dhālika ʾatatka ʾāyātunā fa-nasītahā wa-ka-dhālika l-yawma tunsā

2. وكذلك نجزي من أسرف ولم يؤمن بآيات ربه ولعذاب الآخرة أشد وأبقى

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   Thus do We requite those who transgress and do not believe in the signs of their Lord, and the punishment of the Hereafter is severer and more lasting.

   wa-ka-dhālika najzī man ʾasrafa wa-lam yuʾmin bi-ʾāyāti rabbihī wa-la-ʿadhābu l-ʾākhirati ʾashaddu wa-ʾabqā

3. أفلم يهد لهم كم أهلكنا قبلهم من القرون يمشون في مساكنهم إن في ذلك لآيات لأولي النهى

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   Does it not dawn upon them how many generations We have destroyed before them, amid [the ruins of] whose dwellings they walk? There are indeed signs in this for those who have reason.

   ʾa-fa-lam yahdi lahum kam ʾahlaknā qablahum mina l-qurūni yamshūna fī masākinihim ʾinna fī dhālika la-ʾāyātin li-ʾulī n-nuhā

4. ولولا كلمة سبقت من ربك لكان لزاما وأجل مسمى

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   Were it not for a prior decree of your Lord and a specified time, [their doom] would have attended [their guilt].

   wa-law-lā kalimatun sabaqat min rabbika la-kāna lizāman wa-ʾajalun musamman

5. فاصبر على ما يقولون وسبح بحمد ربك قبل طلوع الشمس وقبل غروبها ومن آناء الليل فسبح وأطراف النهار لعلك ترضى

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   So be patient with what they say, and celebrate the praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before the sunset, and glorify Him in watches of the night and at the day’s ends, that you may be pleased.

   fa-ṣbir ʿalā mā yaqūlūna wa-sabbiḥ bi-ḥamdi rabbika qabla ṭulūʿi sh-shamsi wa-qabla ghurūbihā wa-min ʾānāʾi l-layli fa-sabbiḥ wa-ʾaṭrāfa n-nahāri laʿallaka tarḍā

6. ولا تمدن عينيك إلى ما متعنا به أزواجا منهم زهرة الحياة الدنيا لنفتنهم فيه ورزق ربك خير وأبقى

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   Do not extend your glance toward what We have provided certain groups of them as a glitter of the life of this world, so that We may test them thereby. The provision of your Lord is better and more lasting.

   wa-lā tamuddanna ʿaynayka ʾilā mā mattaʿnā bihī ʾazwājan minhum zahrata l-ḥayāti d-dunyā li-naftinahum fīhi wa-rizqu rabbika khayrun wa-ʾabqā

7. وأمر أهلك بالصلاة واصطبر عليها لا نسألك رزقا نحن نرزقك والعاقبة للتقوى

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   And bid your family to prayer and be steadfast in maintaining it. We do not ask any provision of you: it is We who provide for you, and to Godwariness belongs the ultimate outcome [in the Hereafter].

   wa-ʾmur ʾahlaka bi-ṣ-ṣalāti wa-ṣṭabir ʿalayhā lā nasʾaluka rizqan naḥnu narzuquka wa-l-ʿāqibatu li-t-taqwā

8. وقالوا لولا يأتينا بآية من ربه أولم تأتهم بينة ما في الصحف الأولى

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   They say, ‘Why does he not bring us a sign from his Lord?’ Has there not come to them a clear proof in that which is in the former scriptures?

   wa-qālū law-lā yaʾtīnā bi-ʾāyatin min rabbihī ʾa-wa-lam taʾtihim bayyinatu mā fī ṣ-ṣuḥufi l-ʾūlā

9. ولو أنا أهلكناهم بعذاب من قبله لقالوا ربنا لولا أرسلت إلينا رسولا فنتبع آياتك من قبل أن نذل ونخزى

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   Had We destroyed them with a punishment before it, they would have surely said, ‘Our Lord! Why did You not send us an apostle so that we might have followed Your signs before we were abased and disgraced?’

   wa-law ʾannā ʾahlaknāhum bi-ʿadhābin min qablihī la-qālū rabbanā law-lā ʾarsalta ʾilaynā rasūlan fa-nattabiʿa ʾāyātika min qabli ʾan nadhilla wa-nakhzā

10. قل كل متربص فتربصوا فستعلمون من أصحاب الصراط السوي ومن اهتدى

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    Say, ‘Everyone [of us] is waiting. So wait! Soon you will know who are the people of the right path, and who is [rightly] guided.’

    qul kullun mutarabbiṣun fa-tarabbaṣū fa-sa-taʿlamūna man ʾaṣḥābu ṣ-ṣirāṭi s-sawiyyi wa-mani htadā