Surah Yā-Sīn (Ya Sin) in English

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

1. يس

   1

   Ya Seen!

   y-s (yā sīn)

2. والقرآن الحكيم

   2

   By the Wise Quran,

   wa-l-qurʾāni l-ḥakīmi

3. إنك لمن المرسلين

   3

   you are indeed one of the apostles,

   ʾinnaka la-mina l-mursalīna

4. على صراط مستقيم

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   on a straight path.

   ʿalā ṣirāṭin mustaqīmin

5. تنزيل العزيز الرحيم

   5

   [It is a scripture] sent down gradually from the All-mighty, the All-merciful

   tanzīla l-ʿazīzi r-raḥīmi

6. لتنذر قوما ما أنذر آباؤهم فهم غافلون

   6

   that you may warn a people whose fathers were not warned, so they are oblivious.

   li-tundhira qawman mā ʾundhira ʾābāʾuhum fa-hum ghāfilūna

7. لقد حق القول على أكثرهم فهم لا يؤمنون

   7

   The word has certainly become due against most of them, so they will not have faith.

   la-qad ḥaqqa l-qawlu ʿalā ʾaktharihim fa-hum lā yuʾminūna

8. إنا جعلنا في أعناقهم أغلالا فهي إلى الأذقان فهم مقمحون

   8

   Indeed We have put iron collars around their necks, which are up to the chins, so their heads are upturned.

   ʾinnā jaʿalnā fī ʾaʿnāqihim ʾaghlālan fa-hiya ʾilā l-ʾadhqāni fa-hum muqmaḥūna

9. وجعلنا من بين أيديهم سدا ومن خلفهم سدا فأغشيناهم فهم لا يبصرون

   9

   And We have put a barrier before them and a barrier behind them, then We have blind-folded them, so they do not see.

   wa-jaʿalnā min bayni ʾaydīhim saddan wa-min khalfihim saddan fa-ʾaghshaynāhum fa-hum lā yubṣirūna

10. وسواء عليهم أأنذرتهم أم لم تنذرهم لا يؤمنون

    10

    It is the same to them whether you warn them or do not warn them, they will not have faith.

    wa-sawāʾun ʿalayhim ʾa-ʾandhartahum ʾam lam tundhirhum lā yuʾminūna

11. إنما تنذر من اتبع الذكر وخشي الرحمن بالغيب فبشره بمغفرة وأجر كريم

    11

    You can only warn someone who follows the Reminder and fears the All-beneficent in secret; so give him the good news of forgiveness and a noble reward.

    ʾinnamā tundhiru mani ttabaʿa dh-dhikra wa-khashiya r-raḥmāna bi-l-ghaybi fa-bashshirhu bi-maghfiratin wa-ʾajrin karīmin

12. إنا نحن نحيي الموتى ونكتب ما قدموا وآثارهم وكل شيء أحصيناه في إمام مبين

    12

    Indeed it is We who revive the dead and write what they have sent ahead and their effects [which they left behind], and We have figured everything in a manifest Imam.

    ʾinnā naḥnu nuḥyi l-mawtā wa-naktubu mā qaddamū wa-ʾāthārahum wa-kulla shayʾin ʾaḥṣaynāhu fī ʾimāmin mubīnin