Surah Yā-Sīn (Ya Sin) in English

1. إن أصحاب الجنة اليوم في شغل فاكهون

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   Indeed today the inhabitants of paradise rejoice in their engagements

   ʾinna ʾaṣḥāba l-jannati l-yawma fī shughulin fākihūna

2. هم وأزواجهم في ظلال على الأرائك متكئون

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   —they and their mates, reclining on couches in the shades.

   hum wa-ʾazwājuhum fī ẓilālin ʿalā l-ʾarāʾiki muttakiʾūna

3. لهم فيها فاكهة ولهم ما يدعون

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   There they have fruits, and they have whatever they want.

   lahum fīhā fākihatun wa-lahum mā yaddaʿūna

4. سلام قولا من رب رحيم

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   ‘Peace!’—a watchword from the all-merciful Lord.

   salāmun qawlan min rabbin raḥīmin

5. وامتازوا اليوم أيها المجرمون

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   And ‘Get apart today, you guilty ones!’

   wa-mtāzū l-yawma ʾayyuhā l-mujrimūna

6. ألم أعهد إليكم يا بني آدم أن لا تعبدوا الشيطان إنه لكم عدو مبين

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   ‘Did I not exhort you, O children of Adam, saying, “Do not worship Satan. He is indeed your manifest enemy.

   ʾa-lam ʾaʿhad ʾilaykum yā-banī ʾādama ʾan lā taʿbudū sh-shayṭāna ʾinnahū lakum ʿaduwwun mubīnun

7. وأن اعبدوني هذا صراط مستقيم

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   Worship Me. That is a straight path”?

   wa-ʾani ʿbudūnī hādhā ṣirāṭun mustaqīmun

8. ولقد أضل منكم جبلا كثيرا أفلم تكونوا تعقلون

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   Certainly, he has led astray many of your generations. Have you not exercised your reason?

   wa-la-qad ʾaḍalla minkum jibillan kathīran ʾa-fa-lam takūnū taʿqilūna

9. هذه جهنم التي كنتم توعدون

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   This is the hell you had been promised!

   hādhihī jahannamu llatī kuntum tūʿadūna

10. اصلوها اليوم بما كنتم تكفرون

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    Enter it today, because of what you used to deny.

    iṣlawhā l-yawma bi-mā kuntum takfurūna

11. اليوم نختم على أفواههم وتكلمنا أيديهم وتشهد أرجلهم بما كانوا يكسبون

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    Today We shall seal their mouths, and their hands shall speak to Us, and their feet shall bear witness concerning what they used to earn.’

    al-yawma nakhtimu ʿalā ʾafwāhihim wa-tukallimunā ʾaydīhim wa-tashhadu ʾarjuluhum bi-mā kānū yaksibūna

12. ولو نشاء لطمسنا على أعينهم فاستبقوا الصراط فأنى يبصرون

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    Had We wished We would have blotted out their eyes: then, were they to advance towards the path, how would have they seen?

    wa-law nashāʾu la-ṭamasnā ʿalā ʾaʿyunihim fa-stabaqū ṣ-ṣirāṭa fa-ʾannā yubṣirūna

13. ولو نشاء لمسخناهم على مكانتهم فما استطاعوا مضيا ولا يرجعون

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    And had We wished We would have deformed them in their place; then they would neither have been able to move ahead nor to return.

    wa-law nashāʾu la-masakhnāhum ʿalā makānatihim fa-mā staṭāʿū muḍiyyan wa-lā yarjiʿūna

14. ومن نعمره ننكسه في الخلق أفلا يعقلون

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    And whomever We give a long life, We cause him to regress in creation. Then, will they not exercise their reason?

    wa-man nuʿammirhu nunakkishu fī l-khalqi ʾa-fa-lā yaʿqilūna

15. وما علمناه الشعر وما ينبغي له إن هو إلا ذكر وقرآن مبين

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    We did not teach him poetry, nor does it behoove him. This is just a reminder and a manifest Quran,

    wa-mā ʿallamnāhu sh-shiʿra wa-mā yanbaghī lahū ʾin huwa ʾillā dhikrun wa-qurʾānun mubīnun

16. لينذر من كان حيا ويحق القول على الكافرين

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    so that anyone who is alive may be warned, and that the word may come due against the faithless.

    li-yundhira man kāna ḥayyan wa-yaḥiqqa l-qawlu ʿalā l-kāfirīna