Surah Yā-Sīn (Ya Sin) in English

1. أولم يروا أنا خلقنا لهم مما عملت أيدينا أنعاما فهم لها مالكون

   71

   Have they not seen that We have created for them—of what Our hands have worked—cattle, so they have become their masters?

   ʾa-wa-lam yaraw ʾannā khalaqnā lahum mimmā ʿamilat ʾaydīnā ʾanʿāman fa-hum lahā mālikūna

2. وذللناها لهم فمنها ركوبهم ومنها يأكلون

   72

   And We made them tractable for them; so some of them make their mounts and some of them they eat.

   wa-dhallalnāhā lahum fa-minhā rakūbuhum wa-minhā yaʾkulūna

3. ولهم فيها منافع ومشارب أفلا يشكرون

   73

   There are other benefits for them therein, and drinks. Will they not then give thanks?

   wa-lahum fīhā manāfiʿu wa-mashāribu ʾa-fa-lā yashkurūna

4. واتخذوا من دون الله آلهة لعلهم ينصرون

   74

   They have taken gods besides Allah, [hoping] that they might be helped [by the fake deities].

   wa-ttakhadhū min dūni llāhi ʾālihatan laʿallahum yunṣarūna

5. لا يستطيعون نصرهم وهم لهم جند محضرون

   75

   [But] they cannot help them, while they [themselves] are an army mobilized for their defence.

   lā yastaṭīʿūna naṣrahum wa-hum lahum jundun muḥḍarūna

6. فلا يحزنك قولهم إنا نعلم ما يسرون وما يعلنون

   76

   So do not let their remarks grieve you. We indeed know whatever they hide and whatever they disclose.

   fa-lā yaḥzunka qawluhum ʾinnā naʿlamu mā yusirrūna wa-mā yuʿlinūna

7. أولم ير الإنسان أنا خلقناه من نطفة فإذا هو خصيم مبين

   77

   Does not man see that We created him from a drop of [seminal] fluid, and, behold, he is an open contender!?

   ʾa-wa-lam yara l-ʾinsānu ʾannā khalaqnāhu min nuṭfatin fa-ʾidhā huwa khaṣīmun mubīnun

8. وضرب لنا مثلا ونسي خلقه قال من يحيي العظام وهي رميم

   78

   He draws comparisons for Us, and forgets his own creation. He says, ‘Who shall revive the bones when they have decayed?’

   wa-ḍaraba lanā mathalan wa-nasiya khalqahū qāla man yuḥyi l-ʿiẓāma wa-hiya ramīmun

9. قل يحييها الذي أنشأها أول مرة وهو بكل خلق عليم

   79

   Say, ‘He will revive them who produced them the first time, and He has knowledge of all creation.

   qul yuḥyīhā lladhī ʾanshaʾahā ʾawwala marratin wa-huwa bi-kulli khalqin ʿalīmun-i

10. الذي جعل لكم من الشجر الأخضر نارا فإذا أنتم منه توقدون

    80

    He, who made for you fire out of the green tree, and, behold, you light fire from it!

    alladhī jaʿala lakum mina sh-shajari l-ʾakhḍari nāran fa-ʾidhā ʾantum minhu tūqidūna

11. أوليس الذي خلق السماوات والأرض بقادر على أن يخلق مثلهم بلى وهو الخلاق العليم

    81

    Is not He who created the heavens and the earth able to create the like of them? Yes indeed! He is the All-creator, the All-knowing.

    ʾa-wa-laysa lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa bi-qādirin ʿalā ʾan yakhluqa mithlahum balā wa-huwa l-khallāqu l-ʿalīmu

12. إنما أمره إذا أراد شيئا أن يقول له كن فيكون

    82

    All His command, when He wills something, is to say to it ‘Be,’ and it is.

    ʾinnamā ʾamruhū ʾidhā ʾarāda shayʾan ʾan yaqūla lahū kun fa-yakūnu

13. فسبحان الذي بيده ملكوت كل شيء وإليه ترجعون

    83

    So immaculate is He in whose hand is the dominion of all things, and to whom you shall be brought back.

    fa-subḥāna lladhī bi-yadihī malakūtu kulli shayʾin wa-ʾilayhi turjaʿūna