Surah Yūnus (Jonah) in English

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

1. الر تلك آيات الكتاب الحكيم

   1

   Alif, Lam, Ra. These are the signs of the Wise Book.

   a-l-r (ʾalif lām rā) tilka ʾāyātu l-kitābi l-ḥakīmi

2. أكان للناس عجبا أن أوحينا إلى رجل منهم أن أنذر الناس وبشر الذين آمنوا أن لهم قدم صدق عند ربهم قال الكافرون إن هذا لساحر مبين

   2

   Does it seem odd to these people that We have revealed to a man from among themselves, [declaring], ‘Warn mankind, and give good news to the faithful that they are in good standing with their Lord’? The faithless say, ‘This is indeed a plain magician.’

   ʾa-kāna li-n-nāsi ʿajaban ʾan ʾawḥaynā ʾilā rajulin minhum ʾan ʾandhiri n-nāsa wa-bashshiri lladhīna ʾāmanū ʾanna lahum qadama ṣidqin ʿinda rabbihim qāla l-kāfirūna ʾinna hādhā la-sāḥirun mubīnun

3. إن ربكم الله الذي خلق السماوات والأرض في ستة أيام ثم استوى على العرش يدبر الأمر ما من شفيع إلا من بعد إذنه ذلكم الله ربكم فاعبدوه أفلا تذكرون

   3

   Indeed your Lord is Allah, who created the heavens and the earth in six days, and then settled on the Throne, directing the command. There is no intercessor, except by His leave. That is Allah, your Lord! So worship Him. Will you not then take admonition?

   ʾinna rabbakumu llāhu lladhī khalaqa s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍa fī sittati ʾayyāmin thumma stawā ʿalā l-ʿarshi yudabbiru l-ʾamra mā min shafīʿin ʾillā min baʿdi ʾidhnihī dhālikumu llāhu rabbukum fa-ʿbudūhu ʾa-fa-lā tadhakkarūna

4. إليه مرجعكم جميعا وعد الله حقا إنه يبدأ الخلق ثم يعيده ليجزي الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات بالقسط والذين كفروا لهم شراب من حميم وعذاب أليم بما كانوا يكفرون

   4

   To Him will be the return of you all; [that is] Allah’s true promise. Indeed, He originates the creation, then He will bring it back that He may reward with justice those who have faith and do righteous deeds. As for the faithless, they shall have boiling water for drink, and a painful punishment because of what they used to defy.

   ʾilayhi marjiʿukum jamīʿan waʿda llāhi ḥaqqan ʾinnahū yabdaʾu l-khalqa thumma yuʿīduhū li-yajziya lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti bi-l-qisṭi wa-lladhīna kafarū lahum sharābun min ḥamīmin wa-ʿadhābun ʾalīmun bi-mā kānū yakfurūna

5. هو الذي جعل الشمس ضياء والقمر نورا وقدره منازل لتعلموا عدد السنين والحساب ما خلق الله ذلك إلا بالحق يفصل الآيات لقوم يعلمون

   5

   It is He who made the sun a radiance and the moon a light, and ordained its phases that you might know the number of years and the calculation [of time]. Allah did not create all that except with justice. He elaborates the signs for a people who have knowledge.

   huwa lladhī jaʿala sh-shamsa ḍiyāʾan wa-l-qamara nūran wa-qaddarahū manāzila li-taʿlamū ʿadada s-sinīna wa-l-ḥisāba mā khalaqa llāhu dhālika ʾillā bi-l-ḥaqqi yufaṣṣilu l-ʾāyāti li-qawmin yaʿlamūna

6. إن في اختلاف الليل والنهار وما خلق الله في السماوات والأرض لآيات لقوم يتقون

   6

   Indeed in the alternation of night and day, and whatever Allah has created in the heavens and the earth, there are surely signs for a people who are Godwary.

   ʾinna fī khtilāfi l-layli wa-n-nahāri wa-mā khalaqa llāhu fī s-samāwāti wa-l-ʾarḍi la-ʾāyātin li-qawmin yattaqūna