Surah Yūnus (Jonah) in English

1. إن الذين لا يرجون لقاءنا ورضوا بالحياة الدنيا واطمأنوا بها والذين هم عن آياتنا غافلون

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   Indeed those who do not expect to encounter Us and who are pleased with the life of this world and satisfied with it, and those who are oblivious of Our signs

   ʾinna lladhīna lā yarjūna liqāʾanā wa-raḍū bi-l-ḥayāti d-dunyā wa-ṭmaʾannū bihā wa-lladhīna hum ʿan ʾāyātinā ghāfilūna

2. أولئك مأواهم النار بما كانوا يكسبون

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   —it is they whose refuge shall be the Fire because of what they used to earn.

   ʾulāʾika maʾwāhumu n-nāru bi-mā kānū yaksibūna

3. إن الذين آمنوا وعملوا الصالحات يهديهم ربهم بإيمانهم تجري من تحتهم الأنهار في جنات النعيم

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   Indeed those who have faith and do righteous deeds, their Lord guides them by the means of their faith. Streams will run for them in gardens of bliss.

   ʾinna lladhīna ʾāmanū wa-ʿamilū ṣ-ṣāliḥāti yahdīhim rabbuhum bi-ʾīmānihim tajrī min taḥtihimu l-ʾanhāru fī jannāti n-naʿīmi

4. دعواهم فيها سبحانك اللهم وتحيتهم فيها سلام وآخر دعواهم أن الحمد لله رب العالمين

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   Their call therein will be, ‘O Allah! Immaculate are You!’ and their greeting therein will be, ‘Peace!’ and their concluding call, ‘All praise belongs to Allah, the Lord of all the worlds.’

   daʿwāhum fīhā subḥānaka llāhumma wa-taḥiyyatuhum fīhā salāmun wa-ʾākhiru daʿwāhum ʾani l-ḥamdu li-llāhi rabbi l-ʿālamīna

5. ولو يعجل الله للناس الشر استعجالهم بالخير لقضي إليهم أجلهم فنذر الذين لا يرجون لقاءنا في طغيانهم يعمهون

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   Were Allah to hasten ill for mankind with their haste for good, their term would have been over. But We leave those who do not expect to encounter Us bewildered in their rebellion.

   wa-law yuʿajjilu llāhu li-n-nāsi sh-sharra stiʿjālahum bi-l-khayri la-quḍiya ʾilayhim ʾajaluhum fa-nadharu lladhīna lā yarjūna liqāʾanā fī ṭughyānihim yaʿmahūna

6. وإذا مس الإنسان الضر دعانا لجنبه أو قاعدا أو قائما فلما كشفنا عنه ضره مر كأن لم يدعنا إلى ضر مسه كذلك زين للمسرفين ما كانوا يعملون

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   When distress befalls man, he supplicates Us, [lying] on his side, sitting, or standing; but when We remove his distress, he passes on as if he had never supplicated Us concerning the distress that had befallen him. What they have been doing is thus presented as decorous to the transgressors.

   wa-ʾidhā massa l-ʾinsāna ḍ-ḍurru daʿānā li-janbihī ʾaw qāʿidan ʾaw qāʾiman fa-lammā kashafnā ʿanhu ḍurrahū marra ka-ʾan lam yadʿunā ʾilā ḍurrin massahū ka-dhālika zuyyina li-l-musrifīna mā kānū yaʿmalūna

7. ولقد أهلكنا القرون من قبلكم لما ظلموا وجاءتهم رسلهم بالبينات وما كانوا ليؤمنوا كذلك نجزي القوم المجرمين

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   Certainly We destroyed generations before you when they perpetrated wrongs: their apostles brought them manifest proofs, but they would not have faith. Thus do We requite the guilty lot.

   wa-la-qad ʾahlaknā l-qurūna min qablikum lammā ẓalamū wa-jāʾathum rusuluhum bi-l-bayyināti wa-mā kānū li-yuʾminū ka-dhālika najzī l-qawma l-mujrimīna

8. ثم جعلناكم خلائف في الأرض من بعدهم لننظر كيف تعملون

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   Then We made you successors on the earth after them that We may observe how you will act.

   thumma jaʿalnākum khalāʾifa fī l-ʾarḍi min baʿdihim li-nanẓura kayfa taʿmalūna