Surah Yūnus (Jonah) in English

1. للذين أحسنوا الحسنى وزيادة ولا يرهق وجوههم قتر ولا ذلة أولئك أصحاب الجنة هم فيها خالدون

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   Those who are virtuous shall receive the best reward and an enhancement. Neither dust nor abasement shall overcast their faces. They shall be the inhabitants of paradise, and they shall remain in it [forever].

   li-lladhīna ʾaḥsanū l-ḥusnā wa-ziyādatun wa-lā yarhaqu wujūhahum qatarun wa-lā dhillatun ʾulāʾika ʾaṣḥābu l-jannati hum fīhā khālidūna

2. والذين كسبوا السيئات جزاء سيئة بمثلها وترهقهم ذلة ما لهم من الله من عاصم كأنما أغشيت وجوههم قطعا من الليل مظلما أولئك أصحاب النار هم فيها خالدون

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   For those who have committed misdeeds, the requital of a misdeed shall be its like, and they shall be overcast by abasement. They shall have no one to protect [them] from Allah. [They will be] as if their faces were covered with dark patches of the night. They shall be the inmates of the Fire, and they shall remain in it [forever].

   wa-lladhīna kasabū s-sayyiʾāti jazāʾu sayyiʾatin bi-mithlihā wa-tarhaquhum dhillatun mā lahum mina llāhi min ʿāṣimin ka-ʾannamā ʾughshiyat wujūhuhum qiṭaʿan mina l-layli muẓliman ʾulāʾika ʾaṣḥābu n-nāri hum fīhā khālidūna

3. ويوم نحشرهم جميعا ثم نقول للذين أشركوا مكانكم أنتم وشركاؤكم فزيلنا بينهم وقال شركاؤهم ما كنتم إيانا تعبدون

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   On the day when We gather them all together, We shall say to those who ascribe partners [to Allah], ‘Stay where you are—you and your partners!’ Then We shall set them apart from one another, and their partners will say, ‘It was not us that you worshipped.

   wa-yawma naḥshuruhum jamīʿan thumma naqūlu li-lladhīna ʾashrakū makānakum ʾantum wa-shurakāʾukum fa-zayyalnā baynahum wa-qāla shurakāʾuhum mā kuntum ʾiyyānā taʿbudūna

4. فكفى بالله شهيدا بيننا وبينكم إن كنا عن عبادتكم لغافلين

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   Allah suffices as a witness between you and us. We were indeed unaware of your worship.’

   fa-kafā bi-llāhi shahīdan baynanā wa-baynakum ʾin kunnā ʿan ʿibādatikum la-ghāfilīna

5. هنالك تبلو كل نفس ما أسلفت وردوا إلى الله مولاهم الحق وضل عنهم ما كانوا يفترون

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   There every soul will examine what it has sent in advance, and they will be returned to Allah, their real master, and what they used to fabricate will forsake them.

   hunālika tablū kullu nafsin mā ʾaslafat wa-ruddū ʾilā llāhi mawlāhumu l-ḥaqqi wa-ḍalla ʿanhum mā kānū yaftarūna

6. قل من يرزقكم من السماء والأرض أمن يملك السمع والأبصار ومن يخرج الحي من الميت ويخرج الميت من الحي ومن يدبر الأمر فسيقولون الله فقل أفلا تتقون

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   Say, ‘Who provides for you out of the sky and the earth? Who controls [your] hearing and sight, and who brings forth the living from the dead and brings forth the dead from the living, and who directs the command?’ They will say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘Will you not then be wary [of Him]?’

   qul man yarzuqukum mina s-samāʾi wa-l-ʾarḍi ʾam-man yamliku s-samʿa wa-l-ʾabṣāra wa-man yukhriju l-ḥayya mina l-mayyiti wa-yukhriju l-mayyita mina l-ḥayyi wa-man yudabbiru l-ʾamra fa-sa-yaqūlūna llāhu fa-qul ʾa-fa-lā tattaqūna

7. فذلكم الله ربكم الحق فماذا بعد الحق إلا الضلال فأنى تصرفون

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   That, then, is Allah, your true Lord. So what is there after the truth except error? Then where are you being led away?

   fa-dhālikumu llāhu rabbukumu l-ḥaqqu fa-mādhā baʿda l-ḥaqqi ʾillā ḍ-ḍalālu fa-ʾannā tuṣrafūna

8. كذلك حقت كلمت ربك على الذين فسقوا أنهم لا يؤمنون

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   Thus the word of your Lord became due against those who transgress, that they shall not have faith.

   ka-dhālika ḥaqqat kalimatu rabbika ʿalā lladhīna fasaqū ʾannahum lā yuʾminūna