Surah Yūnus (Jonah) in English

1. قل هل من شركائكم من يبدأ الخلق ثم يعيده قل الله يبدأ الخلق ثم يعيده فأنى تؤفكون

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   Say, ‘Is there anyone among your partners who originates the creation and then brings it back?’ Say, ‘Allah originates the creation, then He will bring it back.’ Then where do you stray?

   qul hal min shurakāʾikum man yabdaʾu l-khalqa thumma yuʿīduhū quli llāhu yabdaʾu l-khalqa thumma yuʿīduhū fa-ʾannā tuʾfakūna

2. قل هل من شركائكم من يهدي إلى الحق قل الله يهدي للحق أفمن يهدي إلى الحق أحق أن يتبع أمن لا يهدي إلا أن يهدى فما لكم كيف تحكمون

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   Say, ‘Is there anyone among your partners who may guide to the truth?’ Say, ‘Allah guides to the truth. Is He who guides to the truth worthier to be followed, or he who is not guided unless shown the way? What is the matter with you? How do you judge?’

   qul hal min shurakāʾikum man yahdī ʾilā l-ḥaqqi quli llāhu yahdī li-l-ḥaqqi ʾa-fa-man yahdī ʾilā l-ḥaqqi ʾaḥaqqu ʾan yuttabaʿa ʾam-man lā yahiddī ʾillā ʾan yuhdā fa-mā lakum kayfa taḥkumūna

3. وما يتبع أكثرهم إلا ظنا إن الظن لا يغني من الحق شيئا إن الله عليم بما يفعلون

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   Most of them just follow conjecture; indeed conjecture is no substitute for the truth. Indeed Allah knows best what they do.

   wa-mā yattabiʿu ʾaktharuhum ʾillā ẓannan ʾinna ẓ-ẓanna lā yughnī mina l-ḥaqqi shayʾan ʾinna llāha ʿalīmun bi-mā yafʿalūna

4. وما كان هذا القرآن أن يفترى من دون الله ولكن تصديق الذي بين يديه وتفصيل الكتاب لا ريب فيه من رب العالمين

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   This Quran could not have been fabricated by anyone besides Allah; rather, it is a confirmation of what was [revealed] before it, and an elaboration of the Book, there is no doubt in it, from the Lord of all the worlds.

   wa-mā kāna hādhā l-qurʾānu ʾan yuftarā min dūni llāhi wa-lākin taṣdīqa llādhī bayna yadayhi wa-tafṣīla l-kitābi lā rayba fīhi min rabbi l-ʿālamīna

5. أم يقولون افتراه قل فأتوا بسورة مثله وادعوا من استطعتم من دون الله إن كنتم صادقين

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   Do they say, ‘He has fabricated it?’ Say, ‘Then bring a surah like it, and invoke whomever you can, besides Allah, should you be truthful.’

   ʾam yaqūlūna ftarāhu qul fa-ʾtū bi-sūratin mithlihī wa-dʿū mani staṭaʿtum min dūni llāhi ʾin kuntum ṣādiqīna

6. بل كذبوا بما لم يحيطوا بعلمه ولما يأتهم تأويله كذلك كذب الذين من قبلهم فانظر كيف كان عاقبة الظالمين

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   Indeed, they deny something whose knowledge they do not comprehend, and whose explanation has not yet come to them. Those who were before them denied likewise. So observe how was the fate of the wrongdoers!

   bal kadhdhabū bi-mā lam yuḥīṭū bi-ʿilmihī wa-lammā yaʾtihim taʾwīluhū ka-dhālika kadhdhaba lladhīna min qablihim fa-nẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu ẓ-ẓālimīna

7. ومنهم من يؤمن به ومنهم من لا يؤمن به وربك أعلم بالمفسدين

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   Some of them believe in it, and some of them do not believe in it, and your Lord best knows the agents of corruption.

   wa-minhum man yuʾminu bihī wa-minhum man lā yuʾminu bihī wa-rabbuka ʾaʿlamu bi-l-mufsidīna

8. وإن كذبوك فقل لي عملي ولكم عملكم أنتم بريئون مما أعمل وأنا بريء مما تعملون

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   If they deny you, say, ‘My deeds belong to me and your deeds belong to you: you are absolved of what I do and I am absolved of what you do.’

   wa-ʾin kadhdhabūka fa-qul lī ʿamalī wa-lakum ʿamalukum ʾantum barīʾūna mimmā ʾaʿmalu wa-ʾana barīʾun mimmā taʿmalūna

9. ومنهم من يستمعون إليك أفأنت تسمع الصم ولو كانوا لا يعقلون

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   There are some of them who prick up their ears at you. But can you make the deaf hear even if they do not exercise their reason?

   wa-minhum man yastamiʿūna ʾilayka ʾa-fa-ʾanta tusmiʿu ṣ-ṣumma wa-law kānū lā yaʿqilūna