Surah Yūnus (Jonah) in English

1. واتل عليهم نبأ نوح إذ قال لقومه يا قوم إن كان كبر عليكم مقامي وتذكيري بآيات الله فعلى الله توكلت فأجمعوا أمركم وشركاءكم ثم لا يكن أمركم عليكم غمة ثم اقضوا إلي ولا تنظرون

   71

   Relate to them the account of Noah when he said to his people, ‘O my people! If my stay [among you] be hard on you and [also] my reminding you of Allah’s signs, [for my part] I have put my trust in Allah. So conspire together, along with your partners, leaving nothing vague in your plan, then carry it out against me without giving me any respite.

   wa-tlu ʿalayhim nabaʾa nūḥin ʾidh qāla li-qawmihī yā-qawmi ʾin kāna kabura ʿalaykum maqāmī wa-tadhkīrī bi-ʾāyāti llāhi fa-ʿalā llāhi tawakkaltu fa-ʾajmiʿū ʾamrakum wa-shurakāʾakum thumma lā yakun ʾamrukum ʿalaykum ghummatan thumma qḍū ʾilayya wa-lā tunẓirūni

2. فإن توليتم فما سألتكم من أجر إن أجري إلا على الله وأمرت أن أكون من المسلمين

   72

   If you turn your back [on me], I do not ask any reward from you; my reward lies only with Allah and I have been commanded to be of those who submit [to Allah].’

   fa-ʾin tawallaytum fa-mā saʾaltukum min ʾajrin ʾin ʾajriya ʾillā ʿalā llāhi wa-ʾumirtu ʾan ʾakūna mina l-muslimīna

3. فكذبوه فنجيناه ومن معه في الفلك وجعلناهم خلائف وأغرقنا الذين كذبوا بآياتنا فانظر كيف كان عاقبة المنذرين

   73

   But they impugned him. So We delivered him and those who were with him in the ark and We made them the successors, and We drowned those who denied Our signs. So observe how was the fate of those who were warned!

   fa-kadhdhabūhu fa-najjaynāhu wa-man maʿahū fī l-fulki wa-jaʿalnāhum khalāʾifa wa-ʾaghraqnā lladhīna kadhdhabū bi-ʾāyātinā fa-nẓur kayfa kāna ʿāqibatu l-mundharīna

4. ثم بعثنا من بعده رسلا إلى قومهم فجاءوهم بالبينات فما كانوا ليؤمنوا بما كذبوا به من قبل كذلك نطبع على قلوب المعتدين

   74

   Then after him We sent [other] apostles to their people. They brought them manifest proofs, but they would not believe something they had denied before. Thus do We seal the hearts of the transgressors.

   thumma baʿathnā min baʿdihī rusulan ʾilā qawmihim fa-jāʾūhum bi-l-bayyināti fa-mā kānū li-yuʾminū bi-mā kadhdhabū bihī min qablu ka-dhālika naṭbaʿu ʿalā qulūbi l-muʿtadīna

5. ثم بعثنا من بعدهم موسى وهارون إلى فرعون وملئه بآياتنا فاستكبروا وكانوا قوما مجرمين

   75

   Then, after them, We sent Moses and Aaron to Pharaoh and his elite with Our signs, but they acted arrogantly and they were a guilty lot.

   thumma baʿathnā min baʿdihim mūsā wa-hārūna ʾilā firʿawna wa-malaʾihī bi-ʾāyātinā fa-stakbarū wa-kānū qawman mujrimīna

6. فلما جاءهم الحق من عندنا قالوا إن هذا لسحر مبين

   76

   When the truth from Us came to them, they said, ‘This is indeed plain magic!’

   fa-lammā jāʾahumu l-ḥaqqu min ʿindinā qālū ʾinna hādhā la-siḥrun mubīnun

7. قال موسى أتقولون للحق لما جاءكم أسحر هذا ولا يفلح الساحرون

   77

   Moses said, ‘Do you say of the truth when it comes to you [that it is magic]? Is this magic? Magicians do not find salvation.’

   qāla mūsā ʾa-taqūlūna li-l-ḥaqqi lammā jāʾakum ʾa-siḥrun hādhā wa-lā yufliḥu s-sāḥirūna

8. قالوا أجئتنا لتلفتنا عما وجدنا عليه آباءنا وتكون لكما الكبرياء في الأرض وما نحن لكما بمؤمنين

   78

   They said, ‘Have you come to us to turn us away from what we found our fathers following, so that supremacy may be yours in the land? We will not believe in the two of you.’

   qālū ʾa-jiʾtanā li-talfitanā ʿammā wajadnā ʿalayhi ʾābāʾanā wa-takūna lakumā l-kibriyāʾu fī l-ʾarḍi wa-mā naḥnu lakumā bi-muʾminīna