20 - Surah Taha طه

Ta, Ha.

tta-ha

We have not sent down to you the Qur'an that you be distressed

mā anzalnā ʿalayka l-qur'āna litashqā

But only as a reminder for those who fear [Allah] -

illā tadhkiratan liman yakhshā

A revelation from He who created the earth and highest heavens,

tanzīlan mimman khalaqa l-arḍa wal-samāwāti l-ʿulā

The Most Merciful [who is] above the Throne established.

al-raḥmānu ʿalā l-ʿarshi is'tawā

To Him belongs what is in the heavens and what is on the earth and what is between them and what is under the soil.

lahu mā fī l-samāwāti wamā fī l-arḍi wamā baynahumā wamā taḥta l-tharā

And if you speak aloud - then indeed, He knows the secret and what is [even] more hidden.

wa-in tajhar bil-qawli fa-innahu yaʿlamu l-sira wa-akhfā

Allah - there is no deity except Him. To Him belong the best names.

al-lahu lā ilāha illā huwa lahu l-asmāu l-ḥus'nā

And has the story of Moses reached you? -

wahal atāka ḥadīthu mūsā

When he saw a fire and said to his family, "Stay here; indeed, I have perceived a fire; perhaps I can bring you a torch or find at the fire some guidance."

idh raā nāran faqāla li-ahlihi um'kuthū innī ānastu nāran laʿallī ātīkum min'hā biqabasin aw ajidu ʿalā l-nāri hudan

And when he came to it, he was called, "O Moses,

falammā atāhā nūdiya yāmūsā

Indeed, I am your Lord, so remove your sandals. Indeed, you are in the sacred valley of Tuwa.

innī anā rabbuka fa-ikh'laʿ naʿlayka innaka bil-wādi l-muqadasi ṭuwan

And I have chosen you, so listen to what is revealed [to you].

wa-anā ikh'tartuka fa-is'tamiʿ limā yūḥā

Indeed, I am Allah. There is no deity except Me, so worship Me and establish prayer for My remembrance.

innanī anā l-lahu lā ilāha illā anā fa-uʿ'bud'nī wa-aqimi l-ṣalata lidhik'rī

Indeed, the Hour is coming - I almost conceal it - so that every soul may be recompensed according to that for which it strives.

inna l-sāʿata ātiyatun akādu ukh'fīhā lituj'zā kullu nafsin bimā tasʿā

So do not let one avert you from it who does not believe in it and follows his desire, for you [then] would perish.

falā yaṣuddannaka ʿanhā man lā yu'minu bihā wa-ittabaʿa hawāhu fatardā

And what is that in your right hand, O Moses?"

wamā til'ka biyamīnika yāmūsā

He said, "It is my staff; I lean upon it, and I bring down leaves for my sheep and I have therein other uses."

qāla hiya ʿaṣāya atawakka-u ʿalayhā wa-ahushu bihā ʿalā ghanamī waliya fīhā maāribu ukh'rā

[Allah] said, "Throw it down, O Moses."

qāla alqihā yāmūsā

So he threw it down, and thereupon it was a snake, moving swiftly.

fa-alqāhā fa-idhā hiya ḥayyatun tasʿā

[Allah] said, "Seize it and fear not; We will return it to its former condition.

qāla khudh'hā walā takhaf sanuʿīduhā sīratahā l-ūlā

And draw in your hand to your side; it will come out white without disease - another sign,

wa-uḍ'mum yadaka ilā janāḥika takhruj bayḍāa min ghayri sūin āyatan ukh'rā

That We may show you [some] of Our greater signs.

linuriyaka min āyātinā l-kub'rā

Go to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed."

idh'hab ilā fir'ʿawna innahu ṭaghā

[Moses] said, "My Lord, expand for me my breast [with assurance]

qāla rabbi ish'raḥ lī ṣadrī

And ease for me my task

wayassir lī amrī

And untie the knot from my tongue

wa-uḥ'lul ʿuq'datan min lisānī

That they may understand my speech.

yafqahū qawlī

And appoint for me a minister from my family -

wa-ij'ʿal lī wazīran min ahlī

Aaron, my brother.

hārūna akhī

Increase through him my strength

ush'dud bihi azrī

And let him share my task

wa-ashrik'hu fī amrī

That we may exalt You much

kay nusabbiḥaka kathīran

And remember You much.

wanadhkuraka kathīran

Indeed, You are of us ever Seeing."

innaka kunta binā baṣīran

[Allah] said, "You have been granted your request, O Moses.

qāla qad ūtīta su'laka yāmūsā

And We had already conferred favor upon you another time,

walaqad manannā ʿalayka marratan ukh'rā

When We inspired to your mother what We inspired,

idh awḥaynā ilā ummika mā yūḥā

[Saying], 'Cast him into the chest and cast it into the river, and the river will throw it onto the bank; there will take him an enemy to Me and an enemy to him.' And I bestowed upon you love from Me that you would be brought up under My eye.

ani iq'dhifīhi fī l-tābūti fa-iq'dhifīhi fī l-yami falyul'qihi l-yamu bil-sāḥili yakhudh'hu ʿaduwwun lī waʿaduwwun lahu wa-alqaytu ʿalayka maḥabbatan minnī walituṣ'naʿa ʿalā ʿaynī

[And We favored you] when your sister went and said, 'Shall I direct you to someone who will be responsible for him?' So We restored you to your mother that she might be content and not grieve. And you killed someone, but We saved you from retaliation and tried you with a [severe] trial. And you remained [some] years among the people of Madyan. Then you came [here] at the decreed time, O Moses.

idh tamshī ukh'tuka fataqūlu hal adullukum ʿalā man yakfuluhu farajaʿnāka ilā ummika kay taqarra ʿaynuhā walā taḥzana waqatalta nafsan fanajjaynāka mina l-ghami wafatannāka futūnan falabith'ta sinīna fī ahli madyana thumma ji'ta ʿalā qadarin yāmūsā

And I produced you for Myself.

wa-iṣ'ṭanaʿtuka linafsī

Go, you and your brother, with My signs and do not slacken in My remembrance.

idh'hab anta wa-akhūka biāyātī walā taniyā fī dhik'rī

Go, both of you, to Pharaoh. Indeed, he has transgressed.

idh'habā ilā fir'ʿawna innahu ṭaghā

And speak to him with gentle speech that perhaps he may be reminded or fear [Allah]."

faqūlā lahu qawlan layyinan laʿallahu yatadhakkaru aw yakhshā

They said, "Our Lord, indeed we are afraid that he will hasten [punishment] against us or that he will transgress."

qālā rabbanā innanā nakhāfu an yafruṭa ʿalaynā aw an yaṭghā

[Allah] said, "Fear not. Indeed, I am with you both; I hear and I see.

qāla lā takhāfā innanī maʿakumā asmaʿu wa-arā

So go to him and say, 'Indeed, we are messengers of your Lord, so send with us the Children of Israel and do not torment them. We have come to you with a sign from your Lord. And peace will be upon he who follows the guidance.

fatiyāhu faqūlā innā rasūlā rabbika fa-arsil maʿanā banī is'rāīla walā tuʿadhib'hum qad ji'nāka biāyatin min rabbika wal-salāmu ʿalā mani ittabaʿa l-hudā

Indeed, it has been revealed to us that the punishment will be upon whoever denies and turns away.' "

innā qad ūḥiya ilaynā anna l-ʿadhāba ʿalā man kadhaba watawallā

[Pharaoh] said, "So who is the Lord of you two, O Moses?"

qāla faman rabbukumā yāmūsā

He said, "Our Lord is He who gave each thing its form and then guided [it]."

qāla rabbunā alladhī aʿṭā kulla shayin khalqahu thumma hadā

[Pharaoh] said, "Then what is the case of the former generations?"

qāla famā bālu l-qurūni l-ūlā

[Moses] said, "The knowledge thereof is with my Lord in a record. My Lord neither errs nor forgets."

qāla ʿil'muhā ʿinda rabbī fī kitābin lā yaḍillu rabbī walā yansā

[It is He] who has made for you the earth as a bed [spread out] and inserted therein for you roadways and sent down from the sky, rain and produced thereby categories of various plants.

alladhī jaʿala lakumu l-arḍa mahdan wasalaka lakum fīhā subulan wa-anzala mina l-samāi māan fa-akhrajnā bihi azwājan min nabātin shattā

Eat [therefrom] and pasture your livestock. Indeed, in that are signs for those of intelligence.

kulū wa-ir'ʿaw anʿāmakum inna fī dhālika laāyātin li-ulī l-nuhā

From the earth We created you, and into it We will return you, and from it We will extract you another time.

min'hā khalaqnākum wafīhā nuʿīdukum wamin'hā nukh'rijukum tāratan ukh'rā

And We certainly showed Pharaoh Our signs - all of them - but he denied and refused.

walaqad araynāhu āyātinā kullahā fakadhaba wa-abā

He said, "Have you come to us to drive us out of our land with your magic, O Moses?

qāla aji'tanā litukh'rijanā min arḍinā bisiḥ'rika yāmūsā

Then we will surely bring you magic like it, so make between us and you an appointment, which we will not fail to keep and neither will you, in a place assigned."

falanatiyannaka bisiḥ'rin mith'lihi fa-ij'ʿal baynanā wabaynaka mawʿidan lā nukh'lifuhu naḥnu walā anta makānan suwan

[Moses] said, "Your appointment is on the day of the festival when the people assemble at mid-morning."

qāla mawʿidukum yawmu l-zīnati wa-an yuḥ'shara l-nāsu ḍuḥan

So Pharaoh went away, put together his plan, and then came [to Moses].

fatawallā fir'ʿawnu fajamaʿa kaydahu thumma atā

Moses said to the magicians summoned by Pharaoh, "Woe to you! Do not invent a lie against Allah or He will exterminate you with a punishment; and he has failed who invents [such falsehood]."

qāla lahum mūsā waylakum lā taftarū ʿalā l-lahi kadhiban fayus'ḥitakum biʿadhābin waqad khāba mani if'tarā

So they disputed over their affair among themselves and concealed their private conversation.

fatanāzaʿū amrahum baynahum wa-asarrū l-najwā

They said, "Indeed, these are two magicians who want to drive you out of your land with their magic and do away with your most exemplary way.

qālū in hādhāni lasāḥirāni yurīdāni an yukh'rijākum min arḍikum bisiḥ'rihimā wayadhhabā biṭarīqatikumu l-muth'lā

So resolve upon your plan and then come [forward] in line. And he has succeeded today who overcomes."

fa-ajmiʿū kaydakum thumma i'tū ṣaffan waqad aflaḥa l-yawma mani is'taʿlā

They said, "O Moses, either you throw or we will be the first to throw."

qālū yāmūsā immā an tul'qiya wa-immā an nakūna awwala man alqā

He said, "Rather, you throw." And suddenly their ropes and staffs seemed to him from their magic that they were moving [like snakes].

qāla bal alqū fa-idhā ḥibāluhum waʿiṣiyyuhum yukhayyalu ilayhi min siḥ'rihim annahā tasʿā

And he sensed within himself apprehension, did Moses.

fa-awjasa fī nafsihi khīfatan mūsā

Allah said, "Fear not. Indeed, it is you who are superior.

qul'nā lā takhaf innaka anta l-aʿlā

And throw what is in your right hand; it will swallow up what they have crafted. What they have crafted is but the trick of a magician, and the magician will not succeed wherever he is."

wa-alqi mā fī yamīnika talqaf mā ṣanaʿū innamā ṣanaʿū kaydu sāḥirin walā yuf'liḥu l-sāḥiru ḥaythu atā

So the magicians fell down in prostration. They said, "We have believed in the Lord of Aaron and Moses."

fa-ul'qiya l-saḥaratu sujjadan qālū āmannā birabbi hārūna wamūsā

[Pharaoh] said, "You believed him before I gave you permission. Indeed, he is your leader who has taught you magic. So I will surely cut off your hands and your feet on opposite sides, and I will crucify you on the trunks of palm trees, and you will surely know which of us is more severe in [giving] punishment and more enduring."

qāla āmantum lahu qabla an ādhana lakum innahu lakabīrukumu alladhī ʿallamakumu l-siḥ'ra fala-uqaṭṭiʿanna aydiyakum wa-arjulakum min khilāfin wala-uṣallibannakum fī judhūʿi l-nakhli walataʿlamunna ayyunā ashaddu ʿadhāban wa-abqā

They said, "Never will we prefer you over what has come to us of clear proofs and [over] He who created us. So decree whatever you are to decree. You can only decree for this worldly life.

qālū lan nu'thiraka ʿalā mā jāanā mina l-bayināti wa-alladhī faṭaranā fa-iq'ḍi mā anta qāḍin innamā taqḍī hādhihi l-ḥayata l-dun'yā

Indeed, we have believed in our Lord that He may forgive us our sins and what you compelled us [to do] of magic. And Allah is better and more enduring."

innā āmannā birabbinā liyaghfira lanā khaṭāyānā wamā akrahtanā ʿalayhi mina l-siḥ'ri wal-lahu khayrun wa-abqā

Indeed, whoever comes to his Lord as a criminal - indeed, for him is Hell; he will neither die therein nor live.

innahu man yati rabbahu muj'riman fa-inna lahu jahannama lā yamūtu fīhā walā yaḥyā

But whoever comes to Him as a believer having done righteous deeds - for those will be the highest degrees [in position]:

waman yatihi mu'minan qad ʿamila l-ṣāliḥāti fa-ulāika lahumu l-darajātu l-ʿulā

Gardens of perpetual residence beneath which rivers flow, wherein they abide eternally. And that is the reward of one who purifies himself.

jannātu ʿadnin tajrī min taḥtihā l-anhāru khālidīna fīhā wadhālika jazāu man tazakkā

And We had inspired to Moses, "Travel by night with My servants and strike for them a dry path through the sea; you will not fear being overtaken [by Pharaoh] nor be afraid [of drowning]."

walaqad awḥaynā ilā mūsā an asri biʿibādī fa-iḍ'rib lahum ṭarīqan fī l-baḥri yabasan lā takhāfu darakan walā takhshā

So Pharaoh pursued them with his soldiers, and there covered them from the sea that which covered them,

fa-atbaʿahum fir'ʿawnu bijunūdihi faghashiyahum mina l-yami mā ghashiyahum

And Pharaoh led his people astray and did not guide [them].

wa-aḍalla fir'ʿawnu qawmahu wamā hadā

O Children of Israel, We delivered you from your enemy, and We made an appointment with you at the right side of the mount, and We sent down to you manna and quails,

yābanī is'rāīla qad anjaynākum min ʿaduwwikum wawāʿadnākum jāniba l-ṭūri l-aymana wanazzalnā ʿalaykumu l-mana wal-salwā

[Saying], "Eat from the good things with which We have provided you and do not transgress [or oppress others] therein, lest My anger should descend upon you. And he upon whom My anger descends has certainly fallen."

kulū min ṭayyibāti mā razaqnākum walā taṭghaw fīhi fayaḥilla ʿalaykum ghaḍabī waman yaḥlil ʿalayhi ghaḍabī faqad hawā

But indeed, I am the Perpetual Forgiver of whoever repents and believes and does righteousness and then continues in guidance.

wa-innī laghaffārun liman tāba waāmana waʿamila ṣāliḥan thumma ih'tadā

[Allah] said, "And what made you hasten from your people, O Moses?"

wamā aʿjalaka ʿan qawmika yāmūsā

He said, "They are close upon my tracks, and I hastened to You, my Lord, that You be pleased."

qāla hum ulāi ʿalā atharī waʿajil'tu ilayka rabbi litarḍā

[Allah] said, "But indeed, We have tried your people after you [departed], and the Samiri has led them astray."

qāla fa-innā qad fatannā qawmaka min baʿdika wa-aḍallahumu l-sāmiriyu

So Moses returned to his people, angry and grieved. He said, "O my people, did your Lord not make you a good promise? Then, was the time [of its fulfillment] too long for you, or did you wish that wrath from your Lord descend upon you, so you broke your promise [of obedience] to me?"

farajaʿa mūsā ilā qawmihi ghaḍbāna asifan qāla yāqawmi alam yaʿid'kum rabbukum waʿdan ḥasanan afaṭāla ʿalaykumu l-ʿahdu am aradttum an yaḥilla ʿalaykum ghaḍabun min rabbikum fa-akhlaftum mawʿidī

They said, "We did not break our promise to you by our will, but we were made to carry burdens from the ornaments of the people [of Pharaoh], so we threw them [into the fire], and thus did the Samiri throw."

qālū mā akhlafnā mawʿidaka bimalkinā walākinnā ḥummil'nā awzāran min zīnati l-qawmi faqadhafnāhā fakadhālika alqā l-sāmiriyu

And he extracted for them [the statue of] a calf which had a lowing sound, and they said, "This is your god and the god of Moses, but he forgot."

fa-akhraja lahum ʿij'lan jasadan lahu khuwārun faqālū hādhā ilāhukum wa-ilāhu mūsā fanasiya

Did they not see that it could not return to them any speech and that it did not possess for them any harm or benefit?

afalā yarawna allā yarjiʿu ilayhim qawlan walā yamliku lahum ḍarran walā nafʿan

And Aaron had already told them before [the return of Moses], "O my people, you are only being tested by it, and indeed, your Lord is the Most Merciful, so follow me and obey my order."

walaqad qāla lahum hārūnu min qablu yāqawmi innamā futintum bihi wa-inna rabbakumu l-raḥmānu fa-ittabiʿūnī wa-aṭīʿū amrī

They said, "We will never cease being devoted to the calf until Moses returns to us."

qālū lan nabraḥa ʿalayhi ʿākifīna ḥattā yarjiʿa ilaynā mūsā

[Moses] said, "O Aaron, what prevented you, when you saw them going astray,

qāla yāhārūnu mā manaʿaka idh ra-aytahum ḍallū

From following me? Then have you disobeyed my order?"

allā tattabiʿani afaʿaṣayta amrī

[Aaron] said, "O son of my mother, do not seize [me] by my beard or by my head. Indeed, I feared that you would say, 'You caused division among the Children of Israel, and you did not observe [or await] my word.' "

qāla yabna-umma lā takhudh biliḥ'yatī walā birasī innī khashītu an taqūla farraqta bayna banī is'rāīla walam tarqub qawlī

[Moses] said, "And what is your case, O Samiri?"

qāla famā khaṭbuka yāsāmiriyyu

He said, "I saw what they did not see, so I took a handful [of dust] from the track of the messenger and threw it, and thus did my soul entice me."

qāla baṣur'tu bimā lam yabṣurū bihi faqabaḍtu qabḍatan min athari l-rasūli fanabadhtuhā wakadhālika sawwalat lī nafsī

[Moses] said, "Then go. And indeed, it is [decreed] for you in [this] life to say, 'No contact.' And indeed, you have an appointment [in the Hereafter] you will not fail to keep. And look at your 'god' to which you remained devoted. We will surely burn it and blow it into the sea with a blast.

qāla fa-idh'hab fa-inna laka fī l-ḥayati an taqūla lā misāsa wa-inna laka mawʿidan lan tukh'lafahu wa-unẓur ilā ilāhika alladhī ẓalta ʿalayhi ʿākifan lanuḥarriqannahu thumma lanansifannahu fī l-yami nasfan

Your god is only Allah, except for whom there is no deity. He has encompassed all things in knowledge."

innamā ilāhukumu l-lahu alladhī lā ilāha illā huwa wasiʿa kulla shayin ʿil'man

Thus, [O Muhammad], We relate to you from the news of what has preceded. And We have certainly given you from Us the Qur'an.

kadhālika naquṣṣu ʿalayka min anbāi mā qad sabaqa waqad ātaynāka min ladunnā dhik'ran

Whoever turns away from it - then indeed, he will bear on the Day of Resurrection a burden,

man aʿraḍa ʿanhu fa-innahu yaḥmilu yawma l-qiyāmati wiz'ran

[Abiding] eternally therein, and evil it is for them on the Day of Resurrection as a load -

khālidīna fīhi wasāa lahum yawma l-qiyāmati ḥim'lan

The Day the Horn will be blown. And We will gather the criminals, that Day, blue-eyed.

yawma yunfakhu fī l-ṣūri wanaḥshuru l-muj'rimīna yawma-idhin zur'qan

They will murmur among themselves, "You remained not but ten [days in the world]."

yatakhāfatūna baynahum in labith'tum illā ʿashran

We are most knowing of what they say when the best of them in manner will say, "You remained not but one day."

naḥnu aʿlamu bimā yaqūlūna idh yaqūlu amthaluhum ṭarīqatan in labith'tum illā yawman

And they ask you about the mountains, so say, "My Lord will blow them away with a blast.

wayasalūnaka ʿani l-jibāli faqul yansifuhā rabbī nasfan

And He will leave the earth a level plain;

fayadharuhā qāʿan ṣafṣafan

You will not see therein a depression or an elevation."

lā tarā fīhā ʿiwajan walā amtan

That Day, everyone will follow [the call of] the Caller [with] no deviation therefrom, and [all] voices will be stilled before the Most Merciful, so you will not hear except a whisper [of footsteps].

yawma-idhin yattabiʿūna l-dāʿiya lā ʿiwaja lahu wakhashaʿati l-aṣwātu lilrraḥmāni falā tasmaʿu illā hamsan

That Day, no intercession will benefit except [that of] one to whom the Most Merciful has given permission and has accepted his word.

yawma-idhin lā tanfaʿu l-shafāʿatu illā man adhina lahu l-raḥmānu waraḍiya lahu qawlan

Allah knows what is [presently] before them and what will be after them, but they do not encompass it in knowledge.

yaʿlamu mā bayna aydīhim wamā khalfahum walā yuḥīṭūna bihi ʿil'man

And [all] faces will be humbled before the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of existence. And he will have failed who carries injustice.

waʿanati l-wujūhu lil'ḥayyi l-qayūmi waqad khāba man ḥamala ẓul'man

But he who does of righteous deeds while he is a believer - he will neither fear injustice nor deprivation.

waman yaʿmal mina l-ṣāliḥāti wahuwa mu'minun falā yakhāfu ẓul'man walā haḍman

And thus We have sent it down as an Arabic Qur'an and have diversified therein the warnings that perhaps they will avoid [sin] or it would cause them remembrance.

wakadhālika anzalnāhu qur'ānan ʿarabiyyan waṣarrafnā fīhi mina l-waʿīdi laʿallahum yattaqūna aw yuḥ'dithu lahum dhik'ran

So high [above all] is Allah, the Sovereign, the Truth. And, [O Muhammad], do not hasten with [recitation of] the Qur'an before its revelation is completed to you, and say, "My Lord, increase me in knowledge."

fataʿālā l-lahu l-maliku l-ḥaqu walā taʿjal bil-qur'āni min qabli an yuq'ḍā ilayka waḥyuhu waqul rabbi zid'nī ʿil'man

And We had already taken a promise from Adam before, but he forgot; and We found not in him determination.

walaqad ʿahid'nā ilā ādama min qablu fanasiya walam najid lahu ʿazman

And [mention] when We said to the angels, "Prostrate to Adam," and they prostrated, except Iblees; he refused.

wa-idh qul'nā lil'malāikati us'judū liādama fasajadū illā ib'līsa abā

So We said, "O Adam, indeed this is an enemy to you and to your wife. Then let him not remove you from Paradise so you would suffer.

faqul'nā yāādamu inna hādhā ʿaduwwun laka walizawjika falā yukh'rijannakumā mina l-janati fatashqā

Indeed, it is [promised] for you not to be hungry therein or be unclothed.

inna laka allā tajūʿa fīhā walā taʿrā

And indeed, you will not be thirsty therein or be hot from the sun."

wa-annaka lā taẓma-u fīhā walā taḍḥā

Then Satan whispered to him; he said, "O Adam, shall I direct you to the tree of eternity and possession that will not deteriorate?"

fawaswasa ilayhi l-shayṭānu qāla yāādamu hal adulluka ʿalā shajarati l-khul'di wamul'kin lā yablā

And Adam and his wife ate of it, and their private parts became apparent to them, and they began to fasten over themselves from the leaves of Paradise. And Adam disobeyed his Lord and erred.

fa-akalā min'hā fabadat lahumā sawātuhumā waṭafiqā yakhṣifāni ʿalayhimā min waraqi l-janati waʿaṣā ādamu rabbahu faghawā

Then his Lord chose him and turned to him in forgiveness and guided [him].

thumma ij'tabāhu rabbuhu fatāba ʿalayhi wahadā

[Allah] said, "Descend from Paradise - all, [your descendants] being enemies to one another. And if there should come to you guidance from Me - then whoever follows My guidance will neither go astray [in the world] nor suffer [in the Hereafter].

qāla ih'biṭā min'hā jamīʿan baʿḍukum libaʿḍin ʿaduwwun fa-immā yatiyannakum minnī hudan famani ittabaʿa hudāya falā yaḍillu walā yashqā

And whoever turns away from My remembrance - indeed, he will have a depressed life, and We will gather him on the Day of Resurrection blind."

waman aʿraḍa ʿan dhik'rī fa-inna lahu maʿīshatan ḍankan wanaḥshuruhu yawma l-qiyāmati aʿmā

He will say, "My Lord, why have you raised me blind while I was [once] seeing?"

qāla rabbi lima ḥashartanī aʿmā waqad kuntu baṣīran

[Allah] will say, "Thus did Our signs come to you, and you forgot them; and thus will you this Day be forgotten."

qāla kadhālika atatka āyātunā fanasītahā wakadhālika l-yawma tunsā

And thus do We recompense he who transgressed and did not believe in the signs of his Lord. And the punishment of the Hereafter is more severe and more enduring.

wakadhālika najzī man asrafa walam yu'min biāyāti rabbihi walaʿadhābu l-ākhirati ashaddu wa-abqā

Then, has it not become clear to them how many generations We destroyed before them as they walk among their dwellings? Indeed in that are signs for those of intelligence.

afalam yahdi lahum kam ahlaknā qablahum mina l-qurūni yamshūna fī masākinihim inna fī dhālika laāyātin li-ulī l-nuhā

And if not for a word that preceded from your Lord, punishment would have been an obligation [due immediately], and [if not for] a specified term [decreed].

walawlā kalimatun sabaqat min rabbika lakāna lizāman wa-ajalun musamman

So be patient over what they say and exalt [Allah] with praise of your Lord before the rising of the sun and before its setting; and during periods of the night [exalt Him] and at the ends of the day, that you may be satisfied.

fa-iṣ'bir ʿalā mā yaqūlūna wasabbiḥ biḥamdi rabbika qabla ṭulūʿi l-shamsi waqabla ghurūbihā wamin ānāi al-layli fasabbiḥ wa-aṭrāfa l-nahāri laʿallaka tarḍā

And do not extend your eyes toward that by which We have given enjoyment to [some] categories of them, [its being but] the splendor of worldly life by which We test them. And the provision of your Lord is better and more enduring.

walā tamuddanna ʿaynayka ilā mā mattaʿnā bihi azwājan min'hum zahrata l-ḥayati l-dun'yā linaftinahum fīhi wariz'qu rabbika khayrun wa-abqā

And enjoin prayer upon your family [and people] and be steadfast therein. We ask you not for provision; We provide for you, and the [best] outcome is for [those of] righteousness.

wamur ahlaka bil-ṣalati wa-iṣ'ṭabir ʿalayhā lā nasaluka riz'qan naḥnu narzuquka wal-ʿāqibatu lilttaqwā

And they say, "Why does he not bring us a sign from his Lord?" Has there not come to them evidence of what was in the former scriptures?

waqālū lawlā yatīnā biāyatin min rabbihi awalam tatihim bayyinatu mā fī l-ṣuḥufi l-ūlā

And if We had destroyed them with a punishment before him, they would have said, "Our Lord, why did You not send to us a messenger so we could have followed Your verses before we were humiliated and disgraced?"

walaw annā ahlaknāhum biʿadhābin min qablihi laqālū rabbanā lawlā arsalta ilaynā rasūlan fanattabiʿa āyātika min qabli an nadhilla wanakhzā

Say, "Each [of us] is waiting; so wait. For you will know who are the companions of the sound path and who is guided."

qul kullun mutarabbiṣun fatarabbaṣū fasataʿlamūna man aṣḥābu l-ṣirāṭi l-sawiyi wamani ih'tadā