Surah Al-A'raaf

إِنَّكُمْلَتَأْتُونَٱلرِّجَالَشَهْوَةًۭمِّندُونِٱلنِّسَآءِبَلْأَنتُمْقَوْمٌۭمُّسْرِفُونَ

Verily, with lust you approach men instead of women: nay, but you are people given to excesses!"

وَمَاكَانَجَوَابَقَوْمِهِۦٓإِلَّآأَنقَالُوٓا۟أَخْرِجُوهُممِّنقَرْيَتِكُمْإِنَّهُمْأُنَاسٌۭيَتَطَهَّرُونَ

But his people's only answer was this: "Expel them from your land! Verily, they are folk who make themselves out to be pure!”

فَأَنجَيْنَٰهُوَأَهْلَهُۥٓإِلَّاٱمْرَأَتَهُۥكَانَتْمِنَٱلْغَٰبِرِينَ

Thereupon We saved him and his household except his wife, who was among those that stayed behind

وَأَمْطَرْنَاعَلَيْهِممَّطَرًۭافَٱنظُرْكَيْفَكَانَعَٰقِبَةُٱلْمُجْرِمِينَ

the while We rained a rain [of destruction] upon the others: and behold what happened in the end to those people lost in sin!

وَإِلَىٰمَدْيَنَأَخَاهُمْشُعَيْبًۭاقَالَيَٰقَوْمِٱعْبُدُوا۟ٱللَّهَمَالَكُممِّنْإِلَٰهٍغَيْرُهُۥقَدْجَآءَتْكُمبَيِّنَةٌۭمِّنرَّبِّكُمْفَأَوْفُوا۟ٱلْكَيْلَوَٱلْمِيزَانَوَلَاتَبْخَسُوا۟ٱلنَّاسَأَشْيَآءَهُمْوَلَاتُفْسِدُوا۟فِىٱلْأَرْضِبَعْدَإِصْلَٰحِهَاذَٰلِكُمْخَيْرٌۭلَّكُمْإِنكُنتُممُّؤْمِنِينَ

AND UNTO [the people of] Madyan [We sent] their brother Shu'ayb. He said: "O my people! Worship God alone: you have no deity other than Him. Clear evidence of the truth has now come unto you from your Sustainer. Give, therefore, full measure and weight [in all your dealings], and do not deprive people of what is rightfully theirs; and do not spread corruption on earth after it has be, en so well ordered: [all] this is for your own good, 'if you would but believe.

وَلَاتَقْعُدُوا۟بِكُلِّصِرَٰطٍۢتُوعِدُونَوَتَصُدُّونَعَنسَبِيلِٱللَّهِمَنْءَامَنَبِهِۦوَتَبْغُونَهَاعِوَجًۭاوَٱذْكُرُوٓا۟إِذْكُنتُمْقَلِيلًۭافَكَثَّرَكُمْوَٱنظُرُوا۟كَيْفَكَانَعَٰقِبَةُٱلْمُفْسِدِينَ

And do not lie in ambush by every road [that leads to the truth], threatening and trying to turn away from God's path all who believe in Him, and trying to make it appear crooked. And remember [the time] when you were few, and [how] He made you many: and behold what happened in the end to the spreaders of corruption!

وَإِنكَانَطَآئِفَةٌۭمِّنكُمْءَامَنُوا۟بِٱلَّذِىٓأُرْسِلْتُبِهِۦوَطَآئِفَةٌۭلَّمْيُؤْمِنُوا۟فَٱصْبِرُوا۟حَتَّىٰيَحْكُمَٱللَّهُبَيْنَنَاوَهُوَخَيْرُٱلْحَٰكِمِينَ

"And if there be some among you who have come to believe in the message which I bear, the while the others do not believe, then have patience in adversity till God shall judge between us [and them]: for He is the best of all judges!"

قَالَٱلْمَلَأُٱلَّذِينَٱسْتَكْبَرُوا۟مِنقَوْمِهِۦلَنُخْرِجَنَّكَيَٰشُعَيْبُوَٱلَّذِينَءَامَنُوا۟مَعَكَمِنقَرْيَتِنَآأَوْلَتَعُودُنَّفِىمِلَّتِنَاقَالَأَوَلَوْكُنَّاكَٰرِهِينَ

Said the great ones among his people, who gloried in their arrogance: "Most certainly, O Shu'ayb, we shall expel thee and thy fellow-believers from our land, unless you indeed return to our ways!" Said [Shu'ayb]: "Why, even though we abhor [them]?

قَدِٱفْتَرَيْنَاعَلَىٱللَّهِكَذِبًاإِنْعُدْنَافِىمِلَّتِكُمبَعْدَإِذْنَجَّىٰنَاٱللَّهُمِنْهَاوَمَايَكُونُلَنَآأَننَّعُودَفِيهَآإِلَّآأَنيَشَآءَٱللَّهُرَبُّنَاوَسِعَرَبُّنَاكُلَّشَىْءٍعِلْمًاعَلَىٱللَّهِتَوَكَّلْنَارَبَّنَاٱفْتَحْبَيْنَنَاوَبَيْنَقَوْمِنَابِٱلْحَقِّوَأَنتَخَيْرُٱلْفَٰتِحِينَ

We should be guilty of blaspheming against God were we to return to your ways after God has saved us from them! It is not conceivable that we should return to them-unless God, our Sustainer, so wills. All things does our Sustainer embrace within His knowledge; in God do we place our trust. O our Sustainer! Lay Thou open the truth between us and our people -for Thou art the best of all to lay open the truth!”

وَقَالَٱلْمَلَأُٱلَّذِينَكَفَرُوا۟مِنقَوْمِهِۦلَئِنِٱتَّبَعْتُمْشُعَيْبًاإِنَّكُمْإِذًۭالَّخَٰسِرُونَ

But the great ones among his people, who were bent on denying the truth, said [to his followers]: "Indeed, if you follow Shu'ayb, you will, verily, be the losers!"

فَأَخَذَتْهُمُٱلرَّجْفَةُفَأَصْبَحُوا۟فِىدَارِهِمْجَٰثِمِينَ

Thereupon an earthquake overtook them: and then they lay lifeless, in their very homes, on the ground -

ٱلَّذِينَكَذَّبُوا۟شُعَيْبًۭاكَأَنلَّمْيَغْنَوْا۟فِيهَاٱلَّذِينَكَذَّبُوا۟شُعَيْبًۭاكَانُوا۟هُمُٱلْخَٰسِرِينَ

they who had given the lie to Shu'ayb - as though they had never lived there: they who had given the lie to Shu'ayb -it was they who were the losers!

فَتَوَلَّىٰعَنْهُمْوَقَالَيَٰقَوْمِلَقَدْأَبْلَغْتُكُمْرِسَٰلَٰتِرَبِّىوَنَصَحْتُلَكُمْفَكَيْفَءَاسَىٰعَلَىٰقَوْمٍۢكَٰفِرِينَ

And he turned away from them, and said: "O my people! Indeed, I delivered unto you my Sustainer's message and gave you good advice: how, then, could I mourn for people who have denied the truth?"

وَمَآأَرْسَلْنَافِىقَرْيَةٍۢمِّننَّبِىٍّإِلَّآأَخَذْنَآأَهْلَهَابِٱلْبَأْسَآءِوَٱلضَّرَّآءِلَعَلَّهُمْيَضَّرَّعُونَ

AND NEVER YET have We sent a prophet unto any community without trying its people with misfortune and hardship, so that they might humble themselves;

ثُمَّبَدَّلْنَامَكَانَٱلسَّيِّئَةِٱلْحَسَنَةَحَتَّىٰعَفَوا۟وَّقَالُوا۟قَدْمَسَّءَابَآءَنَاٱلضَّرَّآءُوَٱلسَّرَّآءُفَأَخَذْنَٰهُمبَغْتَةًۭوَهُمْلَايَشْعُرُونَ

then We transformed the affliction into ease of life, so that they throve and said [to themselves], "Misfortune and hardship befell our forefathers as well -whereupon We took them to task, all of a sudden, without their being aware [of what was coming].

وَلَوْأَنَّأَهْلَٱلْقُرَىٰٓءَامَنُوا۟وَٱتَّقَوْا۟لَفَتَحْنَاعَلَيْهِمبَرَكَٰتٍۢمِّنَٱلسَّمَآءِوَٱلْأَرْضِوَلَٰكِنكَذَّبُوا۟فَأَخَذْنَٰهُمبِمَاكَانُوا۟يَكْسِبُونَ

Yet if the people of those communities had but attained to faith and been conscious of Us, We would indeed have opened up for them blessings out of heaven and earth: but they gave the lie to the truth - and so We took them to task through what they [themselves] had been doing.

أَفَأَمِنَأَهْلُٱلْقُرَىٰٓأَنيَأْتِيَهُمبَأْسُنَابَيَٰتًۭاوَهُمْنَآئِمُونَ

Can, then, the people of any community ever feel secure that Our punishment will not come upon them by night, while they are asleep?

أَوَأَمِنَأَهْلُٱلْقُرَىٰٓأَنيَأْتِيَهُمبَأْسُنَاضُحًۭىوَهُمْيَلْعَبُونَ

Why, can the people of any community ever feel secure that Our punishment will not come upon them in broad daylight, while they are engaged in (worldly] play?

أَفَأَمِنُوا۟مَكْرَٱللَّهِفَلَايَأْمَنُمَكْرَٱللَّهِإِلَّاٱلْقَوْمُٱلْخَٰسِرُونَ

Can they, then, ever feel secure from God's deep devising? But none feels secure from God's deep devising save people who are [already] lost.

أَوَلَمْيَهْدِلِلَّذِينَيَرِثُونَٱلْأَرْضَمِنۢبَعْدِأَهْلِهَآأَنلَّوْنَشَآءُأَصَبْنَٰهُمبِذُنُوبِهِمْوَنَطْبَعُعَلَىٰقُلُوبِهِمْفَهُمْلَايَسْمَعُونَ

Has it, then, not become obvious unto those who have inherited the earth in the wake of former generations that, if We so willed, We could smite them [too] by means of their sins, sealing their hearts so that they cannot hear [the truth]?