Surah Al-Muminoon

أُو۟لَٰٓئِكَيُسَٰرِعُونَفِىٱلْخَيْرَٰتِوَهُمْلَهَاسَٰبِقُونَ

it is they who vie with one another in doing good works, and it is they who outrun [all others] in attaining to them!

وَلَانُكَلِّفُنَفْسًاإِلَّاوُسْعَهَاوَلَدَيْنَاكِتَٰبٌۭيَنطِقُبِٱلْحَقِّوَهُمْلَايُظْلَمُونَ

And [withal.] We do not burden any human being with more than he is well able to bear: for with Us is a record that speaks the truth [about what men do and can do]; and none shall be wronged.

بَلْقُلُوبُهُمْفِىغَمْرَةٍۢمِّنْهَٰذَاوَلَهُمْأَعْمَٰلٌۭمِّندُونِذَٰلِكَهُمْلَهَاعَٰمِلُونَ

NAY, [as for those who have torn asunder the unity of faith] - their hearts are lost in ignorance of all this! But apart from that [breach of unity] they have [on their conscience even worse] deeds; and they will [continue to] commit them

حَتَّىٰٓإِذَآأَخَذْنَامُتْرَفِيهِمبِٱلْعَذَابِإِذَاهُمْيَجْـَٔرُونَ

until - after We shall have taken to task, through suffering, those from among them who [now] are lost in the pursuit of pleasures - they cry out in [belated] supplication.

لَاتَجْـَٔرُوا۟ٱلْيَوْمَإِنَّكُممِّنَّالَاتُنصَرُونَ

[But they will be told:] “Cry not in supplication today: for, behold, you shall not he succoured by Us!

قَدْكَانَتْءَايَٰتِىتُتْلَىٰعَلَيْكُمْفَكُنتُمْعَلَىٰٓأَعْقَٰبِكُمْتَنكِصُونَ

Time and again were My messages conveyed unto you, but [every time] you would turn about on your heels

مُسْتَكْبِرِينَبِهِۦسَٰمِرًۭاتَهْجُرُونَ

[and,] impelled by your arrogance, you would talk senselessly far into the night.”

أَفَلَمْيَدَّبَّرُوا۟ٱلْقَوْلَأَمْجَآءَهُممَّالَمْيَأْتِءَابَآءَهُمُٱلْأَوَّلِينَ

Have they, then, never tried to understand this word [of God]? Or has there [now] come to them something that never came to their forefathers of old?

أَمْلَمْيَعْرِفُوا۟رَسُولَهُمْفَهُمْلَهُۥمُنكِرُونَ

Or is it, perchance, that they have not recog­nized their Apostle, and so they disavow him?

أَمْيَقُولُونَبِهِۦجِنَّةٌۢبَلْجَآءَهُمبِٱلْحَقِّوَأَكْثَرُهُمْلِلْحَقِّكَٰرِهُونَ

Or do they say. “There is madness in him”? Nay, he has brought them the truth - and the truth do most of them detest!

وَلَوِٱتَّبَعَٱلْحَقُّأَهْوَآءَهُمْلَفَسَدَتِٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتُوَٱلْأَرْضُوَمَنفِيهِنَّبَلْأَتَيْنَٰهُمبِذِكْرِهِمْفَهُمْعَنذِكْرِهِممُّعْرِضُونَ

But if the truth were in accord with their own likes and dislikes, the heavens and the earth would surely have fallen into ruin, and all that lives in them [would long ago have perished]! Nay, [in this divine writ] We have conveyed unto them all that they ought to bear in mind: and from this their reminder they [heedlessly] turn away!

أَمْتَسْـَٔلُهُمْخَرْجًۭافَخَرَاجُرَبِّكَخَيْرٌۭوَهُوَخَيْرُٱلرَّٰزِقِينَ

Or dost thou [O Muhammad] ask of them any worldly recompense? But [they ought to know that] recompense from thy Sustainer is best, since He is the best of providers!

وَإِنَّكَلَتَدْعُوهُمْإِلَىٰصِرَٰطٍۢمُّسْتَقِيمٍۢ

And, verily, thou callest them onto a straight way –

وَإِنَّٱلَّذِينَلَايُؤْمِنُونَبِٱلْءَاخِرَةِعَنِٱلصِّرَٰطِلَنَٰكِبُونَ

but, behold, those who will not believe in the life to come are bound to deviate from that way.

وَلَوْرَحِمْنَٰهُمْوَكَشَفْنَامَابِهِممِّنضُرٍّۢلَّلَجُّوا۟فِىطُغْيَٰنِهِمْيَعْمَهُونَ

And even were We to show them mercy and remove whatever distress might befall them [in this life], they would still persist in their overweening arrogance, blindly stumbling to and fro.

وَلَقَدْأَخَذْنَٰهُمبِٱلْعَذَابِفَمَاٱسْتَكَانُوا۟لِرَبِّهِمْوَمَايَتَضَرَّعُونَ

And, indeed, We tested them through suffer­ing, but they did not abase themselves before their Sustainer; and they will never humble them­selves

حَتَّىٰٓإِذَافَتَحْنَاعَلَيْهِمبَابًۭاذَاعَذَابٍۢشَدِيدٍإِذَاهُمْفِيهِمُبْلِسُونَ

until We open before them a gate of [truly] severe suffering [in the life to come]: and then, lo! they will be broken in spirit.

وَهُوَٱلَّذِىٓأَنشَأَلَكُمُٱلسَّمْعَوَٱلْأَبْصَٰرَوَٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةَقَلِيلًۭامَّاتَشْكُرُونَ

[O MEN! Pay heed to God’s messages,] for it is He who has endowed you with hearing, and sight, and minds: [yet] how seldom are you grateful!

وَهُوَٱلَّذِىذَرَأَكُمْفِىٱلْأَرْضِوَإِلَيْهِتُحْشَرُونَ

And He it is who has caused you to multiply on earth; and unto Him you shall be gathered.

وَهُوَٱلَّذِىيُحْىِۦوَيُمِيتُوَلَهُٱخْتِلَٰفُٱلَّيْلِوَٱلنَّهَارِأَفَلَاتَعْقِلُونَ

And He it is who grants life and deals death; and to Him is due the alternation of night and day. Will you not, then, use your reason?