الأنبياء
The Prophets
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
walisulaymāna l-rīḥa ʿāṣifatan tajrī bi-amrihi ilā l-arḍi allatī bāraknā fīhā wakunnā bikulli shayin ʿālimīna
And to Solomon [We subjected] the wind, blowing forcefully, proceeding by his command toward the land which We had blessed. And We are ever, of all things, Knowing.
wamina l-shayāṭīni man yaghūṣūna lahu wayaʿmalūna ʿamalan dūna dhālika wakunnā lahum ḥāfiẓīna
And of the devils [i.e., jinn] were those who dived for him and did work other than that. And We were of them a guardian.
wa-ayyūba idh nādā rabbahu annī massaniya l-ḍuru wa-anta arḥamu l-rāḥimīna
And [mention] Job, when he called to his Lord, "Indeed, adversity has touched me, and You are the most merciful of the merciful."
fa-is'tajabnā lahu fakashafnā mā bihi min ḍurrin waātaynāhu ahlahu wamith'lahum maʿahum raḥmatan min ʿindinā wadhik'rā lil'ʿābidīna
So We responded to him and removed what afflicted him of adversity. And We gave him [back] his family and the like thereof with them as mercy from Us and a reminder for the worshippers [of Allāh].
wa-is'māʿīla wa-id'rīsa wadhā l-kif'li kullun mina l-ṣābirīna
And [mention] Ishmael and Idrees and Dhul-Kifl; all were of the patient.
wa-adkhalnāhum fī raḥmatinā innahum mina l-ṣāliḥīna
And We admitted them into Our mercy. Indeed, they were of the righteous.
wadhā l-nūni idh dhahaba mughāḍiban faẓanna an lan naqdira ʿalayhi fanādā fī l-ẓulumāti an lā ilāha illā anta sub'ḥānaka innī kuntu mina l-ẓālimīna
And [mention] the man of the fish [i.e., Jonah], when he went off in anger and thought that We would not decree [anything] upon him. And he called out within the darknesses, "There is no deity except You; exalted are You. Indeed, I have been of the wrongdoers."
fa-is'tajabnā lahu wanajjaynāhu mina l-ghami wakadhālika nunjī l-mu'minīna
So We responded to him and saved him from the distress. And thus do We save the believers.
wazakariyyā idh nādā rabbahu rabbi lā tadharnī fardan wa-anta khayru l-wārithīna
And [mention] Zechariah, when he called to his Lord, "My Lord, do not leave me alone [with no heir], while You are the best of inheritors."
fa-is'tajabnā lahu wawahabnā lahu yaḥyā wa-aṣlaḥnā lahu zawjahu innahum kānū yusāriʿūna fī l-khayrāti wayadʿūnanā raghaban warahaban wakānū lanā khāshiʿīna
So We responded to him, and We gave to him John, and amended for him his wife. Indeed, they used to hasten to good deeds and supplicate Us in hope and fear, and they were to Us humbly submissive.
wa-allatī aḥṣanat farjahā fanafakhnā fīhā min rūḥinā wajaʿalnāhā wa-ib'nahā āyatan lil'ʿālamīna
And [mention] the one who guarded her chastity [i.e., Mary], so We blew into her [garment] through Our angel [i.e., Gabriel], and We made her and her son a sign for the worlds.
inna hādhihi ummatukum ummatan wāḥidatan wa-anā rabbukum fa-uʿ'budūni
Indeed this, your religion, is one religion, and I am your Lord, so worship Me.
wataqaṭṭaʿū amrahum baynahum kullun ilaynā rājiʿūna
And [yet] they divided their affair [i.e., that of their religion] among themselves, [but] all to Us will return.
faman yaʿmal mina l-ṣāliḥāti wahuwa mu'minun falā kuf'rāna lisaʿyihi wa-innā lahu kātibūna
So whoever does righteous deeds while he is a believer - no denial will there be for his effort, and indeed We [i.e., Our angels], of it, are recorders.
waḥarāmun ʿalā qaryatin ahlaknāhā annahum lā yarjiʿūna
And it is prohibited to [the people of] a city which We have destroyed that they will [ever] return
ḥattā idhā futiḥat yajūju wamajūju wahum min kulli ḥadabin yansilūna
Until when [the dam of] Gog and Magog has been opened and they, from every elevation, descend
wa-iq'taraba l-waʿdu l-ḥaqu fa-idhā hiya shākhiṣatun abṣāru alladhīna kafarū yāwaylanā qad kunnā fī ghaflatin min hādhā bal kunnā ẓālimīna
And [when] the true promise [i.e., the resurrection] has approached; then suddenly the eyes of those who disbelieved will be staring [in horror, while they say], "O woe to us; we had been unmindful of this; rather, we were wrongdoers."
innakum wamā taʿbudūna min dūni l-lahi ḥaṣabu jahannama antum lahā wāridūna
Indeed, you [disbelievers] and what you worship other than Allāh are the firewood of Hell. You will be coming to [enter] it.
law kāna hāulāi ālihatan mā waradūhā wakullun fīhā khālidūna
Had these [false deities] been [actual] gods, they would not have come to it, but all are eternal therein.
lahum fīhā zafīrun wahum fīhā lā yasmaʿūna
For them therein is heavy sighing, and they therein will not hear.