المؤمنون
The Believers
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
fa-akhadhathumu l-ṣayḥatu bil-ḥaqi fajaʿalnāhum ghuthāan fabuʿ'dan lil'qawmi l-ẓālimīna
So the shriek seized them in truth, and We made them as [plant] stubble. Then away with the wrongdoing people.
thumma anshanā min baʿdihim qurūnan ākharīna
Then We produced after them other generations.
mā tasbiqu min ummatin ajalahā wamā yastakhirūna
No nation will precede its time [of termination], nor will they remain [thereafter].
thumma arsalnā rusulanā tatrā kulla mā jāa ummatan rasūluhā kadhabūhu fa-atbaʿnā baʿḍahum baʿḍan wajaʿalnāhum aḥādītha fabuʿ'dan liqawmin lā yu'minūna
Then We sent Our messengers in succession. Every time there came to a nation its messenger, they denied him, so We made them follow one another [to destruction], and We made them narrations. So away with a people who do not believe.
thumma arsalnā mūsā wa-akhāhu hārūna biāyātinā wasul'ṭānin mubīnin
Then We sent Moses and his brother Aaron with Our signs and a clear authority
ilā fir'ʿawna wamala-ihi fa-is'takbarū wakānū qawman ʿālīna
To Pharaoh and his establishment, but they were arrogant and were a haughty people.
faqālū anu'minu libasharayni mith'linā waqawmuhumā lanā ʿābidūna
They said, "Should we believe two men like ourselves while their people are for us in servitude?"
fakadhabūhumā fakānū mina l-muh'lakīna
So they denied them and were of those destroyed.
walaqad ātaynā mūsā l-kitāba laʿallahum yahtadūna
And We certainly gave Moses the Scripture that perhaps they would be guided.
wajaʿalnā ib'na maryama wa-ummahu āyatan waāwaynāhumā ilā rabwatin dhāti qarārin wamaʿīnin
And We made the son of Mary and his mother a sign and sheltered them within a high ground having level [areas] and flowing water.
yāayyuhā l-rusulu kulū mina l-ṭayibāti wa-iʿ'malū ṣāliḥan innī bimā taʿmalūna ʿalīmun
[Allāh said], "O messengers, eat from the good foods and work righteousness. Indeed I, of what you do, am Knowing.
wa-inna hādhihi ummatukum ummatan wāḥidatan wa-anā rabbukum fa-ittaqūni
And indeed this, your religion, is one religion, and I am your Lord, so fear Me."
fataqaṭṭaʿū amrahum baynahum zuburan kullu ḥiz'bin bimā ladayhim fariḥūna
But they [i.e., the people] divided their religion among them into portions [i.e., sects] - each faction, in what it has, rejoicing.
fadharhum fī ghamratihim ḥattā ḥīnin
So leave them in their confusion for a time.
ayaḥsabūna annamā numidduhum bihi min mālin wabanīna
Do they think that what We extend to them of wealth and children
nusāriʿu lahum fī l-khayrāti bal lā yashʿurūna
Is [because] We hasten for them good things? Rather, they do not perceive.
inna alladhīna hum min khashyati rabbihim mush'fiqūna
Indeed, they who are apprehensive from fear of their Lord
wa-alladhīna hum biāyāti rabbihim yu'minūna
And they who believe in the signs of their Lord
wa-alladhīna hum birabbihim lā yush'rikūna
And they who do not associate anything with their Lord
wa-alladhīna yu'tūna mā ātaw waqulūbuhum wajilatun annahum ilā rabbihim rājiʿūna
And they who give what they give while their hearts are fearful because they will be returning to their Lord -