الشعراء
The Poets
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
wa-alladhī yumītunī thumma yuḥ'yīni
And who will cause me to die and then bring me to life
wa-alladhī aṭmaʿu an yaghfira lī khaṭīatī yawma l-dīni
And who I aspire that He will forgive me my sin on the Day of Recompense."
rabbi hab lī ḥuk'man wa-alḥiq'nī bil-ṣāliḥīna
[And he said], "My Lord, grant me authority and join me with the righteous.
wa-ij'ʿal lī lisāna ṣid'qin fī l-ākhirīna
And grant me a mention [i.e., reputation] of honor among later generations.
wa-ij'ʿalnī min warathati jannati l-naʿīmi
And place me among the inheritors of the Garden of Pleasure.
wa-igh'fir li-abī innahu kāna mina l-ḍālīna
And forgive my father. Indeed, he has been of those astray.
walā tukh'zinī yawma yub'ʿathūna
And do not disgrace me on the Day they are [all] resurrected -
yawma lā yanfaʿu mālun walā banūna
The Day when there will not benefit [anyone] wealth or children
illā man atā l-laha biqalbin salīmin
But only one who comes to Allāh with a sound heart."
wa-uz'lifati l-janatu lil'muttaqīna
And Paradise will be brought near [that Day] to the righteous.
waburrizati l-jaḥīmu lil'ghāwīna
And Hellfire will be brought forth for the deviators,
waqīla lahum ayna mā kuntum taʿbudūna
And it will be said to them, "Where are those you used to worship
min dūni l-lahi hal yanṣurūnakum aw yantaṣirūna
Other than Allāh? Can they help you or help themselves?"
fakub'kibū fīhā hum wal-ghāwūna
So they will be overturned into it [i.e., Hellfire], they and the deviators
wajunūdu ib'līsa ajmaʿūna
And the soldiers of Iblees, all together.
qālū wahum fīhā yakhtaṣimūna
They will say while they dispute therein,
tal-lahi in kunnā lafī ḍalālin mubīnin
"By Allāh, we were indeed in manifest error
idh nusawwīkum birabbi l-ʿālamīna
When we equated you with the Lord of the worlds.
wamā aḍallanā illā l-muj'rimūna
And no one misguided us except the criminals.
famā lanā min shāfiʿīna
So now we have no intercessors