الرحمن
The Beneficent
Explanations are simplified from tafsirs by Ibn Kathir, Mufti Muhammad Shafi, and Maulana Wahiduddin Khan. Spot an inaccuracy? Let us know.
yuʿ'rafu l-muj'rimūna bisīmāhum fayu'khadhu bil-nawāṣī wal-aqdāmi
The criminals will be known by their marks, and they will be seized by the forelocks and the feet.
fabi-ayyi ālāi rabbikumā tukadhibāni
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?
hādhihi jahannamu allatī yukadhibu bihā l-muj'rimūna
This is Hell, which the criminals deny.
yaṭūfūna baynahā wabayna ḥamīmin ānin
They will circulate between it and scalding water, heated [to the utmost degree].
fabi-ayyi ālāi rabbikumā tukadhibāni
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?
waliman khāfa maqāma rabbihi jannatāni
But for he who has feared the position of his Lord are two gardens -
fabi-ayyi ālāi rabbikumā tukadhibāni
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny? -
dhawātā afnānin
Having [spreading] branches.
fabi-ayyi ālāi rabbikumā tukadhibāni
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?
fīhimā ʿaynāni tajriyāni
In both of them are two springs, flowing.
fabi-ayyi ālāi rabbikumā tukadhibāni
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?
fīhimā min kulli fākihatin zawjāni
In both of them are of every fruit, two kinds.
fabi-ayyi ālāi rabbikumā tukadhibāni
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?
muttakiīna ʿalā furushin baṭāinuhā min is'tabraqin wajanā l-janatayni dānin
[They are] reclining on beds whose linings are of silk brocade, and the fruit of the two gardens is hanging low.
fabi-ayyi ālāi rabbikumā tukadhibāni
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?
fīhinna qāṣirātu l-ṭarfi lam yaṭmith'hunna insun qablahum walā jānnun
In them are women limiting [their] glances, untouched before them by man or jinnī -
fabi-ayyi ālāi rabbikumā tukadhibāni
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny? -
ka-annahunna l-yāqūtu wal-marjānu
As if they were rubies and coral.
fabi-ayyi ālāi rabbikumā tukadhibāni
So which of the favors of your Lord would you deny?
hal jazāu l-iḥ'sāni illā l-iḥ'sānu
Is the reward for good [anything] but good?