Surah Al-Hashr English Translation & Transliteration

¹Everything in the heavens and on the earth has moved in accordance with the law Allah has laid down. For it is He who is perfect in all He does and decides rightly in all His judgments.

²It is He who drove out of their homes, at the first banishment, those of the People of the Book who disbelieved/broke the treaty. You never thought they would leave their homes. And they thought their fortresses would protect them from Allah. But Allah struck them from where they did not expect and cast fear into their hearts, so that they were destroying and laying waste their own homes, on the one side with their own hands and on the other with the hands of the believers. So take a lesson from this, O you who have understanding!

³Had Allah not ordained banishment for them, He would have punished them in this world in some other way. And in the Hereafter the punishment of the Fire awaits them.

⁴This is because they defied His Messenger, who conveys Allah's messages. Whoever defies Allah, let him know well that Allah's punishment is very severe.

⁵Whatever of their date palms you cut down or left standing on their roots, it was only by Allah's leave; the purpose was to bring ruin upon the transgressors who had strayed from the path and did not keep their word.

⁶You spurred neither horse nor camel to obtain the spoils taken without fighting that Allah gave to His Messenger from their property. But Allah sets His messengers over whoever deserves it. For Allah has power over all things.

⁷The spoils that Allah has given to His Messenger from the property of the people of towns taken without fighting belong by right to Allah, His Messenger, his relatives, the orphans, the poor, and stranded travelers. This is so that wealth does not become a means of power and authority that merely circulates among the rich among you. So take whatever the Messenger gives you of these spoils, and refrain from asking for what he does not give. Guard yourselves against defying Allah, for Allah's punishment is very severe.

⁸The poor emigrants (muhajirun), who were driven out of their homes and lands and stripped of their wealth and property for this cause, seeking Allah's grace and good pleasure and helping Allah's religion and His Messenger who conveys Allah's messages, also have a right to these spoils. For they are sincere in their faith.

⁹The believers who made Medina their home before the emigrants, who engraved faith in their hearts and love the believers who emigrated to them, feel no envy in their hearts over the spoils given to the emigrants; they even prefer them over themselves, though they themselves be in need. Those who purify their souls of greed and stinginess, it is they who will attain salvation and reach what they hope for.

¹⁰The believers who emigrated after them say: —Our Lord, forgive us and our brothers who believed before us, and leave no rancor or envy in our hearts toward those who believe! Our Lord, You are surely most compassionate and most merciful toward the believers!

¹¹Do you see these people who spread hypocrisy around? They say to their allies among the People of the Book, who are disbelievers like themselves: —If you are driven out of your homeland, we will certainly go out with you. We will never submit to anyone in matters against you. If you go to war, we will certainly help you. Allah is witness that all of them are lying.

¹²Indeed, if those were driven out of their homes, these would not go out with them; and if war were waged against them, they would not help them either. Even if they tried to help, they would turn their backs and flee as soon as things got hard. And so those who relied on them would be left without help.

¹³Indeed, you strike more fear into their hearts than Allah does. That is because they are a people who cannot grasp Allah's power and majesty.

¹⁴They dare not come together and face you in pitched battle; they can fight only from within strong fortresses or from behind walls. Among themselves there are fierce disagreements. You think them united, but they are a hollow crowd whose hearts beat for separate aims. That is because they are a people who do not use their reason.

¹⁵Their end will be just like that of their other allies who, a short while before them, suffered the penalty for what they did. For them too there is a painful punishment.

¹⁶Their case is like that of Satan, who prompts the human being, "Disbelieve," and then, when the human being disbelieves, says: "I have nothing to do with you, for I fear Allah, the Lord of the worlds."

¹⁷In the end the outcome for both of them is to end up in the Fire, where they will remain. That is the penalty of the wrongdoers who persist in error.

¹⁸O you who believe, guard yourselves against defying Allah! Let everyone now look at what he has prepared for tomorrow. —Yes, guard yourselves against defying Allah, for Allah is aware of all that you do.

¹⁹—And do not be like those who forgot Allah, so that Allah made them forget themselves. It is they who are the transgressors who have strayed from the path.

²⁰Those who will enter the Fire and the people of Paradise are certainly not equal. The people of Paradise, it is they who are saved!

²¹Had We sent down this Quran upon a mountain, you would have seen that mountain shattered to pieces out of reverence for Allah. We set these examples before people so that they may reflect deeply.

²²He is Allah, besides whom there is no god. He alone knows all that can and cannot be perceived. His mercy is infinite and His compassion boundless.

²³He is Allah, besides whom there is no god. He is the one and only Owner of all existence, the source of holiness, the wellspring of salvation and peace, the One who trusts and is worthy of trust, the sole authority in determining good and evil, the absolutely supreme, the One who always enforces His authority and has it enforced, the One unmatched in greatness and majesty. Allah, the most exalted of all, is free from all the elements of shirk they associate with Him.

²⁴He is Allah, the absolute Creator, the One who forms the first models of what He brings into being, and who clothes those first models with form. The most beautiful names and all perfections belong to Him. Everything in the heavens and on the earth glorifies Him/moves in accordance with the law He has laid down. For He is perfect in all He does, and His every judgment is right.