Surah Al-Mu'minun English Translation & Transliteration

¹The believers have truly attained salvation.

²Those who are in humility/deep reverence in their prayers.

³Those who keep away from idle things and pursuits.

⁴Those who strive to purify themselves through zakat.

⁵Those who guard their chastity and honor,

⁶except with regard to their spouses and those they lawfully possess; for in this they are not to blame.

⁷But whoever seeks anything beyond this, they are the ones who overstep the limits.

⁸Those who are faithful to their trusts and to the covenants they have made.

⁹Those who carefully guard their worship and their prayers.

¹⁰These are the ones who will be the heirs.

¹¹Yes, these will inherit the Gardens of Firdaws, where they will abide.

¹²There is no doubt that We created the human being from clay, from a refined extract of mud.

¹³Then We placed him as a sperm in a firm, well-protected place.

¹⁴Then We attached the sperm, as a fertilized egg, to the wall of the womb; then We made it into a lump of flesh; then We formed bones from this lump of flesh. Then We clothed these bones with flesh, and at last We brought him into the world as an entirely new being. What a perfect Creator Allah is, the most exalted of all!

¹⁵At last, when the time comes, you will all die.

¹⁶And when the Day of Resurrection comes, you will be raised to life again.

¹⁷Indeed, We have created above you countless planets/seven layers. We have not withdrawn Our care from anything We have created.

¹⁸Within this order, We send down water from the sky according to a set decree/measure, and make it soak into the ground. Know well that We certainly have the power to take it away too and make the ground bone-dry.

¹⁹And with rainwater We make date groves and vineyards grow green for you, in which there are many fruits for you, and from them you eat.

²⁰And with that rain We have also grown olive trees, which flourish around Mount Sinai and yield oil and relish for those who eat.

²¹In livestock too there is a lesson for you. We give you to drink of the milk in their bellies, and there are many other benefits in them for you; for instance, you eat of their meat.

²²Moreover, just as you board ships at sea, so on land you ride them and have them carry your loads.

²³Indeed, We sent Noah to his people as a messenger. He said: —O my people, serve Allah alone, for you have no god but Him. Do you not fear Allah's punishment at all?

²⁴The disbelievers among the elite of his people said: —This is nothing but a human being like you. Clearly he wants to set himself above us. Had Allah wished to send a messenger, He would have sent angels. Besides, we have never heard of such a thing from our forefathers of old.

²⁵This man is possessed by jinn/has gone mad; keep him under watch for a while.

²⁶Noah implored: —My Lord, help me against their denying me!

²⁷Thereupon We revealed to Noah: "Build the ship under Our watch and in the way We make known to you; and when Our command comes and the oven boils over, put on board a pair of every living kind, and the members of your family except those against whom the sentence has already been passed; and do not plead with Me concerning the wrongdoers who have brought ruin upon themselves, for they will be drowned."

²⁸When you and those with you have boarded the ship, say: —Praise be to Allah, who has saved us from the wrongdoing people!

²⁹And pray thus: —My Lord, set me down in a blessed and secure place, for You know best the best place to settle, and it is You who will bring me there!

³⁰Surely in this there are many lessons to be learned. We certainly put them through a great test.

³¹After them We brought into being another generation.

³²And We sent among them a messenger from among themselves, who said: —Serve Allah alone; you have no god but Him. Do you not fear Allah at all?

³³The leading men of that people, disbelievers who covered up the truths, who took no account of the meeting of the Hereafter and were spoiled by the comforts of worldly life, said: "This is merely a human being like you; he eats of what you eat and drinks of what you drink."

³⁴If you obey a human being like yourselves, then you will lose all your standing.

³⁵Is this man now promising you that, after you have died and turned to dust and become heaps of bones, you will be raised to life again?

³⁶Impossible, utterly impossible! It cannot happen; these promises made to you are empty promises.

³⁷Life is nothing but this worldly life we are living; we live and we die, and we are not going to be raised again.

³⁸This man is someone who slanders Allah with a lie he has invented; there is no chance of our believing him.

³⁹The messenger said: —My Lord, help me against their denying me!

⁴⁰Allah said: "Before long they will be sorry."

⁴¹Then a terrible cry seized them, and justice was done. Thus We turned them into worthless debris, like the remnants in a flood bed. To Hell with the wrongdoers who denied Noah!

⁴²Then after them We brought into being other generations.

⁴³For no community can bring forward or delay its term of destruction.

⁴⁴Then We sent Our messengers one after another; whenever its messenger came to a community, they denied him, and so We destroyed them one after another and turned them all into legends. To Hell with the people who do not believe!

⁴⁵Then We sent Moses and his brother Aaron with Our signs and with clear miracles

⁴⁶to Pharaoh and his chiefs. But they behaved arrogantly; indeed, they were a people who looked down on others.

⁴⁷And they said: "Are we now to believe in these two human beings, who are no different from us, when their people are serving us?"

⁴⁸So they denied them, and in the end they were destroyed.

⁴⁹Indeed, We had given Moses the Book so that it might show the Children of Israel the right path.

⁵⁰And We made Jesus son of Mary, and his mother too, a sign. And We settled them both on a high place with springs of water, fit for living.

⁵¹O messengers, eat of the good and pure things, drink, and do good and beautiful deeds, for I know what you do.

⁵²This community of yours is a single community, and I am your Lord/Owner; so guard yourselves against defying Me.

⁵³But the communities broke apart and split into factions, each faction pleased and content with its own understanding!

⁵⁴Leave them for a while in the swamp of heedlessness in which they are sunk.

⁵⁵Do these people now suppose that, because We have given them wealth and children,

⁵⁶We are hastening to do them good? No, in fact they do not realize what is happening.

⁵⁷Surely those who tremble with deep reverence for their Lord,

⁵⁸who believe and trust in their Lord's verses,

⁵⁹who in no way associate anyone with their Lord as a partner, committing shirk,

⁶⁰who do the deeds they do with trembling hearts, anxious that one day they will stand before their Lord to give account,

⁶¹it is they who vie with one another in good deeds, and who are foremost in this race.

⁶²For We burden no one beyond his capacity, because with Us there is a record kept that speaks the truth; therefore they will not be wronged at all.

⁶³Yet their hearts are heedless of this truth; what is more, besides this they have certain evil deeds that they go on doing.

⁶⁴At last, when We seize with punishment their wealthy ones, spoiled by affluence, they at once raise a wail.

⁶⁵Do not wail in vain now, for no help will reach you from Us.

⁶⁶For My verses used to be recited to you, but you used to turn your backs on them.

⁶⁷Turning up your noses at them in arrogance, you used to gather at night and spout ravings about My verses.

⁶⁸Have they, then, never reflected deeply on the Quran? Or has something new come to them that did not come to their forefathers of old?

⁶⁹Or do they not recognize the messenger who has come to them, and is that why they do not believe?

⁷⁰Or do they say, "He is someone inspired by jinn"? No! In fact he has brought them the truth. But most of them dislike this truth/the Quran.

⁷¹Had the truth followed their desires and whims, the heavens, the earth, and all that is in them would have fallen into corruption, and the order of the universe would have broken down. In fact, We have brought them a Book that is a source of honor and esteem for them, but they turn away from this Quran.

⁷²Or are you asking them for some payment? Yet the payment your Lord will give is better than all worldly goods. For He is the best of providers.

⁷³Indeed, you are only calling them to the straight path.

⁷⁴But those who do not believe in the Hereafter persistently swerve from this path onto other paths.

⁷⁵Even if We had shown them mercy and removed the hardship that had befallen them, they would still have gone on floundering, blinded, in the swamp of insolence.

⁷⁶Indeed, We had punished them before, but they did not submit to their Lord or humbly implore Him.

⁷⁷At last, when We open upon them the gates of a severe punishment, they will lose all hope in bewilderment.

⁷⁸It is He who has granted you the faculties of hearing, seeing, and thinking. How little you give these blessings their due and are grateful!

⁷⁹For it is He who created you and spread you over the earth. In the end you will be gathered before Him.

⁸⁰It is also He who gives you life and will cause you to die. The succession of night and day is by His command. Will you still not use your reason?

⁸¹On the contrary, they said exactly what earlier peoples said:

⁸²—After we have died and turned to dust and become heaps of bones, are we really to be raised again? they said.

⁸³—We swear that these promises made to us were made to our forefathers in the past too; this is nothing but the legends of the ancients.

⁸⁴Say: —Tell me, if you know: to whom do the earth and the beings in it belong?

⁸⁵They will say: —They belong to Allah. Say: —Well, then, will you not reflect?

⁸⁶Say: —Then who is the Lord/Owner of this boundless universe and of the exalted seat of sovereignty?

⁸⁷They will say: "Allah!" Say: "Then why do you still not guard yourselves against defying Him?"

⁸⁸Say: —Tell me, if you know: who is it that holds sovereignty over everything, who protects and watches over all, yet has no need of anyone to protect and watch over Him?

⁸⁹They will say: "Allah!" Say: "Then how is it that you are being deceived?"

⁹⁰In fact, We have brought them the truth/the Quran, but they go on telling lies.

⁹¹Allah has never taken a child, nor is there any god alongside Him. Had that been so, each god would have drawn what he had created to his own side, and they would have tried to gain the upper hand over one another. Allah is far above their baseless attributions.

⁹²He knows all things, the known and the unknown. Allah is free from all the elements of shirk they associate with Him, and He is most exalted.

⁹³Say: —My Lord, if You are going to show me what they are promised,

⁹⁴then, my Lord, do not leave me among the people of wrongdoers who have brought ruin upon themselves!

⁹⁵Surely We are able to show you the punishment We have promised them.

⁹⁶Respond to evil in the finest way, for We know very well the nonsense they talk.

⁹⁷And say: —My Lord, I seek refuge in You from the incitements of the devils!

⁹⁸And I seek refuge in You, my Lord, from their being near me and surrounding me!

⁹⁹At last, when death comes to one of them, he implores: "My Lord! Please send me back!"

¹⁰⁰"Perhaps I will do the good and beautiful deeds I left undone." No! That is merely a word he utters. Behind them now there is a barrier they cannot cross until the day of resurrection.

¹⁰¹And when the Trumpet (Sur) sounds the call to rise, no ties of kinship will remain between them, nor will they be able to ask after one another.

¹⁰²On that day, those whose good deeds weigh heavy, they are the ones who will attain salvation.

¹⁰³And those whose good deeds weigh light, they are the ones who have ruined themselves and will remain in Hell.

¹⁰⁴The fire of Hell will scorch their faces, and they will be left charred, their teeth bared in a grimace.

¹⁰⁵Allah will say to them: "Were you not the ones who clung to lies when My verses were recited to you?"

¹⁰⁶They will say: —Our Lord! Our insolence got the better of us, and so we did wrong to ourselves.

¹⁰⁷Our Lord, bring us out of here. If we ever return to our former ways, then we will truly be wrongdoers who deserve the punishment.

¹⁰⁸Allah will say: —Silence! Do not say a single word more to Me!

¹⁰⁹In the past a group of My servants used to pray: —Our Lord, we have believed wholeheartedly; so forgive us and have mercy on us, for You are the Most Merciful of the merciful!

¹¹⁰But you used to mock them. So much so that this mocking attitude of yours made you forget My Reminder/the Quran, and you would just laugh at them.

¹¹¹Today I have rewarded them for their patience. It is they who have achieved true success.

¹¹²Allah will ask the people of Hell: —How many years did you stay in the world?

¹¹³They will say: —A day or less; ask those who keep count, if You wish.

¹¹⁴Allah will say: —Yes, you lived only a short while in the world; if only you had known this in time.

¹¹⁵Did you think, then, that We created you in vain and without meaning, and that you would not be returned to Us?

¹¹⁶Exalted indeed is Allah, besides whom there is no god, the true Owner of sovereignty, the Lord of the exalted Throne.

¹¹⁷Whoever implores in prayer, alongside Allah, another god for which he has no proof will surely give account for it before his Lord; for those who turn away from the truths will never prosper.

¹¹⁸So say: —My Lord, forgive and have mercy, for You are the Most Merciful of the merciful!